TEL AVIV (Dispatches) –
 Israel’s so-called security service is on high alert amid fears of Yemen’s retaliation for the first joint aggression by the U.S., the UK and Israel on the Arab country, Channel 12 reported Saturday. 
“The Israeli security system is in a heightened state of alert due to anticipated Ansarullah retaliation” after U.S., British and Israeli warplanes carried out a string of airstrikes against various targets across Yemen a day earlier, it said.
The report said that there were “genuine fears” that Ansarullah might attempt to respond to the joint assault in the coming hours.
 At least one person was killed and nine others sustained injuries when various targets were attacked across Yemen.
Yemen’s Al-Masirah television channel said one person was killed and six others were wounded when the joint aerial raids targeted the Red Sea port of Ras Issa in the strategic western province of Hudaydah.
Three other people were injured in attacks on a power station in the Hezyaz neighborhood, south of the capital Sana’a.
A series of airstrikes also hit the Hudaydah port and northern ‘Amran province, Al-Masirah TV said.
The U.S.-British coalition has not commented on the strikes, but the Israeli military announced in a statement that its warplanes had targeted a number of sites on the western Yemeni coast and inland Yemen.
The attacks came after Yemeni forces targeted U.S. warships, including the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, in the northern tip of the Red Sea, using cruise missiles and explosive-laden drones.
“The operation … succeeded in thwarting a new aerial attack launched against our nation from the carrier,” military spokesman Yahya Saree said. “The attack forced the carrier and its accompanying warships to withdraw from the northern Red Sea region.” 
Following Israel’s first joint airstrike with the U.S. and the UK, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Yemen was “paying and will continue to pay a heavy price”.
Israeli war minister Israel Katz, who observed the aerial assault from the air force command center in Tel Aviv, asserted, “The port of Hudaydah is paralyzed, and the Ras Issa port is ablaze.”
Large parts of Sana’a witnessed power outages after the airstrikes.
Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, strongly condemned the airstrikes, describing Israeli officials as a clear example of barbarity and cruelty.
“Your contradictory and conflicting statements would not scare us. On the contrary, they will make Yemeni heroes more determined to continue supporting Gaza and destroying your criminal regime,” Houthi stated.
“The attacks on Yemen due to its support for Gaza have strengthened the faith and willpower of our people in the fight against terrorism and genocide.”
Hamas strongly condemned the joint attacks on civilian infrastructure in the provinces of Amran, Hudaydah and Sana’a as a blatant violation of international law, an attack on Yemen’s sovereignty, and a threat to regional security.
The airstrikes on Yemen, it said, prove the full complicity of the 
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