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Yemen vows response to Israel’s deadly aggression on Sana’a
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement vowed to respond to a recent Israeli strike on the capital Sana’a, which claimed the lives of at least six people on Sunday.
Citing the Yemeni Health Ministry, the state-run Saba Net news agency reported that six people were killed and 86 wounded in the Israeli raid, with more than 20 in critical condition.
A security source said the strikes had targeted a building in central Sana’a. The country’s Al-Masirah TV reported they had also hit an oil company facility and a power station south of Sana’a, which was already struck last Sunday.
The Israeli occupation army claimed it had hit a military compound where the presidential palace is located, along with two power stations and a fuel depot.
It said the strikes were in response to repeated attacks by the Ansarullah resistance movement against Israel.
Late Friday, Yemen’s Armed Forces fired a missile that Israeli authorities said had "most likely fragmented in mid-air."
Israeli media outlets the Times of Israel and Ynet, citing the regime’s military, reported the missile had carried a cluster warhead, the first of its kind known to have been fired from Yemen.
The Israeli ministry of military affairs released a photo on Sunday showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, minister Israel Katz and military chief Eyal Zamir following the strikes in Yemen from a command bunker.
Netanyahu claimed that the air force had struck "the presidential palace in the heart of the capital Sana’a, the city's power plant and the fuel tanks that supply it," according to a statement released by his office.
Ansarullah’s political bureau vowed in a statement to respond, saying they would "not deviate from the fight" against Israel and its ally the United States "until the aggression stops and the (Israeli) blockade on Gaza is lifted.”
Iran's Foreign Ministry as well as the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and the Gaza-based resistance movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad condemned the Israeli strikes on Yemen.
Since the October 2023 start of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, the Ansarullah movement has repeatedly fired missiles and drones at Israel in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Beyond attacks on the occupied territories, Yemen’s Armed Forces have also targeted ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.