Yemen’s Houthis claim they attacked ships in Haifa port, Israel denies

The Yemeni Houthi group announced on Thursday that it had launched joint air strikes on the Israeli port of Haifa.

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The Yemeni Houthi group said on Thursday that it had launched joint air strikes with an Iraqi group on ships in the Israeli port of Haifa, but the Israeli military denied the claim.

Houthis’ military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement on the Houthis’ al-Masirah television channel that “these very operations” with drones were carried out in retaliation for the massacres “committed by the Israeli enemy in the (Palestinian) Rafah area” in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli military sources told Xinhua news agency that they were “unaware of such an incident.” Witnesses from companies operating in Haifa said the port was operating normally.

Sarea claimed that one operation targeted two ships carrying military equipment and another targeted a ship that “violated the Houthis’ ban on entry into the port of Haifa in occupied Palestine (Israel).”

The Israeli enemy must expect further operations, the spokesman said.

The Houthi rebel group, which controls several cities in northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, began firing anti-ship ballistic missiles and drones at allegedly Israeli-linked ships transiting the Red Sea last November to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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