Footage of First Moments After Bombing of Yemen’s Hodeidah Port
(AWP) - Television footage obtained by the Arab World Press (AWP) showed fires and thick smoke billowing during the initial moments after an Israeli airstrike targeting the western Yemen port of Hodeidah on Saturday, followed by a series of raids on several targets in the province.
“The Israeli bombing raids on Hodeidah targeted the Houthi political security building, arms depots and a power station,” a Yemeni military source told AWP.
The source added, “The raids targeted the port of Hodeidah, government facilities taken by the Houthi group to store oil, weapons and ammunition as well as gatherings of Houthi militants in several areas in the Houthi-controlled city of Hodeidah.”
The source confirmed that Israeli airstrikes targeted a dock, and tanks for unloading oil derivatives that were stored in large quantities at Hodeidah port, which has been controlled by the Houthi group for nine years.
“A huge fire erupted in the mobile and fixed tanks,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Houthi group’s military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, announced on Sunday that “important” targets in the southern Israeli city of Eilat were bombarded with a number of rockets, adding the strikes “achieved their goals successfully.”
“The Israeli attack on Hodeidah will not dissuade Yemen from its firm stance towards the plight of the Palestinian people,” he said.
Sarea warned, “The response to the Israeli aggression on our country is inevitably coming and it will be immense and great.”
The military source stated, “Our naval operations against Israeli, U.S. and British ships, or those heading towards the Palestinian ports will not stop unless the aggression on Gaza ceases and the blockade is lifted.”
Al-Masirah TV channel, which belongs to the Houthis, on Sunday quoted a medical official as saying the Israeli raid on Hodeidah on Saturday killed three people and injured 87 others.