The Yemeni group Ansar Allah (commonly known as the Houthis) announced a series of drone operations targeting major Israeli military and strategic facilities, including the Israeli General Staff headquarters, Hadera power station, Ben Gurion Airport, and Ashdod port.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesperson for the Houthi armed forces, confirmed in a statement that the movement’s drone force “carried out four military operations with four drones” against Israeli targets.
He detailed:
- The first operation targeted the Israeli General Staff headquarters in occupied Jaffa with a Sammad-4 drone.
- The remaining three operations struck the Hadera power station, Lod Airport in Jaffa (Ben Gurion), and Ashdod port. According to Saree, all operations “successfully hit their intended targets.”
In addition, the Houthis announced that they struck the vessel MSC ABA Y in the northern Red Sea with two drones and a missile, accusing it of “violating the ban on entering ports in occupied Palestine.”
Protest to the UN Over Assassinations in Sana’a
Earlier this week, the movement addressed a formal protest letter to the UN Security Council following the Israeli assassination of the head of its government and nine ministers in an airstrike on the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
The letter, issued by Abdulwahid Abu Ras, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Houthi government, and published by SABA news agency, denounced the Israeli strike as “a cowardly and treacherous crime.”
He stated:
“The Zionist aggression deliberately targeted, in a blatant violation of Yemeni sovereignty, the Prime Minister of the Government of Change and Reconstruction, along with several ministers, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs.”
Abu Ras stressed that the attack constituted “a flagrant violation of Yemen’s sovereignty, stability, territorial integrity, the UN Charter, international law, and international humanitarian law.”
He added that the assassination “was a fully fledged crime that joins a long chain of Zionist atrocities against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Yemen since 20 July 2024, which have included airports, ports, power stations, factories, and residential neighborhoods.”
The letter called on the international community to “shoulder its moral and legal responsibilities, halt these crimes, compel the Zionist entity to abide by international law, ensure accountability, and end the policy of impunity.”
It further vowed that “Zionist aggression against Yemen will not pass without response — as guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter and by all international laws, customs, and conventions.”
Assassination of Yemeni Prime Minister
On Saturday, the Houthis officially announced the death of Prime Minister Ahmad Ghalib al-Rahwi, alongside several ministers, following the Israeli airstrike on Sana’a two days earlier.
The statement clarified that they were killed while attending a routine government workshop reviewing annual performance.
Israeli media, including the official broadcasting authority and Army Radio, confirmed the strike on Thursday, describing it as an attack on “senior Houthi leaders,” though without naming specific figures.
