Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the leader of the “Ansar Allah” group in Yemen, stated that Israel “wants to portray to its angry and frightened public that it has achieved a significant accomplishment by striking a painful blow to Yemen.”
In his speech on Sunday, Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi highlighted the following points:
The Israeli enemy has launched a direct aggression on the oil company’s tanks and the electricity corporation’s tanks in Hodeidah.
The enemy’s choice of targets is part of an effort to target the Yemeni economy with the aim of harming our dear people and their livelihood.
The Americans are waging an economic and military war against our people and are also mobilizing their tools and agents to increase the level of the blockade.
The Israeli enemy’s targeting of diesel and fuel oil brought in by traders for sale to citizens is a demonstrative target aimed at creating scenes of blazing fires.
“Yafa,” a drone, is an advanced model with clear tactical and technical capabilities, long-range and significant destructive power, surpassing any other aircraft.
Allah Almighty has blessed us with precision, and the operation was successful, and the drone reached the city of Yafa, what the enemy calls “Tel Aviv.”
We left it to our brothers in the Palestinian resistance to choose the name for the drone that targeted the administrative depth of the enemy, and they named it “Yafa.”
The arrival of the “Yafa” drone at a central administrative center of the enemy entity was troubling for them and is considered a new equation and a new phase.
We announce that targeting Yafa marks the beginning of the fifth phase of escalation, and we consider it a new equation that will continue and be affirmed with God’s permission and support.
The aggression on Yemen will not benefit the enemy or provide deterrence and will not prevent us from continuing in the fifth phase of escalation to support Gaza.
If the raids and attacks and targeting of civilian facilities in our country affected our dear people, then the raids by America’s agents over the last eight years would have had an impact.
Raids on our country have been carried out with American bombs, as is the case in Palestine to target civilian facilities and civilians.
Targeting our country by the Saudis under American supervision and contribution has not stopped, and our people have not changed their choice, decision, or adherence to the Palestinian cause.
Our dear people will never be affected, and they will not retreat from their stance, decision, and choice and have raised the banner of jihad to support the Palestinian people.
Earlier, the Israeli military announced that its fighters had bombed Houthi positions in Yemen in response to a drone attack targeting Tel Aviv on Friday.
Regional officials stated that the Israeli airstrikes targeted gas and oil depots and a power station in the Hodeidah port area on the Red Sea.
The Houthis have claimed responsibility for launching a long-range drone that struck the coastal city of Tel Aviv, resulting in one Israeli death and several injuries.
