Israel strikes Houthi military site at Yemen’s Hudaydah Port, Houthis retaliate with missile attack

Sirens sounded across central Israel hours after Tuesday’s strike following a missile launch from Yemen that was successfully intercepted.

By JNS

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck Hudaydah Port in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Tuesday, accusing the terrorist regime of using the facility to transfer Iranian-supplied weapons to attack Israel and its allies.

A “military infrastructure site” was targeted in the attack, which the IDF stressed was “in response to the repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel, including the launch of UAVs and surface-to-surface missiles towards the State of Israel.”

“The Houthis terrorist regime operates under the direction and funding of the Iranian regime in order to harm the State of Israel and its allies. The terrorist regime is exploiting the maritime domain to project force and to carry out terrorist activity against global shipping and trade routes,” the statement continued.

“The Air Force has now attacked the port of Hudaydah in Yemen to ensure the continuation of the maritime and air blockade on the Houthi terrorist organization,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said.

“The Houthi terrorist organization will continue to suffer blows and pay painful prices for any attempt to attack the State of Israel.”

Katz oversaw the operation from the command bunker of the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, top security officials and IDF commanders.

“Our forces are operating on multiple fronts,” Netanyahu said from the control center. “Just a few minutes ago, our pilots struck the port of Hudaydah in Yemen—this is the main supply port of the Houthis’ terror regime.

The premier continued:

“At the same time, our forces are operating in Gaza City with the goal, of course, to achieve the defeat of the enemy, but also simultaneously to evacuate the civilian population. We are currently making efforts to open additional routes to allow a quicker evacuation of the Gazan population, to separate them from the terrorists we want to target.”

Col. Avichay Adraee, head of the Arab media division of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, issued an evacuation warning on X in Arabic before the strike, along with a map highlighting the area to be hit with Israeli military force.

“For your safety, we urge all those present at the Port of Hudaydah and the ships anchored there to evacuate the area immediately,” Adraee wrote, adding “anyone who remains in the area puts their life in danger.”

Sirens sounded across central Israel hours after Tuesday’s strike following a missile launch from Yemen that was successfully intercepted, according to the IDF. There were no initial reports of injuries or damage.

The Israeli Air Force intercepted on Sunday a drone launched by Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

The attack triggered air-raid sirens in the town of Be’er Ora, located adjacent to Ramon Airport in southern Israel, due to the potential threat of falling shrapnel, according to the military.

Early on Saturday, the IAF intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Houthi terrorists. The attack set off sirens across central Israel at 3:47 a.m., including in Tel Aviv, sending millions of people racing for shelter.

The Houthis claimed that the attack targeted “sensitive sites of the Zionist enemy in the occupied Jaffa area” and that the projectile had carried a cluster warhead.

On Sept. 11, the IAF intercepted a missile and a drone launched from Yemen in separate incidents. Hours later, the military reported that a third “suspicious aerial target” had been identified, stating only that the incident “had ended.”

The IDF on Sept. 10 struck Houthi terrorist targets in the areas of Sanaa and Al Jawf in Yemen. Among the assets hit were “military camps in which operatives of the terrorist regime were identified, the Houthis’ Military Public Relations Headquarters and a fuel storage facility,” the military said.

Netanyahu noted that the Houthis’ retaliatory response to the IDF’s Aug. 28 strike in Sanaa, which killed Houthi prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi along with other senior Cabinet officials, “did not discourage us.”

“We hit them from the air again today in their terror facilities,” Netanyahu stated on Sept. 10. “Anyone who hits us, anyone who attacks us—we will reach them.”