Israeli ships attack Houthi power station

This was the fourth time in four months that the IDF struck the Iranian terror proxy in Yemen.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Israeli ships attacked a Houthi power station in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa around 3 a.m. Sunday in response to the latest set of missiles the Iranian proxy has fired at the Jewish state.

“The IDF attacked energy infrastructure deep in Yemen that is used by the Houthi terror regime at a distance of 2,000 kilometers,” an army spokesman said.

The navy struck in response to the Houthis’ “repeated attacks” with ground-to-ground missiles and UAVs on Israeli territory, the spokesperson added.

All of the Iranian-supplied aerial weapons were shot down by Israel’s defense systems before reaching the country but still sent millions of people running to shelters in various regions 11 times in the last six weeks alone.

Several other times, including the latest on Monday night, no warnings were issued as the detected missile launches did not rise to the level of a threat against the population.

At least two large explosions were heard at the Haziz power plant, according to Yemeni media.

The CEO of the Sanaa Electric Corp., Mashal al-Rifi, said the attack caused “a temporary power outage.”

A civil defense source told local media that the missile strike caused a fire that “our teams are working to extinguish.”

Outlets affiliated with the Houthis confirmed that the plant was shut down after the missile strike.

Haza al-Assad, a member of the Houthis’ leadership council, claimed that “this criminal enemy only attacks civilian facilities that supply electricity and water.”

While Israel has struck Yemeni power stations before, it has never targeted water facilities in the often drought-stricken country.

The Houthis have reportedly increased the rates the residents must pay for water in order to fund their terror activities, knowing that the precious commodity is something people simply cannot do without.

This is the fourth time in four months that the IDF has struck the Houthis, after hitting them only three times in all of 2024, in an effort to discourage the terror group, which has launched hundreds of missiles and UAVs at Israel in support of Hamas since the Gazan terrorists massacred 1,200 people and took 251 as hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, sparking the ongoing war.

In May, Israel launched a series of airstrikes after a Houthi ballistic missile aimed at Ben Gurion Airport hit just outside Israel’s largest air hub.

The IAF bombed several Houthi-held ports through which the group receives weapons shipments from Iran, disabled the Sanaa International Airport while destroying many aircraft there used to transfer weapons and operatives, and struck several power stations.

In June, Israeli jets targeted a residential compound in Sanaa where the most senior Houthi officials, including their chairman and military chief of staff, were meeting, in a reported assassination attempt.

In July, the IAF again hit ports, power plants and a ship the Houthis had hijacked and converted into a radar tracking station enabling them to locate vessels in international waters off the coast to attack.

The early Sunday strike is only the second time that Israel’s navy has hit Yemen.

The first was in June as well, when Sa’ar 6-class corvettes fired two long-range guided missiles at the Houthis’ main port in Hodeida from hundreds of miles away, in what the IDF at the time called an “unprecedented” operation.