Israeli jets strike Houthi targets in Yemen after Tel Aviv attack
Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen's Hodeidah port on Saturday (July 20), killing at least three people and wounding 87, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Tel Aviv, Israel's economic hub.
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00:00Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen's Hodeidah port on Saturday,
00:08killing at least three people and wounding 87, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed
00:14group hit Tel Aviv, Israel's economic hub.
00:18Most of the wounded suffered severe burns in airstrikes.
00:20The targeted oil facilities and a power station, Al Masira TV, the main television news outlet
00:27run by Yemen's Houthi movement, quoted the health ministry as saying.
00:31Hodeidah residents reported hearing explosions throughout the city during the intensive bombardment.
00:37Al Masira TV said civil defense forces and firefighters were trying to extinguish fires
00:43in the port's oil tanks.
00:45Israel's military spokesman stated that the port had been used by the Houthis to receive
00:50weapons shipments from Iran.
00:52Israel had informed its allies before the strike, which was carried out by Israeli F-15
00:57fighters, that all returned safely.
00:59The Houthis' Supreme Political Council vowed an effective response to the strikes.
01:22The strike on Yemen, which Israeli officials said, came after more than 200 Houthi attacks
01:46on Israel, underscored fears that the Gaza War, triggered by the Hamas-led attack on
01:51Israel on October 7, could spiral into a regional conflict.
01:57On Friday, a long-range Iranian-made drone launched from Yemen hit central Tel Aviv in
02:02an attack claimed by the Houthis, killing one man and wounding four others.
02:07This attack followed an escalation in the daily exchange of fire between Israeli forces
02:13and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon, and came as Prime Minister
02:18Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to travel to Washington, where he is scheduled to address the U.S. Congress.