The Houthis started retaliating after yesterday’s Israeli raids on Houthi targets in the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen that left three dead and dozens injured. Early Sunday morning air raid sirens sounded in the southern city of Eilat Israelas the Israeli army announced, with residents searching protection in shelters.

Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted the Israeli city of Eilat with multiple ballistic missiles. Eilat is a frequent target of attacks by Yemen’s Houthis.

The Israeli army, for its part, earlier supported thewhat missile fired from Yemen was intercepted by the Arrow-3 air defense system, outside Israeli territory. According to his statement, the Arrow 3 air defense system shot down the missile before it crossed into Israeli territory.

The thermometer in the Middle East rises dangerously after yesterday’s Israeli raids in the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen, which caused a huge firethe day after the deadly drone strike in Tel Aviv by Yemeni rebels, in a new escalation in the wider region.

Three people were killed and dozens were injured from raids with Yemeni rebels warning that Israel will “pay the price” for today’s attacks, which according to them caused victims. The Houthis will not hesitate to attack “vital targets” in Israel, a military spokesman for the movement said after the airstrikes.

“The Zionist entity will pay the price for targeting civilian facilities and we will respond to escalation with escalation”warned Mohammed al-Buhaiti, a member of the Houthi politburo, saying it was a “brutal Israeli attack against Yemen”.

She is the first time Israel strikes Yemen, according to Israeli officials.

Footage showed huge fires raging on Saturday night. The Houthi government in Sanaa said Israel hit oil storage facilities near the coast, as well as a nearby power station.

In their statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) they mentioned: “After nine months of continuous airstrikes by the Houthis in Yemen towards Israel, IAF fighter jets [Ισραηλινής Αεροπορίας] carried out an extended operational strike at a range of 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles) against Houthi terrorist military targets” in the port area of ​​Hodeidah.

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“The IDF is able to operate wherever needed and will strike any force that endangers Israelis,” the statement said, adding that Saturday’s operation was codenamed Outstretched Arm.

“The blood of Israeli citizens has a price”, he stated Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad after the attack, saying it was a message, threatening retaliation against the Houthis. “This has been clearly demonstrated in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen and other places – if they dare to attack us, the result will be the same,” he stated.