Yemen Forces Strike Israeli Ship, Port in Support of Gaza

Yemen's armed forces said they have targeted an Israeli ship in the Gulf of Aden and the port of Eilat in southern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza facing an Israeli military offensive.
The spokesman for Yemen's armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced the operations in a video statement on Thursday.

He identified the vessel as "MSC Darwin," saying it was struck "with a number of appropriate missiles and several drones, successfully achieving the operation's objectives."

Saree said Yemeni forces had also fired "several ballistic and cruise missiles at a number of Israeli targets" in Eilat.

"The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm their continued support for the Palestinian people by blocking Israeli navigation or navigation to the ports of occupied Palestine in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean," Saree said.

"The forces would also keep carrying out more military operations against Israeli targets in occupied Palestine," he added.

The operations "would continue as long as the Tel Aviv regime sustained the military campaign and a simultaneous siege that it has been employing against the coastal sliver," the spokesman said.

The statement came a day after Saree said forces had targeted two American vessels and an Israeli one in support of Palestinians in Gaza, who are enduring a US-backed Israeli "war of genocide."

More than 34,300 Palestinians have been killed and over 77,200 others wounded in the war that the regime began on October 7, 2023 following a retaliatory operation by the Palestinian territory's resistance movements.