Sanaa residents denounce Israel's attacks on Yemen's Hodeidah port

(21 Jul 2024)

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Sanaa, Yemen - 21 July 2024
1. Wide of Sanaa skyline
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Hady, Sanaa resident: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"We are telling the American-Israeli aggressors that they won't stop us from our strikes in defense of Gaza. We have been under attack for eight years (meaning due to the Yemeni Civil War). So yesterday's strikes won't stop us and won't stop us from striking Israeli and American targets or make us stop defending Gaza and Al-Quds (Jerusalem in Arabic). We want to tell them that whatever they do we won't back down. Even if only a few of us are left, we won't stop defending Gaza and Al-Quds."
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STORYLINE:
Sanaa residents condemned the Israeli attacks on Yemen's Hodeidah port and reiterated their support for Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday.

On Saturday, Israeli warplanes struck several Houthi targets in the Arabian peninsula country.

The Israeli airstrikes — in response to a deadly Houthi drone strike on Tel Aviv — were the first time Israel is known to have responded to repeated Houthi attacks throughout its nine-month war against Hamas.

The burst of violence between the distant enemies has threatened to open a new front as Israel battles a series of Iranian proxies across the region.

Sanaa resident Abdallah Hady vowed that Israeli strikes would not dampen Yemen's resolve.

"Yesterday's strikes won't stop us and won't stop us from striking Israeli and American targets or make us stop defending Gaza and Al-Quds," he said, using the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

The Health Ministry in Yemen said the Israeli strikes killed six people and wounded 83 others, many with severe burns.

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen early Sunday, hours after Israeli attacks.

Israel, along with the U.S., Britain and other Western allies with forces in the region, have intercepted almost all of the Houthi missiles and drones.

But early Friday, a Houthi drone penetrated Israel’s air defenses and crashed into Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial and cultural capital, killing one person.

The Israeli attack unleashed a massive fire in the city’s port.

The Houthis are among several Iranian-backed groups to have attacked Israel in solidarity with Hamas since the Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian militant group triggered the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.

The Hodeidah port is also a gateway for supplies to enter Yemen, which has been engulfed in civil war since 2014, when the Houthis seized much of northern Yemen and forced the internationally recognized government to flee from Sanaa.

A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year in support of government forces, and in time the conflict turned into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The war has killed more than 150,000 people, including fighters and civilians, and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.

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