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The Army of Israel reported this Wednesday that it has reinforced security in the Red Sea area with Navy missile ships, after having thwarted several missile and drone attacks by the Shiite group Yemeni of the Houthis in that area.
“According to the assessment of the situation and as part of the defensive efforts in the area, Israeli Navy missile ships arrived in the area yesterday. Red Sea“, said an Israeli Army spokesman.
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Early in the morning, the spokesperson reported that Israeli forces “intercepted an aerial threat that was identified in the Red Sea area,” south of the tourist town of Eilatlocated in the extreme south of Israelclose to Egypt.
This event “did not pose any threat to civilians and no infiltration into Israeli territory was identified,” the spokesperson said.
These events occur one day after the Israeli government threatened the Houthis with retaliation for the attacks they launched following the war that broke out between Israel and Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip on October 7th.
Until now, The Houthis have claimed responsibility for at least three missile and drone attacks on Israel “in support” of the Palestinians, and warned that operations “will continue” as long as Israeli bombing of the Strip continues. Link.
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On TuesdayThe Israeli Army reported that its air defense systems intercepted a surface-to-surface missile that was fired toward its territory from the Red Sea areaand that its fighter planes were mobilized due to a threat in that same area, which caused anti-aircraft alarms to be activated in the city of Eilat.
Israel reported last Friday that “missiles and drones” launched by the Houthis against its territory hit two tourist cities in Egypt near the border, in an incident that according to Egyptian authorities caused at least six injuries.
The spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lior Haiat, referred to this incident through the social network X and indicated that The Houthis “are representatives of the terrorist regime” in Iran, country he accused of “controlling” the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollahand Palestinian militias Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The Yemeni Houthis have warned on several occasions that they “will not stand idly by in the face of the genocidal war” in Gaza.warning that “crossing the red lines forces Yemen to fulfill its religious and principled duty”.
Israel and Palestinian militias Link This Wednesday they entered the 26th of a war that left more than 1,400 dead on the Israeli side and more than 8,300 in the Gaza Strip.
This reignited tensions in the region and exchanges of fire between militias in southern Lebanon against Israeli forces.
Source: Elcomercio
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