Zionist regime bombs power station in new attack on Yemen's civilian infrastructure
The Zionist regime has bombed a power station south of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, in a continued escalation of its aggression against the Arab country.
Residents of Sana’a on Sunday reported hearing at least two explosions near the Hazeem power station, while reports by local media indicated that the powerful blasts were caused by a Zionist regime’s strike.
The Reuters news agency quoted eyewitnesses as confirming they heard loud explosions near the electrical facility early on Sunday, with no immediate reports of human casualties.
Yemen’s al-Masirah TV says the strike knocked some of the power plant’s generators out of service.
The strike was carried out by the regime’s navy missile boats, according to an unnamed Zionist regime’s military official quoted as saying by the media.
Hazem al-Asad, a member of the political bureau of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, hit out at Zionist regime for targeting civilian facilities.
“The criminal and bankrupt enemy is only targeting service facilities and civilian infrastructure, such as water and electricity installations,” he wrote in a post on X.
The development came a few days after the Yemeni Armed Forces announced in a statement that it launched four drone attacks targeting the cities of Haifa, Negev, Eilat, and Be’er Sheva in the Israeli-occupied territories, in yet another operation in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
Using six drones, the attacks “successfully achieved their objectives,” the spokesman for the Yemeni military Brigadier General Yahya Saree said in a statement aired by al-Masirah TV on Tuesday night.
Saree said the attacks were carried out in response to Israel’s “implementation of its plan to eliminate the Palestinian cause through genocide, starvation, and displacement.”
He also vowed continued attacks against Zionist regime until “aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and the blockade is lifted completely.”
In response to the escalating genocidal war on Gaza, which began in October 2023, Yemeni forces implemented a strategic maritime blockade aimed at disrupting the supply of military resources to Israel and urging the international community to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Simultaneously, they carried out numerous missile and drone strikes against strategic targets within the Israeli-occupied territories in solidarity with Palestinians enduring 22 months of relentless, genocidal war.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have made it clear that they will not halt their operations until Israel ceases its onslaught in Gaza, where at least 61,800 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been martyred so far.