The Israeli coastal city of Eilat, in the Red Sea, was affected this Wednesday, September 24 by a Yemen drone, announced the Israeli army, the emergency services that reported 22 injured, two of which are in serious condition.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened to severely rippillar after this attack, claimed by the Houthi rebels of Yemen, supported by Iran. “Any attack against Israeli cities will be told by a painful blow to the Hutí terrorist regime,” he said in a statement. This is the second time that Eilat, at the southern end of Israel, has been affected by a foreign drone in less than a week, according to Israeli authorities.
Emmanuel Macron “condemns with the greatest firmness”
Houthis’s military spokesman, Yahya Sari, said the rebels had launched two drones against two different goals in southern Israel. “Hutis terrorists refuse to learn from what happened to Iran, Lebanon and Gaza,” said Israeli Minister Israel Katz.
“They will learn it to the coast,” he threatened: “Who hurts Israel will be hit seven times stronger.”
These facts arise when Israel celebrates the second day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Hotels are generally filled in Eilat during this period. According to Israeli’s radio and public television, the drone has exploded near a hotel.
“The drone fell to the center of the city of Eilat,” said the police, informing “material damage.”
Israeli aid said they had evacuated 22 injured, including two in a serious state: a man of some sixties was affected by explosions and another in thirty years, injured in the chest.
Previously, the Israeli army had indicated that the alert sirens had sounded in Eilat after the detection of a Yemen plane, but that the “interception attempts” had failed.
Questioned by several Israeli media, the mayor of Eilat, Eli Lankeri, asked the Government to “hit the hutis,” and added that the port of the city has been arrested for two years due to the attacks.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron “condemned with the greatest firmness” this attack “, addressing his thoughts of the injured.” “All my solidarity and that of France for the Israeli people in terrorism,” the French president wrote in his social networks.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, caused by the unprecedented attack of Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, the hutis have multiplied the shooting of missiles and drones in the direction of Israel, as well as the attacks aimed at commercial ships in Yemen, who claim to act in solidarity with the Palestinians.
In response, Israel has carried out several series of mortal strikes in Yemen, pointing to the ports, electric power plants and the Sanaa International Airport
Source: BFM TV
