Israeli Air Force strikes Houthi targets in Yemen with 'extensive' operation

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is conducting strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets successful Yemen connected Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed.

The IDF said successful a connection that its aerial unit struck Houthi targets successful Yemen astir 1,800 kilometers from Israel.

The Israeli subject described "an extensive, intelligence-based aerial operation" involving dozens of IAF aircraft, including combatant jets, midair refueling aircraft, and quality aircraft, striking "military targets belonging to the Houthi violent authorities successful the Ras Isa and Hudaydah areas of Yemen." 

The IDF said targets included powerfulness plants and a seaport utilized to import oil, "which were utilized by the Houthi violent regime to transportation Iranian weapons to the region, successful summation to subject supplies and oil." 

The cognition was conducted successful effect to caller attacks by the Houthis against Israel, the IDF said. 

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An Israeli F-15 Eagle combatant pitchy flies implicit the bluish metropolis of Haifa connected Sept. 26, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

"Over the past year, the Houthis person been operating nether the absorption and backing of Iran, and successful practice with Iraqi militias successful bid to onslaught the State of Israel, undermine determination stability, and disrupt planetary state of navigation," the IDF said. "The IDF is determined to proceed operating astatine immoderate region – adjacent oregon acold – against each threats to the citizens of the State of Israel." 

The run against the Houthis successful Yemen comes amid already heightened tensions successful the portion aft Israeli strikes extracurricular Beirut, Lebanon, killed Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah. 

Houthi person Adul Malik al-Houthi vowed revenge for Nasrallah's killing, according to Tazpit Press Service (TPS), an planetary Israeli quality agency. 

"We volition determination toward escalation and processing our subject performance," al-Houthi reportedly said. 

As the one-year day of the Israel-Hamas warfare approaches, Houthis person continued a campaign to people ships traveling done the Red Sea arsenic U.S.-led airstrikes earlier this period pounded their positions successful Yemen. That's imperiled a waterway that typically sees $1 trillion of commercialized walk done it, arsenic good arsenic important shipments of assistance to war-torn Sudan and Yemen, according to The Associated Press. 

Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who reportedly has gone into hiding successful his country, has besides warned of imaginable retaliation from Iran and its violent proxies successful effect to Nasrallah's killing.  

Supporters of the Houthi question during a rally held successful Sana'a, Yemen, connected Sept. 27, 2024. (Abdallah Adel/AFP via Getty Images)

White House nationalist information spokesperson John Kirby said connected ABC's "This Week" connected Sunday that Hezbollah's bid operation "has been astir decimated," aft Israel destroyed thousands of the panic group's missiles and drones implicit the past fewer days. On Sunday, however, Israeli aerial defenses reported downing 2 drones coming from Lebanon. 

TPS reported that the 2 unmanned craft "crossed from Lebanese territory into Israeli waters and were intercepted by a rocket and an IDF (Israel Defense Forces) combat helicopter." 

In a connection connected Saturday, the Pentagon property secretary, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "stressed that the United States is determined to forestall Iran and Iranian-backed partners and proxies from exploiting the concern oregon expanding the conflict."

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"Secretary Austin made wide that should Iran, its partners, oregon its proxies usage this infinitesimal to people American unit oregon interests successful the region, the United States volition instrumentality each indispensable measurement to support our people," Ryder added. "The United States retains the capableness to deploy forces connected abbreviated notice. The Department of Defense continues to support a important magnitude of capableness successful the portion and to dynamically set our unit posture based connected the evolving information situation." 

Yemeni assemblage unit and students pain an Israeli emblem during a protestation against Israel's attacks connected Lebanon, connected Sept. 25, 2024, successful Sana'a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

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He said Austin "directed that the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) stay successful the US Centcom theatre and that the USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit (ARG/MEU) volition proceed to run successful the Eastern Mediterranean." The afloat posture, Ryder said, "is complemented by DoD’s elevated combatant and onslaught squadron presence, including F-22, F-15E, F-16, and A-10 aircraft, and we volition further reenforce our antiaircraft air-support capabilities successful the coming days."  

Fox News’ Yael Rotem-Kuriel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.