{"id":10042,"date":"2025-06-10T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10042"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:04:05","slug":"israel-strikes-yemens-hodeidah-port-threatens-naval-air-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10042","title":{"rendered":"Israel strikes Yemen’s Hodeidah port, threatens naval, air blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"
Israel’s navy said it struck Houthi targets in\u00a0Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah on Tuesday, and Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened the Iran-aligned movement with a naval and air blockade if attacks on Israel continue.<\/p>\n

Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said Israel targeted the docks of Al Hodeidah port with two strikes.<\/p>\n

The Israeli army said in a statement that the navy struck Houthi targets, adding the port is used by the group to transfer weapons.<\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports of casualties.<\/p>\n

Israel has been hitting Houthi targets with air strikes in a military campaign launched after the country severely weakened Iran’s other Middle East partners.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military on Monday urged the evacuation of the Houthi-controlled ports of Ras Isa, Hodeidah and Salif.<\/p>\n

“We warned the Houthi terror organisation that if they continue to fire toward Israel, they will face a powerful response and will be subjected to a naval and aerial blockade”, Katz said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n

British maritime security firm Ambrey said there was no reported damage to merchant vessels in the port following the Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n

Ambrey also advised vessels to minimise crew movements on deck and bridge manning to a minimum while operating in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

Since the start of the Israel’s onslaught on Gaza in October 2023, the Iran-aligned Houthis have fired at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade, in what it says are acts of solidarity with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Most of the dozens of missiles and drones fired towards Israel have been intercepted or fallen short. Israel has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes.<\/p>\n

The Houthis are a resilient force that survived years of Saudi-led bombing in\u00a0Yemen’s civil war.<\/p>\n

Israel has severely hurt other allies of Iran in the region – Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n

The Tehran-backed Houthis and pro-Iranian armed groups in Iraq are still standing.<\/p>\n

The group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, created the defiant force challenging world powers from a group of ragtag mountain fighters in sandals.<\/p>\n

Under the direction of al Houthi, the group has grown into an army of tens of thousands of fighters and acquired a huge arsenal of armed drones and ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia and the West say the arms come from Iran, though Tehran denies this.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel’s navy said it struck Houthi targets in\u00a0Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah on Tuesday, and Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened the Iran-aligned movement with a naval and air blockade if attacks on Israel continue. Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said Israel targeted the docks of Al Hodeidah port with two strikes. The Israeli army said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}