Israel launches attacks against huti targets in Yemen

Photo foot, Israeli defense minister Israel Katz confirmed attacks against hutis controlled sites.

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6 julio 2025

Israel said he has launched attacks against huti targets in the Yemeni ports of Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Saif.

The attacks occurred shortly after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for civilians in the areas, warning of imminent air attacks.

The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, confirmed on social networks the attacks against sites controlled by the hutis, including a power plant and a ship that was kidnapped by the group two years ago.

Yemeni media controlled by the Hutis reported that the attacks hit the port of Hodeidah, but did not give more details about damages or victims.

Katz said that the attacks were part of the “black flag operation” and warned that the hutis “will continue to pay a high price for their shares.”

“Yemen's fate is the same as Tehran's. Anyone who tries to harm Israel will be harmed, and anyone who raises his hand against Israel will cut his hand,” he said in an X post.

Allied Military Forces of the Hutis — Photo foot, Military forces associated with the hutis have expressed against Israel.

Alliance with Iran

Since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Hutis rebels, backed by Iran, have regularly launched missiles against Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza and have attacked commercial ships in the Red Sea.

The Israeli Air Force said that the last attacks against Yemen's ports responded to the “repeated attacks” of the Hutis against Israel and their citizens.

He added that the attacked ports were used to “transfer weapons of the Iranian regime to execute terrorist plans” against Israel and its allies.

Shortly after the attack, the Hutis confirmed that their aerial defenses had repelled Israeli attacks with missiles, according to the Reuters news agency.

Among the objectives was the Galaxy Leader commercial ship, seized by the group in November 2023, which was used to monitor maritime ships in international waters, according to Israel.

The Ras Kanatib power plant, which supplies electricity to the nearby cities of IBB and Taizz, was also attacked, the Israeli authorities said.

This last attack against Hodeidah occurred after ships from the Israeli Navy attacked objectives in the port city last month.

The port of Hodeidah, the main point of entry of food and humanitarian aid for millions of Yemeni, has been the target of several Israeli attacks in the last year.

Photo foot, The port city of Hodeidah, in Yemen, after being attacked by Israel in May 2025.

God's supporters

The Hutí militia – or Ansar Allah (supporters of God), his real name – is a Shiite movement that controls about 30% of Yemen's territory, where he imposed a fundamentalist and repressive regime accused of serious human rights violations.

The group was formed in the 1990s and is made up of members of the Zaidíes, the country's Chiita Muslim minority.

The Zaidíes are the branch of Chiism closest to Sunism theologically speaking, according to experts. This tribal group is concentrated in northern Yemen and represents around a third of the 33 million inhabitants of the Arab country.

The Hutí militia denounced both the corruption of then President Alí Abdalá Salé and the oppression to which the Shiites were subjected by the Sunni majority, backed by the rich Saudi Arabia.

However, it was not until the beginning of this century that it began to gain notoriety, after the group rose in arms against Salé.

In 2004, they took the name of one of their leaders, the cleric Hussein Badredin al Houthi, who was killed by government forces in September of that year.

Houthi, who in addition to a religious leader was a military and parliamentarian Yemení, aspired to take power, but throughout the country, at least in one part, and create a new independent state for the Zaidíes.

Ali Abdalá Sale — Photo foot, The Hutis rebelled against the Government of Ali Abdalá Salé, who ended up deposing and killing.

In 2011, the group joined the so -called Arab spring and participated in the massive protests that forced Salé to deliver power to their second, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.

However, within a few years they were already raised against the new president and even reached an agreement with Salé, his former enemy, which promised to return him to the presidency in exchange for his support against Hadi.

In a matter of months, the hutis took control of the province of Sadá in the north of the country and, at the beginning of 2015 they captured the capital, Saná, forcing Hadi to flee abroad.

However, their conquests were braking by Saudi Arabia, which together with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, launched a military campaign with the purpose of overthrowing the hutis and restoring President Hadi in power.

The Saudi authorities feared that Yemen became a satellite of its enemy: Iran.

Although the attacks have caused 150,000 dead and thousands more injured, the hutis have managed to retain control of large areas of the country.

At the end of 2022 a truce was reached that ended the fighting between the group and the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

The current leader of the hutis is the brother of the founder of the group, Abdul Malik al Houthi.