Yemeni Drone Attack Leaves 22 Israeli Settlers Wounded in Eilat
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Yemen launched a drone attack targeting the occupied city of Eilat, leaving as many as 22 illegal Israeli settlers wounded, two of them seriously.
An explosive-laden drone fired by the Yemeni Armed Forces flew past the Israeli regime’s interception systems, slamming into Eilat on Wednesday, with numerous videos circulating online showing settlers running for cover after the aircraft crashed into the city, which lies in the southernmost tip of the occupied territories.
The World Israel News website confirmed the contents of footage showing settlers “scrambling” to stay out of harm’s way as “air-raid sirens” went off.
Another footage showed Israeli forces dragging casualties out of the site of the incident on gurneys.
“Most of the wounded were hit by shrapnel, with the Israeli air force dispatching two helicopters to evacuate those more severely hurt to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba,” a nearby city, The Times of Israel daily reported.
The website identified the target as the vicinity of “a major shopping center adjacent to Eilat’s main boardwalk.”
The Israeli air force has opened an investigation into the reason behind the failure of the regime’s much-hyped Iron Dome missile system to confront the incoming aircraft, despite its launching “two interceptor missiles.”
Yemen’s Armed Forces claimed responsibility for the strike in a statement, calling it “a qualitative military operation using two drones targeting two Israeli enemy targets.”
The servicemen defined the “successful” operation as the second such strike to target the city over the past 24 hours. The earlier strike, they said, had deployed several drones against hostile targets.
The Wednesday operation took place in line with Sana’a’s determination to confront the regime over its October 2023-present war of genocide on the Gaza Strip that has been compounded by a near-total siege imposed by Tel Aviv on the territory’s two-million-plus population.
Concluding the statement, the forces vowed to sustain their operations until the regime ceased the war and lifted the siege.
“From dear Yemen, we will continue to stand with you and by your side with all our capabilities and potential. We will not stop.”
The Israeli daily also noted that the Wednesday strike had followed another one days earlier that saw a Yemeni kamikaze drone “smash into a hotel” inside Eilat.
