News - Middle East: The Grand Mufti of Iraq, Sheikh Mahdi Al-Sumaidaie, has called on all Muslims for a general mobilization to support the Yemeni, Lebanese, and Palestinian people.

The Mufti stated that the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine is a war of extermination against Islam, condemning the silence and inaction regarding the ongoing events.

"We must support our fellow Muslims in Yemen, as silence and submission are a form of complacency with the oppressive Zionists who are waging war against Islam and Muslims," he added.

On Saturday, Israeli warplanes targeted civilian buildings, oil facilities, and a power station in the Yemeni province of Hodeidah, killing three citizens and injuring 87 others.

Brushing off official accounts that the airstrikes had targeted civilian structures, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari alleged that the regime’s aircraft had struck “military targets” in Hodeidah.

He also said the strikes had come in response to the attacks that the Yemeni Armed Forces had been carrying out against the occupied Palestinian territories over the past months.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have been targeting the territories as well as Israeli ships and vessels affiliated with the occupying regime since October 7, when Tel Aviv began a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip. They have vowed to keep up their operations as long as the regime sustains the war and a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against the Palestinian territory.

Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Sare'e announced after the airstrikes that the response to Israeli aggression would include "vital targets of the Israeli enemy," reiterating their previous statement that Yafa (Jaffa) is considered an unsafe area.