News - Yemen: The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned and expressed its strong disapproval of the Israeli aggression against Yemen.

According to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the ministry stated that Iraq "condemns and denounces the Israeli aggression against Yemen," which targeted oil and civilian facilities, including the Hodeidah port and the electricity company, resulting in civilian casualties and injuries.

The ministry described the attack as "a serious escalation threatening regional stability," reaffirming its "full solidarity with the Yemeni people" and holding the Israeli entity responsible for any military escalation in the region.

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

The Israeli aggression has faced widespread condemnation both locally and across the Arab world.

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.