Airwars assessment
On Saturday, July 20th, 2024, seven civilians were killed and at least 83 others were wounded by a declared Israeli air raid on oil storage facilities in the Hudaydah Port, Yemen.
All of the civilians who were killed as a result of the strike were reportedly men and six of them were named by several sources as Nabil Nasher, Musa Jaylan, Abdulbari Youssef, Salah Al Sarari, Abu Baker Al Fakiyya, and Idrees Dawoud. According to at least three sources including @YenNews1 on X, the six men were engineers, and were employed at the Marine and Laboratory department of an oil company which has facilities at the Hudaydah Port.
Abu Islam Mu’azul Jumluli also memorialised Mukhtar al-Sabri, who he described as “dear engineer, a friend of a lifetime and a guide to men. He was and still is dear, precious, loyal and gone” along with an image of a man in a hard-hat in what appears to be the port area and a screenshot of a recent WhatsApp exchange between the men.
A Facebook post on behalf of Yemeni Pioneers Center for Training and Consulting wished condolences to Lubna Nabil on the death of her father Nabil Nasher and a post from Tamim Rabat pointed out that Nabil was carrying out his engineering work at the port when he was killed, along with an image of Nabil.
@TVAlmasirah posted on X the results of a preliminary toll on the day of the incident claiming the attack wounded 84 people. Another post by @Almasirahbrk shared a report by the national Ministry of Health, which claimed the attack wounded 83 people, while three civilians were still reported missing.
Photos and videos shared by at least 8 different sources on X and Facebook show huge fires in the port, injured civilians and consequent material damage. According to a tweet from @NoonPost, the airstrikes hit “two sites in the port, the first being the energy infrastructure, where about 20 facilities were bombed, which is expected to cause a fuel crisis” while other sources pointed out that the port was out of service following the strikes.
The Israeli Defense Forces declared their involvement in the strike, announcing that “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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Israeli Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months.