India, May 6 -- The Israeli military confirmed on Monday that it carried out strikes on Houthi targets in the Yemeni port of Hodeida the same day, after the Iran-backed rebels earlier claimed an IDF strike on the port.

The action comes a day after the Houthis fired a missile at Israel's main David Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.

Israeli "fighter jets struck terror targets belonging to the Huthi terrorist regime, along Yemen's coastline and further inland," the military said in a statement, AFP reported.

The statement claimed that the Hodeida port "is used for the transfer of Iranian weapons, military equipment, and other equipment intended for terrorist purposes".

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