Israel struck Huthi targets in Yemen on Friday, including a power station and coastal ports, in response to missile and drone launches, as it warned it would hunt down the group’s leaders.

Israel’s latest strikes came after the military intercepted two drones believed to have been launched from Yemen on Thursday.

“A short while ago… fighter jets struck military targets belonging to the Huthi terrorist regime on the western coast and inland Yemen,” the Israeli military said in a statement. It said the strikes were carried out in retaliation for Huthi missile and drone launches into Israel.

The statement said the targets included “military infrastructure sites in the Hizaz power station, which serves as a central source of energy” for the Huthis. It said it also struck military infrastructure in the ports of Hodeida and Ras Issa.

A military official said more than 20 aircraft took part in the attack, deploying 50 munitions.

The attack focussed on three main targets, the official told AFP.

Iran slammed Friday’s strikes on Huthis by Israel.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Iran “strongly condemned… the brutal and unprecedented attack carried out today by the Zionist regime against Yemen”.

Despite minimal damage due to Israel’s air defences which have intercepted most Huthi missiles and drones, the Huthi strikes have significantly disrupted civilian life in Israel.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel would “hunt down the leaders of the Huthi terror organisation”. “The Hodeida port is paralysed, and the Ras Issa port is on fire -– there will be no immunity for anyone,” he said in a video statement.

Yemen’s Al-Masirah television station said the power station was struck 13 times and nearby houses were damaged.

Yemenis taking part in a weekly protest in Sanaa in support of Palestinians heard the strikes, the channel reported.

Al-Masirah said the port of Hodeida, vital for Yemen’s imports, was struck six times, while the Ras Issa port was struck by “a series of raids”.

The raids on Ras Issa left one person dead and six others injured, the network reported.

Huthis said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, they targeted Jaffa, the name they use to refer to the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv.