DUBAI, April 5. /TASS/. Members of Yemen’s rebel Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement attacked at least 90 ships during the latest round of escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their leader Abdel Malik al-Houthi said.

"On our front in Yemen, we continue to conduct military operations from the Red Sea and the Arab Sea to the Indian Ocean. We also keep striking the Israeli enemy’s facilities in the district of Umm-al-Rashrash [the Arab name of Eilat] in the south of the occupied Palestine," the leader said in a statement, posted on his movement’s website.

"We carried out 34 operations in just one month. They involved the use of 125 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones," he said. "The overall number of attacked ships has reached 90."

In his words, the United States and the United Kingdom have admitted "their inability to stop" Ansar Allah’s attacks.

Following the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Ansar Allah movement said it would strike Israeli territory and prevent ships associated with Israel from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait until the operation in the Palestinian enclave was halted. The Houthis have attacked dozens of civilian ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since last November. On March 24, the movement’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said that his supporters were determined to attack Israel-linked ships traveling across the Indian Ocean towards the Cape of Good Hope.

In response to the Houthis’ actions, the US authorities announced the establishment of an international coalition and the launch of Operation Prosperity Guardian to ensure freedom of navigation and protection of ships in the Red Sea. British and US forces started carrying out regular strikes on the rebels’ military targets across Yemen.