Yemen's Houthi group said on Thursday it launched two joint military operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance against ships at Israel's Haifa port.

"The first targeted two ships carrying military equipments in the port of Haifa, while the second targeted a ship that violated the decision to ban entry to the port...," Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised statement.

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari, Clauda Tanios and Tala Ramadan; Editing by Alex Richardson)