Israeli aviation attacked in the early hours of this Thursday for the first time, in retaliation for the impact of a ballistic missile launched hours earlier by the Houthis, a Yemeni Shiite militia allied with Iran, in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area without causing personal injury. The aerial bombardment has targeted port facilities and power plants in the capital and other cities that the Israeli Armed Forces consider to be for military use. Yemeni media have reported at least nine fatalities in Sanaa, which has suffered successive blackouts.
The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has warned the Houthis through the X network: “Whoever raises his hand against Israel will have his hand cut off; Whoever attacks us will be attacked seven times stronger. “Israel’s long hand will also reach the Houthi leaders.” Seven of the fatalities from the bombing were recorded in the port of Salif and the other two in the Rass Issa hydrocarbon facilities, in the western province of Hodeida. In Sanaa, the attacks affected two power plants located in the north of the capital.
The pro-Iranian militia has in turn assured that the firing of the missile against Israel occurred simultaneously with the incursion of the Israeli aircraft. The Houthis have launched repeated ballistic rocket attacks against Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The Houthis have replied that their ports remain operational after the bombing, and that the attacks on Yemen will not prevent “a response to the Israeli aggression against Gaza.” “The Houthis will learn by hook or by crook that whoever attacks Israel pays a high price,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened in a videotaped statement. “After Hamas, Hezbollah and the regime of [Bachar] “Assad in Syria is the last armed wing of Iran’s axis of evil,” emphasized the head of government, for whom the operation has been carried out “in the name of the international community,” in defense of freedom of navigation through the Red Sea.
Almost at the same time, UN Secretary General António Guterres demanded that Israel fully restore the territorial integrity of Syria, after deploying to the demilitarized zone of the Golan Heights, and immediately cease attacks in which its Combat aviation has destroyed much of the Arab country’s military facilities and equipment.
For more than a year, the Yemeni Shiite militia has unleashed . The bombing alarm sirens were activated on the night of Wednesday to Thursday in the central region of Israel due to the firing of at least one ballistic missile. The projectile, a Palestine 2 type hypersonic missile, was intercepted by the Israeli defense shield, according to a military spokesman, but the fall of its remains caused the destruction of a school in Ramat Efal, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Following the recent fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and the weakening and elimination of Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon as a result of Israeli military operations in recent weeks, Yemen’s Houthi militia has confirmed itself as the main ally. active military of the Iran rejection front against Israel. After 16 months of war that devastated the Gaza Strip and caused more than 45,000 deaths, Hamas also appears to be seeking a way out by releasing the Israeli hostages it captured on October 7 of last year, to end the conflict.
which concentrates 70% of the population, where a fundamentalist regime has been imposed. Since October last year, it has opened a “third front” against Israel, in addition to Gaza and Lebanon. , one of the main commercial routes in the world, has given it international notoriety, having reduced the circulation of merchant ships in that sea route by 75%. and have limited the scope of their attacks. Last Monday they destroyed, precisely, one of the main command and control centers operated by the Houthis.
