Yemen’s Houthis, supported by Iran, attacked Israel for the first time since the start of the war on February 28. Tehran attacked a US military base in Saudi Arabia and says the Middle East will become a cemetery for US soldiers.
The United States and Israel attacked the Bushehr nuclear power plantfor the third time, in a month.
Tehran had promised to retaliate and fired ballistic missiles and drones against the North American Prince Sultan Air Base, in Saudi Arabia.
In one of the most serious failures of the United States’ defense, KC-135 refueling planes were damaged. At least two seriously.
The Iranian Armed Forces also claimed the attack on a United States logistical support shipnear the port of Salalah, in Oman and the firing of missiles at Israel, The impact of one of the projectiles falling in Eisthaol, near Jerusalem, left around a dozen people injured.
Os total numbers of the war that has lasted for a month are difficult to countbut even if official updates fail, those on the ground point to at least 2 thousand dead.
After Gulf countries warned of the growing threat of Tehran starting to activate sleeper cells across the Middle East, Yemen’s Houthis, who until now had limited themselves to threats, launched, for the first time, ballistic missiles against southern Israel.
The involvement of the Houthi militia worsens the fear of an oil crisisdue to the history of attacks on the Red Sea maritime routes, which at this time became an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
