Ya had to know this would be coming back to the Houthi’s…..
The US has been attacking Houthi assets for some time also…
Israeli fighter jets bombed a port in Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saturday in retaliation for the group’s deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv a day earlier. It was the first time Israel has publicly struck the group following months of escalating Houthi attacks.
The airstrikes targeted a power station as well as gas and oil depots in the area of the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, according to a Houthi spokesman and two regional officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Israel said it had struck sites used for military purposes, although Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman, said that Israel had attacked some “dual use” targets that have both civilian and military functions.
Admiral Hagari said the operation was “one of the farthest and longest ever conducted by the Israeli air force.” He called the port a major supply stop for Iran to funnel weapons to its Houthi allies in Yemen, who have fired over 200 missiles and drones at Israel over the past several months….
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A brief IDF statement Saturday said that its jets had struck “military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime” in the port of the city, Al-Hodeida, in response to “hundreds of attacks” carried out against Israel in recent months. The Hodeida strikes were approved at a rare Saturday Sabbath emergency cabinet meeting called in the afternoon, according to Israeli media reports.
The United States and Britain have been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen for months, in an unsuccessful bid to end Houthi attacks on maritime traffic in the Red Sea. Israel’s attack Saturday heralded a further expansion of the war in Gaza, and added a volatile new dynamic to what has become a building regional conflict.
The Houthis have framed their attacks, many on commercial ships in the Red Sea, as aimed at ending Israel’s offensive in Gaza….
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