On Thursday morning, dozens of Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes against Yemeni ports and Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which came after the Houthis fired a missile at Israel.
According to Yemeni media, seven people were killed by Israeli strikes on the port of as-Salif, and two were killed by two strikes on the Ras Isa oil facility. Both the port and oil facility are located in the province of Hodeidah, which is located on the Red Sea. Israeli strikes were also reported in the city of Hodeidah, and two power plants were hit in Sanaa.
According to a statement from the Yemeni Workers Union Federation, the Yemenis killed by the strikes were workers. According to Yemen’s SABA news agency, the federation said in a statement that Israel’s “targeting of the two power plants in the capital, Sanaa, led to the deprivation of thousands of families from electricity, while the attacks on the ports of Hodeidah and Salif and the Ras Issa oil facility resulted in the death and injury of a number of workers in those facilities.”
Houthi officials also said the Israeli strikes hit civilian targets. Israel acknowledged it targeted energy infrastructure but claimed it was used for military purposes. The Israeli military said it “conducted precise strikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen, including ports and energy infrastructure in Sana’a, which the Houthis have been using in ways that effectively contributed to their military actions.”
The Israeli military said that the Houthi missile fired at Israel was intercepted, but parts of it or the interceptor landed on the ground, and a chunk hit an elementary school building, causing it to collapse. No one was in the building at the time, and there were no injuries.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea claimed Houthi forces fired two missiles at military sites in Israel, attacks he said coincided with the Israeli strikes on Yemen. He said the missiles were launched “in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people and in response to the massacres against our brothers in Gaza, as part of the fifth phase of support in the Battle of the Promised Conquest and Sacred Jihad and within the framework of responding to Israeli aggression against our country.”
Since last year, the Houthis have been launching attacks on Israel-linked shipping and firing missiles and drones at Israel in response to the onslaught in Gaza. Thursday’s airstrikes marked the third time Israel bombed Yemen.
In January of this year, the US began a new bombing campaign against the Houthis and launched hundreds of missile strikes on Yemen that have done nothing but escalate the situation. The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, started targeting American shipping in response and have expanded their attacks on Israel.
From 2015-2022, the US supported a Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis, which involved heavy airstrikes and a blockade, and the Houthis only became a more capable fighting force during that time.
According to the UN, the war killed at least 377,000 people, with more than half dying of starvation and disease caused by the siege. A ceasefire between the Houthis and Saudis has held relatively well since April 2022, but new US sanctions are blocking the implementation of a lasting peace deal.
The US should take a lesson from the IAF. Israel hits targets of value, where the US just plays "cat and mouse" with the Houthis missile groups. Destroying Houthis missiles, which they get for free, will not deter the Houthis from attacking Israel or shipping. Hitting the Houthis energy and transportation system on the other hand forces the Houthis to decide if they want to pay a price to continue their harassment attacks on Israel.
Perhaps you are not aware of it, but the Israeli Air Force is just an extension of the US Air Force, flying US planes with Israeli pilots.
Don't forget the Apache helicopters, flown the Israeli pilots, that gunned down cars fleeing from the rave, killing Israelis, along with any Hamas fighters.
While the cars were fleeing into Israel.
Perfect execution of the Hannibal Directive.
You mean the "targets of value" like "safe zones", or tent encampments?
Ambulances?
Medics?
A Palestinian child?
Several Palestinians carrying a white flag.
The IDF has said that there were no "Palestinians", only "terrorists", and that the IDF soldiers have been ordered to kill any Palestinian.
Very much like Vietnam. McNamara order to "kill anything that moves".
Israel. The "chosen" is determined to kill or run off every Palestinian from Gaza, the West Bank. Egypt will not have them. There is nowhere for them to go that they will not be killed by the IDF.
In 2023 there were 2.3 million Palestinians in a stretch of land that is 25 miles long, 5 miles wide. I believe that before Israel is finished, the death toll of the Palestinians will be just short of 1 million.
The total, in my belief, will consist of the dead from bombing, shooting, disease, starvation.
Twenty-five years ago, polio was eradicated from Gaza. It has returned. How? Palestinians children are being sickened with polio. Why?
The end? My belief is the end will come sometime in 2026. And will continue under the complete control by Israel. No country will interfere. Certainly not the U.S., the "indispensable nation", in the words of the b*tch, Madeline Albright.
It is making me an agnostic. Quite quickly.
Israel hits targets of value
Yes, like refugees in plastic tents with 2,000 lb bombs . Or Hospitals. Or Mosques. Or schools. Or women and children packed in high rise apartment building. Or their own people in trucks headed back to Gaza on Oct 7th. Or residential buildings in Lebanon. Or you are just full of fucking (just for you) shit.
Just what does Israel truly want, in the región?….
”Wake up to find out, you are the eyes of the world!!!”