More than a dozen Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on at least two major ports in Yemen on Friday, according to Israeli and Yemeni officials. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued evacuation notices for three areas in Yemen last week, threatening retaliation to Houthi missile and drone attacks.
The IDF announced the strikes on Friday afternoon, saying 15 fighter jets dropped more than 30 munitions on the ports of Hodeidah and al-Salif, both on Yemen’s west coast. Israeli media reports also stated the port of Ras Isa was targeted in the bombings, though Tel Aviv made no mention of that area.
Israel’s military claimed the attack “destroyed terrorist infrastructure” belonging to the Houthi militant group, formally known as Ansar Allah, which has governed much of Yemen since 2014. The Houthis have carried out a number of missile and drone strikes on Israel in protest of its bombing campaign in Gaza, and have maintained a blockade on Israel-linked shipping transiting the Red Sea.
The Yemeni Health Ministry said one person was killed in the Israeli air raids and nine others injured, per the Houthi-linked al-Masirah media outlet.
The IDF issued evacuation warnings for Hodeidah, al-Salif and Ras Isa on May 14, with army spokesman Avichay Adraee ordering residents to leave the areas “until further notice” while threatening a response to a Houthi missile launch two days prior.
The Ras Isa fuel port was the target of a US airstrike last month that reportedly killed 80 people and left 150 wounded. Washington carried out at least 1,000 strikes on Yemen beginning in March in response to the Houthi attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping, but reached a truce with the group last week. Under the new agreement, US forces will refrain from bombing Yemen so long as Ansar Allah ceases its attacks on American vessels.
Will Porter is assistant news editor and book editor at the Libertarian Institute, and a regular contributor at Antiwar.com. Find more of his work at Consortium News and ZeroHedge.
Still…! not working…?!
Houthis are doing to Yemen what Hamas has done for Gaza.
The Israelis are doing to Yemen what they have done to Gaza and Lebanon. The Israelis are savage terrorists paid for by the Americans.
Can you name an Arab Country that supports Hamas' methods????
Egypt banned Hamas and branded it a terrorist organization.
Jordan banned Hamas in 1999. In 2013, Jordan rejected requests to allow Hamas to return.
Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah disagree and were fighting with each other in recent Syrian civil war (Sunni/Shiite conflict).
Syria says- Hamas is an uninvited guest
Saudi Arabia says they will arrest Hamas members on the spot
Can you name a country that supports genocide?
UN General Assembly:
* Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of the people of Palestine for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.
* Strongly condemns those Governments that do not recognize the right to self-determination and independence of all peoples still under colonial domination and alien subjugation, notably the people of Palestine.
ICC member countries will arrest Netanyahu and Gallant on the spot. IDF soldiers on overseas holidays are now running home, scared of being arrested.
Again, nice dodge to a simple question.
Can you name a country that supports genocide? Simple question.
No, but I can name 100 terrorist organizations that do, and you supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and their benefactor, are one of them.
No, but you can bullshit like a Zionist.
Hitler was inspired by the genocide of Native Americans, as well as such elements of American history as manifest destiny and slavery.
How American fascism inspired the Holocaust. https://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2021/01/04/how-american-fascism-inspired-holocaust/4131329001/
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Still dodging!
You do it well.
The biggest liars are the Zionists, they deny the Nakba of the Palestinian holocaust in 1948 happened.
Oh, I see. The UN General Assembly is not a country, just a whole bunch of countries. Uh-huh. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…
Don’t you know the American heads of state are extortionists, regardless of party?
Still dodging every question?
You don't ask honest questions, to answer is a waste of time.
Still dodging very simple questions—Can you name an Arab Country that supports Hamas and their methods? Yes, a few of them will send some humanitarian aid to Gaza, but that is it.
Egypt banned Hamas and branded it a terrorist organization. Egypt even built a steel wall between Egypt and Gaza after Hamas was elected, to keep Hamas terrorists out of Egypt.
You routinely condemn Israel for enforcing the blockade, and ignore the role of Egypt, which closed the southern end of the Gaza Strip to enforce the weapons blockade.
Jordan banned Hamas in 1999. In 2013, Jordan rejected requests to allow Hamas to return.
Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah disagreed and were fighting with each other in the Syrian Civil War (Sunni/Shiite conflict).
Syria says- Hamas is an uninvited guest
Saudi Arabia says they will arrest Hamas members on the spot
Are you a member of the Zionist's Hasbara troll army ?
Still dodging!
Our government has to or be called………………………….ANTISEMITIC!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Your thinking is ridiculous! Hamas and the Houthis have a long history of dealing with Israeli violations, none of which are(were) ever addressed by the international community. Israel and its addiction to US "aid" is the problem here, not Hamas or the Houthis. Get a clue Sherlock! The elephant in the room IS the butcher in the room!
That means you think that Hamas and the Houthis have got it right. Good luck!
Yes, they do.
On the side of justice.
Go and join them! Who are these guys? Who funds them, who supports, who arms them?——-
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group – IG)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Hizballah
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
al-Qa’ida (AQ)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LeT)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB)
Asbat al-Ansar (AAA)
al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
Ansar al-Islam (AAI)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (formerly al-Qa’ida in Iraq)
Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
al-Shabaab
Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI)
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Jaysh al-Adl (formerly Jundallah)
Army of Islam (AOI)
Indian Mujahedeen (IM)
Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT)
Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB)
Haqqani Network (HQN)
Ansar al-Dine (AAD)
Boko Haram
Ansaru
al-Mulathamun Battalion (AMB)
Ansar al-Shari’a in Benghazi
Ansar al-Shari’a in Darnah
Ansar al-Shari’a in Tunisia
ISIL Sinai Province (formerly Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis)
al-Nusrah Front
Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC)
Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al Naqshabandi (JRTN)
Hamas
ISIL-Khorasan (ISIL-K)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s Branch in Libya (ISIL-Libya)
Al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent
Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)
ISIS-Bangladesh
ISIS-Philippines
ISIS-West Africa
ISIS-Greater Sahara
al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB)
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM)
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Who are these far-right war criminals?
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Who funds them, who supports them, who arms them?——-
Trump has approved over $14 billion
in military aid and weapons sales to Israel. https://www.trackaipac.com/trump
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In its 2019 annual report (covering the year 2018), the SPLC listed 1,020 organizations as active hate groups, categorized by type, as follows: Ku Klux Klan (51), neo-Nazi (112), white nationalist (148), racist skinhead (63), Christian Identity (17), neo-Confederate (36), black nationalist (264), anti-immigrant (17), anti-LGBT (49), anti-Muslim (100), and "other hate" (163, consisting of 15 hate music groups, 8 Holocaust denial groups, 2 male supremacy groups, 30 neo-Völkisch groups, 11 radical traditional Catholic groups, and 97 other groups).
Israeli-Zionists are skilled liars, no one believes them. it is like the Nazi Germans would say the holocaust never happened.
NO MORE US DOLLARS FOR ISRAEL!!!
Those US dollars for Israel's defense- the Iron Dome missile defense system is considered most expensive, both in terms of the cost of its individual interceptor missiles and the overall cost of maintaining and operating the system.
If not for Iron Dome, Israel would have had to flatten Gaza and Hezbollah years ago, as literally tens of thousand of rockets have been fired into Israel's civilian populated areas. Now Houthis want in on it.
Again, there would not be a need for all this defense if not for these terrorists.
The ISRAELIS are the TERRORISTS, The Iron Dome is a joke, the Palestinians had no rockets only home made fire crackers. How many Israelis were killed by the tens of thousands of rockets fired by Hamas??? You are a joke. The MIC made huge profits, that is the value of the Iron Dome, it is a useless money machine.
Much like the pier Biden build, paid by American tax payers who are unable to buy health insurance. You repeat mountains of lies, and you know it.
Think before you post. Israel has early warning systems, allowing thousands of Israel's to pick up their children and run for bomb shelters when those sirens go off. It is still unacceptable.
Iron Dome saves more Palestinian Arab lives, because without, Israel would have to level every place that the rockets are fired from, which is usually behind human shields.
And then you forget that there are two million Palestinian Arabs that live in Israel proper as citizens, whose lives are also at risk. — Think before you post
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"Loans" are given to Israel (since the days of Alan Cranston), to be forgiven in another piece of legislation.
Remember when that rocket hit the bedroom window of one of Bibi's homes? Of course Bibi was not home.
If Iran wanted to, it could play "where's Bibi", similar to what the Zionist have done, killed an entire family just to get to one man.
Real brave, I tell you.
You should learn to think and ask questions, just for starters.
And I thank President Obama
Apr 18, 2011 — Netanyahu "expressed his deep appreciation for US funding for the 'Iron Dome' rocket and mortar defense system"
July 30, 2012–Ehud Barak -also a former prime minister of Israel – said that though historically administrations from both political parties have supported Israel, President Obama's support, security-wise, is unparalleled.
Aug 5, 2014 — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a bill granting an additional $225 million in funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense.
March 3, 2015— WASHINGTON (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is thanking the United States and President Barack Obama for aiding Israel, and warning of the threat that Iran poses to Israel’s survival.
All easily verifiable
So what, the MIC made the profits, all they had to do was to tell lies, make propaganda for the MIC, and Trump and Biden continued the profitable service.
Who do you want to be the most powerful military— China, Russia, Iran, the Arabs?
There you go. With the "poor little Israel against the world".
The non-signatory to the NPT that has the bomb, technology stolen from the U.S., with an assist from Bibi when he worked in the embassy.
Then, there is your hero, Pollard, who created one of the most dangerous intelligence breaches for the U.S. , by giving Israel the entire scope of our overseas intelligence network to Israel.
Also, the Zionist spy network in the U.S. that is not touched.
"Poor little Israel", indeed.
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As usual you dodge every question.
Second, it was not Bibi, it was some of the same Jewish scientists that worked on the first bomb.
As for Pollard, Jonathan Pollard gave classified information to an ally, regarding data on Soviet arms shipments to Syria, Iraqi and Syrian chemical weapons, the Pakistani atomic project and Libyan air defense systems. He is also believed to have given Israel satellite photos of the PLO headquarters in Tunis, which Israel used to prepare airstrikes, to which Pollard plead guilty. Pollard had no way of knowing that Israel was already getting this intelligence. President Obama had the courage to pardon him.
Get this in your head, I want people with real character and commonsense , then we would not have wars in the first place. FYI sanctions are acts of war, do you understand that?
Wars are BIG PROFITABLE BUSINESS, the ruling elite is getting rich, see Musk and his government contracts, the working middle class pays for their profit. The working middle class is shrinking and is sinking closer to poverty by the day. The idiotic Trump economy is certification of the idiocy of the Trump administration. And you keep trolling and worshipping for them and the master if they cut your throat.
What leader in the MENA region do you respect for having "real character and common sense"? — Please do not dodge the question
It's the Military Industrial Complex that keeps us the most powerful military in the world.
In 2024, just five companies—Lockheed Martin (with $64.7 billion in defense revenues), RTX (formerly Raytheon, with $40.6 billion), Northrop Grumman ($35.2 billion), General Dynamics ($33.7 billion), and Boeing ($32.7 billion)—claimed the vast bulk of Pentagon contracts.
The whole world invests in these markets. Boeing, by itself, is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems, Boeing supports airlines and U.S. allied government customers in 150 countries. The company employs approximately 145,000 employees across the United States and in more than 65 countries
It's the bloated Military-Industrial Complex that keeps the U.S. the most polluting country in the world. It's also the reason why America can't afford universal healthcare for their citizens, like all other developed countries.
The U.S. military is a bigger polluter than about 140 countries, ranking in the top 60 of carbon emitters. It releases similar CO2 levels as countries like Portugal and Finland. In 2020, the U.S. military totaled more than 51,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
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Every country that we have a military presence in forces the "host" country to sign the Status of Forces agreement between the U.S. and that country, which specifies that the U.S. will not allow that country to prosecute any U.S. military personnel for criminal acts committed in that country, and, we will never clean up any mess we create.
Rape, murder, property damage, not to be prosecuted by the "host" country.
Show the readers the document to which you refer.
It depends on individual nations, Germany and my guess Japan have not become really sovereign nations since WWII. But soldiers can be charged for civilian crimes in local courts in Germany, that includes traffic violations too.
Bikini Atoll still has radiation levels as high as 639 mrem/yr (6.39 mSv/yr), decades after the Pacific island was used to test nuclear bombs.
New Zealand is a nuclear-free zone and has prohibited the entry of nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships into its ports for decades, which has had a major impact on diplomatic relationships with the United States.
Would you rather that Russia and China lead the market????
Sure, if it means that US production returns to goods and services that result in real prosperity instead of fake “markets” that drain wealth out of society and into the bank accounts of the political class. Let Russia and China impoverish their subjects instead if that’s what they want to do.
In 2024, Forbes reported that China had 406 billionaires. According to Statista, China was home to 814 billionaires in 2024, which was the highest number of billionaires in any country.
China also has a universal basic medical insurance system, meaning a basic level of healthcare is provided to all residents free of charge.
Are you a MAGA moron???
A dumb question.
You don't seam to know that the living standards in China and Russia are up while the advanced trans-Atlantic democracies are going down.
The USA budget allocates more than one trillion $$ for the military while cutting social programs like education and health care and food stamps for the poor.
The standard of living for Americans is sinking, poverty, homelessness is growing and the working middle class is sinking into poverty. That is the reality of the superpower.
That, Trump and his billionaire elite regime calls success.
War is big business, what else is, that is old hat news?
Weapons are useless production they are made to kill not to make life better, we could employ hundreds of thousands of people in AFFORDABE HEALTH CARE AND SCHOOL TEACHERS. We could build affordable shelter, ending homelessness. Statistics show that only about 40% of Americans can read above the 6th grade level. There is much more.
"Weapons are made to kill", yes, it has always been that way. That is how Europe got rid of the Nazis, and Asia got rid of the Emperor of Japan. It is the way the Roman Empire helped to civilize the known world from the barbarians.
Wars are profitable business, that is how the ruling elite gets rich at the expense of the people. That you can believe.
Don't you wonder why the USA and Israel, two nuclear nations can't win a war with the biggest and most expensive militaristic population against any resistance movement like Hamas and the Houthis?
They kill women and children with 2000 pound bombs and call that war. How heroic of the IDF soldiers and pilots, you must be proud of it. Starving children including new born, you must be very proud.
Thank criminal president Trump for violating international law.
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Hitler said the same thing. The holocaust never happened, he knew nothing about it.
The response was really intended for peepsqueek.
Exactly. The Holocaust was a state secret in Nazi Germany, whereas, Netanyahu brags about genocide and the media covers it up.
NOT the way I want MY tax dollars to be spent.
Obviously, you are not an American citizen, so what do you care?
In a perfect world no! But in a world full of dictators, totalitarian governments, political Islam, and 150 terrorist organizations, we have to spend big money to stay ahead of the game.
You make no sense at all, you believe what the elected killers put on your plate and eat it.
The MIC shareholders are most grateful to each one of them; the club of mass killers.
If not for US-made bombs, Israel would not have been able to turn Gaza into rubble so easily.
US shipment of 2,000-lb bombs held up by Biden administration arrives in Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-shipment-of-heavy-bombs-held-up-by-biden-administration-arrives-in-israel/
1,800 of the heavy bombs unloaded at Ashdod Port, taken by trucks to Israeli airbases, weeks after Trump lifted hold on delivery.
Under international law, foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
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Israel is bombing Yemen with US dollars, support and encouragement.
Think tank script still being followed, Trump still not a peace president.
He never was a peace president.
I know. But look at “alternative news”. It’s getting as bad as corporate news, with reporting in a state of suspension of disbelief, based on utterances by Trump, that are so transparently bullshit. All you have to do is look at his actions instead of indulging words at face value.
The U.S. hands the baton to the Zionists.
Iran, where is that BOMB, because you are going to need it. Pronto!