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The Houthis attacked us over 200 times. The first time that they harmed an Israeli citizen, we struck them. And we will do this in any place where it may be required,
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement after the strike God is great, death to the US, death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam."
The Houthis' ideology can be deduced from their motto We expect (to find) more damage, as not all storage tanks are visible because of heavy smoke" from the fire and burning fuel
It was used for military purposes, it was used as an entry point for deadly weapons supplied to the Houthis by Iran."
All of this won't stop the Yemeni people or the Yemeni leadership, military and missile forces in targeting the Israeli entities,
said Moatasem Abdel Salah, a Sanaa resident The Israeli enemy picked those targets specifically as part of their targeting of the Yemeni economy,
said Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, leader of the rebels They used this weapon to attack Israel, to attack the countries of the region, to attack an international shipping lane, one of the most important shipping lanes in the world,
he said after the strikes We are seeing a widening of the conflict,
says Middle East Studies Professor Marc Owen Jones as he analyses the rising attacks between Yemen’s Houthis and Israel Israel's necessary and proportionate strikes were carried out in order to stop and repel the Houthi's terror attacks after nine months of continuous aerial attacks toward Israeli territory.”
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months."
The IDF wrote on X, formerly Twitter The fire that is currently burning in Hodeidah is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear,
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement Whoever wants to see a stable and safe Middle East needs to stand against Iran's axis of evil, and support Israel's struggle against Iran and its proxies,
The blood of Israeli citizens has a price,
declared Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price,
The Israeli strikes came shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning ... following Friday's drone attack in Tel Aviv, which resulted in the death of an Israeli civilian