By Hana Levi Julian – JewishPress.com
The Israel Air Force carried out multiple strikes against Iran’s Yemeni proxies, the Houthis, on Saturday, including an attack on Yemen’s biggest port, Hudaydah, in an attack code-named Operation Long Arm.
It is believed that Saudi Arabia allowed Israeli aircraft to cross through its airspace to carry out the attack.
Dozens were killed and injured, according to multiple reports. The port itself went up in flames, fueled by oil stored at the site. The targets included military equipment facilities, energy infrastructure, oil refineries and a military airport where the Houthis received deliveries of weapons from Iran.
The attack followed a Houthi drone strike in the wee hours of Friday morning in Tel Aviv that left one person dead and eight others wounded. The drone exploded against a multi-story apartment building just a few hundred meters away from the US Embassy.
“A short while ago, 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 said in a statement.
Shortly thereafter, IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari provided an updated in a briefing with reporters.
“The Israeli Air Force conducted precise strikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen. The military target was the Al Hudaydah port in Yemen, used by the Houthis as a main supply route for the transfer of weapons from Iran to Yemen, like the UAV itself that was used in the attack on Friday morning.
“In the area of the port, the Israeli Air Force struck dual-use infrastructure used for terrorist activities, including energy infrastructures,” Hagari said, saying the strikes were carried out to “stop the Houthi terror attacks.”
However, he pointed out, “the Houthis target other countries in the Middle East, the United States of America and the world with their attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea — and not just the Red Sea.
“Who is behind the Houthis? One country: Iran,” Hagari added.
The US issued a brief statement emphasizing that Israel “acted alone.”
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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement on Saturday night that he was at the IAF Command Center together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff LTG Herzi Halevi, and Air Force Commander Tomer Bar, monitoring the attack, which took place 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Israeli territory.
“The fire that is currently burning in Hudaydah is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear,” Gallant said.
“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.
“The blood of Israeli citizens has a price,” Gallant warned. “This has been made clear in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Yemen, and in other places – if they will dare to attack us, the result will be identical.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz echoed Gallant’s message in a separate statement posted Saturday night to the X social media platform.
“We will strike anyone who strikes us,” Katz warned.
“Iran supports, trains, and finances the Houthi terror organization as part of its regional network of terror organizations aimed at attacking Israel. This is the time for the international community to maximize sanctions on Iran – under its direction, the Houthis are severely damaging Freedom of the seas and trade routes. Iran is the head of the snake – it must be stopped now.”
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The fire that is currently burning in Yemen is seen across the Middle East. The blood of Israeli citizens has a price. pic.twitter.com/r3Aq3GNl1J
— יואב גלנט – Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) July 20, 2024
The US said we acted alone but we didn’t we acted with HaShem!! Nothing to be afraid of keep going!! Moshiach now! Who needs other countries to agree when HaShem agrees???
Baruch HaShem for this hit! And HaShem yikom damo for the man killed in Eretz Yisroel
On a related note, I wonder if I am of a mistaken impression, but I got the sense that the community did not particularly find it notable that the international court in The Hague outrageously ruled that our presence in Judea and Samaria is “illegal.” I didn’t hear much mention of it from rabbis this Shabbat except on the side. To me it would seem an important issue, but then again I hope that the seeming disinterest is just a matter of not caring “what the goys think.”
I would like to return your question with another of my own: If the United Nations got up tomorrow and decided “under international law” that the world is flat…
Then I would be amused.
I don’t hold the UN in any high regard and the same is now true of the ICJ.
I do hope that the apparent disinterest that I observe about Friday’s disgraceful opinion is a result of people not caring what these institutions think, and not a result of people not caring about the subject of our sovereignty on this territory.
…it would be more newsworthy if they said anything positive about Israel or about Jews. That the UN and its various agencies are corrupt anti-Semites is no chiddush.
Israel finally decided to strike back. It was about time! Moshiach now
Finally Israel struck back! So does someone have to die before they stike back! The Hutties struck 20 times and felt that they can getaway with it.
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May Hashem continue to help us idden. I luv their response, finally !!! May all the nations fear Hashems army.
May Hashem continue to help them do the right thing!