UPDATE: Israel Retaliates Against Houthis For Drone Attack On Tel Aviv
Iran supplying Samad-3 drones — like the one that hit Tel Aviv — to Mexican drug cartels and Venezuela, Israeli sources say.
Following Friday’s drone strike on Tel Aviv by Houthi terrorist group, the Israeli airforce reportedly carried out an airstrike on terror targets in Yemen.
The strike reportedly took place in the Houthi stronghold in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in western Yemen.
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. pic.twitter.com/LBGSM9ZQ7u
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 20, 2024
The Israeli TV channel i24News reported:
The Israeli military on Saturday confirmed striking a port in Yemen controlled by the Houthi jihadists, a day after the Iranian proxy group perpetrated a deadly drone attack on Tel Aviv.
“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.”
This is a Houthi stronghold in Yemen.
Lesson: F*ck with Israel and find out. pic.twitter.com/twKlKQBoa8
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) July 20, 2024
Houthi drone strike on Tel Aviv: Iran’s growing global terror threat
Iran’s multi-pronged attack on Israel continued as Tehran-backed Houthis on Friday carried out a deadly drone strike on Tel Aviv.
One Tel Aviv resident was killed and ten others were wounded when an Iranian-made drone struck near U.S. Embassy in Israel’s commercial capital in a predawn attack. “Buildings in the vicinity suffered damage, with many windows shattered,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Friday.
The American embassy appears to be one of the targets of the drone strike that hit Tel Aviv on 3 a.m. local time. “The aerial strike rumbled through the center of the city near the U.S. Embassy, causing shrapnel to rain down and spreading shards of glass over a large radius,” the Associated Press reported Saturday.
Iran’s proxy terror group admitted carrying out the strike near the U.S. embassy. “The spokesman for the Houthis, Yahya Sare’e, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement published on the social media platform X. He said it was in retaliation for the Israel-Hamas war and had hit one of the group’s many targets,” AP News added.
It has been confirmed that tonight's explosion in Tel Aviv was from a drone attack targeting the US Consulate (the Embassy is in Jerusalem). In the first video, you can hear the sound of an engine before the explosion. The white building on the left is the Consulate.
It’s… pic.twitter.com/VXIrKOsU91
— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) July 19, 2024
The victim of the terrorist strike was identified as a 50-year-old man. “Israeli authorities named Yevgeny Ferder as the man killed in a Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv early Friday morning,” The Times of Israel reported Saturday. “Ferder, 50, had moved on his own to Israel from Belarus in 1999, according to Hebrew media reports. He is survived by a niece in Israel and an older sister in Belarus.”
Documentation of the Houthi drone that struck a building in Tel Aviv on Friday morning, killing a man and wounding other people. pic.twitter.com/5W4CT9SkXF
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) July 19, 2024
While Friday’s terror strike is the first lethal attack by Houthis on Israeli soil, this is not their first attempt to target the Jewish State using Iranian drones. “The Iran-backed Yemeni rebels have launched over 200 drones and cruise missiles at Israel since November, according to the military,” The Times of Israel noted.
Following Hamas-led October 7 massacre, the Houthi terrorists disrupted global maritime trade by carried out repeated attacks on Western-owned commercial ships in the Red Sea.
Even before October 7, the Yemen-based Houthis had been wreaking havoc throughout the region after President Joe Biden’s administration in 2021 removed their terrorist designation in an apparent bid to appease Iran — reversing a decision taken by the Trump White House.
The Yemeni terrorist group is dedicated to jihad against the United States and Israel. The Houthis, formally known as ‘Ansar Allah’ (or the Followers of Allah in Arabic), proclaim their true intentions in the official slogan: “Allah is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory for Islam.”
Iran-made drone flew over 1200 miles before hitting Tel Aviv
The Iran-made Samad-3 drone “traveled about 2,000 km from Yemen to Israel through the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Friday. “The drone used different routes to confuse the IDF detection systems. The drone’s payload was relatively small and contained few kilograms of explosives to prolong the aircraft’s distance, allowing it to cross Sinai and enter Israel through the Mediterranean Sea.”
The Israeli military has no doubts about Iran’s direct involvement in the drone strike. “Iran is funding, arming and directing its terror proxies in their attacks on Israel and the wider world. We will not allow Iran and its proxies to terrorize our civilians and we will continue to do everything we can to protect Israel’s people and borders,” IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Friday.
“We are fighting a multi front war.
Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the militias in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Houthies in Yemen, all the Iranian proxies, and Iran itself.”Watch IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari’s statement on the UAV attack in Tel Aviv earlier… pic.twitter.com/cUqqDJwCAW
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 19, 2024
Israeli airstrike reported on Houthi target
The IDF on Saturday afternoon appears to have carried out an airstrike on Houthi target in Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in western Yemen, initial reports on social media suggest.
What appears to be an Israeli airstrike in response to the Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv has reportedly targeted a fuel depot in Hodeidah. pic.twitter.com/X8YeLuMsz2
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) July 20, 2024
Report: Iran supplying Samad-3 attack drones to Mexican cartels, Venezuela
The attack on Tel Aviv highlight the growing global terrorist threat posed by the Shia-Islamic regime of Iran. Tehran is supplying long-range Samad-3 drones — like the one used by the Houthis in the Friday’s strike — to Mexican drug cartels, and the rouge Marxist regime of Venezuela, Israeli sources say.
“The same Iranian drones as the one that struck Tel Aviv are being supplied to Mexican cartels and to Venezuela, yet many in the US remain under the illusion that Iranian terrorism plays out at a safe remove from their borders,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported, citing former diplomat and author Yoram Ettinger.
The same Iranian drones as the one that struck Tel Aviv are being supplied to Mexican cartels and to Venezuela, yet many in the US remain under the illusion that Iranian terrorism plays out at a safe remove from their borders, @YoramEttinger tells @theemilyfrances pic.twitter.com/I4e9ZMofUF
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) July 20, 2024
IDF operating in Rafah, central Gaza
Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise visit to Rafah on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued operations to destroy Hamas’s presence in the terror stronghold.
“IDF troops are continuing precise, intelligence-based operational activity in the Rafah area. Over the past day, the troops eliminated a number of terrorists in several different encounters,” the Israeli military said in a press release Saturday. “IDF troops have started a targeted operation in the area of Tal as Sultan against terrorist infrastructure and Hamas terrorists.”
Over the past week, more than 150 terror operatives were killed during an operation in Gaza City, the IDF says.
The raid, launched earlier this month, is being led by the 99th Division, with the Alexandroni, 8th, and Commando brigades, and elite Multi-Domain Unit.
During the… pic.twitter.com/xPqCla6ypA
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) July 20, 2024
Counter-terrorist operations were underway in other parts of Gaza as well. “IDF troops continue their operation in central Gaza, conducting targeted raids on terrorist infrastructure sites in the area,” the IDF added.
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Didn’t Sullivan, Blinken, and Biden, et.al., just tell us they had a cease-fire deal that was done?
They have the larger business of destroying evidence of their involvement in the attempt for a while.
Accepting arguendo that they do have some kind of ceasefire in place between Gaza and Israel in the foreseeable future, there is little (to no) chance that either Hezbollah or the Houthis will honor that agreement. Until such a point when Iran and its client states fear the US again, what is happening in the Middle East will continue to worsen and deteriorate.
Iran needs to be on the receiving end of of our, and Israel’s most powerful bombs.
Then make it clear to Mexico that either they neutralize those weapons, or we will do so, without any concern for collateral damage.
A fringe benefit would be return of manufacturing.
There’s little to no chance Hamas will honour it either.
Way to go, israelis 👍
Even assuming they flew the trip over the Red Sea, I have to assume they had to notify both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who were OK with it.
Why do you assume that? It’s almost certain that they didn’t notify anyone.
The US notifies friendly nations when we have missiles/strike aircraft flying over their territory. Israel (quite rightly) has no real ‘friendly’ nations around them, so there’s no need to give them a call when we know for certain they’d call the Houthi’s in seconds.
He’s not talking about Israel, which does have friendly countries, or at least countries that fear the Houthis more than they hate Jews. He’s talking about the Houthis, and assuming they must have notified Egypt and Saudi. I highly doubt that.
I really do not understand how any of these things could possibly be occurring.
After all, Tony Blanking sez everybody must follow his rules
And Ben Stiller — who knows a lot — flew to Israel to say that the war must end.
And George Clooney doesn’t want good amal to leave him and take the kids to lebanon; therefore Israel must stop trying to defend its women and children
And I’m certain that the sophisticate Sullivan told the Houthis that they have a valid point of view
Therefore it’s just inconceivable to me that this reporting is accurate.
Must be deep fake cheap fakes just like Butler PA
Wait — let me consult joy Reid and tommyboy friedman (who also knows a lot, he knows so much, yes Tom Friedman knows an awful lot ) and then I’ll get back to you
Lots of collateral damage, I hope.
wonder if was really the houthi’s and not hezbollah (in lebanon) acting on the yemeni’s behalf–apprx 2,5ookms from yemen–thought range on a sam-3 was about 1,500kms–if it really was launched out of yemen, then the cartels can reach dc from the southern border–that’s alarming
“the official slogan: “Allah is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory for Islam.”
It’s a lot wordier, but at least more honest, than the Washington Post’s.
Look, if Iran and their proxies don’t care about Pales, why should we?
I’ve been told that if anybody really wanted any of this warring to end, all that would be necessary would be one or more of the following:
1. Obama’s kids kidnapped
2. Clooney children kidnapped
3. Children of rulers in Iran, Norway, Spain, Ireland EU UN kidnapped
4. Sinwar/Nasrallah/ Minneapolis/ Dearborn Imam family children kidnapped
Yes, people will talk tough about martyrdom and maybe some will sincerely mean it—but from what I’ve been told … at some point Tlaib and aoc and omar and Sanders and Fauxcahontas will prolly come around.
Does the world need to recognize that it’s war, not a wrestling match?
Idk
Only the presence of President Trump in office for a second term will end this current war, which never would have happened, in the first place, had he been in office the past three and-a-half years.