Israeli Airstrikes Hit Houthi Terror Stronghold in Yemen
IDF: “The targets included power plants and a seaport used to import oil, which were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil.”
A day after Yemen-based Houthis fired ballistic missiles aimed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan, Israeli airstrikes hit several targets in the terrorist stronghold of Hodeidah, the Israeli and Arab news outlets reported Sunday afternoon.
“The Saudi Al-Arabiya outlet reports that the alleged Israeli airstrike on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen a short while ago targeted a power plant,” The Times of Israel reported. “The Iran-backed Houthis launched three ballistic missiles at Israel this month,” the news website noted.
Israeli official: Israel had struck Houthi targets in Yemen pic.twitter.com/lWt0n7CidU
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) September 29, 2024
This is the second Israeli strike of this kind on the Houthis bastion. Israeli fighter jets in July struck a terrorist-controlled fuel depot in the port of Hodeidah.
The target of the strike appears to be the Houthis’ oil reserve — the primary source of revenue for the terrorist group, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing Israeli officials:
Israeli officials told Walla, “In response to recent Houthi missile attacks on central Israel, the IAF targeted infrastructure at the port, including sensitive oil facilities belonging to the Yemeni rebels. The strike in Yemen was coordinated with the US.”
Additionally, Israeli officials emphasized to Walla that the strike in Yemen was coordinated with the US. (…)
Additionally, Al Mayadeen reported that Hodeidah’s electricity station and airport have both been targeted by IDF strikes.
This is what Israel 🇮🇱 did an hour ago in Yemen 🇾🇪, at a distance of 2,000 kilometers from Israel.
Iran's oil infrastructure are only at a distance of 1,600 kilometers from Israel…
pic.twitter.com/yT4XXNnHd6— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) September 29, 2024
On Sunday, “during an extensive, intelligence-based aerial operation, dozens of IAF aircraft—including fighter jets, mid-air refueling aircraft, and intelligence aircraft struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in the Ras Isa and Hudaydah areas of Yemen,” the Israeli military said in a press release shortly after the strike.
“The targets included power plants and a seaport used to import oil, which were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil,” the IDF disclosed.
The Iran-backed jihadist group has fired several missiles and drones at Israel since October 7. The terrorist group has repeatedly attacked Western-owned cargo ships in the Red Sea in a bid to disrupt the maritime trade going through the southern Israeli port of Eilat. “The strikes were carried out in response to the recent attacks by the Houthis against the State of Israel,” the IDF said.
IDF: “The Israeli Air Force conducted a large-scale aerial operation, targeting Houthi regime military facilities in Yemen, approximately 1,800 km from Israel. Dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, refueling planes, and intelligence units, struck power stations and a port… pic.twitter.com/2vISsjviIN
— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) September 29, 2024
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Self-defense is self preservation. The Israelis aren’t yet ready to commit civilization suicide.
Unlike Democrats, who are fans of euthanasia.
The Houthis have been brazenly attacking U.S. Navy, allied and civilian shipping for months, with the U.S. military — under the vile and evil Dhimmi-crats’ cowed, emasculated and meek dhimmitude — refusing to deliver a fully justified and vicious reprisal that would take these thugs out, once and for all.
Israel does what the U.S. should have done, many months ago.
The Houthis damaged three US Naval ships. The US response: Nada. The US has the fire power to obliterate the Houthis but it does not have the will to do so. It takes a small country like Israel to do a tiny bit of what the US could and should do.
You’ll recall that was exactly the case at the end of the Obama administration in which sailors were captured and held hostage. No such actions were taken once Strong Horse Trump took office. For that matter, the same was true with Carter and the Iranian hostages in 1980. I detect a pattern here.
A disgraceful episode of total humiliation and fecklessness. The vile narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, and his lackeys — well-represented, in the Biden-Harris Administration — have directly funded, enabled, appeased and empowered Iran’s malignant and genocidal Islamofascist despots, at every turn.
Indeed. It’s too bad the US didn’t have a carrier group or something in the area to keep the shipping lanes open.
Doing the job the Biden Admin couldn’t dare do. Avoids a two front war..one in the Middle East and one with voters in the Midwest.
I can just imagine Trump’s response to a Houthi attack on a US vessel! I am also sure that in the back of the Iranian mind, if there is one, their entire oil-transferring system would be in flames as we see here if they attack Israel outright. Only through surrogates can they attack Israel. After the pager bombing, the Iranians must realize that Israel is so far ahead of them that to attack would lead to 72 virgins overnight.
I’m sure he’ll direct his message to the mullahs in Iran – if there is so much as a scratch on one of our ships there’s a ballistic missile submarine within striking distance armed with missiles with your name on them.
A 180* difference from the Biden-Harris Administration. With them, you and I are the enemy.
Worth noting that the city Israel hit in Yemen is roughly 400-miles further away than Tehran is….something I’m quite sure the Iranian Mullahs understand.
Like Syria, don’t they have some serious anti aircraft air defence systems “lent” to them by the Russians??
They have the Russian S-300. It’s unlikely that platform would have much success against the F-35. Even if they had the S-400, they probably couldn’t do much against the stealth tech in the 5thGen fighter.
I think this was a twofold mission directed not only at the terrorists in Yemen but also a large message to Iran.
I’m curious as to which flight route the IAF took. Down the small part where Israel touches the Red Sea (IIRC) over the Red Sea into Yemen? Or directly over Jordan and KSA — whose air defense personnel were all “napping?
It’s unlikely they’ll ever publicly comment on it. It’s quite possible they were given overflight permission from Jordan and the The Kingdom, both of which (but particularly Jordan) wouldn’t be eager to acknowledge the overflight. I though it was interesting that in the photo/video package Israel released after the summer raid on Yemen, there was water visible in the photos which was (no doubt) a purposeful implication that they flew via the Gulf of Aquaba and then the Red Sea. That easily could have been on the way back.
Wouldn’t make much difference if they overflew both Jordan and KSA or went down the coast to the targets since they were directed at a port. Either way I’m quite sure KSA has had enough of those terrorists and wouldn’t put up much of fight over air space, they are going to remain silent on the matter
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