Airstrikes Destroy Houthi Targets in Yemen, After Numerous Missiles And Drones Fired At Israel
AP News: “A series of intense Israeli airstrikes shook Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city.”
The Israeli Air Force, on early morning Thursday, conducted waves of retaliatory strikes on terrorist targets across Yemen after Houthis fired another ballistic missile at Israel within a span of days.
On Wednesday night, the Yemen-based Islamic terrorist group fired a ballistic missile towards central Israel. Israeli air defense systems “intercepted one missile that was launched from Yemen, before crossing into Israeli territory,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday night. “Rocket and missile sirens were sounded following the possibility of falling debris from the interception.” On Monday, the Iran-backed jihadist group had fired a similar missile which was also intercepted by the IDF over central Israel.
The fragments of the Houthi missile landed on a school near Tel Aviv. “Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and other cities in central Israel on Wednesday night, after the Houthis launched a ballistic missile towards the area,” the Israeli broadcaster Arutz Sheva reported Thursday morning. “Residents of the area reported hearing explosions, and interceptor fragments fell in a school in the Ramat Gan neighborhood of Ramat Ef’al, causing severe damage to both the building and vehicles.”
A missile from Yemen toward Israel at 3am was intercepted, with debris landing on a school in central Israel. Millions rushed to shelters overnight.
Thankfully, Israel invests in protecting its civilians and not using them as human shields. pic.twitter.com/8SIFkMsu0X
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 19, 2024
Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi targets, including military facilities, ports and oil infrastructure — key source of funding the jihadist outfit’s terrorist activities.
“The Israeli Air Force airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen overnight were carried out in two waves,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “Fourteen IAF fighter jets, along with refuelers and spy planes, were involved in the strikes, which had been planned by the military for several weeks in response to the Iran-backed group’s attacks on Israel.”
One of the objectives of the Israeli aerial operation was to knock out the Red Sea ports controlled by the terrorist group, a move that would disrupt the weapons supplies coming from Iran. According to the news outlet “the strikes in Yemen were aimed at paralyzing all three ports used by the Iran-backed Houthis on the coast of the country.”
“The IDF conducted precise strikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen – including ports and energy infrastructure in Sana’a, which the Houthis have been using in ways that effectively contributed to their military action. Israel will not hesitate to act in order to defend itself and its citizens from the Houthi attacks,” IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, disclosed in a video address.
BREAKING: Following Israeli airstrikes, the central power station of Yemen's capital, Sana'a is fully engulfed in flames. The city is currently blackout.
The Houthis continued to escalate their attacks against Israel, asking for a major response. pic.twitter.com/e0LBE1vX3J
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 19, 2024
“The targets struck by the IDF were used by the Houthi forces for military purposes,” the IDF confirmed in a statement Wednesday morning. “The strikes degrade the Houthi terrorist regime, preventing it from exploiting the targets for military and terrorist purposes, including the smuggling of Iranian weapons to the region.”
“IAF fighter jets, with the direction of the Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Navy, struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime on the western coast and in inland Yemen,” the military added.
The Houthis 🇮🇷 in Yemen 🇾🇪 are having a very bad night, and no more electricity. pic.twitter.com/3EZMZGAYgg
— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) December 19, 2024
Thursday’s Israeli strikes come days after a similar measure by the U.S. armed forces in the wake of repeated attacks by the Houthis on American maritime and military assets in the region. “On Monday, the U.S. military’s Central Command said that it hit “a key command-and-control facility” operated by the Houthis in Sanaa,” The Associated Press reported.
BREAKING 🚨🚨
ISRARL CRIPPLES ALL THREE HOUTHI PORTS
Israel completely paralyzed all three Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen during airstrikes; IDF targets Sana’a for the first time.
Dozens of fighter jets, along with refueling aircraft, hit targets up to 2,000 km from… pic.twitter.com/MgBgT6ISvv
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 19, 2024
The Israeli strikes, which according to the CNN caused “massive explosions,” were reportedly planned months in advance as a retaliation to the Houthi aggression. Since October 7, 2023, the Houthis have fired hundreds of missiles and drones towards at Israel.
“The complex operation, which required weeks of planning, involved mid-air refueling capabilities due to the extraordinary distance,” the Israel Hayom newspaper noted. “The mission was the first time the IDF also struck the capital Sana’a, as the two previous public strikes on the Iranian-backed terrorists were limited to the norther strategic stronghold of Hodeida.”
🚨 Breaking: An hour after Houthis fired a ballistic missile on Tel Aviv, Israel 🇮🇱 destroyed over thirty targets in Yemen, including oil refineries, power stations, and ports. pic.twitter.com/Ni7oD2sk22
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) December 19, 2024
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About time somebody systematically nailed these creeps.
Terminate…with extreme prejudice.
“An hour after Houthis fired a ballistic missile on Tel Aviv, Israel 🇮🇱 destroyed over thirty targets in Yemen, including oil refineries, power stations, and ports.”
The IDF is excellent at forming timely, effective, and aggressive responses. How long would it take the IDF to help Kirby and Mayorkas solve Biden’s mystery of unidentified drones and deploy the appropriate responses?
about ten to fifteen minutes.
Trump was asked about the drones and says the military knows exactly what they are and where they came from. So basically they just don’t want to tell.
Oh look, it is possible to target things that matter when confronting an Islamic terror state. Weird. This is what we should have done the first time the Houthis fired upon one of our US Navy ships….which first happened over a year ago. They’ve launched anti-ship missiles at our ships in the Red Sea almost every month since last November. In fact, they launched several drones, cruise missiles and ASBM against the USS Stockdale and USS O’Kane just a couple weeks ago. We responded by bombing some desert.
It WAS a terror state until Joe Biden revoked the designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization. But for some reason their conduct hasn’t changed.
It’s part of the Israel as bully rhetoric nevertheless. They calculated that into the mix beforehand.
It’s part of the Israel as bully rhetoric nevertheless.
So tell us, what SHOULD be Israel’s response?
You’re the kind with plenty of criticisms but no suggestions.
The suggestion is change the argument to one you can win. Namely who’s behaving morally and who’s behaving immorally. You can’t win who’s more oppressed, as Israel is showing by oppressing the other guy more than the other guy is oppressing it.
Your obsession with the silly oppression-sweepstakes argument seriously handicaps your intellect.
Its not an “argument” Israel is seeking to win; its a war. The “argument” is being held offstage by uninvolved progressives who are ideologically aligned with Islam, and is therefore one Israel couldn’t win even if it were important.
Israel isn’t “oppressing” the Houthis, it is taking out military targets that threaten the lives of Israelis. Israel isn’t being “oppressed” when Houthi missiles fly, its existence is being quite literally threatened. It is not immoral to defend one’s people but it is immoral to seek the annihilation of others because of your religious and ideological hatreds.
The fact that you buy into progressive language means you buy into their non-rational intersectional thinking as well.
The Houthis are making that argument and calculating Israel’s response will help them win it. Israel could counter that by not making the oppression argument in return and instead going to a morality argument, but they won’t. They’re stuck on the oppression argument themselves.
Your comments are so manifestly childish and foolish.
Israel doesn’t claim to be “oppressed” — you’re a one-note, out of tune guitar, harping on about that ridiculous notion. You’re myopically obsessed with this idiotic supposition.
Israel is unabashedly and staunchly defending its people and its territory from goose-stepping, genocidal fanatics. Israel is used to being vilified in the media, after decades of this stuff.
It’s all justified by Oct 7, memorials, etc. Just as previous responses have been justified by bus bombings etc. That wanders easily in the the Jewish alienation antisemitism everywhere posture and stays there. Nobody makes a morality argument except it’s bad to oppress.
The morality argument is about trying to do good, which Israel repeatedly does, aka. mutually beneficial trade with the Palestinians. That’s moral good. The Palestinians every time shoot it down or blow it up. That’s moral evil. There’s the argument.
You seem to be the only one who is aware of Israel’s claim of being oppressed. I have never seen Israel make such a claim. Attacked, targeted, endangered, subjected to absurd accusations and double standards, unable to get a fair hearing, a democratic modern state engaged in a war of civilization against barbarism — yes. Claiming to be oppressed? Only in your mind.
My U Chicago university academic book catalogs used to feature a Holocaust for Children section under Jewish Studies, where the Holocaust can be taught.
An annual early 90s corporate mail battle was Jews against company Christmas decorations, which in fact got ended.
It’s a cultural reflex off of alienation, and serves to preserve the religion by preventing assimilation. In battles against Israel’s neighbors, it’s counterproductive as an instinct.
rhhardin doesn’t get out much. i think he’s in an “infinite boot loop” for life.
No need for Israel to argue with the world about anything. There is no point. It would be wasted energy.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400859
Absurd.
Your comic relief is always appreciated and here it is, right on time. Thank you.
Loser.
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Israel is doing what the U.S. and European powers should have done, a long time ago, when this ragtag band of Islamofascists/terrorists first began its terrorism/piracy on shipping routes and ships.
There has been discussion in Israel of establishing a naval and probably air force military base in Somaliland (Horn of Africa) in exchange for diplomatic recognition of Somaliland. Would give Israel much better ability to safeguard maritime traffic around Yemen (at least for its own ships). It’s an extreme disappointment and embarrassment that the US has failed to secure peaceful navigation of the seas in this area. It’s the stuff of “end of empire.” We’ll all hope Trump turns this around.
Weakness, fecklessness and cowed/meek/submissive dhimmitude invite aggression, and, Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists fully understand the truth of that principle and take full advantage of the Dhimmi-crats’ and European, leftist dhimmis’ emasculated dithering, appeasement and .stupidity.
It’s sickening — the cancerous Iranian regime could have been and should have been deposed, decades ago, and, its proxies destroyed, utterly. Instead, they’ve been allowed to undermine global peace and stability for decades.
Making a point with Iran seems to be the way to get them to stop enabling this, but maybe needs to wait for the next administration.
One missile flown into Israel a few days ago
Me thinks this might not exactly be true, but hey, we know they had it coming , they knew it was coming
Israel does what we refuse to do, protect our Country
A missile flew in yesterday, apparently an hour before the attack. Other missiles and/or drones have also been aimed at Israel from Yemen in the last week. If you think it’s a conspiracy, go check out the elementary school in Ramat Gan or at least do a search for a photo. Easy to find. Or download one of the “red alert apps” like Tzofar, which will show you a map of where alarms are triggered in Israel (but turn off the “notices” provided by the app unless you want your phone sending out an alarm signal. I understand where you are coming from in terms of skepticism. But sometimes the truth is actually the truth.
I think “one” missile just sounds a bit off
Like I said, we all knew it was coming
Here you go:
https://www.jns.org/idf-hits-houthi-terror-targets-in-yemen-after-missile-fired-at-central-israel/
Others were fired at Israel this morning. Fragments of one fell on a school in Ramat Gan, which is near Tel Aviv. The warhead detonated on impact and damaged the school so severely that it will need to be demolished. (Source: Arutz 7.)
From aceofspadeshq
“A quick look at a map shows Yemen’s capital can only be reached by flying over the Red Sea or directly overflying Saudi Arabia, and no doubt would require aerial refueling if IDF aircraft are to deploy enough ordnance on target. Also, of note is that distance is about the same as between Israel and Iran. And for sure that would likely require either overflying Saudi Airspace or the Saudis and/or Emiratis allowing the IDF to preposition aircraft on their territory to fly directly over the Gulf to attack Iranian targets.
There is speculation that the Mullahs are on the ropes with the evisceration of their Hamas and Hezbollah allies as well as the collapse of the Assad regime (although with the installation of Islamic terrorists as their replacement, that is likely a temporary setback for the Iranians). A quick series of attacks by Israel could be enough to finally bring down the Ayatollahs. Especially if Israel knocks out their oil refining capacity, which would totally wreck their already faltering economy and cause a massive revolt by the people.“
And Biden won’t be there to interfere after Jan 20th. So look out mullahs.
Syria is now wide open. There’s a flight path in that direction, I believe.
Unfortunately Syrians will be again flooding Europe and America
Thank you, Vijeta, for the complete reporting.
For a look at the take of one Israeli (apparently originally from UK) to the Houthi launch toward Tel Aviv:
https://x.com/leekern13/status/1869672804767170708
Which reminds me of the Biden Administration’s repeatedly telling Israel to not “escalate.”
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