This afternoon the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a series of air strikes against targets in the cities of Sanaa e Hudaydahcontrolled by Huthiin Yemen. The attacks were carried out while the Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi he was giving a speech. The IDF confirmed the attack stating: «Following the approval of the operational plans by the Chief of Staff, the Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister, IAF fighter jets conducted attacks based on intelligence on military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime on the west coast and inland of Yemen. The Yemeni terrorist group has repeatedly attacked the State of Israel and its citizens, including with UAV attacks and surface-to-surface missiles on Israeli territory» The targets hit by the IDF include military infrastructure used by the Houthis for their military activities both in the international airport of Sanaa and in the Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power plants. Furthermore, the IDF also struck military infrastructure in the ports of Al-Hudaydah, Salif e Ras Kanatib on the west coast. The IDF explained that the affected military targets were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to smuggle Iranian weapons into the region and for the entry of senior Iranian officials. “This is a further example of the Houthis' exploitation of civilian infrastructure for military purposes,” the IDF said.
The Houthis, operating as an autonomous terrorist group while relying on Iranian cooperation and significant funding to carry out its attacks, are a central part of the Iranian axis strategy and its attacks on international shipping and shipping lanes have continued since more than a year to destabilize the region and the world in general. An Israeli source confirmed to Sky News Arabia : « We hit Sanaa international airport» while the Saudi net Al Hadath reported seven attacks in Sanaa and three in Hudaydah. Among the targets according to the report were the port of Hudaydah and oil and power plants. Abdul Malik al-Houthi after the attacks he stated «Israel's deterrence has failed against our country, despite attacks on civilian facilities in Sanaa and Hudaydah. The Israeli enemy knows that our operations continue, are effective and influential. Our missiles, which Israeli defense systems failed to intercept, have caused great frustration to diplomatic and defense officials in Israel and the United States. The Israeli media are talking about a sleepless week. This is a new frustration among the Israelis, we have launched hypersonic missiles at night, and many times at very late hours of the night or early hours of the morning. When there are alarms, millions of people flee from the homes they occupy and from their cities towards shelters.” We understood that something was about to happen yesterday during the candle lighting ceremony for the'Hanukkah then the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened the Yemeni rebel group: “Today we light the first candle of Hanukkah to celebrate the victory of the Maccabees of then and also the victory of the 'Maccabees of today'”, Netanyahu said. As then, we strike our enemies, and those who then they thought they could cut the thread of our lives here, this will apply to all of them” The Prime Minister then added: “The Houthis will also learn what they Hamas, Hezbollahthe regime of Assad and others have learned, and this too will take time. This lesson will be learned throughout the Middle East, I tell you,” then citing the blessing recited as the Hanukkah lights are turned on, he concluded with the words “in those days at this time.”
Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the Air Force's central command center together with Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Air Force Commander Tomer Bar to closely monitor air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. «We are lighting the second Hanukkah candle. We are in the resurrection war, the generation of modern Maccabees. An hour ago the IAF struck targets of the Houthi terrorist organization in Yemen, both on the coast and in Sanaa. We are determined to eradicate this terrorist arm of the Iranian axis of evil. We will continue until we finish the job,” he said. After the Israeli air strikes on Yemen, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz declared that Israel will hunt down all Houthi leaders. “We saw precise action by the Israeli Air Force, which struck Houthi strategic targets in Yemen, at the airport and at the port,” Katz said in a video from the IAF's underground command center at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv. Then he added: «As we said, whoever strikes Israel, we will strike. We will also hunt down all Houthi leaders, we will strike them as we have done elsewhere. No one will be able to evade Israel's long arm.”
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