The Israeli army is planning to strike Yemen in response to recent Houthi missile and drone attacks, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation Kan reported on Monday.

The Houthi movement, known officially as Ansar Allah, claimed to have struck a “military target” near Tel Aviv on Monday with a hypersonic ballistic missile.

The group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree declared in a televised address that the operation was a success, though Israeli media reported intercepting the missile before it entered its airspace.

The Houthis have been launching attacks against Israel since the outbreak of the war in Gaza last year. They say the attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians.

The Yemeni group has also targeted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, describing these operations as part of their efforts to pressure Israel into halting the war on Gaza.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    This has all been made possible through the weakness of Democrats, namely Joe Biden and those who refuse to challenge his leadership.

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      Did not the population show their unsupport by voting for the other guy? Who won?

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        How much do you have to suck to run a campaign against Donald Trump and lose twice. Other world leaders outright say he speaks like a child.

        At the end of the day you can blame the electorate all damn day or you can recognize the embarrassment that is the US democratic party and the campaigns they ran, completely missing the mark.

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    Israel finally being the tip of the spear they were meant to be, knocking down the dominoes that the US has been lining up since the Arab Spring.

    I am anxious that this is all working in favor of the empire and that the resistance is not strong enough to resist being shattered in the not so distant future.

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      Yemen has survived a decade of US genocide. As for Iran they already or almost have nukes.

      Things might stabilize under Trump or America gets bogged down in another Afghanistan in Yemen. Yemen might also start hitting Saudi oil bases again.

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        I hope you’re right. The rapid fall of Syria undermines some of my faith in historical track records.

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          Hezbollah surrendering without a ceasefire in Gaza was more worrying. Especially after the stories about their rocket reserves which never delivered

          Assad won’t really be missed for anything but his compliance in transporting weapons to Lebanon.

          But Iran will not be involved in a huge war. Iran has missile barrages aimed at oil in the entire region. Even Trump will never attack them lest he pisses off his Saudi BFF when all the oil goes boom. And the American economy will crash without the oil as well.

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            Hezbollah surrendering without a ceasefire in Gaza

            I don’t think they surrendered to anyone – they just negotiated a ceasefire between them and Israel. Bad, but they’re not off the board like Syria.

            Assad won’t really be missed for anything but his compliance in transporting weapons to Lebanon.

            Who knows what information Hezbollah had about the impending collapse of Syria that we didn’t have? Who knows how that impacted their ceasefire decision?

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              Hezbollah 100% surrendered. Israel did not want a ground invasion and was losing many troops. It was terrible for them. The only reason Israel did it was because Hezbollah said they would not stop before a ceasefire in Gaza was achieved.

              Seeing as there is no ceasefire in Gaza, Hezbollah lost big time. Their leadership got decimated and they barely used those 100.000 rockets everyone was talking about. They also have mass casualties from the beeper attack.

              Right after Hezbollah finally struck Tel Aviv they suddenly tapped out without the condition they asked for: a ceasefire in Gaza. So Hezbollah lost.

              Now Israel gets to take Syria for free as well.

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                You don’t get to keep your weapons when you surrender. It’s just not an accurate summation of the situation. The big difference between surrendering to an opponent vs. agreeing to a ceasefire is that with a ceasefire you can re-start fighting at some point.

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                  It’s not about weapons but demands being met and goals achieved. Israel achieved their goal and got Hezbollah of their backs without feeling much in terms of retaliation.

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    I actually thought they would go for Syria first and then Iraq.

    Destroying Yemen in between I didn’t think of.