Israel strikes Yemen port after Houthi rebels attack Tel Aviv

Israel strikes Yemen port after Houthi rebels attack Tel Aviv


Oil depot and electrical installations reportedly targeted in powerful attack on Red Sea port city

Powerful airstrikes rocked the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah a day after Israeli officials vowed revenge for a drone that struck Tel Aviv.

Airstrikes hit a refinery and electricity infrastructure, sparking a huge blaze. It was the first direct hit on Yemen since Houthi rebels there began targeting Israel with missiles and drones last year.

All of those attacks had been intercepted, until Friday’s strike on Tel Aviv killed one person and injured at least 10.

The Almasirah television channel, run by Yemen’s Houthi movement, said on Saturday evening that airstrikes had targeted the city.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets struck military targets in the Hodeidah Port in Yemen “in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months.”

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said later in the evening that the port was targeted as it was used “for military purposes”.

The strike, he added, “makes it clear to our enemies that there is no place that the long arm of the state of Israel will not reach”.

Defence minister Yoav Gallant said “the fire that is currently burning in Hodeidah is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear … The first time that they harmed an Israeli citizen, we struck them. And we will do this in any place where it may be required.”

The Houthis vowed to “plague” Israel with further attacks in response to the strikes.

The latest airstrikes in Hodeidah follow a vow by Gallant, to “settle the score” after a Houthi drone struck central Tel Aviv, killing one man and injuring 10 other people. The Houthis immediately took responsibility for the attack, claiming they had used a new type of drone undetectable to radar and air defence systems.

Israeli officials instead blamed “human error” and said the military was investigating what went wrong. Chief military spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said the drone had been detected by air defences but an “error” meant it was not intercepted.

Local police described how the drone exploded over an apartment block, causing a blast that shook the port city, killed one and unsettled residents, disturbed by the rare attack.

Gallant pledged to strengthen Israeli air defences after the attack amid an increase in rocket attacks from Hezbollah that struck northern Israel. The IDF said a barrage of 40 rockets targeted the occupied Golan Heights and Galilee in the day after the drone attack, challenging Israeli air defences.

Yemen’s Houthis, an Iran-backed militia that control much of the country’s west including the coastline, have targeted ships in the Gulf of Aden and disrupted maritime activity in the Red Sea for months in response to Israeli attacks in Gaza.

Israel shot down a suspected Houthi drone headed for the Red Sea port of Eilat earlier this month with a fighter jet, while the group’s attacks on shipping have majorly disrupted business at the key Israeli port.


Israel strikes Yemen port after Houthi rebels attack Tel Aviv | Yemen | The Guardian

Aden and abetting, this qhat munchers seem uniquely reviled shelled by Saudis and now Israel, oddly there was a sizeable hebrew minority in history, a lovely but troubled land.
I hope it becomes peaceful long enough for me to sail safely to fabuous Socotra one of few place to have been both a Russian and Italian base!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJP7dE1yxmI

Don't dish it if you can't take it, these savages love to poke the bear and find money to launch rockets while the rest of the world raises aid for the starving peasants amongst them. Then they whinge and cry when Israel retaliates. Knuckledragging fucking morons.

I wonder what the left-wing fascists will say now?

It seems Israel knows how to deal with these stone age religious fascists. Well done Israel, keep up the good work of making the Houthis pay a high price for their attacks. The USA failed miserably. I wish our spineless leaders did something similar when our cities and people are attacked, and I am fairly sure the Houthis were warned, warned and warned again about the consequences of their actions.
Guess they didn't listen.

This should also serve as a warning to Iran, who are also about 2000 kms away from Israel.

https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2...e7J/giphy.webp

Seems Israel are war mongering facists.

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In the upside down inside out confusion that is willyworld, maybe.

But Israel struck Yemen after Houthi rebels attacked Tel Aviv.

Oh do fuck off with your fucking yiddish mantras , Tax.

It's the duty of every Arab state in the ME to fuck over the Schnauzers whose idea of civilisation is to ethnically cleanse their illegitimate state of every vestige of the rightful occupiers, the Palestinians.

The brave Houthis have cowed the Saudis, taking potshots at Israeli terrorists is no big deal.

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Oh do fuck off with your fucking yiddish mantras , Tax.

It's the duty of every Arab state in the ME to fuck over the Schnauzers whose idea of civilisation is to ethnically cleanse their illegitimate state of every vestige of the rightful occupiers, the Palestinians.

The brave Houthis have cowed the Saudis, taking potshots at Israeli terrorists is no big deal.

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Brave Houthis. Nonsense. They are nomadic terrorists hiding in Sudan, Yemen and worrying shipping in the Horn.
The US, IDF and Saudis all respond to such cheap terror shots like for like.

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And right on cue.

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Oh do fuck off with your fucking yiddish mantras , Tax.

It's the duty of every Arab state in the ME to fuck over the Schnauzers whose idea of civilisation is to ethnically cleanse their illegitimate state of every vestige of the rightful occupiers, the Palestinians.

The brave Houthis have cowed the Saudis, taking potshots at Israeli terrorists is no big deal.

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They may see it as their duty, but they also know it would be their downfall, and the more civilised ME states, if indeed one exists, would be glad to see the back of these stone age peasant states, including palestine. They, along with most of the western world are relying on Israel to clean up the garbage that has accumulated thanks to decades of mismanagement by both the west and the arabs.

Rest assured, Israel will prevail. Because the alternative would be a disaster for the west.

I take it before your family served the british gov. in singapore, they were in one of our raghead colonies, hence your sympathy for these tribal orcs.

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caused a civil war in Yemen and brought decades of war on its people, just like your mates Hamas. lets hope the bear gets poked a bit more. Muslims are a disease.

As are western facists.

Green owed for willy and Malmo

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Thick as mince. The illiterate islamist cant even spell fascists.

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ypu found a typo.

You seem to make more than most, suggesting they are more a result of ignorance than anything else.

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caused a civil war in Yemen and brought decades of war on its people, just like your mates Hamas.

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The real culprit and crux have their origins from British [and Western] colonialism.
Judeo-Christian circles and Western exceptionalism are a disease.

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21 Jul, 2024 13:03

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What the top UN court’s ruling means for Israel

Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza massacre strip away the Jewish state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.

"The 15 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial organ of the United Nations, have issued what everyone agrees is a landmark finding. “Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,” is, in essence, a devastating condemnation of Israel’s policies and crimes in the territories which it conquered more than half a century ago, as a consequence of the Six Day War of 1967, which it still holds today.

The ICJ finding also, inevitably, means (whether the judges intend it or not) that not only Israel’s policy in these specific territories, but the Zionist project as such, is based on the irreparable injustice of violently depriving the Palestinians of their inalienable right to national self-determination. Make no mistake, this is not “merely” a blow to the crimes of Israeli occupation and annexation; it calls into question the foundations of Israel as a state, as it is built around the systematic defiance of justice, law, and elementary ethics.

One feature enhancing the impact of the ICJ finding is its comprehensiveness. The 80-page document is the outcome of a long and thorough process that started in late 2022, when the General Assembly of the UN requested what is known as an “advisory opinion.” Detailed and closely argued, the findings are based, among other things, on the combined expertise of some of the best jurists in the world and hearings that involved almost 60 states. (Israel, clearly aware that its position was less than promising and generally contemptuous of international law, shunned the opportunity to state its case, which adds to the absurdity of its current rage over the result.)

However, while similarly meticulous legal assessments tend to generate complicated outcomes, that is not the case here. As has been widely acknowledged, the findings are devastating for Israel and, at least in legal terms, a clear triumph for the Palestinians and Palestine. In the words of Erika Guevara Rosas, senior director for research, advocacy, policy, and campaigns at Amnesty International, the ICJ’s “conclusion is loud and clear.”

The ICJ has recognized without qualifications that Israel’s holding of territories it seized during the Six Day War – including East Jerusalem (which Israel has officially though unlawfully annexed) and the West Bank (which it pretends to “occupy” but is, in reality, annexing) is illegal and needs to end asap.

In particular, the ICJ made it clear that all settlement must cease and that the settlers already on these territories must leave. That decision alone means that between 700,000 and 750,000 Israeli illegals (here, that term is, for once, exactly correct) should not be where they are. Not only do all of them have to leave the over 100 settlements they never had a right to establish; the Israeli state has an obligation to evacuate them. Moreover, Israel’s expropriations of land are also illegal, that is, simply put, theft. The ICJ has ordered it to return what it has stolen, that is, tens of thousands of acres.

The Israeli state is, of course, deeply implicated in the illegal acts the ICJ has ordered it to stop and even reverse. Israel’s longstanding policies of incentivizing its Jewish citizens – including de facto colonial settlers from anywhere in the world – to move into the illegally held territories and steal Palestinian land and resources is fundamentally criminal, among other reasons, because it is inconsistent with international law, particularly the humanitarian law enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

Regarding the Gaza Strip, long a de facto concentration camp for its Palestinian inhabitants and since October 2023 the site of Israel’s ongoing genocidal massacre against them, the ICJ has clearly rejected the all-too-frequently heard Israeli argument that its forces retreated from it in 2005.

In reality, as honest legal experts have long maintained and the ICJ has now confirmed explicitly, Israel has always exerted so much stifling control over this area that it has remained an occupying power, with all the attendant obligations, whether its forces were on the ground inside the Gaza Strip or abusing its inhabitants while stationed around it.

The ICJ also clarified the issue of apartheid. As should be well known, apartheid is a recognized crime under international law (it is not merely a name for one specific criminal regime once practiced in South Africa). Under, for instance, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court – not to be confused with the ICJ – the “crime of apartheid” is defined as a “crime against humanity” akin to, for instance, murder, extermination, enslavement, or torture. Also according to the Rome statute, what makes apartheid special is that it is “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.”

What the top UN court’s ruling means for Israel — RT World News

Pretty clear cut.

Will Israel and it's western supporters continue with their illegal actions.

^Will RT continue with it’s propaganda?

Will OhOh produce another ten paragraphs of c&p obfuscation, or do you have your own opinion???

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Yes.
No.

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It appears to be. For decades.
And only because they're allowed to be so - a created warmongering apartheid fascist state - with the blessing and support of Uncle Sugar [another rogue terrorist state].

You're pretty quick, Wills, to pick up on this reality. :rolleyes:
Unless there is some deeper facetiousness in your statement above.



I know, I know.
FOJ.