The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday it struck the “Houthi terrorist regime” in Yemen via la long-distance airstrike on the Al Hudaydah Port. IDF said the port was the location of the origin of a drone that had attacked Tel Aviv on Friday, killing one Israeli and wounding as many as 10 others.
The military exchange may indicate a widening of the war that Israel is fighting against Muslim terrorists, and may indicate higher world oil prices ahead. In January, after U.S. and British airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks of ships in the Red Sea, crude oil prices spiked 4.3%.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the attack on Yemen was intended to be a message to all in the Middle East that would dare attack Israel.
“The fire that is currently burning in Hodeidah is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear,” he said. The strike targeted oil storage tanks and the blaze that resulted can be seen from satellites in space.
Yemeni officials said the attack would not stop Yemen from supporting Palestinian Hamas, who are battling Israel from their positions in Gaza.
Houthi Supreme Political Council responded, saying the attack would be answered by a counter attack.
“This aggression will not pass without an effective response against the enemy,” it said in a statement.
Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdelsalam said the “brutal Israeli aggression against Yemen” intended to “pressure Yemen to stop supporting Gaza” is a “dream that will not come true.”
Arab coalition troops had stormed the airport in Hodeidah on Tuesday and had captured assets, including the airport.
“The Western-backed alliance launched the onslaught on Hodeidah on June 12 to try to turn the tables in a long-stalemated proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran that has exacerbated turmoil across the Middle East,” according to the account from Canadian Broadcasting on Friday, at this link.
The latest strike by Israel may mean the war between the terrorists and Israel is widening in the region. As of MRAK publication time, President Joe Biden has issued no statement regarding the attack on Tel Aviv or the counter attack.
Biden is scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, as early as Monday, while Netanyahu is in Washington for July 24 address to a joint session of the Congress. The meeting may be postposed due to Biden’s health. Vice President Kamala Harris is also on the schedule to meet Netanyahu.
The conflict began on Oct. 7 when Hamas attack Israel, killing over 1,300, including 764 civilians and 373 Israeli security personnel, and taking 251 persons, including many Americans hostage. As of June 8, 120 hostages remain in captivity in the Gaza Strip, including as many as eight Americans, although it’s unclear if they are still alive.
One wonders if MRAK readers will be able to conceal their glee, as this tragic event will undoubtably push up the world price of oil.
You should not be using fossil fuels dog.
There not good for the people.
I imagine you live absolutely without any fossil fuel? Not just heating but your clothes, electricity, every single manufactured thing in your home, your home itself, your shoes, even the food you eat. None of it came from straight up alternative energy using zero fossil fuel as even making components for various alternatives requires fossil fuel. Then they all need backup – fossil fuel. You are a classic hypocrite, or grossly ignorant.
Easy to imagine when we did this all a hundred years ago without them Elizabeth! Tell your husband to come get you off the Internet you need to read a book before you try to preach.
Tyler
You have no idea how har life was and could be again without energy.
You were not here one hundred years ago and Elizabeth is correct.
Dear Liz, you haven’t taken my point. Yes, of course I use oil and gas, even though I do have solar panels on my house that generate 100% of my needs, and also use them to charge my EV. It’s great. My point is that for decades Alaskans have offered up fake sympathy whenever something like this happens, while secretly bubbling over with glee as they watch oil prices rise as a result. Deny it if you wish, but I’ve seen it first hand for a long time, and it’s true. Gotta protect that enormous socialist government in Alaska, the nice PFDs, and the tax-free environment that you all enjoy, even if it is at the expense of some poor Yemenis that get burned alive in the process.
One wonders if self proclaimed pacifists will be able to conceal their glee at every terrorist attack against the Western world or if they will ever stop making excuses for violent terrorists.
Whidbey, I know you want attention. There is a void in your heart that needs to be filled. Your hate filled comments won’t help you to nourish your wounded soul.
It is time to let it go, whatever it is that hurt you so. Heal. It’s ok, you are allowed to have peace.
I’m sorry for what has been done to you, but you need not take it out on good people anymore. They don’t deserve it. Deep down I know you don’t want to keep lashing out as a call for help. If you need a friend, just ask. We can help guide you out of the darkness.
Truthfully, there’s only one way to deal with barbarians.
Get on with it and finish the task quickly … mercilessly!
Overdue.
Tuck your tail and cut a trail Whidby. You contribute nothing. Any where.
Harris meeting with Netanyahu? What a joke!! Harris as a potential replacement for Biden should scare the free world!
Tom, at this stage of Biden’s term I question if even Harris could do worse.
Seriously, give it consideration.
Sadly she hasn’t invoked the 25th amendment, she should.
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning
I will be waiting for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland to make the first amphibious landing in Yemen. Would be great if Jen Psaki could also make it. They seem to like these things. “You go first! I’ll be right behind you!”
Whidbey the Marxist. Just a miserable talking head.
And we care about this because? Israel and Yemen can both go ——themselves. Not relevant to White American interests.
Military escalation is always troubling considering nuclear capabilities. The article mentions Israeli casualties but not Yemeni. Obviously easier to start violent conflict than cease it.
Push Israel and find out what happens 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸
The future of modern warfare is demonstrating that “drones” are wildly successful – lethal at a fraction of the cost of conventional weaponry. Additionally, network systems are becoming a prime target, as demonstrated this past week. Any critical infrastructure is quite vulnerable to both kinds of attacks. Just imagine a full-on assault on our critical infrastructure in AK907 in the middle of winter.
Could be quite dire of epic proportions!
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