Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group says Israel’s strike on the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port in Yemen — which was carried out in response to a drone attack on Tel Aviv by the Iran-backed group — marked a dangerous turn nine months into Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
“The foolish step taken by the Zionist enemy heralds a new, dangerous phase of a very important confrontation across the entire region,” the Iran-backed terror group says in a statement.
IDF: Two soldiers lightly and moderately wounded in Hezbollah drone strike in northern Israel
Two IDF soldiers are lightly and moderately wounded in a Hezbollah explosive-laden drone attack in the northern Golan Heights earlier this evening, the military says.
According to the IDF, several suspected drones entered Israeli airspace in the attack, and interceptor missiles were launched at them.
The IDF says the drones were not intercepted, and struck in northern Israel, leading to the injury of the two soldiers.
Lebanese media reports Israeli airstrike near coastal city of Tyre
Netanyahu: Strike on Houthi port shows Israel will reach its enemies, however far away
Israel’s attack in Yemen today “makes it clear to our enemies that there is no place that the long arm of Israel will not reach,” says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video statement released on Saturday evening, shortly after the end of Shabbat. He praises the IDF and the IAF for “a determined, precise and successful operation. It struck targets 1,700 kilometers from our borders,” he notes.
“I have a message for Israel’s enemies – don’t be mistaken about us,” Netanyahu says, a day before he is scheduled to fly to Washington DC. “We will protect ourselves in every way, on every front. Anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price for his aggression.”
Netanyahu also calls on the international community to enhance its measures against Iran and its proxies: “Anyone who wishes to see a stable and safe Middle East needs to stand against Iran’s axis of evil, and support Israel’s fight against Iran and its proxies – in Yemen, in Gaza, in Lebanon, everywhere.”
Netanyahu underscores that the strike on the al-Hudaydah port, which was used by the Houthis as an entry point for its weapons supplies, was a “direct response” to Friday’s deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv launched by the Houthis in Yemen in which an Israeli citizen was killed, and to the Houthis’ “aggression against Israel since the start of the war.”
“The port we attacked is not an innocent port,” Netanyahu emphasizes. “It was used for military purposes, it was used as an entry point for deadly weapons supplied to the Houthis by Iran. And they used that weaponry to attack Israel, to attack the states of the region, and to attack some of the world’s most important shipping lanes.”
“For the past eight months,” Netanyahu says, “the Houthis have launched hundreds of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones against Israel.”
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