Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises more strikes if the group continues to launch attacks on Israel
\n Sanaa
\nIsrael says it has launched strikes on the Yemeni ports of Hodeidah and as-Salif in response to the Houthi rebels firing missiles towards Israel, days after the Yemeni group agreed a truce with the United States.
\nThe Israeli military said it carried out strikes on \u201cterrorist infrastructure\u201d on Friday, saying on X that the two ports had been used by the Houthi rebel group to \u201ctransfer weapons\u201d.
\nAl Masirah TV, a Houthi-affiliated outlet, also reported Israeli strikes on the two ports. The extent of any damage was not clear, and there no immediate reports of casualties.
\nThe Houthis have carried out a campaign of attacks against Israel in self-proclaimed solidarity with Palestinians after Israel launched its assault on Gaza in October 2023. Israel has carried out strikes in response, including one on May 6 that damaged Yemen\u2019s main airport in Sanaa and killed several people.
\nFriday\u2019s attacks were the first since US President Donald Trump agreed to a ceasefire deal with the Houthis earlier this month, with the US halting its attacks on Yemen and the group agreeing to end its attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
\nIsrael was not included in that agreement, and its military said it intercepted several missiles fired from Yemen towards Israeli airspace this week.
\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that the attacks are \u201cjust the beginning\u201d, describing the Houthis as \u201cjust a tool\u201d, alleging that Iran was \u201cbehind them\u201d.
\n\u201cWe will not stand idly by and allow the Houthis to harm us. We will strike them with greater force, including at their leadership and all the infrastructure that enables them to attack us,\u201d he said in a statement posted on the government\u2019s social media account.
\nIsraeli Defence Minister Israel Katz pledged to \u201chunt down and eliminate\u201d Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi if the rebel group continued \u201cto fire missiles at the State of Israel\u201d.
\nAlluding to recent Houthi attacks on Israel, Katz indicated leader al-Houthi would meet the same fate as Hamas commanders Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon \u2013 all killed in Israeli attacks over the last year.
\nAl Jazeera\u2019s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Jordan\u2019s capital Amman, said that since Israel broke a ceasefire agreement with Hamas back in March \u2013 killing almost 3,000 since then, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry \u2013 the Houthis had launched \u201cat least 34 different projectiles\u201d towards Israel.
\nShe said that Israel\u2019s policy \u201cmoving forward\u201d would be to strike back. \u201cFor every missile that\u2019s fired, they\u2019re going to be conducting these types of air strikes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises more strikes if the group continues to launch attacks on Israel Sanaa Israel says it has launched strikes on the Yemeni ports of Hodeidah and as-Salif in response to the Houthi rebels firing missiles towards Israel, days after the Yemeni group agreed a truce with the United States. The Israeli […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n