Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer promising strikes if the group continues to launch attacks on Israel.
Israel says that he has launched strikes on the Yemeni ports of Hodeidah and Salif in response to the Houthi rebels pulling missiles to Israel, a few days after the Yemeni group agreed with a truce with the United States.
On Friday, the Israeli army said that it had made strikes on “terrorist infrastructure”, saying that the two ports had been used by the Rebel Houthi group to “transfer weapons”.
Al Masirah TV, a point of sale affiliated with Houth, also reported Israeli strikes on the two ports. The extent of any damage was not clear and there are no immediate victims.
The Houthis carried out an attack campaign against Israel in self -proclaimed solidarity with the Palestinians after Israel launched his assault against Gaza in October 2023.
Israel made strikes in response, including one on May 6 which damaged Yemen ‘main airport in Sanaa and killed several people.
Friday’s attacks were the first since US President Donald Trump has accepted a cease-fire agreement with the Houthis earlier this month, the United States having put its attacks on Yemen and the group agreeing to end its attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea.
Israel was not included in this agreement, and his soldiers said they had intercepted several missiles from Yemen to Israeli airspace this week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that attacks are “only the beginning”, describing the Houthis as “just a tool”, alleging that Iran was “behind them”.
“We will not stand up crossed and we allow Houthis to hurt us. We will hit them with greater force, including their leadership and all the infrastructure that allows them to tackle us,” he said in a statement published on the government’s social media account.
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz undertook to “track down and eliminate” chief Houthis Abdel-Malik al-Houthi if the rebel group continued to “draw missiles in the state of Israel”.
By referring to the recent Houthi attacks against Israel, Katz indicated that the leader al -Houthis would meet the same fate as the commanders of Hamas Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, the political leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, and the head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon – all killed in Israelis year.
Hamdah Salhut of Al Jazeera, reporting from the capital of Jordan, said that since Israel had interrupted a cease -fire agreement with Hamas in March – killing nearly 3000 since then, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health – the Houthis had launched “at least 34 different projectiles” towards Israel.
She said that Israel’s policy “going forward” would be to retaliate. “For each missile fired, they will lead these types of air strikes,” she said.
