Illustrative image. (The Houthis’ Military Media)
The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen announced on May 7 that they had launched suicide drones against targets in Israel, in their first attack since a ceasefire agreement with the United States was reached a day earlier.
In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that the group launched two drones at Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport in southern Israel and another at a “vital target” close to the city of Tel Aviv in the center of the country.
The attack was carried out “on support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their fighters, and in rejection of the genocide committed by the Zionist enemy against our brothers in the Gaza Strip,” the spokesman noted.
The Israeli military announced earlier that a drone launched “from the east,” was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force. The term “from the east” is usually used to refer to attacks from Yemen.
Saree also announced in the same statement that the Houthis attacked the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and a number of other U.S. Navy warships it in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile and a number of suicide drones just before President Donlad Trump announced a halt to all operations against Yemen on May 6.
The attack foiled a planned “aerial aggression” against Yemen, caused a state of “confusion and panic” that led to the loss of an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, and forced the carrier to withdraw to the far north of the Red Sea, according to the spokesman.
“This operation was carried out before the American enemy announced the cessation of its aggression against our country, and the Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not hesitate to carry out harsh and painful strikes against the American enemy in the event that it returns to aggression against our country,” Saree said, vowing that the group’s operations against Israel “will continue until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted.”
During the operation against the Houthis, which began on March 15, the U.S. attacked more than 1,000 in Yemen. Over 250 people, including women and children, were killed according to Houthi-run media.
Trump’s decision to end the operation came as Israel resumed its own strikes on Yemen following the May 4 Houthi missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport. Two waves of Israeli strikes hit the country on May 5 and 6, with the second placing Sanaa International Airport out of service.
Overall, the Houthis emerged victorious from the confrontation with the U.S. Now, the Israelis will have to face the group on their own. Considering how much the Houthis have endured over the past year or so, it is highly unlikely that Israel will manage to deter the group or to degrade its offensive capabilities.
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what’s netanyahu going to say next? you are with me or against me?
the next few days we’ll find out if trump is really about making america first again or this is just one big kabuki opera.
grow up what better way to make anerica great again than to let russia ukraine europe and uk all bomb each other to bits. use your head
he isn’t the king of israel you can kerp playing 3 monkeys deaf dumb and blind but everyone knows that you do know
this will be a short us ceasefire . the us aipac mafia that runs congress will resume or begin new attacks elsewhere / anywhere the greater israel chosen-ites decide . yemen is still in the crosshairs
and your narrative as that posters just as transparent as all of your other identities.
the only self-declared wanna be ethnostate on earth is pushing for more lebensraum. what a surprise.
do you mean little old england, the greatest empire on earth. tiny little population of around 40 million now but when it was about 10 ruled the world?? is that who your talking about punching above their weight all that.???
there was never a ceasefire.
“usa and israhell # 1” hehehehe
well the brave houthi’s have now forced 1 to fight on their own. hehehe
my croat friend says: oboje ce dobit kurac u dupe.
heheheh
no mercy for those wannabe jews. kill them all untill no more jews left!
israel will keep pounding the crap out of them until they have no more warfighting ability, and no one will feel sorry for them. yemen will likely live in darkness.
looks like chumpo cried uncle, not the houthis.
israel is kicking israel’s ass. sit back and eat the popcorn
hooray for the houthis! you defeated uncle sam. this is an historic victory, the worlds poorest country bested the world’s richest.🥳
even uncle hihitler can lose the big war if he opens too many fronts.
men with no air force did well against men with the latest air force
pretty loose usage of the word ‘men’ there as a comparison to the former. plague rats would be a more realistic descriptor.
that is just stupid. israel will always be supported by the u.s.
to say israel is on their own is just retarded
they could never live on their own without drinking goyim milk