Israel Strikes Yemen After Humiliating Tel Aviv Attack, Kills 3 and Wounds 87

Previously: Houthis Hit Tel Aviv! New Long-Distance Drone! One Dead Jew, At Least Ten Injured Jews!

Striking Yemen doesn’t actually do anything.

Yemen has been bombed into oblivion for nearly a decade.

It’s just another day.

Killing a Jew outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv however… that is something very different.

The Guardian:

Powerful airstrikes rocked the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah a day after Israeli officials vowed revenge for a drone that struck Tel Aviv.

Airstrikes hit a refinery and electricity infrastructure, sparking a huge blaze. It was the first direct hit on Yemen since Houthi rebels there began targeting Israel with missiles and drones last year.

All of those attacks had been intercepted, until Friday’s strike on Tel Aviv killed one person and injured at least 10.

The Almasirah television channel, run by Yemen’s Houthi movement, said on Saturday evening that airstrikes had targeted the city.

The Houthis vowed to “plague” Israel with further attacks in response to the strikes.

Almasirah TV initially said the strikes in Hodeidah were carried out by US and British forces but later withdrew the reference, according to Reuters. British and US forces have carried out repeated strikes on Hodeidah, as recently as last month.

The Saudi Arabian outlet Al Arabiya, citing unnamed sources, said the strikes targeting a fuel depot and oil refineries at the port were carried out in a joint operation by Israel, the US and the UK. It said 12 Israeli aircraft, including F-35 model fighter jets, participated in the strikes.

Four US officials said Israel acted alone on Saturday’s attacks on the Houthis, with no US military involvement, the New York Times reported.

The ability for a rebel group in a totally destroyed country to kill Jews in central Tel Aviv with drones that cost less than $15,000 changes the entire nature of the dynamics of the world power balance.

But Rand and CSIS don’t write white papers about this.

It’s wild.

The official position of the US Department of Defense is “what is a drone?”

It’s bizarre to watch.