Israeli jets strike Houthi targets in Yemen after Tel Aviv attack
Source: Reuters
July 20, 2024 4:49 PM EDT Updated 5 min ago
JERUSALEM/CAIRO, July 20 (Reuters) - Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets in the area of Hodeidah port in Yemen on Saturday, the Israeli military said, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Israel's economic hub Tel Aviv.
At least 80 people were wounded, most with severe burns, in airstrikes that targeted oil facilities and a power station at Hodeidah, Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by Yemen's Houthi movement, quoted the health ministry as saying.
Hodeidah residents told Reuters by phone that explosions were heard throughout the city during an intensive bombardment and Al-Masirah TV said civil defence forces and firefighters were trying to extinguish fires in the port's oil tanks.
Israel's military spokesperson said the port had been used by the Houthis to receive weapons shipments from Iran. The targets, more than 1,700 km (1,056 miles) from Israel, included dual-use sites such as energy infrastructure, he said. Israel had informed allies before the strike, which the military said was carried out by Israeli F-15 fighters that all returned safely.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/houthi-tv-says-israeli-airstrikes-target-yemens-hodeidah-port-2024-07-20/
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some ship that has, or at one time had, or is suspected to have or have had, some connection to Israel. But really, they're just "if you're not with us, you're our enemy" thinking. Secular, Sunni, Xian, Jew.
The Jew-hate that led to the Yemeni airlift wasn't just a one-off. Persecutions have been attested for a thousand years. Now the number's down to 5 or less, mostly elderly.
It's estimated that Christians are something like 0.06% of the Yemeni population. Others put the number at 40k a decade back.--a number not that inconsistent.
Then somebody will almost certainly say they were provoked. 
