Posted on 05/06/2025 9:16:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Curious, only in that this wasn't the first target selected by the IDF. Israel has launched retaliatory strikes against the Houthis in Yemen after a missile nearly hit Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, the main international hub. Airlines suspended service temporarily while the Israelis work to restore security, creating headaches for their transportation and their economy.
Rather than target the Sanaa International Airport in retaliation, though, the IDF initially targeted Houthi port operations in Hodeidah, destroying a significant part of that infrastructure. Today, however, the IDF intends to return the favor in full:
Israel's military on Tuesday warned people to leave the area around the main airport in Yemen's capital Sanaa, a day after it struck the port of Hodeidah in response to a Houthi missile that landed near Israel’s main air hub.
Tensions have escalated between Israel and Yemen's Houthis as the Iran-aligned group continues to launch attacks in response to Israel expanding operations in Gaza.
"Not evacuating puts you in danger," the military said. It published a map of the area surrounding Sanaa International Airport.
The Israelis hit the airport in December after another Houthi attack on Israel. That made headlines because WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus had been in the terminal, and one of his aides got wounded. Anyone traveling through the airport while the Houthis launch missiles at Israel has to have their head examined, but at least the Israelis are giving a warning to evacuate. That is a first in these exchanges.
So what does that mean? The Israelis didn't let the warning linger long:
The IDF began conducting strikes on Sanaa International Airport in Yemen on Tuesday afternoon.
Houthi-run Lebanon-based Al Masirah TV reported that the IDF also struck Dhabhan Central Power station in south-east Sanaa, and the Amran cement factory south of the capital.
The attack in December was more a demonstration than a serious attempt to disable air traffic in Yemen, but this may be the real deal. Videos posted in Sanaa show multiple columns of smoke rising from the airport, and the reporting suggests that the sorties have only started. If the Houthis keep trying to target Israel's transportation centers, the message appears to be, IDF will escalate in kind ... and will be much more effective at it.
That may be having an effect on the Houthis' grip on power. Even before the retaliation started, United Arab Emirates media reported that the Yemenis are growing very tired of the Houthis' attempts to fight Israel and the US, and particularly opposed the attack on Ben Gurion Airport:
As the Israel Defense Forces called on people to evacuate Sana’a International Airport, a report at Al-Ain media says that people in Yemen are lamenting the Houthis' reckless attacks on Israel.
The report, published on May 6, is titled “Yemenis groan over the Houthis' reckless adventures and Israeli bombing,” and says that Yemen is suffering heavy losses as a result of the Houthi “reckless adventures, which have prompted Israeli strikes that have destroyed the country's most vital facilities.” ...
The point of the piece at Al-Ain is to show there is an alternative to the Houthis. The report says that the recent Israeli strikes on May 5 “targeted the Hodeidah port docks, putting it out of service, and destroyed the Bajil cement factory and fuel tanks, did not directly impact the Houthi militias. Instead, the cost was paid by more than 5,000 workers and employees at the two facilities, who are now threatened with unemployment after losing their jobs.”
Now that the IDF is putting the airport out of commission and taking out the energy infrastructure in Sanaa, that unrest will grow exponentially. That may intensify more thanks to the fact that the Houthis still have yet to achieve anything in its Red Sea piracy and attacks on Israel, except to provoke far more powerful enemies into striking Yemen. If the Houthis have a grand strategy other than just being the lackeys of the mullahs in Tehran, they're certainly keeping it to themselves. And if the IDF succeeds in putting the airport and the ports out of service, the Houthis will get very lonely indeed.
Update: The IDF now says Sanaa International Airport has been "completely disabled":
Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of airstrikes in Yemen on Tuesday afternoon, which the military said “completely disabled” Sanaa International Airport in the Houthi-controlled capital and hit other targets. ...
Sanaa International Airport, which had been hit once by the IAF before, was “completely disabled” following the strikes that targeted its runways, aircraft, and infrastructure, the military said.
The footage spreading on X/Twitter certainly suggests more than a demonstration strike on the runways alone:
And of course, this means that the Houthis no longer have an easy resupply facility for their support from Iran. Tehran may find other ways to resupply their proxies, but it will be much more difficult and dangerous. Without the cement company, the Houthis will have a very difficult time rebuilding the airport on their own, too. Welcome to FAFO, Ben Gurion Edition.
If the Houthis have a grand strategy other than just being the lackeys of the mullahs in Tehran, they’re certainly keeping it to themselves.
The entire country can be put back into the stone age with minimal effort. A few more strikes and these savages will be in even more of a a world of hurt than they already are.
Did the Houthis warn Israeli citizens to evacuate the area around Ben Gurion Airport before they attacked? /s
I don’t want them hurting.
I want them dead.
All of them.
Every last one.
L
...the Iran-aligned group continues to launch attacks in response to Israel expanding operations in Gaza.
No, like Hamas, like Hezbollah, like the Iranian mullahcracy, the Houthi are Islamofascist terrorists.
The Houthis stated goal is to get the Israelis to stop bombing and killing Palestinians. Their stated strategy is to target ships bound for Israel or connected with Israel. Now, after the Ben Gurion strike, it looks like they are targeting “by air” as well as “by sea”.
Of course it won’t work. The Israelis will continue to bomb and kill Palestinians. And we’ll continue bombing and killing Houthis. But we and the Saudis have bombed and bombed the Houthis for years and years and the Houthis are still hooting and hollering and doing their Houthis thing. Houthis seem to be indestructible.
They are Iran's little puppets and dance as they are told.
Houthis are wild and wooly and fu!l of fleas, and they do as they please. I don’t think anyone can completely control them, not even the Iranians. They’re like honey badger. They don’t care. We and the Saudis have bombed the daylights out of them for years, but — They Don’t Care.
We tend to drop a few when they get frisky as do the Saudis but no one is intent on removing them from the planet because we tend to be too civilized. Yes, even the Saudis.
And yes Iran is running the show there using them as proxies.
They are not wild and woolly, they are cannon fodder.
Speaking of cement factories:
USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.
X ^ | Feb 7, 2025 | BEN SHAPIRO
Posted on 2/8/2025, 3:32:54 PM by george76
USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.
What did the Palestinians in Gaza use all that cement for, paid for by your taxpayer dollars? Any ideas?
Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath the Gaza Strip leading to the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip after October 7th.
So, just slow clap for the geniuses in the permanent bureaucratic state.”
- BEN SHAPIRO
They are like Doritos.
Kill all you want.
They’ll make more.................
Oh yes the Saudis & Friends bombed bombed them for better than seven years, then others took over. The Saudis resorted to bombing their hospitals, schools, even school busses. They attacked their food supply and caused widespread famine, but the Houthis didn’t care and they’re still there, undefeated.
Maps and graphs of air strikes on Yemen through all the campaigns since 2015:
It’s the blasted wiki, but...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_airstrikes_on_Yemen
This is from 2018, only three years in:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/31/magazine/yemen-war-saudi-arabia.html
This from only two years in:
And it’s gone on, with different countries doing the bombing, but the Houthis still go on ...
Haha! Yup. You always read how some Houthi killed in an air strike was “a father of eight” (or nine or ten). Kinda like Clinton’s pet “Kosovar Albanians”.
You can spray cockroaches with insecticides, every time they invade. Hard to kill. Best thing is to hammer them, literally. Until no more remain. Same applies to Houthis. They have lots of armament supplied by Iran. Kill the ones receiving the arms until no one left to use them.
Good luck with that.Houthis will still be around next year, and the year after that ...
I said kill the ones receiving the arms from Iran. Houthis are in a civil war, we don’t need to kill the ones not attacking our allies. Just the belligerents on the wrong side of the civil war against Saudi supported groups.
BTTT!!!
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