Posted on 10/31/2023 1:31:10 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
The Houthis had been suspected of an attack earlier this month targeting Israel by sending missiles and drones over the crucial shipping lane of the Red Sea, an assault that saw the U.S. Navy shoot down the projectiles.
This time on Tuesday, however, Israel said its own fighter jets and its new Arrow missile defense system shot down two salvos of incoming fire hours apart as it approached the country's key Red Sea shipping port of Eilat.
The Houthis, who have held Yemen's capital, Sanaa, since 2014 as part of that country's ruinous war, claimed three attacks on Israel in a later military statement, without elaborating on the timeframe of the operations and whether Tuesday's salvos represented one or two attacks.
Beyond the attack that saw the U.S. shoot down missiles, there had been a mysterious explosion Thursday that hit the Egyptian resort town of Taba, near the border with Israel. The blast, which Egyptian authorities have not explained, wounded six people.
″Our armed forces launched a large batch of ballistic missiles and a large number of drones at various targets of the Israeli enemy," Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a televised statement. “The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm that this operation is the third operation in support of our oppressed brothers in Palestine and confirm that we will continue to carry out more qualitative strikes with missiles and drones until the Israeli aggression stops.”
For Israel, Tuesday's attack marked an incredibly rare reported in-combat use of the Arrow missile defense system, which intercepts long-range ballistic missiles with a warhead designed to destroy targets while they are in space, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“All aerial threats were intercepted outside of Israeli territory,” the Israeli military said...
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Given that Saudi Arabia backs the party controlling the red territory, and the UAE backs the territory controlling the yellow, this only introduces more intrigue into the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, given the various forces backing Hamas which are opposed by other Arab nations throughout the Middle East.
Maybe they did per this report. But, who trusts ANYTHING put out by the lame stream media?
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Great point! But the mullahs are behind this plan, so Israel will need to destroy Iran or be continually harrassed. They must be utterly destroyed (Damascus will need to become a ruinous heap).
"Yemen has officially declared war on Israel, Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e, Spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces"
Yahya represents the Houthis, not the Armed Forces of the Government of Yemen. This information can be trivially found in about fifteen seconds on any search engine. But because the article described him as the spokesman for the "Yemeni Armed Forces" (because of COURSE a rebel faction seeking power will style itself as the legitimate representatives of the country), most people in that thread began harping about Yemen itself declaring war on Israel, when this has not happened.
(That article is but a two-paragraph blurb from the "Report News Agency", which operates out of Azerbaijan, for what it's worth.)
I’m sure Israel would be happy to assist these retarded imbeciles to go back to the stone age. Oh wait, they already are.
Ping
Iran knows Israel could pause Gaza almost indefinitely and strategically bomb the everlasting shit out of everything Iran considers important -- including everyone above the rank of Mooselime captain -- while also authorizing wholesale assassinations.
There's a lot of fear in them Persians since Soleimani evaporated in a cloud of hot dust...
another Biden success story
Thank you for spelling out the difference between the headlines and what really happened. There is way too much journalistic malpractice and too many willingly buying into it.
Thanks!
The body count apparently is going to get bigger.
“explosion Thursday that hit the Egyptian resort town of Taba, near the border with Israel.”
This is an opportunity for Saudi Arabia to get Egypt to put a hurting on those Houthi rebels in Yemen, that the Saudis and Emiratis were at war with.
Just add money.
Based on Scripture, no doubt.
Iran Mullahcracy is all over the place now VS US/Israel .
Hamas.
Islamic Jihad.
Hezbollah.
Bases in Syria.
Linked Shiite Militias in Iraq.
Houthis on Yemen.
Maybe
Just add money is a bad solution. Kill HAMAS and anyone supporting them is better. Fear over money. Fear retribution, either you are with us or you risk death.
This pushes Israel and Saudi Arabia closer together.
Iran is up to its eyeballs in the Gaza war.
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