Israel Strikes Yemen Port As Houthi Rebels Attack Tel Aviv

Three people were killed and 87 others injured when oil refineries and power plants were hit Authorities vowed to buy back the drone that struck Tel Aviv. Wind gusts hit the refinery and its power plant, causing a massive fire. Three people were killed and 87 wounded in the bombing of oil refineries on Saturday evening, the Almasira television station, run by Yemen’s Houthi movement, reported. It was the first direct attack on Yemen since the Houthi rebels there began targeting Israel with missiles and drones last year. All of those attacks were thwarted until Friday’s attack in Tel Aviv, which killed one and wounded at least 10 others. The Houthis responded to the attack by vowing to “do” Israel with more attacks. Sirens sounded in the Red Sea port city of Eilat on Sunday morning, and the Israeli military said its air defences intercepted surface-to-surface missiles from Yemen before they reached Israeli territory. On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its warplanes struck military targets in the Yemeni port of Hodeida “in response to hundreds of attacks against the State of Israel in recent months”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the evening that the port was being targeted because it was being used for “military” purposes. He added that the strike “makes it clear to our enemies that there is nowhere that the long arm of the State of Israel will not go”

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said: “The current fire in Hodeida is visible throughout the Middle East and its implications are clear … the first time an Israeli civilian was harmed, we hit them. And we will do this wherever required.”Yemen’s Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia group that controls much of the country’s west, including the coast, have for months disrupted maritime activity in the Red Sea in response to an Israeli offensive against Gaza targeting ships in the Gulf of Aden Israel shot down a suspected Houthi drone headed for the Red Sea port of Eilat with warplanes earlier this month, as the group’s attacks on shipping have severely disrupted trade in Israel’s main port U.S. and the UK have repeatedly struck the port city of Hodeida in response, although the group has vowed to continue attacking it as long as the war in Gaza continues More than 38,000 people have been killed by Israeli air and naval gunfire since October.

Netanyahu is preparing to travel to the United States to address Congress on Wednesday, amid mounting domestic and international pressure to agree on a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and bring back the hostages the house of the. This intensified with the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s highly critical ruling on Friday that Israel’s settlement policies and occupation of the West Bank violate international law. The ICJ ordered Israel to stop its occupation of Palestinian territories “immediately” and pay all compensation. This is not binding, but it will be hard for Israel’s allies to ignore, not least because the court also ruled that states have an obligation not to take it for granted, and vice versa they will not help or help Britain’s Foreign Office reiterated on Friday that a bilateral solution would be used as the decision is “thoroughly considered”. Foreign Secretary David Lammy also announced on Friday that the UK would resume funding for Unvra, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, signalling a rare split between Washington over policy on Gaza.

More than 38,000 people have been killed by Israeli air and naval gunfire since October. Netanyahu is preparing to travel to the United States to address Congress on Wednesday, amid mounting domestic and international pressure to agree on a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and bring back the hostages the house of the. This intensified with the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s highly critical ruling on Friday that Israel’s settlement policies and occupation of the West Bank violate international law. The ICJ ordered Israel to stop its occupation of Palestinian territories “immediately” and pay all compensation. This is not binding, but it will be hard for Israel’s allies to ignore, not least because the court also ruled that states have an obligation not to take it for granted, and vice versa they will not help or help Britain’s Foreign Office reiterated on Friday that a bilateral solution would be used as the decision is “thoroughly considered”. Foreign Secretary David Lammy also announced on Friday that the UK would resume funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unvra, amid a rare rift with Washington over policy for the Gaza war. In its election manifesto, Labor promised to recognize a Palestinian state as part of the peace process and “create a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state”, but no date was specified Netanyahu has reacted to the ICJ ruling, which has been attacked as anti-Semitic by other Israeli politicians, effectively declaring the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

“The Jewish people do not belong to their land, either in our eternal capital in Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria,” he said in a statement Friday, using biblical terminology common to the occupied West Bank Israel took action. On Wednesday, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, passed a resolution opposing the creation of a Palestinian state. Supporters include Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s chief political rival. The United States criticized the “expansion” of the ICJ decision—the US. “We have made it clear that Israel’s policy of supporting the government in settlements violates international law and hinders the peace process,” a State Department spokesman said Sunday. “However, we are concerned that the expansion of the court’s discretion will complicate efforts to resolve the conflict,” it added. The State Department said the ICJ’s view that Israel should immediately withdraw from the Palestinian territories was “inconsistent with an established framework” for resolving the conflict.