It turns out that bombing the Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the Red Sea was only part of the retaliation for the attack on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
Now Israel has also hit Yemen’s Sanaa Airport as well.
From Mohammed Ghobari’s article at Reuters, via yahoo.com (and please pay special attention to the part I’ve put in bold print):
The Israeli military carried out an airstrike on Yemen’s main airport in Sanaa on Tuesday, its second attack in two days on Iran-aligned Houthi rebels after a surge in tensions between the group and Israel.
Three people were killed in the strike, according to Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV.
Israel warned people to leave the area around Sanaa International Airport before Tuesday’s attack, which it said targeted Houthi infrastructure and “fully disabled the airport”. Witnesses later reported four strikes in the capital.
Tensions have been high since the Gaza war began, but have risen further since a Houthi missile landed near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, prompting Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Monday.
“A short while ago, IDF (Israel Defence Forces) fighter jets struck and dismantled Houthi terrorist infrastructure at the main airport in Sanaa, fully disabling the airport,” the Israeli military said.
“The strike was carried out in response to the attack launched by the Houthi terrorist regime against Ben Gurion Airport. Flight runways, aircraft, and infrastructure at the airport were struck.”
Three airport sources told Reuters that the strikes targeted three civilian airplanes, the departures hall, the airport runway and a military air base under Houthi control.
The Israeli military said the airport had been “a central hub for the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer weapons and operatives.”
As I mentioned in my previous post, I do not expect the lesson implicit in these retaliatory attacks to prevent these terrorist murderers from continuing their attempts to destroy Israel. And they are probably laughing at Israel’s willingness to forewarn people about the attack in an effort to minimize loss of life – something these haters would never in a million years do.
But maybe, after experiencing the ease in which Israel was able to take out their sea and air resources, they’ll at least think about how much worse things can get for them if they continue their attacks.
And even if they don’t, Iran sure as eff better think about it.
As the patrons/benefactors/suppliers/financiers of the three “h”es – houthis, hezbollah and hamas – Iran’s leadership has to know that they’re next.
My feeling about this? Whenever Israel decisively hits Iran – maybe even today – it will neither surprise me nor bother me one little bit.
