After more than a year of Houthi attacks on Israeli cities and American troops, the IDF took decisive action overnight against the Iran-backed terror group in Yemen.
14 Israeli Air Force fighter jets, along with refueler and spy planes, flew more than 1,060 miles and struck dozens of Houthi sites across Yemen in two waves. The first targeted three Houthi ports that serve as economic hubs to smuggle Iranian weapons into the country. Eight tugboats used to bring ships into the ports were destroyed. The second strike targeted two power stations in the capital of Sa’ana.
The IDF used 60 munitions against these targets, paralyzing a significant portion of the terror group’s infrastructure.
Watch the IDF’s footage of the operation below.
While Israeli jets were in the air, the Houthis launched a ballistic missile at central Israel sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters at 2:30 in the morning.
While the missile was partially intercepted by Israel’s long-range Arrow system, its warhead crashed into a school in Ramat Gan and destroyed the building.
"As a father I think about what could have happened if this attack had occurred during school hours — if children had been inside those walls, catastrophic is the word that comes to mind," IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said in a post about the operation. Read his recap here.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscored today that Israel’s fight is also America’s fight. "They are not attacking just us – they are attacking the entire world…when Israel takes action against the Houthis, it is acting on behalf of the entire international community."
"After Hamas, Hezbollah and the Assad regime in Syria, the Houthis are almost the last arm of Iran's axis of evil. They are finding out, and will find out, the hard way that whoever harms Israel – will pay a very heavy price," Netanyahu said.
Israel's ability to eliminate terrorist threats far beyond its borders is a byproduct of our work to ensure Israel has the offensive weapons it needs and maintains a qualitative military edge over its enemies.
"The parroting of Hamas propaganda is an ethical crisis for journalism"
Following his detailed report debunking Hamas' casualty numbers, Andrew Fox writes in a new piece in The Jewish Chronicle: "media outlets globally have amplified unreliable fatality figures from Hamas, fuelling a dangerous spike in antisemitism worldwide."
"At the heart of the issue is the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH), an entity under the full control of Hamas, a designated terrorist organisation by many Western governments. The report demonstrates how the MoH inflates civilian casualties through numerous statistical distortions... they make the figures totally unreliable."
"The impact of uncritically reporting these flawed figures extends beyond misinformation; it has stoked antisemitic rhetoric and violence globally. By perpetuating narratives that disproportionately cast Israel as the aggressor and dismiss Hamas’ culpability, media outlets have legitimised hatred against the Jewish diaspora. Many reports emphasise inflated civilian casualties while ignoring or questioning Israel’s data on militant fatalities, further skewing public perception."
"The misreporting of Gaza’s fatality figures is more than a journalistic failure; it is an ethical crisis that has fuelled global antisemitism and polarised international discourse."
Slanderous HRW report falsely accuses Israel of genocide
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday issued a report outrageously accusing Israel of committing “acts of genocide” during the war against Hamas in Gaza by allegedly damaging water infrastructure and cutting off supplies to civilians.
Israel's COGAT, responsible for coordinating humanitarian aid to Gaza, set the record straight:
Since Hamas began this war with its massacre on October 7, 2023, Israel has facilitated the entry of more than 1.2 million tons of aid into Gaza.
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