Thank God this missile didn’t hit a plane at the gate, then easily killing over 100 people.
The rebels have been firing ballistic missiles at Israel for some time now; but the IDF appears to have missed intercepting this one.
Every strike from the Houthis should be met with a retaliatory strike sufficient to degrade their ability to strike outside of Yemen. They were a tool to oppose Saudi Arabia, but have now been let loose. And they’ve already been put on notice by both Israel and the US that port infrastructure is not off limits.
Tehran did not directly attack Israel. So Israel should focus on debilitating the proxy.
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Addendum: this is the crater in today’s DT!
I'm not a fan of Netanyahu in many areas, but at least we know he can be counted on to retaliate effectively when something like this happens.
ReplyDeleteSurely most of the Yemeni people don't want this. It's absurd for a country at a practically medieval level of development to be wasting resources on ballistic missiles. And the Houthis' war there has killed several times as many people as the entire Arab-Israel conflict from its beginnings to today combined.
A sobering reminder of the escalating risks—retaliation must be strategic, aiming to neutralize threats without broadening the conflict.
ReplyDeleteIt's shocking and I didn't know this until now.
ReplyDeleteEvery missile like this forces us to find shelter, the alarms sound loudly and then the echoes of the explosions, usually these are fragments of the interceptors, which themselves are as big as the missile and cause damage. This was one of the few times that a technical failure in the interceptor did not stop the missile. Of course, we were in the shelter and heard the explosion very well. At any given moment, we are waiting here for the alarm.
ReplyDeleteOh man, that is terrible.
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