Posted on 07/21/25
| News Source: JPost
The Israel Air Force on Monday struck the Yemen-based Iran-backed Houthi terrorists at the central port of Hodeidah in retaliation for recent ballistic missile attacks against Israel.
The last time the IDF responded to almost regular Houthi missile attacks on Israel was July 7, with that attack having little impact on ending attacks from Yemen.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said that "the rule for Yemen is the same as the rule for Tehran," in reference to Israel's pulverizing 12 days of bombing of Iran on June 13-24.
Katz implied that the attacks were against parts of the Hodeidah port, which Israel had struck before and which the Houthis have started to try to rebuild.
Yet, despite Katz's attempted analogy between Iran and Yemen, Israel has been more successful in its attacks on the Islamic Republic in which it invested massive intelligence and air force resources, as opposed to Yemen, where it has dropped a few dozen bombs periodically on a few key economic locations, but failed to kill top Houthi officials or disrupt their operations at a strategic level.
Throughout the current war, the Houthis are the only group which have managed to keep up relatively consistent missile fire on Israel, with Jerusalem striking back, but not sufficiently to end the fire.
In addition, the Houthis virtually never hit anything, with the only Israeli they killed taking place back in July 2024 when a single Houthi drone snuck through Israeli air defenses into Tel Aviv.
The only time the Houthis stopped firing completely was during the January to March ceasefire with Hamas.
Houthi missiles were launched towards Israel on July 18 and July 10, triggering sirens across Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other parts of central Israel, as well as in the Dead Sea area on July 16.