Call this Operation FAFO II – Houthi Boogaloo. But the message Israel sent may not have been addressed exclusively to the Ansar Allah terrorists in Yemen. The targeting of Houthi infrastructure in Hodeidah had a big “cc:” attached to it.
The IDF conducted a significant raid on Houthi strongholds in Yemen in July after months of attacks on Red Sea shipping, as well as drone attacks on Israel itself. However, the Houthis didn’t get the message that time, and neither did their patrons in Tehran. They fired a ballistic missile intended to hit Ben Gurion Airport at the same time that Benjamin Netanyahu arrived from New York and his speech at the United Nations. Israel’s anti-ballistic-missile systems destroyed it in flight, although at least one piece landed near Jerusalem:
Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthis on Saturday said they had targeted Ben Gurion airport in Israel with a ballistic…
