Yemen
Six people were wounded in the attack in Taba, located a handful of miles from Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat.
U.S. warship intercepts projectiles off Yemen, as drone strikes on American bases in Syria and Iraq join ongoing Hezbollah attacks on Israel from Lebanon.
“Any response, should one occur, will come at a time and a manner of our choosing,” said a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman.
Tim Lenderking said he hopes that “Iran will change behavior” and support the peace effort in Yemen.
Mira Resnick speaks with JNS about a Mideast air-defense alliance, balancing rights with reality and U.S. commitment to Israel’s security.
“The Yemeni population suffers; they don’t get aid because it’s blocked by the Houthis, [who use] blackmail [to get] at least 50% of this humanitarian aid from the U.N. and the E.U.,” said Manel Msalmi, a Belgian-Tunisian academic, and founder and president of the NGO European Association for the Defense of Minorities.
It emphasizes that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force are responsible for training and funding Islamic terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
A U.S. State Department spokesman reportedly stated that the Biden administration has been helping the country “strengthen air defenses in response to a rising number of aerial attacks from Yemen.”
“Hezbollah and the Houthis are linked by a mutual sympathy of two Shi’ite organizations, each working in their arena. This cooperation is part of a system that is headed by Tehran. This is the right way to look at it,” Col. (res.) Shaul Shay tells JNS.
The “Your Money Means Drones” campaign has already raised 1 billion Iraqi dinars ($685,000), according to Iraqi media reports.
“For two days, there was anti-Gazan, anti-Hamas anger on social media in Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, even though the march was organized by Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” said Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies.
“Today, it is Abu Dhabi; tomorrow, it could be Tel Aviv,” says Hebrew University researcher Ronni Shaked of the Houthi missile attacks on the UAE.
