Yemen Monitor/Exclusive:
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday threatened to “behead” Houthi leaders and target infrastructure in Yemen.
In a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, Gallant said, “We will strike the Houthis with force, target their strategic infrastructure, and behead their leadership, just as we did with Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar, and Hassan Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon, and we will do the same in Hodeidah and Sana’a.”
He added in a statement to the Ministry of Defense, “I want to send a clear message to the Houthis: We defeated Hamas, we defeated Hezbollah, we blinded Iran’s defense systems and damaged its production systems.”
The Israeli defense minister continued, “We brought down the Assad regime in Syria, and we dealt severe blows to the axis of evil, and we will also strike hard at the Houthi terrorist organization in Yemen, which remains the last organization targeting Israel.”
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the parliament on Monday that he had ordered the destruction of the infrastructure of the Houthi armed group in Yemen.
Reports indicated that the Mossad chief called during high-level discussions between the Israeli political and security leadership for a direct strike on Iran following the Houthi attacks.
On Saturday, Hebrew media reported that Israel was building a coalition of several countries to launch attacks on the Houthis. Later that day, the US launched several raids on Sana’a targeting “Houthi warehouses and command and control,” according to a US military statement, which also announced the downing of a US aircraft by friendly fire.
Israeli intelligence faces a significant challenge in Yemen due to their failure to obtain intelligence. Therefore, they have begun opening a school to teach the Yemeni dialect within the army intelligence branch, according to the Hebrew newspaper Maariv.
Israel launched an aggression against Yemen on Thursday, through a series of strikes against energy infrastructure and ports, killing 9 Yemenis, in a move that Israel said was in response to hundreds of attacks by missiles and drones launched by the Houthis since the beginning of the brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip 14 months ago.
