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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen announced on May 19 that they will impose a “naval blockade” of the port of Haifa in response to Israel’s “brutal aggression” on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military launched a large-scale offensive, codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” in Gaza last week, with the aim of dealing a final blow to the Palestinian Hamas Movement, a close ally of the Houthis, and taking control of all of the Strip.
In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that the group will “begin working to enforce a naval blockade of the port of Haifa.”
“All companies with ships present in or heading to this port are hereby notified that, as of the time of this announcement, the aforementioned port has been included in the target bank,” he added.
The port of Haifa is vital to Israel’s economy. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and handles about 30 million tons of cargo per year.
The Houthis’ attacks on Israel-affiliated shipping in the Red Sea, which began right after the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October of 2023, have led to a complete halt of all operations in the port of Eilat, the country’s second important port after Haifa.
Since March 18, when Israel first resumed operations in Gaza, the Houthis have launched some 35 ballistic missiles and at least 10 drones at Israel.
Only one of the missiles managed to reach its target, hitting Ben Gurion in central Israel on May 4. Eight people were wounded and operations at the airport were disturbed as a result of the attack. The Houthis later announced “a comprehensive aerial blockade” on Israel, forcing many airlines to suspend flights to the country.
Israel resumed strikes on Yemen after the strike on Ben Gurion. Around the same time, the United States suddenly halted an operation launched in mid-March against the Houthis.
In recent weeks, at least three waves of Israeli strikes hit infrastructure in Yemen from the ports in al-Hodeidah, to cement factories, power stations and Sanaa International Airport in the Yemeni capital. However, the capabilities of the Houthis were not affected.
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shlomo needs to realise – if he wants the blockade lifted, he’s going to have to end his genocidal antics in gaza. the goy superwhore chumpo has chickened out and rhrown in the towel.
then the jews will flee to miami, and erdogan will send all the kurds from iraq and syria to israel, so that israel will be full.
what is an israeli really? a khazar from russia, a cheater like putler?
germans and khazars. putin probably have to rethink about the christian concept of genocide, so popular in the bible. somehow, the current politics do not look like a multipolar world, but genocide of the jews as usual. they have cheated, and baptisted germans to jews this time. its not fair, you are absolutely right.
an “israeli” is a jew who is allowed to murder palestinians and steal their land after they have lived there for generations, even though he does not live in palestine and has no roots at all, but can do so as a jew from anywhere in the world because of aliyah and other cheap jewish tricks.
so a druze employed by the idf is a jew and a rabbi who goes to palestinian protests is not a jew? what is a jewish servant putler?
no one would miss them, jolani and erogan will send kurds and druze to israel so that it will be full of israelis again.
idf’s ghassan alian will install abdrabbuh mansur hadi as the boss of yemen.just like netanyahu made jolani the boss of syria without an election.
ghassan alian and israel katz would deserve, that the palestinians gave them 150 lashes naked asses and deportation to miami.
ansar allah will put a gaping hole in the head of any puppet like they did to abdullah saleh
the houthis are the only ones with nothing to lose and that is why they fight so hard.
everyone else is worried about losing something so they turn a blind eye to our enslavement by democracy and the brutality of the antichrist.
people are more worried about their crap instead of truth and what is right.
hell awaits all who support democracy and israel.
the moderators word press site and commerce department of the us allegedly gone “independent” aka anglophile, refuse to accept i down voted your monarchist post for the globalist communist empire they say you already down voted that comment but they didnt take it away. that’s them for you. not exactly honest.
worpress has destroyed html and websites.
erdogan or trump can send slaughter hordes led by abdrabbuh mansur hadi.
well the saudis and the qataris are going to have to be responsible for policing the middle east its their yard. and if they’ refuse to accept responsibility for maintain world peace then that’s it there’s no solution but 100 years of constant wars here and there until everyone’s had enough fun and games and there no young prepared to be conscripted anymore. far richer.
maybe a citizens rebellion to topple elites, overthrow thrones and a complete social upheaval although that’s obviously not what the elite are planning they clearly t are very confident that they will emerge even more powerful and far far richer
the u.s. wants to sell as many weapons as possible, and russia is helping them, and that’s because humans are just an animal species.
double crazy wahhabi criminals investing in the us market bubble? such should not be trusted with an empty can for five minutes.
how many times? zintizillion times: yemeni aremd forces, not any houtis or ansar.