Yemen’s Houthis fired a missile into Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, wounding six people and causing major delays in air travel.
This isn’t supposed to happen with Israel’s Iron Dome so how did it? The Israeli military says that the missile interceptor system malfunctioned “due to a technical error.” They said that the system has enjoyed a 95% success rate for Houthi attacks.
Israel has pledged retaliation. — Defense Minister Israel Katz said this about the attack: “Whoever harms us will be struck sevenfold in return.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate on Iran, not Yemen, because he says that the Houthis answer to “their Iranian terror masters.”
The U.S. has been willing to attack Yemen in recent months but The Times of Israel reports that Netanyahu is “frustrated” with the Trump administration for not doing more. The Trump administration has been friendly with Turkey and engaging in diplomacy with Iran, both things that Israeli leaders disapprove of. Netanyahu was also not happy “with former US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz being removed from his position” given how gung ho Waltz was to lead a war with Iran.
