https://www.youtube.com/live/-g6W1kqtutM The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday that it had struck the “Houthi terrorist regime” in Yemen for the first time, launching a long-distance airstrike on the Al Hudaydah Port, targeting the origin of a drone that hit Israel Friday. The attack came in response to a Houthi drone that reached Tel Aviv on Friday, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding eight others after slipping past Israeli air defenses due to what the IDF called “human error.” In a statement, the IDF said: A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who monitored the attack together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Israeli Air Force (IAF) headquarters, said that the attack had reached its target 2,000 kilometers away from Israel, and that the “fires that are burning now in Hudaydah” are being seen in “the entire Middle East,” a warning to enemies of Israel. Iran is roughly the same distance away from Israel as Yemen. Update: According to a press briefing by IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari on Saturday evening, the attack was carried out by fighter jets, not remotely, with pilots flying 1,700 kilometers and returning home safely. Hagari said that Israel did not want a war with Yemen as a whole: “Yemen is a big country. Only a part of it is run by the Houthis.” He emphasized that the target was the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist regime, not the people of Yemen. The name of the operation, he said, was “Operation Long Arm,” chosen to send a signal to Iran and other enemies. The Houthis have also choked international shipping through the Red Sea by attacking vessels that pass through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. The Biden administration’s Operation Prosperity Guardian has focused on defensive actions that have, thus far, failed to deter the Houthis or the Iranians. President Biden removed the Houthis from a list of terrorist organizations upon reaching office — reversing an action taken by President Donald Trump — and waited years before putting them on a terrorist list again, despite their attacks on Saudi Arabia and Israel. 'No absurd opinion in The Hague can deny this historical truth or the legal right of Israelis to live in their own communities in our ancestral home,' says Netanyahu. Israeli leaders denounced the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Friday, which declared Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria (internationally known as the West Bank) illegal. “Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law,” stated ICJ President Nawaf Salam on Friday. The judges stated that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem should come to an end “as rapidly as possible.” “The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land, including in our eternal capital Jerusalem nor in Judea and Samaria, our historical homeland,” Netanyahu said. “No absurd opinion in The Hague can deny this historical truth or the legal right of Israelis to live in their own communities in our ancestral home.” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz echoed Netanyahu’s remarks, describing the decision as “fundamentally warped, one-sided, and wrong.” “The Western Wall, the Cave of the Patriarchs, Jerusalem and all of Judea, Samaria, Benjamin, and the Jordan Valley are the property of our ancestors. No opinion will erase the historical truth or undermine the deep connection between the people of Israel and its country,” he said. More than 50 nations appeared before the ICJ, with the majority asking the court to find the ‘occupation’ illegal with just a handful, including Canada and Great Britain, asking the court to refuse to issue an opinion on the issue. DENVER, COLORADO - In a 92-minute speech, the longest of any Republican candidate accepting his party's nomination for president, Donald J. Trump, on Thursday night put a spotlight on Israel and the Middle East. First, in a clear threat to Hamas and its Iranian ally, Trump demanded that every hostage in Gaza be released before Jan. 20, when he plans to take the Oath of Office and become America's Commander-in-Chief once again. "I tell you this, we want our hostages back," he said, "And they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price." Second, Trump vowed to build a missile defense system that will protect all of the American homeland, just like Israel's "Iron Dome" system protects all of Israel's airspace by shooting down 90% or more of the missiles, rockets, and suicide drones that Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the other enemies fire at use. "With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness and chaos will be over," Trump insisted. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the mullahs in Iran were emboldened to invade and attack Ukraine and Israel respectively after they watched the collapse of Afghanistan's democratically elected government and the victory of the Taliban terrorists in the days leading up to the 20th anniversary of Osama bin Laden's attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, attacks dreamed up and set into motion from Afghanistan. "It began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country," Trump said. Trump added, "We also left behind $85 billion worth of military equipment, along with many American citizens were left behind – many, many American citizens." Amir Tsarfati:
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