Israel expects a “swarm” attack from Yemen

The nation is on high alert in this dangerous phase.

By: Yossi Aloni – Israel Today; israeltoday.co.il

Israel expects a major attack by the Houthi rebels in Yemen soon, in response to the successful Israeli airstrike on the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah. About 25 warplanes bombed the heart of Yemen, 1,800 km from the Israeli border. The port of Hudaydah is the Houthis’ very lifeline for supplies. Will the Houthis drag Israel and Iran even further into a multi-front war? All this is happening during the week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the US. That is why Netanyahu has postponed his flight.

The Houthis could use everything they have, and that is not a small amount: the Iranians have equipped them with hundreds of suicide drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. They have turned Yemen into their weapons testing ground, and Israel is therefore expecting a swarm attack to be launched towards Israel.

The Israeli air defense system is on high alert. With the help of Israel’s allies – the US, the UK and possibly Saudi Arabia – a large scale defensive is being made to repel any attack from Yemen and possibly simultaneously from the Shiite militias in Iraq that are synchronized with the Houthis. If the Houthis launch hundreds of missiles and drones, this defensive operation could be reminiscent of the April 13 defensive operation in which Israel and its allies repelled an Iranian attack with a 99 percent success rate. That time, it was a retaliatory strike for the killing of an Iranian general in the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

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