THIS is the heart-stopping moment the World Heath Organisation boss is rushed to safety after an Israeli strike hit Yemen’s airport. Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus says he “narrowly

Israel is signaling a wider campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, a mountainous and impoverished country more than 1,000 miles from Israeli territory.

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew.

Israeli jets struck seven crossing points along the Syria-Lebanon border on Friday, aiming to cut the flow of weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon.

She spent 49 days in captivity and was freed in late November 2023. Shortly after Katzir was freed, her daughter told Israeli media that she had been hospitalized with heart issues attributed to “difficult conditions and starvation” while she was held captive.

Israel is celebrating the fall of Assad because it breaks the noose that Iran had been patiently tightening around Israel’s borders in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Tehran’s pincer is now broken and rendered useless. From the point of view of Israel’s wider conflict with the Islamic Republic, the collapse of Assad’s regime is a strategic victory.

Israel carried out airstrikes in Yemen in response to a Houthi attack hours earlier, the latest move by Israeli forces to weaken Iran and its proxies.

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Much like Hezbollah miscalculated with its 15-month-long war of attrition against Israel, Yemen’s Houthi rebels risk being the next target in Israel’s campaign to rewrite the Middle East’s political map.

Yemenis have openly declared their support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched its devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, which has so far claimed the lives of at least 45,361 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Israel’s strikes against Houthis in Yemen are “especially alarming”, calls "for all parties concerned to cease all military actions and exercise utmost restraint.