{"id":1493085,"date":"2024-09-30T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1493085"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:45:00","slug":"netanyahus-war-on-seven-fronts-expanded-attacks-on-yemen-syria-central-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/netanyahus-war-on-seven-fronts-expanded-attacks-on-yemen-syria-central-beirut\/1493085\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu’s ‘War On Seven Fronts’: Expanded Attacks On Yemen, Syria, Central Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netanyahu’s ‘War On Seven Fronts’: Expanded Attacks On Yemen, Syria, Central Beirut<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel has been busy over the weekend striking multiple fronts. Not only has it expanded airstrikes on Beirut in the wake of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s Friday death, but it is attacking Yemen and Syria as well<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Starting late last week into Saturday, Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis announced the launch of several ballistic missiles toward Tel Aviv, which Israel’s military said were intercepted. And on Friday, in an incident which went underreported (given headlines were focused heavily on Beirut events), three US warships in the Red Sea came under simultaneous rocket attacks\u00a0<\/strong>from the Houthis.<\/p>\n

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“The Houthi said they had targeted three U.S. warships which media reports tonight are identifying as the guided missile destroyers USS\u00a0Spruance<\/em>\u00a0and USS\u00a0Stockdale<\/em>\u00a0and the littoral combat ship USS\u00a0Indianapolis<\/em>. They were reported to have been north of the Bab el-Mandeb at the time,” The Maritime Executive <\/em><\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

“U.S. officials are confirming that warships in the Red Sea were targeted with possibly the largest barrage since the conflict began <\/strong>with the Houthis in Yemen nearly 10 months ago,” the publication added.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Israeli jets had the assistance of US military intelligence as they conducted a massive airstrike on Yemen’s key port of\u00a0Hodeidah. It happened in the early evening local time. Axios reports<\/a> that “sensitive” Houthis facilities were on the target list.<\/p>\n

Yemen’s Health Ministry in the aftermath announced<\/a> that at least four people were killed and 40 others injured<\/strong> in the Israeli raid, which left massive plumes of smoke over the area.<\/p>\n

Israeli media has confirmed that it was the biggest Israeli strike on Yemen since the conflict began<\/strong> in the wake of Oct.7 of last year. “Dozens of Israeli aircraft, including F-15I fighter planes, participated in the operation, striking 1,800 kilometers from Israeli territory after the Houthis fired three ballistic missiles on the\u00a0Tel Aviv and central Israel areas in recent weeks, including one on Saturday,” Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a> details.<\/p>\n

During Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Friday United Nations speech, the Israeli leader said his country<\/a> is fighting a war on seven fronts<\/strong>. He brought props, as has been his pattern at major UN speeches<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Israeli leader explained \u201cthe blessing\u201d was establishing a \u201clandbridge\u201d from India to Israel<\/strong>. The blessing requires Saudi Arabia to enter the Abraham Accords and normalize ties with Israel<\/strong>. Netanyahu claimed that would have happened, but the October 7 Hamas attack prevented the deal.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the map titled \u201cthe curse,\u201d five countries were represented in black: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon<\/strong>. The Israeli leader claimed that Tehran was working to eliminate Tel Aviv using its allies in the region. Netanyahu presented the conflict as a battle between forces of civilization against barbarism.<\/em><\/p>\n

Netanyahu shows \u2018maps of blessing and curse\u2019 pic.twitter.com\/I6kFso8gyo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 RT (@RT_com) September 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

He is now targeting the very countries he listed in the speech. According to more details of the Hodeidah attack from Yemeni sources<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a statement, the army said \u201cdozens of air force aircraft\u201d struck power plants and sea port facilities at the Ras Isa and Hodeidah ports<\/strong>. The attacks killed at least four people – including a port worker and three electrical engineers – and wounded 30 others, according to Yemen\u2019s ministry of health.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also on Sunday, and also largely underreported in Western media, there was another Israeli raid on Syria, which reportedly targeted a base with ‘pro-Iranian’ assets. It happened on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. “At least seven pro-Iran militants were injured in an Israeli strike in the countryside of Damascus<\/strong>, near the Syria-Lebanon border, a war monitor reported on Monday, amid soaring regional tensions against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war,” regional source\u00a0Rudaw<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

“Seven elements, most of them non-Syrians, were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a border crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Rif Dimashq from the Syrian side,” the report said. A similar raid occurred on Friday, as Israel was bombing Beirut. Syrian state SANA<\/a> said the Friday aggression killed five Syrian soldiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile on Monday Israel has expanded its strikes in Lebanon to include targeted attacks on central Beirut<\/strong>, which is a first since the 2006 war<\/strong>. The apparent targets included\u00a0three senior figures in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine<\/strong>\u00a0(PFLP). Subsequently the leftist group which conducted airline hijackings in the 1970s said its officials\u00a0Mohammed Abdel Aal, Emad Odeh, and Abdel Rahman Abdel Aal were killed in Beirut’s Cola district.<\/p>\n

Aftermath of the airstrike on an apartment building in central Beirut:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u26a1\ufe0fFrom the enemy strikes on an apartment in Kola, central Beirut pic.twitter.com\/UVWEJK143I<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 War Monitor (@WarMonitors) September 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/em> described<\/a> of the attack, “Initial footage from the scene showed two storeys of an apartment building completely blown out, and onlookers running towards the building. Two bodies could be seen lying on the street on top of a car outside the building, seemingly ejected by the force of the blast.”<\/p>\n

As if all this weren’t a chaotic enough powder keg ready to explode further, Iran-backed paramilitaries in Iraq are now ramping up attempts to directly attack Israel, with a fresh drone operation against Israel’s port city of Haifa<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said in a statement today that it attacked four Israeli targets in response to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n

It said that it attacked two \u201cvital\u201d targets in the Israeli port city of Haifa using drones<\/strong>, as well as two other unspecified targets.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amid what’s clearly a rapid escalation on several fronts in the Middle East, the US Commander-in-Chief doesn’t seem to know what’s going on<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

REPORTER: “Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President!?”<\/p>\n

BIDEN (or whatever’s left of him): “I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike.”<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd14 pic.twitter.com\/iFawNWdWyH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

This despite Yemen and the Red Sea being scene of what one US military commander previously called America’s most serious and intense naval combat going back to WW2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In northern Israel, the IDF continues building up forces along the border with Lebanon, as well as in the Golan region, ahead of a potential ground invasion. There have also reportedly been repeat incursions into Lebanese territory by Israeli special forces troops. Hezbollah has continued sporadic missile fire into northern Israel over the past days as well, but the big expected retaliation for Nasrallah’s killing has yet to come on any large scale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu on Monday issued a new warning<\/a>: “There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach<\/strong>.\u00a0 There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and\u00a0protect our country,” he said, describing that Israel is in “a war for our very existence.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 09\/30\/2024 – 12:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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