The Houthis threaten to resume attacks on Israel if the IDF does not stop the operation in Jenin

The Yemeni terrorist organization Ansar Allah (Houthis) is threatening to resume attacks on Israel using ballistic missiles and unmanned aircraft if the IDF does not stop the operation in Jenin.

The Houthi statement was released on the morning of January 22.

The previous attempts to fire ballistic missiles into Israel were launched by the Houthis on January 18, shortly before the ceasefire agreement in Gaza came into force. The missiles were intercepted.

On January 17, the Al-Masirah TV channel, owned by the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement, reported that US forces carried out airstrikes on targets in the Harf Sufyan area in Amran province, north of Sanaa.

Rocket attacks on Israel from Yemen were recorded on the night of January 14 and the evening of January 13. As a result of the fall of rocket fragments on January 14, several houses were damaged in the villages of Mevo Beitar and Tzur Adasa, southwest of Jerusalem.

On the night of January 5, the Houthis attempted to attack the Orot Rabin power plant near Hadera. The IDF claimed to have intercepted a ballistic missile outside Israeli airspace. The Houthis claimed their missile hit its target.

Rocket fire from Yemen was also recorded early in the morning of January 3. Then the alarm sounded in many areas of central Israel, and the work of Ben Gurion Airport was suspended for a short time. Also, an attempt to fire rockets at the center of Israel from Yemen was made by Houthi militants on the evening of December 30 – which also led to the suspension of the Ben Gurion airport (the Houthis announced the launch of two missiles).

Before that, the Houthis tried to attack Israel by launching ballistic missiles on the night of December 28.

On the evening of December 27, airstrikes were launched against targets in Yemen. Neither the US nor Israel have announced another attack on the Houthis.

Let us note that recently rocket attacks from Yemen have become noticeably more frequent and have become almost nightly. At the end of last year, rocket attacks on Israeli territory from Yemen occurred on the night of December 27, early in the morning of December 25, and on the night of December 24. In all three cases, the missile was intercepted before crossing the Israeli air border.

On the night of December 21, attempts to intercept a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis were unsuccessful – the missile fell on a children’s playground in Jaffa, causing damage. Dozens of people were slightly injured by glass fragments and suffered injuries.

Previously, rocket attacks on Israeli territory from Yemen were recorded on December 19, 2024. Then a fragment of a warhead from an intercepted missile destroyed a school on Sderot HaOranim Street in the Ramat Efal district of Ramat Gan. There were no casualties.

Rocket attacks from Yemen were also recorded on December 16, September 27 and September 15, 2024.

The Houthis use Falastin-2 ballistic missiles to attack Israeli territory. These missiles, which the Ansar Allah movement calls hypersonic, are capable of covering the distance from Yemen to Israel (about 2,200 km) in 12-15 minutes. The Houthis usually launch one such missile. At the same time, Houthi militants use attack UAVs to attack Israel – as a result of one of these attacks on July 19, 2024, Israeli Evgeniy Freder was killed in Tel Aviv. Previously, the Houthis also used cruise missiles to attack Israel.

According to the IDF, since the start of the War of Iron Swords (October 7, 2023), the Houthis have fired more than 200 missiles (both ballistic and cruise missiles) and launched approximately 180 attack drones towards Israeli territory, the vast majority of which were intercepted outside the air space of Israel – both by IDF forces and by allied forces.

The IDF has attacked Houthi targets in Yemen five times since the start of the war. On July 20, 2024, the IDF launched strikes against targets in Hodeidah in response to a UAV strike on Tel Aviv and other Houthi attacks. On September 29, 2024, the IDF again attacked targets in Hodeidah in response to rocket attacks on Israeli territory from Yemen. The third attack was on December 19: a two-phase operation codenamed “White City” – first attacking eight Houthi ships in Yemeni ports that could be used to deliver weapons and weapons components; Then the Israeli Air Force attacked four targets in the port of Hodeidah, two targets in the oil complex in the Ras Issa area, two power plants in the south and north of Sana’a, there were dozens killed and wounded. The IDF did not confirm or comment on reports from some media about the participation of the Israeli Air Force in strikes against targets in Yemen on the evening of December 21. On December 26, the IDF attacked military and infrastructure targets in Sana’a and Hodeidah. On January 10, the IDF, along with US and British naval aircraft, participated in an attack on Houthi targets in Yemen.