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Yemen's Houthis claim missile launched at Israel's airport

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Israel's air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthis on Sunday, the third such attack in four days.

The frequent attacks have become a growing inconvenience for Israelis, as sirens sound regularly and major airlines cancel flights over the next few weeks after one missile successfully landed near Ben Gurion airport.

YouTubeYemen's Houthis claim missile launched at Israel's airportBy Middle East Eye
#Houthis#HypersonicMissiles#Israel
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"After the Houthis began attacking international shipping in the Red Sea following the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023, the Biden administration began a campaign against the Houthis to help restore what is called “freedom of navigation” — the ability of ships to move unmolested by hostile forces. Those operations did little to degrade the group, critics of the Biden administration’s approach have said.

In March, Trump administration officials announced they would increase pressure on the group. A second aircraft carrier and its attendant ships were brought into the region; NBC News reported last month that a number of missile defense platforms, including the two Patriot mobile missile defense systems and a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system, were also moved in.

Under Trump, Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, was given wide-ranging authorities to go after the group. Under then-President Joe Biden, many of Kurilla’s plans to attack the Houthis had not been approved.

But there were divisions within the Trump administration over just how far the campaign against the Houthis should go. NBC News has reported that Biden officials had put together a blueprint for devastating the Houthis that required a long-term commitment and felt they were in a position to put that blueprint into action at the start of this year but held off to avoid boxing in their successors and gave the plans to the incoming Trump administration."

nbcnews.com/politics/national-

NBC News · Trump operation against Houthis cost more than $1 billionBy Courtney Kube
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Victory": Yeah, right!! :-D

"When he approved a campaign to reopen shipping in the Red Sea by bombing the Houthi militant group into submission, President Trump wanted to see results within 30 days of the initial strikes two months ago.

By Day 31, Mr. Trump, ever leery of drawn-out military entanglements in the Middle East, demanded a progress report, according to administration officials.

But the results were not there. The United States had not even established air superiority over the Houthis. Instead, what was emerging after 30 days of a stepped-up campaign against the Yemeni group was another expensive but inconclusive American military engagement in the region.

The Houthis shot down several American MQ-9 Reaper drones and continued to fire at naval ships in the Red Sea, including an American aircraft carrier. And the U.S. strikes burned through weapons and munitions at a rate of about $1 billion in the first month alone.

It did not help that two $67 million F/A-18 Super Hornets from America’s flagship aircraft carrier tasked with conducting strikes against the Houthis accidentally tumbled off the carrier into the sea.

By then, Mr. Trump had had enough."

nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/poli

President Trump has never bought into long-running military entanglements in the Middle East.
The New York Times · Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi MilitiaBy Helene Cooper
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