More enemies: On January 16 after the Gaza ceasefire was agreed, the group’s leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, warned that attacks on Israel would resume if the truce was breached, a threat that has been repeated.
And on January 20 a day after the ceasefire began, senior Houthi official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said: 1. the group had possession of missiles “with 100 percent accuracy” 2. “Whoever thinks that we exaggerate should review our attacks on ships linked to [Israel],”
The Houthis have gone from a localised threat to one that now poses a direct challenge to Israeli and Western interests, who are now more focused, 1. on finding a way to defeat, the Houthis 2. or at least seriously weaken them
The US and the United Kingdom began bombing Houthi targets in Yemen in January 2024 and Israel has also conducted its own attacks. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that his country would “hunt down” Houthi leaders.
