Israel Burns Down Yemen Port

One day after a Houthi suicide drone evaded Israel’s defense and struck a building in Tel Aviv, killing one and injuring ten others, Israel struck back against Yemen for the first time since after months of attacks by the Houthis on Israel’s population centers.

The Israeli Air Force reached the Yemeni port of Hodeida in western Yemen over Shabbat, striking the Houthi controlled oil infrastructure and electrical plants. In a statement, the Israeli military said: “Fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terror regime in the area of the Hodeida Port in Yemen, in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months.”

The fire was so powerful, the port was still burning throughout the week.

IDF Takes Out Hamas Leaders In Tulkarm

The IDF has been fighting in Tulkarm since the early part of the Gaza war. Although Tulkarm is in Judea and Samaria, its location to the Israeli population centers on Israel’s coast makes it a strategic threat.

After months of operations, the IDF and ISA were able to neutralize Tulkarm’s Hamas leader Ashraf Naf.

A joint IDF and ISA announcement read as follows:

“Overnight, the IDF, ISA, and Israeli Border Police conducted a joint counterterrorism operation in the Tulkarm area, as part of a series of over 50 counterterrorism operations in the area since the beginning of the war. The soldiers struck a number of armed terrorists in exchanges of fire and dismantled numerous explosives that had been planted underneath the roads.”

“During the operation, an IAF drone struck several terrorists from various terror organizations in the Tulkarm area. Among those struck were terrorists who were involved in the planning and carrying out of attacks against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel from the Tulkarm area.”

“Among those eliminated was Ashraf Nafa, the Head of the Hamas branch in the Tulkarm area. Ashraf was responsible for manufacturing and embedding explosives intended to attack IDF soldiers, as well as recruiting new operatives into the Hamas organization.”

IDF Recovers the Bodies of Five Hostages from Gaza

The hostages are Maya Goren, 56, Oren Goldin, 33, Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19, Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20, and Ravid Katz of Nir Oz. All were killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, and their bodies were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip. The military had previously announced their deaths, based on intelligence information and other findings following the onslaught.