Five air strikes destroy three cruise missiles and a floating drone. The aim of the operations was to eliminate an immediate threat to shipping in the region.
The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen has been regularly attacking ships in the Red Sea since the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas began in October. The Houthis see themselves as part of the self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance” directed against Israel, which includes Hamas and the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.