At UN, Israel warns Houthis could share fate of Hamas, Hezbollah and Assad
Ambassador Danon tells Yemeni rebels they’ll be wiped out, just like other Iranian proxies, if they continue to attack Israel with missile and drone fire

UN Ambassador Danny Danon on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis to halt their missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same “miserable fate” as fellow Iranian allies Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad if they persisted.
He also warned Tehran that Israel has the ability to strike any target in the Middle East, including in Iran, adding that Israel would not tolerate attacks by Iranian proxies.
The Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group that is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and Jews, have launched more than 200 missiles and 170 drones at Israel in the past year, according to the IDF, including a wave of middle-of-the-night missile attacks over the last two weeks.
The group says it is attacking Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, during the ongoing multifront war that began when the Hamas terror group attacked Israel from that enclave on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
“To the Houthis, perhaps you have not been paying attention to what has happened to the Middle East over the past year. Well, allow me to remind you what has happened to Hamas, to Hezbollah, to Assad, to all those who have attempted to destroy us. Let this be your final warning,” Danon told the UN Security Council.
“This is not a threat. It is a promise. You will share the same miserable fate.”
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. @dannydanon: "To the Houthis…allow me to remind you what has happened to Hamas, to Hezbollah, to Assad, to all those who have attempted to destroy us…this is not a threat, it is a promise. You will share the same miserable fate." pic.twitter.com/GcotW5l6Ds
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Speaking before the meeting, Danon told reporters: “Israel will defend its people. If 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) is not enough to separate our children from the terror, let me assure you, it will not be enough to protect their terror from our strengths.”
Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Houthis that Israel was “just getting started,” following Israeli strikes on multiple Houthi-linked targets in Yemen, including Sanaa airport, ports on the country’s west coast and two power plants.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the airport when it came under attack by Israel. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said.
Briefing the Security Council meeting, Assistant UN Secretary General for the Middle East Khaled Khiari reiterated grave concern about the escalation in violence, calling on the Houthis to halt attacks on Israel and for international and humanitarian law to be respected.

“Further military escalation could jeopardize regional stability with adverse political, security, economic and humanitarian repercussions,” Khiari said.
“Millions in Yemen, Israel and throughout the region would continue to bear the brunt of escalation with no end.”
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, while condemning Houthi missile attacks on Israel, also criticized Israel’s retaliatory strikes on the Houthis, as well those by what he called the “Anglo-Saxon coalition” of US and British warships in the Red Sea, saying they were “clearly not proportional.”
In addition to attacking Israel, the Iran-backed Houthis have also carried out repeated missile and drone attacks on some 100 merchant vessels attempting to traverse the Red Sea, forcing many carriers to avoid the key waterway and hamstringing global shipping. The Houthis initially said they were going to attack Israel-linked ships, but few of the vessels targeted had ties to Israel.