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After airport attack, Katz warns ‘whoever harms us, we will strike them sevenfold’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 24, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
Defense Minister Israel Katz, in a terse statement following the Houthi missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport, says, “Whoever harms us, we will strike them sevenfold.”
Israel has avoided striking in Yemen in response to the recent Houthi attacks as the United States wages a major campaign against the Iran-backed group.
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