After IDF strikes on Yemen, Katz says Israel will ‘hunt down all the Houthi leaders’

By Emanuel Fabian

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26 December 2024, 6:17 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

IDF chief Herzi Halevi (L to R), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and IAF chief of staff Omer Tischler at the IAF's underground command center at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv on December 26, 2024. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Following the Israeli airstrikes on Yemen, Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel will “hunt down” all the leaders of the Houthis.

“We saw precise action by the Israeli Air Force, hitting strategic Houthi targets in Yemen, at the airport and at the port,” Katz says in a video from the IAF’s underground command center at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

“As we said, whoever strikes Israel, we will strike them. We will also hunt down all the Houthi leaders, hit them as we have done elsewhere,” he says. “No one will be able to evade Israel’s long arm.”