Houthi official: ‘Netanyahu, do you think you will do to us what you did to Hezbollah?’

A senior Houthi official warns Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Iran-backed group will not be cowed.

“Netanyahu, do you think you will do to us what you did to Hezbollah? Ask the Yemeni Jews who we are,” says Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, former head of the Houthi Supreme Revolutionary Council, according to Channel 12 news.

Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Israel would act against the Houthis with the same force it used against Iran’s other “terrorist arms.” The premier vowed that even though the operation against the rebel group may take time, the results will be the same as those seen in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis was intercepted by Israeli air defenses early this morning, marking the second night in a row — and the fourth in less than a week — that the Iran-backed group has fired at Israel’s center in what has recently become a near-nightly occurrence.