According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Houthi regime in Yemen is “learning a hard lesson” about the consequences of attacking Israel. The lesson was delivered via a deadly aerial raid on Sanaa that left six dead, 86 wounded, and key infrastructure in ruins.
The Israeli operation was a direct response to a Houthi ballistic missile, which was uniquely dangerous due to its cluster bomb warhead. The Israeli government decided that such a provocation required a lesson in the form of overwhelming force.
The “classroom” was the Yemeni capital, where Israeli jets struck a military compound, fuel depots, and power stations. Netanyahu stated that the Houthis are now “paying a very heavy price,” a price designed to be a memorable deterrent against any future aggression.
While Israel frames the raid as a necessary educational exercise in power politics, the “lesson” has had a brutal and lethal impact on the ground in Sanaa, where the human cost continues to be counted.