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"If you don't act against the Houthis in the Red Sea, you are going to see more attacks.

The lights are absolutely flashing red on the global dashboard and what we need at that time is strong leadership and a plan."

- David Cameron

(British Foreign Secretary)

This man... pic.twitter.com/XupKL2x7Rn

— Alex Barnicoat (@mrbarnicoat) January 14, 2024

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Newly released footage displays @RoyalAirForce Typhoon jets taking off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, heading for the UK's airstrike operation in #Yemen. pic.twitter.com/mJNQdD6QZY

— Ahmad Algohbary (@AhmadAlgohbary) January 12, 2024

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"UK out the Middle East"

Today, @GlasgowStopWar activists gathered outside the Ministry Of Defence building to demand an end to British attacks in Yemen. pic.twitter.com/324t6pR1Xy

— Skotia (@TheSkotia) January 13, 2024

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Netanyahu: "None will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil, and not anyone else"

Allah will stop you ‼️‼️ pic.twitter.com/de2XbXbDKu

— ONE (@One_Dawah) January 14, 2024

At least 23,843 people have been killed and more than 60,317 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.

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Israel will not be deterred by any ruling from the International Court of Justice

"No one will stop us. Not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil, no one."

Israeli PM Netanyahu says that Israel will not be deterred by any ruling from the International Court of Justice.

🔴 LIVE updates: [_link] pic.twitter.com/heg1KqlES0

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 13, 2024

Escalation of air strikes on Yemen as a favor to Israel and friend Netanyahu to be a shield so the IDF can proceed with impunity to raze Gaza ... Palestine Nakba 2.0 ...ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocidal acts. Red Sea Operation a shield for Israel to continue horrific assault on Gaza.

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On eve of 100 days of war, PM pledges 'complete victory,' denounces genocide claims | TOI  |

'Notice the depth of the absurdity and hypocrisy -- the supporters of the new Nazis dare to accuse us of genocide,' Netanyahu says of South African case at The Hague

Israel will continue its war against Hamas "to the end -- until complete victory," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Saturday evening, denouncing South African claims brought to the International Court of Justice in The Hague this week that Israel is carrying out genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"We will restore security to both the south and the north. No one will stop us -- not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else," he said, addressing reporters during a press conference held at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.

"We are on the path to victory and we will not stop until we achieve victory," he said.

He recalled that he recently told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that "this is not only our war, this is also your war. This is a war against the axis of evil led by Iran."

• US Complicit in Gaza Massacre, EU Failure to Agree | 26 Oct. 2023 |

Condemning the "hypocritical attack in The Hague on the Jewish state that rose from the ashes of the Holocaust," Netanyahu argued that the Thursday-Friday hearings before the International Court of Justice, coming as it did on the heels of Hamas's attempt to "perpetrate another Holocaust on the Jews," constituted "a moral low in the history of nations."

"Notice the depth of the absurdity and hypocrisy -- the supporters of the new Nazis dare to accuse us of genocide. Whom do they support? Murderers, rapists, baby-burners? What an embarrassment, what an embarrassment," he said.

"The State of Israel, the IDF and our security forces are fighting a moral and just war," he continued, declaring that "this international defamation campaign will not weaken our hands or weaken our determination to fight to the end."

See also the report last week from The Hague ...

Occupying Power Israel Genocide Charges @ICJ

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Torygraph started a rumor: Rishi can't keep a secret. defense.gov is irked that 10 Downing LEAKED the plan to attack Yemen early Thursday morning (day after USNC resolution) instead of after the missile strike Friday morning.

U.S. Meddling in Yemen offered opportunity to Northern Shiite Huthi rebels, a new truce signed | Daily Star - Sept. 2014 |

SANAA (AFP) -  Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels, who signed a UN-brokered peace deal Sunday after seizing key institutions, only recently began extending their influence beyond their northern highland stronghold.

The rebels belong to the Zaidi sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam which makes up approximately a third of the Sunni-majority country's population.  Zaidis are the majority in the northern provinces bordering Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, and are widely accused of receiving support from Shiite-dominated Iran.

The north was a Zaidi imamate until a 1962 coup turned Yemen into a republic ruled by a government long considered illegitimate by the rebels.

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As an Arab Spring-inspired uprising against then president Ali Abdullah Saleh swept through Yemen in 2011, the Huthis reached out to the opposition in Sanaa and joined protest camps there. It was their first major show of influence outside their strongholds in Saada and Amran provinces.

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Article seven years ago...

Why is there a war in Yemen?

An age old rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is fuelling conflict in a country that is divided along sectarian, tribal and military lines.

For over a year, a fully-fledged war has been raging in one of the poorest countries in the Arabian Peninsula, tucked under oil-rich Saudi Arabia - Yemen.

A coalition of seven Gulf states led by the Saudis has been bombing the country's capital, Sanaa. The air strikes are aimed at pushing out the Houthi rebel forces that expelled Yemen's Saudi-backed government in January 2015.

The Saudi-led campaign has not achieved much. The Houthis are now marching towards the southern city of Taiz, putting them close to the largest port city, Aden. After the fall of Sanaa, the Saudi-backed government relocated to the city and is currently based there.

Yemen conflict Ali Abdullah Saleh and Mansour Hadi for leadership

On December 4, Houthi fighters killed Yemen's former president and their erstwhile ally, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Prior to their violent divorce, Saleh's General People's Congress party (GPC) and the Houthis (a Zaydi/Shia rebel movement) were partners against the Saudi Arabia-led coalition and its allies, including the United States, who are fighting on behalf of the internationally recognized government of Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Despite nearly three years of a punishing air campaign and strategy of economic strangulation by the coalition, the Houthi-Saleh alliance remained firmly ensconced in the northern Zaydi highlands. They also controlled most of the Red Sea coastal province of Hodeidah and parts of the southern uplands (a predominantly Shafi/Sunni area in north Yemen), including Ibb and limited parts of Taiz.

• The International Approach to the Yemen War: Time for a Change? | Crisis Group - 23 Oct. 2020 |
• US Elite Military Taking Mercenary Jobs In Abu Dhabi | by Oui @BooMan - Dec 23, 2012 |

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