Israel's devastating campaigns against Iran's regional allies have severely weakened its arch-enemy's ability to project its power, but Yemen's Tehran-backed Huthi rebels remain a stubborn thorn in its side,

As 2024 comes to an end, Israel is now less worried about threats from Hamas and Hezbollah and instead very much concerned over Iran and Syria.

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew.

Israel is signaling a wider campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, a mountainous and impoverished country more than 1,000 miles from Israeli territory.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a member of the plane’s crew was injured and that he and U.N. colleagues were safe. Israel said it targeted Houthi militant infrastructure.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has vowed Israel will sever 'the terrorist arm of Iran's axis of evil', and Defence Minister Israel Katz has vowed to 'hunt down all of the Houthi leaders'.

The conflict with Iran “is not just Israel’s war, but the entire Western world’s,” said former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon.

On 8 October 2023, Hezbollah began raining rockets and drones down on northern Israel in solidarity, it said, with its brothers-in-arms in Gaza. In September 2024, Israel changed its war aims to include clearing Hezbollah away from the border so that more than 60,000 Israelis could return to their homes in the north.

The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by Yemen’s Houthi militants.

The war-torn Gaza Strip faces a medical emergency as dozens of patients have been evacuated amid Israel's offensive. Meanwhile, regional tensions rise with US airstrikes in Yemen and France's military actions against Islamic State militants in Syria,

Israel's UN ambassador warned Yemen's Houthis to stop missile attacks or face the same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Assad.