Assault on Iran-backed proxies expands with targeting of fuel facilities and power plants in Hodeidah and Ras Issa

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes at Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday, while continuing to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, expanding an assault on Iran-backed proxies across the Middle East that risks accelerating a slide towards a potentially devastating regional conflict on multiple fronts.

The attack on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen involved dozens of Israeli planes and appears to have targeted fuel facilities, power plants and docks at the Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports, and is one of the single biggest such operations yet seen in the near year-long crisis in the region.