Israeli strikes target Houthi rebels

Hi, Corey Stutte here for today's Two
Minute Drill where I'll be discussing

a couple of today's questions that
were submitted by our subscribers.

The first question on today's
agenda is how significant were

Israeli airstrikes overnight in
degrading Houthi forces in Yemen.

Well, if you didn't see the news Israel
conducted airstrikes against Houthi ports.

As well as power stations.

And Houthi control areas of Yemen?

These were significant because
this is only the third time that

Israel has conducted strikes against
the Houthi rebels in the country.

This comes after Houthi
forces launched missiles at.

Israel.

And this was Israel's response.

Now Iran a is saying that this
is a violation of international

law, which probably shouldn't
be a surprise to anyone.

But this probably didn't significantly
impact Houthi readiness or

anything like that within the
Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden area.

That being said Houthi rebels did say
that there were nine casualties in

the strikes and they really pointed
to those being civilian casualties.

Which of course Israel says were not.

Moving onto the second question.

Are we seeing more Turkish
movement the Kobani area during

the ceasefire in Northern Syria.

As you might know, there's been a lot of
discussion over the past few days about

Turkish forces and Turkish backed forces,
moving closer to the border of Syria.

We have seen more drone strikes
in those areas while there has

been an ongoing ceasefire there.

Us forces had diplomatically tried to
establish a ceasefire there but have

really been unsuccessful in doing so.

And we continue to see Turkish
forces launching strikes

into these SDF held areas.

Which will probably continue
on for the near future.

In other parts of Syria, we're
continuing to see protests.

We saw some protests against
Turkish forces in the north,

up in the Qamishli area.

And we also saw protests in
Damascus for women's rights.

And so that's important to
note, as we start to see this

transition of government.

In Syria, it's important to pay
attention to all these little

things going on throughout Syria.

To better understand what might actually
transpire and how things might unfold.

So that's all that I have
today for the Two Minute Drill.

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