Israel unleashed a firestorm on the Yemen in the middle of the night. In response to the roll of two missilesshot down by anti-aircraft fire, claimed by Shiite Houthi rebelstheIdf struck in a series of “targeted attacks” against “targets”, including ports, power plants, fuel depots, shipsbetween the capital Sanaa and the west coast, including the port of Hodeida. “Houthi leaders, you have been warned: Israel’s long arm will reach you too,” declared the Defense Minister, Israel Katzspeaking in implication to the operator Iranian. At least 9 civilians died, according to a toll from the Yemeni militia, which promises that the attacks will continue and whose spokesperson, Yahya Sareehad claimed responsibility for the launch of two «hypersonic missiles» aimed at «two specific and sensitive objectives in the area occupied by Yaffa (Arabic name for Jaffa)”, at the gates of Tel Aviv. Intercepted, according to the IDF, just outside Israeli airspace.
And if theIran he shouted at the “flagrant violation”, Benjamin Netanyahu he immediately said: «The Houthis have learned and will learn by beating their heads against the wall that whoever strikes Israel will pay a very heavy price». According to the Israeli prime minister, “after (the end of) HamasOf Hezbollah and the regime of Assad in Syria, the Houthis they remained the last arm of theIran’s axis of evil“: a reference to the so-called resistance axis built by Tehran and shattered in the last months of the war.
Meanwhile in the Syria still undefined and in the balance, on which fears and expectations are pinned, for the first time a manifestation of women invaded the Piazza degli Umayyadsin the center of Damascusin whose mosque the new leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolanihad given his first speech as a winner. The square has claimed gender rights, democracyone Secular state and non-denominational and theocratic, on the model imposed by the Taliban wolves Afghanswho shed their sheep’s clothing after a few months.
Right from al-Jolani new reassurances arrived in an interview with BBCin which he actually remained a little vague about the internal future, explaining only that “a committee of legal experts will write the new constitution”. Remembering, however, that “Syria is very different from Afghanistan and has different traditions” and saying he is in favor offemale educationalready guaranteed according to him in the province of Idlibfrom which the triumphal march towards began Damascus. As for relations with the international community, al-Jolani he said that the Syrians are “exhausted from the war” and do not intend to “threaten neighboring countries or the West”. According to him, the new umbrella militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Hts) should be deleted from the list terrorist organizations on the part of UN, United States, European Union And United Kingdombecause “it has never affected civilians or areas inhabited by civilians.” And Syria should be relieved of the burden of international sanctionsbecause, said the new leader, “they were made to attack the old regime”, while “the victim and the perpetrator should not receive the same treatment”.
A hope, the latter, which found its first support in the general secretary ofUN, Antonio Guterreswho mentioned the possibility of removing the sanctions on Syria as a “gesture of solidarity”: “There should be at least an initial gesture of solidarity with the Syrian people until the conditions for the removal of all sanctions are met”, he stated, evoking the “flame of hope” that was lit in ‘general fire in the Middle Eastwith the fall of the bloody regime of the Assadand that “it must not be extinguished”. Hence the request also to Israel to put an end to its air raids which violate theintegrity and the Syrian sovereignties.
From Istanbulwhere he brought together the major Muslim states of D-8the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan he invited us to join in isolating him Jewish stateimposing sanctions and encouraging criminal prosecutions, aware that he is also addressing his own direct rivalsprimarily theIranfrom which he aspires to take away the leading actor flag in Middle East after the defeat in Syria.