Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after missile attacks

Two thousand kilometers from its own borders, Israel reached into Yemen on Saturday night, striking power plants and port facilities in Hodeidah and Ras Issa in answer to days of Houthi missile fire. At least four lives were lost and twenty-nine wounded in an exchange that is less a bilateral dispute than a chapter in a wider regional reckoning — one in which Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, and now Yemen are bound together by the same web of alliances and grievances. Iran's swift condemnation and implicit warning suggest that each strike, however surgical in intent, pulls tighter on threads that connect