Yemen’s Houthi rebels carried out a rare strike on an Israeli target by the Mediterranean Sea, only to see their own port of Hodeidah go up in flames a day later as the Israeli air force retaliated.
The incidents over the weekend suggest that the Red Sea crisis is more likely to deteriorate than de-escalate over the few next days, and that Houthi threats to strike onshore targets and ships in the Mediterranean are credible.
