White House envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to brief the UN Security Council behind closed doors on Tuesday on US policy toward the war in Gaza and nuclear talks with Iran, three sources familiar with the matter said.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations warned that any further attacks from Yemen’s Houthi militia or their Iranian backers would be met with crushing force, saying such action would render their “own lands unrecognizable.”
“If the Houthis and their Iranian masters want to play with fire, they will find their own lands unrecognizable,” Danny Danon said Tuesday during Israeli Independence Day celebrations at UN Headquarters in New York.
His comments followed Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s capital and Red Sea port after a missile launched by Houthi fighters struck near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport in recent days.
Israeli warplanes hit Sanaa’s international airport and the strategic port city of Hodeida on Tuesday, according to official statements from the Israeli military.
