Israeli sources: Trump's Houthi deal is very bad for the country

Israeli sources speaking to Israel Hayom today (Tuesday) said that the deal reached between the United States and the Houthis to end attacks on American ships and non-Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea was very bad for Israel.

This is in no small part due to the failure to seriously hamper Houthi missile armaments and missile production: the Houthis are believed to still have dozens of long range missiles, and they are creating between 2 and 8 missiles a week in underground facilities. This will allow them to continue to attack Israel and multiple strategic sites with impunity.

One of the reasons the IDF struck two cement factories in Yemen was to damage this missile-building capability. However, most of the armaments and missile production is located in the Yemeni hill country, which is very hard to reach with air power. Even the United States' forces were only able to strike some of the Houthis' military power.