The fighting has remained contained because the militant group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has failed to draw in Hamas the more powerful Islamic militant organization that controls Gaza or any other major faction. The Islamic Jihad fighters, alone on the battlefield, have suffered crushing blows.
While Israeli’s president Isaac Herzog was on a historic visit to the UAE, officials announced that a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels was intercepted.
Israel's President Isaac Herzog speaks at al-Wasl Dome at Expo 2020 Dubai during Israel's expo National Day in the gulf emirate on January 31, 2022. - KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images(JERUSALEM) While Israeli's president Isaac Herzog was in Abu Dhabi on a historic visit on Monday, United Arab Emirates officials announced that a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels had been intercepted, the third such attack in three weeks. Tensions between the two countries have escalated as the Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for a Jan. 15 drone-and-missile attack on the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot, killing three people and wounding six. It was the first deadly attack since 2018, when the UAE-backed forces were fighting the Houthis for control of the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. "The operation led to a large number of death and wounded, including Emiratis," Yahya Sare'e, spokesman of the Houthis, tweeted on Tuesday. A Saudi-led coa