The Israeli Air Force coordinated with the United States to strike the Houthis in Yemen on Monday night after the terror group fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s largest airport on Sunday.

During the strike, about 20 Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped 50 munitions on dozens of Houthi targets, according to the Israeli Defense Forces. The attack is Israel’s sixth airstrike on the Houthis since July 2024, in response to more than 400 attacks by the Iranian-backed group during the war, the Jerusalem Post reported. It is the first Israeli strike on the Houthis since President Donald Trump took office.

The United States has been conducting weeks of airstrikes on the Houthis in response to the group’s more than 100 attacks on international cargo ships, tankers, and naval vessels following Hamas’ October 7 assault on Israel. Since March, over 800 Houthi targets have been hit, resulting in the elimination of hundreds of fighters and leaders, and Houthi ballistic missile launches and suicide drone attacks are down 69% and 55% respectively, Fox News reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oversaw the strike from Israel’s Air Force command center during the attack on the Houthi terrorists on Yemen’s coastline.

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The IDF said the strike was in response to repeated Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel and its civilians. On Sunday, a Houthi missile landed near Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, injuring six people and halting flights. The IDF said the missile was not intercepted due to a technical malfunction, noting that their systems typically maintain a 95% success rate against missiles launched from Yemen.

Following the attack, the Houthis pledged to “impose a comprehensive air blockade” on Israel by targeting its airports.

The counterstrike included attacks on terrorist infrastructure in the Hudaydah Port, which is used “for the transfer of Iranian weapons, military equipment, and other equipment intended for terrorist purposes,” according to the IDF.

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“Over the past year and a half, the Houthi terrorist regime has been operating under Iranian direction and funding, in order to target the State of Israel and its allies, undermine regional stability, and disrupt global freedom of navigation,” the IDF said. “The IDF is determined to continue operating, at any distance, against all threats posed to the citizens of the State of Israel.”

The United States has also held Iran responsible for Houthi aggression. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned last week that Iran would “pay the consequence” for providing “lethal support” to the Houthis.

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In March, Trump declared that “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN.” He added that Iran would be held responsible and “suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire.”

The IDF also struck the “Bajil” Concrete Plant, east of the city of al-Hudaydah, which it says functions as a “significant economic resource for the Houthis” and is used for the construction of “underground tunnels and terrorist infrastructure for the terrorist regime.”

The strikes were meant to harm the Houthis’ economic and military buildup capabilities, the IDF said.

The Army put helicopter flights to the Pentagon on hold on Monday after another incident last week forced air traffic controllers to divert two commercial planes that were preparing to land at Reagan National Airport (DCA), POLITICO reported.

The 12th Aviation Battalion, which transports political and military VIPs, will not be allowed to fly near DCA as the Army conducts an internal inquiry after a military helicopter reportedly “took a scenic route around the Pentagon versus proceeding directly from the west to the heliport” last Thursday. The incident prompted commercial flights to abort their landings, according to POLITICO, which cited “an email sent by an FAA official.”

Last week’s aborted landings came just over three months after an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane near DCA, killing all 64 people aboard the plane and all three helicopter pilots.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday that the Army helicopters’ “scenic route” was “unacceptable,” adding that he would speak with the Defense Department “to ask why the hell our rules were disregarded.” An Army spokesman disputed that the flight was “scenic,” calling the characterization “inappropriate,” according to The Washington Post. According to the Army official, the helicopter had been approved to land at the Pentagon, but was asked by the Pentagon flight tower to circle again before landing. The helicopter’s second pass appears to have caused air traffic controllers at DCA to divert two planes’ landings, the Army spokesman said.

The helicopter’s flight on Thursday was done “in accordance with published FAA flight routes,” according to the Army.

Congressional leaders called on the Army and the FAA to prevent more dangerous incidents between military helicopters and commercial aircraft around DCA. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the Army was “once again putting the traveling public at risk.”

“Thank God there was a decisive response from air traffic controllers and pilots, or else these two close calls could have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives,” Cruz (R-TX) added. “I believe it’s time for the FAA to act swiftly and assert control over the national airspace so the Army stops running air taxis for military officials near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.”

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), chairman of the aviation subcommittee, said, “The tragic accident at DCA in January and the data that has come to light on near-misses at DCA over the last four years overwhelmingly demonstrate that new safety measures must be implemented before military helicopters resume operations near the airport. … The Army and FAA need to reevaluate their operations and return to Capitol Hill to explain what needs to be done to make certain the DCA airspace is safe. We already had a tragedy that should not have happened.”

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) added, “It is outrageous that only three months after an Army Black Hawk helicopter tragically collided with a passenger jet, the same Army brigade again flew a helicopter too close to passenger jets on final approach at DCA. It is far past time for [Defense] Secretary [Pete] Hegseth and the FAA to give our airspace the security and safety attention it deserves.”