Where I live in southern Israel, the ground shakes.

This occurs, of course, when the Israel Defence Forces attack targets in the Gaza Strip, which is about 12 kilometres from my home, as the crow flies. Whatever I feel here is magnified immensely in the Strip itself.

As I write this mid-morning on Thursday, the Houthis in Yemen just fired a missile at Israel. Since October 7, the Houthis — an Iranian terrorist group — have attacked dozens of vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, choking a main maritime traffic artery.