If they had retaliated in a “big way” a month ago many lives would be spared from pain and suffering from this attack and the attacks preceding this.
Overall, 550+ Commanders, field officers, and soldiers killed since 10/7 and Nasrallah has continued to keep the attacks trained primarily only on the North. Israel is now expanding the rules of engagement beyond tit for tat and expanding the target bank.
HZ (and by extension Iran) needs to respond. Cannot rely on Houthi’s to be the messenger of symbolic messages. Israel doesn’t answer to symbolic messages only force.
Let’s see how this latest escalation plays out.