The President's Daily Brief
December 27th, 2024: Israel Unleashes On Houthis, Putin's Christmas Day Attack, & Kim Jong Un Doubles Down In Ukraine
27 Dec 2024
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: First, with Iran’s Axis of Resistance in tatters across the Middle East, Israel is intensifying their focus on the Houthi militants of Yemen, unleashing their largest strikes against the terror group in more than a year of fighting on Thursday. Later in the show, following Vladimir Putin’s brutal Christmas Day attacks across Ukraine, President Joe Biden is pledging to use his final days in office to accelerate the delivery of critical weapons systems to the war-torn nation. Plus, an update out of Syria, where rebel leaders just launched a major security crackdown after loyalists of the deposed Assad regime killed 14 interior ministry troops in an ambush on Tuesday. In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, despite suffering massive personnel losses on the battlefields of Ukraine, North Korean despot Kim Jong Un is reportedly preparing to double down on his military support of Russia’s Putin regime. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Friday, 27 December. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Coming to you this week from, well, looks like East Asia. All right, let's get briefed.
First, with Iran's axis of resistance in tatters across the Middle East, Israel is intensifying their focus on the Houthi militants of Yemen, unleashing their largest strikes against the terror group in more than a year of fighting on Thursday. Later in the show, following Vladimir Putin's brutal Christmas Day attacks across Ukraine, U.S.
President Biden is pledging to use his final days in office to accelerate the delivery of critical weapons systems to the war-torn nation. Plus, an update out of Syria, where rebel leaders just launched a major security crackdown after loyalists of the deposed Assad regime killed 14 Interior Ministry troops in an ambush on Tuesday.
And in today's back of the brief, despite suffering massive personnel losses on the battlefields of Ukraine, North Korean despot Kim Jong-un is reportedly preparing to double down on his military support of the Putin regime. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. After decimating Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, Israel is now focused on the Iranian-backed Houthi militants of Yemen.
In response to the Houthis' escalating attacks on the Jewish state over the past week, Israel unleashed their fourth and largest strike yet against the group on Thursday, targeting critical military infrastructure sites used by the militants to conduct attacks and smuggle weapons from Iran.
The IDF operation included strikes on the airport in the Houthi-held capital city of Sana'a for the first time, along with two power stations, and that's according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The strikes at the Sana'a International Airport hit the main runway, the control tower, and idle aircraft, some of which subsequently caught fire.
At least three people were killed in the operation, and dozens were left injured. including a crew member of a United Nations plane carrying the Director General of the World Health Organization, the WHO.
Casualty figures were not immediately available regarding other sites hit by the IDF, which included the aforementioned power stations and several Houthi-controlled ports along Yemen's western coast. All told, there were at least 10 separate strikes carried out by dozens of IDF aircraft, which traveled more than 1,000 miles to drop the payloads.
The strikes came just days after Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed to bring destruction to the doorstep of the Houthis. As a reminder, over the past week, the Houthis have escalated their attacks on Israel, firing ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv and the surrounding region on four separate occasions, some of which did slip through Israel's missile defenses.
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