Israeli airstrikes targeting Houthi-controlled Hudaydah Port since May 2025 have rendered several berths at the port inoperable. Satellite imagery also demonstrates that the Houthis have only a limited ability to repair the damage that the berths have sustained. Israeli airstrikes since May 2025 have badly damaged six of Hudaydah port’s seven main berths. Berth seven has not been regularly used since before the strikes began on May 5, according to Starboard Maritime Intelligence, indicating that Israeli airstrikes destroyed it. Satellite imagery shows that the most recent strike on July 6 was the most destructive, causing significant damage to berths two, three, and four, as well as additional damage between berths six and seven. The July 6 damage to berths two, three, and four appears to be more significant than the damage that berth seven suffered in early May.
The Houthis repaired some earlier damage to the port facilities in June during a lull in Israeli strikes, but did not repair the more significant damage to berths one, five, and seven. The Houthis were unable to repair some of the more significant damage within the two months between May and July 2025. The Houthis would presumably repair these facilities if they could do so rapidly. The Houthi inability to repair the berths between May and July does not, on its own, indicate that the berths are permanently destroyed.
Key Takeaways:
- Iranian Nuclear Program: A senior Israeli official told Western media on July 10 that Iran did not move its enriched uranium stockpile from the Fordow, Natanz, or Esfahan nuclear sites ahead of the US and Israeli strikes on the sites. Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is effectively inaccessible, assuming that Iran did not move the material and cannot access the facilities it is stored.
- Iranian Domestic Politics: The post-war environment in Iran has demonstrated Iran’s internal divisions as hardliners and media linked to the military rejected nuclear talks while moderates pushed for de-escalation with the United States.
- Yemen: Israeli airstrikes targeting Houthi-controlled Hudaydah Port since May 2025 have rendered several berths at the port inoperable. Satellite imagery also demonstrates that the Houthis have only a limited ability to repair the damage that the berths have sustained.
- Iraq: The combination of Israeli operations against Iranian military leadership and an Israeli strike targeting a senior Iranian-backed Iraqi militia commander on the Iraq-Iran border may have created shock among Iranian-backed Iraqi militias that disrupted their plans to attack US forces in Iraq.
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