In many ways, the July 20 Israeli airstrike on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah was hardly a new development in Yemen’s decade-long, on-and-off civil war. A growing number of regional and world powers have pounded the country from the skies in recent years, with the United Kingdom and the United States launching their own set of airstrikes just months ago. Yet Israel’s involvement has threatened to widen the scale not only of Yemen’s conflict but also of its interlocking environmental issues, of which Hodeida has become the latest epicentre. In the days after July 20, Agence France-Presse (AFP) rep…