Following Israel’s Sep. 27 assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the Ansarullah movement—better known as the Houthis—is increasingly positioning itself as the ‘new’ Hezbollah. However, its limited military experience against Tel Aviv, combined with Yemen's geographic location, makes such an ambition more of a distant aspiration than a potential reality.

Hezbollah serves as a central pillar of the Tehran-led ‘Axis of Resistance’, which mainly brings together Shiite Arab factions in the region. The Lebanese group’s longstanding confrontations with Israel, pivotal role in...