On the nineteenth of November 2023, Yemen launched its first operations against the Israeli occupation in support to Gaza.

Today, after about a year of initiating these operations, Yemen stands on a long list of achievements on land, sea, and even in the air. What are the most prominent of these achievements?

Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

The beginning was at Bab Al-Mandeb, where Yemen, in the first stage, announced the ban on the passage of ships owned by it, or companies or individuals affiliated with the Israeli occupation, and focused on those ships until it detained the “Galaxy Leader.”

During this stage, Yemen carried out several operations on the cities of the occupation, specifically Umm Al-Rashrash (Eilat); however, it did not take long for the intensity of the Zionist aggression on Gaza to escalate. Yemen decided to expand its naval operations in its second stage to include preventing all foreign ships from sailing to Israeli ports on the Red Sea. They effectively managed to halt navigation to the occupation’s ports after a series of attacks on several ships.

The Yemeni operations were successful in their initial stages to the extent that the US and Britain decided to enter the confrontation line with a large-scale aggression on Yemen in January of last year, with the failure to form an international and regional alliance to protect the occupation under the name “Guardian of Prosperity.” Yemen decided to enter a new phase by adding American and British ships to the list of targets and effectively dealt with them by sinking several ships, including the “Robimar,” which remains sunk to this day.

In addition to targeting cargo ships, Yemen added battleships to the list of targets, hitting many of them, whether American, British, or even Western, despite the European Union joining a month after the American-British aggression, trying to portray the deployment of its battleships as a shield for ships rather than hostile, not to mention the Yemeni leaders’ talk that they were not the targets and that they were hit as a result of an attempt to intercept Yemeni attacks.

The American aircraft carriers “Eisenhower” and “Lincoln,” as well as a lineup of British battleships from Dimonda to Mason, and a long series of destroyers and reconnaissance ships witnessed the scale of the Yemeni operations, as described by America and the West, as “fierce.”

The Yemeni operations did not stop at the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden but extended in their fourth stage to the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea and in the fifth to the Mediterranean, leaving behind wreckage of ships and battleships, some of which were admittedly targeted, while others remained forgotten, perhaps for political reasons.

Regardless of the list of ships and battleships targeted, which reached nearly two hundred ships according to official statistics, there are other capabilities demonstrated by the Yemeni forces during the confrontations. One of the most prominent is the air defenses, which succeeded in downing about 12 of the latest American drones, such as the MQ-9, in addition to showcasing qualitative capabilities, especially in the naval field, where they displayed various boats, the most recent of which was the “Destroyer Storm” and the drone submarine “Al-Qari’ah.”

As for the drone fronts, the Yemeni forces have developed many of them to suit the scale of the battle that is thousands of kilometers away. Drones such as “Samad 3” and “Samad 4,” along with “Jaffa” and “Wa’id,” have all demonstrated significant capabilities in the theater of operations, reaching deep into the occupation, including carrying out operations in “Jaffa.”

Regarding missile capabilities, missiles like “Quds,” “Tufan,” “Hatim,” and “Palestine 2” have been at the forefront, whether in their naval operations against ships and battleships or in striking targets on the ground in occupied cities in Palestine.

These developments in military capabilities are added to the great political gains achieved by Yemen under the leadership of the Houthis on local, regional, and international levels, highlighted by unprecedented popular support around Yemeni operations. This support manifests in weekly demonstrations in the Yemeni capital and provinces in the north, south, and east of Yemen. Additionally, regional countries align with Yemeni operations, defending them as a necessary step to halt aggression on Gaza and stop the blockade. Not to mention the prominent international support from countries like Russia and China in the Security Council, which continuously linked ending these operations to stopping the war on Gaza, thwarting American efforts to legitimize their aggression and rallying international support for its aggression on Yemen.

Today, after nearly a year of confrontation and operations that have not subsided despite the occupation and its allies deploying security belts to repel them and establishing several alliances to confront them, Yemen is now regarded as a force to be reckoned with after the international community had viewed it as a corrupt and poor country for decades and of no importance, in parallel with the major countries’ violations of its waters and land and the plundering of its wealth.