Follow-ups – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
Report: Yahya Mohammed Al-Sharafi:
From the very first moment of the inception of the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen more than 25 years ago, the Palestinian cause has been a central part of its literature, programs, and future plans for what it will do to support and bolster the Palestinian cause, restore it to prominence and the forefront, break the stagnation of the popular Arab stance, and expose the regimes that have failed the Palestinian people and are complicit with the Israeli occupation.
After Ansar Allah came to power following the September 21st revolution in 2014, the Palestinian cause emerged at the forefront of the governmental programs in Sana’a, making Yemen the first Arab country whose people and government united in their stance to support the Palestinian cause and considering it an essential part of Yemen’s national security.
Hence, it was incumbent upon Sana’a – which had fought a defensive war against the aggression launched by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the US for 8 years, and endured a suffocating economic blockade imposed by the coalition countries led by America for 10 years – that at the moment the Al-Aqsa Flood was launched on October 7, 2023, it was imperative for Sana’a, both its people and state, which were then in a period of military truce where the battles between the Saudi coalition and Yemen had ceased for less than a year and a half, to translate its fundamental principles towards the Palestinian cause into practical reality and to harness all available capabilities to support the Palestinian popular and military stance.
Utilizing the Yemeni Geographical Location for the Benefit of Palestine:
Perhaps the surprise in the historic Yemeni stance of standing with the Palestinian people militarily was that Sana’a used its vital sphere and managed to correctly employ its geographical location to serve the Palestinian position and support the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. The Yemeni leadership made a historic decision that had not occurred to friend or foe: imposing a naval blockade on Israeli navigation in the Red Sea, taking advantage of its armed forces, which had been rebuilt from scratch, with its army developed in terms of manpower and weaponry on new, modern scientific foundations, with purely Yemeni expertise gained from the battles and military experience that the Yemeni military leadership underwent during the defensive war against the Saudi-Emirati aggression.
Which also included not only obtaining strategic weapons but also taking the decision to localize their manufacture locally, which greatly contributed to the performance of the Yemeni military support for the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. It enabled Yemen not only to cut off maritime navigation for the occupation from the Red Sea but also to participate in directly targeting the occupied Palestinian territories with the available modern weapons that changed the form of wars and brought a new school in military wars, in particular naval wars.
This naval front of Yemen led to the Israeli occupation incurring losses amounting to millions of dollars per month at first because navigation towards the port of Umm Al-Rashrash (Eilat) almost completely ceased. With the failure to break the Yemeni front even after the occupation sought help from both the US and Britain, and Yemen’s continued blocking of the path for ships heading towards the Israeli occupation entity, Eilat port became deserted, accumulating debts owed to associated companies with it as well as to the port’s workers and employees, in addition to the interruption of the monthly financial revenue that the port provided to the Israeli occupation, which slightly weakened the budget for the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
Then matters evolved, leading Yemen to decide to escalate its operations against Israeli navigation by generalizing the decision to prohibit navigation in the Red Sea, applying it not only to ships owned by the Israeli occupation but to any ship heading towards Israeli ports, regardless of its nationality.
The Yemeni forces had multiplied their military operations and expanded their geographical scope whenever the Israeli enemy persisted in committing crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. They divided the targets of their naval front into 5 stages: starting with Israeli ships, then ships heading to Israel, then American and British ships, in addition to the warships of America, Britain, and European Union countries that were militarily supporting the occupation against Sana’a, then ships heading towards the northern occupation ports on the Mediterranean Sea, and then expanding the target list to include all other ships belonging to the same shipping companies that still deal with the Israeli occupation.
Weapon Systems Used:
The Yemeni-made winged missiles from the (Quds) series were the first weapons used by Sana’a directly against the Israeli occupation. Yemen’s first attack on the occupied territories came hours after the Israeli occupation targeted the gate of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip in a war crime that led to the martyrdom of more than 500 Palestinians, all of whom were displaced people who had sought refuge in the hospital courtyard fleeing the bombardment by the occupation army. At that time, Yemen targeted the Israeli occupation with 5 cruise missiles. After several weeks, leaks emerged from the Pentagon in the US that an American warship had attempted to counter these missiles in the northern Red Sea and also revealed that Saudi Arabia had shot down one of these five missiles.
Sana’a was not content with bombing the occupation with winged missiles; it worked on developing the advanced ballistic missiles in its possession to an extent that allows these missiles to reach the occupied territories and strike targets inside the entity. Within days, the Yemeni Armed Forces unveiled the (Palestine) ballistic missile, and then a few weeks later, the (Palestine 2) ballistic missile was revealed for the first time, with which Sana’a targeted both Lod Airport, called (Ben Gurion), and the occupied Jaffa train station (Tel Aviv). Yemeni operations using these effective missiles continued successively until the (Jaffa) drone entered the battlefield, striking an Israeli target near the US Embassy in occupied Jaffa (Tel Aviv), resulting in the death of an Israeli. Then Yemeni operations continued using Jaffa drones, targeting military sites and Israeli air defense systems deployed in the southern regions of occupied Palestine, in addition to targeting military installations and bases in those areas.
After significant effort, Sana’a developed the effectiveness of its ballistic missiles to overcome the obstacles posed by the Israeli occupation’s air defenses and to reach their targets before the enemy could intercept them in the sky. The idea was to change the missile fuel to make them several times faster than their previous speed, reducing their time to reach the target from the moment of launch. The first Yemeni hypersonic missile was of the (Palestine 2) type, which covered the distance from its launch, flight, and impact on its target at the Tel Aviv train station in just 11 and a half minutes. The goal was to deny the Israeli enemy sufficient time to activate its defense systems and intercept the missile. However, due to the Zionist Arab positions, the enemy found a way to overcome this challenge by deploying monitoring and warning platforms in a number of countries surrounding Yemen to warn the Israeli occupation the moment any missile was launched from Yemen towards the occupied territories.
Subsequently, Sana’a worked on developing its drone systems by redesigning them in a way that makes sensors and radar surveillance unable to detect them during their flight. This allowed these drones to reach dozens of targets inside southern occupied Palestine, strike them, and remain undetected by the enemy until it was too late, as happened in the recent attacks that targeted Ramon Airport in Eilat and several hotels in the area, the latest of which, according to admissions by the Israeli enemy, resulted in injuring 50 Israelis.
As for the naval front, it was also a stage for presenting a new school in naval warfare that changed the rules of engagement and naval warfare worldwide. The Yemeni forces activated their ballistic missiles and converted them into land-to-sea ballistic missiles, making Yemen the first country capable of using land-based ballistic missiles to hit moving, not fixed, maritime targets. This made the naval battle complex for the American enemy with Yemen, in addition, of course, to the Yemeni forces using new weapon systems in dealing with naval warfare, including the use of drones, which caused the American, British, and European navies billions of dollars in losses in attempts to intercept and shoot down these drones before they reached their targets heading towards the warships participating in defending the occupation on the Red Sea front.
The Secret to the Durability of Yemeni Military Continuity Against the Entity:
Observers believe that the secret to Sana’a’s continuity in its supportive battle for Gaza is the geographical distance between the Zionist entity and Yemen. However, this point, while being a negative for the Israeli occupation, is also a negative for Sana’a because the nature of Yemeni operations is offensive, not defensive. Therefore, the geographical distance is not the factor that enabled Sana’a to continue its military operations against the Israeli occupation and persistently impose its naval blockade on the occupation to the stage where the entity decided to permanently close the Eilat port due to the occupation incurring financial costs without any benefit due to the port’s cessation of receiving any commercial ships.
The answer to the question of the secret behind the continuity of the Yemeni front supporting Gaza is acknowledged by American military leaders, experts, and analysts, whether they are retirees observing the Red Sea battle and Yemen’s direct operations against the occupied territories or those previously participating in the American naval military campaigns against Yemen over a year and a half, which started from January 2024 until May 2025. These specialists confirm that the main reason for the Yemeni fighter’s superiority in battle is the new military tactic employed in each offensive operation. Whenever the adversary understands the mechanism and method of the Yemeni attacks and works to overcome and counter them, the Yemeni fighter changes his tactics and methods, surprising the adversary with either a new offensive tactic or a new weapon entering the battle. Thus, the Yemeni decision-maker within the army does not stop when his adversary manages to nullify his attacks but rather tries to find alternative solutions that make the continuity of the attacks effective, impactful, and lethal.
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