PNN – One of the most important fronts that immediately began operating after the start of the Zionist regime’s aggression against Gaza and provided comprehensive support to the people of this region was the Yemeni front.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) carried out a unique and unprecedented operation against the Zionist regime on October 7, 2023, and following that, the Zionist regime’s brutal aggression began against the oppressed people of Gaza, with the full support of the West, especially the Americans.
The Yemeni front suddenly became a major threat to the Zionist regime and the cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yemeni army forces in the Red Sea prevented aid from entering the Zionist regime and closed the sea to the occupying regime and its supporters. The West and America realized that the sea had become the center of operations for the Yemenis.
The voice of Yahya Sari, spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, had shocked the Zionists, who announced every few days: We targeted ships heading to the ports of the occupied territories, we targeted American drones.
The port of Eilat and the cities of the occupied territories also became legitimate targets for the Yemeni armed forces, with ballistic missiles and drones routinely hitting enemy targets, while American and British fighter jets were unable to protect them.
One of the most important actions taken by Yemeni forces in support of Gaza is the seizure of the Israeli ship “Galaxy Leader” and its crew, and Sanaa subsequently emphasized that the release of this ship and its crew was related to the prisoner exchange negotiations in Gaza.
Another of the most prominent operations that targeted the depths of the occupied territories was the attack on an area near the US embassy in Tel Aviv with a drone called “Yaffa”, which traveled a distance of more than 2,000 kilometers. This drone is domestically manufactured in Yemen and equipped with modern jamming and infiltration systems. In another unique operation that shook the regime, the Yemenis used a new “supersonic” ballistic missile, which also targeted the city of Tel Aviv.
In the process of supporting Gaza, the Yemenis determined the volume and nature of this support based on their field information and implemented the five stages of their operation in a stepwise and gradual manner to match the increasing trend of Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip. Simultaneously with the start of the Israeli regime’s ground operation in Gaza in late 2023, the first missile operation by Yemeni forces against the port of Eilat, and as these aggressions continued, the second phase of Yemeni support began, namely preventing the movement of ships associated with the Israeli regime in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
After that, the American-British coalition was formed to confront the Yemenis, following which the third phase of Yemeni support for Gaza began, and shortly after that, the fourth phase began, which was formed in response to the brutal operation of the Zionist regime in Rafah.
In the fifth stage, the Yemenis launched Jaffa drones deep into Tel Aviv and then launched their hypersonic missiles into the occupied territories, which passed through the regime’s air defense systems and became an important turning point in the role of the Yemeni front in supporting Gaza and Palestine.
The goal of the Yemeni armed forces’ naval operations is to prevent the Zionist regime from shipping in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, and after the US and UK invasion of Yemen, ships affiliated with these countries were also placed on the Yemeni ban list.
The Israeli regime’s exports, which passed through the Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea, decreased by $15 billion, and foreign investment also decreased by $20 billion, or 70 percent.
The Israeli regime also suffered losses due to the closure of the port of Eilat following the Yemeni operation, as shipping there decreased by 95% and damage to the port reached $14 million.
With the implementation of the ceasefire agreement between the Hamas movement and the Zionist regime on the morning of Sunday, January 19, 2025, and in line with the resistance axis’ adherence to this agreement, Yemeni actions against the Zionist regime also almost stopped. But after the Zionists failed to comply with some of the clauses of this agreement and prevented humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the leader of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement gave the mediators a four-day ultimatum in a speech at the beginning of Ramadan, stating that if humanitarian aid did not enter Gaza, Yemeni naval military operations against the Israeli regime would resume.
A few days later, Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, announced that Sayyid Abdul Malik al-Houthi’s four-day deadline to mediators to pressure the Zionist regime to fully reopen the Gaza crossings had expired, and from that moment on, the ban on the regime’s ships in the seas surrounding Yemen would resume.
Saree emphasized: In support of the oppressed people and the dear Palestinian fighters, and after the deadline set for the mediators to pressure the Zionist enemy to open the crossings and allow aid to enter Gaza, and given the mediators’ failure, the Yemeni armed forces announce the following:
First – Resumption of the ban on the passage of all Israeli ships in the designated operational area in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden.
Second – This ban is effective from the moment this statement is published.
Third – Any Israeli ship that attempts to violate this ban will be targeted in the declared operational area.
Fourth – This ban will continue until the Gaza crossings are reopened and food and medical aid and necessities arrive.
Following these developments, American and British fighter jets and bombers targeted areas in the Yemeni cities of Sanaa and Saada. According to published reports, the attack destroyed residential areas and civilian infrastructure in Yemen and cut off electricity to large parts of these cities.
Yemeni armed forces announced that US attacks left 53 martyrs and 101 wounded.
The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces added that in the past hours, the US targeted several areas in the provinces of Sanaa, Saada, Al-Bayda, Hajjah, Dhamar, Marib and Al-Jawf with more than 47 airstrikes, killing dozens of Yemeni civilians.
Saree also appeared in a video again, announcing that the armed forces had successfully targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman for the second time in the past few hours, foiling an airstrike on Yemen.
The Yemeni armed forces statement on the matter stated that the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman was targeted by a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones for the second time in the past 24 hours in a clash that lasted for several hours in the northern Red Sea.