How did Yemen become the Achilles heel of America and Israel in 2024?
The year 2024 began in a situation where Operation Storm Al-Aqsa and the brutal crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza against women and children and the siege of this war-torn region caused the armed forces in Yemen to rise up in support of Gaza and to implement various stages of their operations against the Zionist regime. Over the course of a year and a half, they confronted the Zionist enemy and its crimes in 5 stages, closed the Red Sea to the shipping of the Zionist regime, and expanded their operations and attacks on the occupied territories. At the same time, the Yemenis prepared to confront the pressures and threats facing the enemy by increasing their military power and spared no effort to support Gaza at all military, national, political, social, and security levels.
Commitment to the foundations and values ​​of the Islamic Ummah
The historical support of the Yemeni government and people for Gaza during 2024 was unparalleled, and this country, while adhering to the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause and the oppression of its people, considered it necessary to support the Islamic Ummah. The Yemenis did not accept any justification for silence and humiliation in the face of these attacks, and despite the humanitarian disaster they suffered as a result of the Saudi-Emirati coalition attack, which the United Nations called the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, they continued to defend the Yemeni people and support the Palestinian resistance.
The Five Stages of the Gaza Support Front
In the process of supporting Gaza, the Yemenis determined the volume and nature of this support based on their field information. They implemented 5 stages of their operation in a stepwise manner to match the increasing trend of Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip. Simultaneously with the start of the Zionist regime’s ground operation in Gaza in late 2023, the first missile operation by Yemeni forces against the port of Eilat began, and as these aggressions continued, the second stage of Yemeni support began, based on preventing the movement of ships affiliated with the Zionist regime in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
After the establishment of the American-British coalition in the invasion of Yemen, 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 phase, the Yemenis fired 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. Four of these phases were formed in 2024, and next year we will probably witness the sixth phase of the Yemeni armed forces’ operations and the expansion of the role and scope of these attacks to hit more sensitive targets in the occupied territories or perhaps to carry out more effective targets against the American navy and ships in the region with new tactics.
Attack on the ships of the evil coalition
The aim of the naval operations of the Yemeni armed forces was to prevent the Israeli regime from shipping in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, and after the US and UK invaded Yemen, ships affiliated with these countries were also placed on the Yemeni ban list. Over 215 ships were attacked by the Yemenis during this period, the most important of which was the British ship Marlin Luanda, which was targeted in the Gulf of Aden on January 26 and caught fire. The British ship Ruby Mar was also sunk after being targeted on February 19. The British ship Icelander was also hit by naval missiles in the Gulf of Aden and caught fire.
The Yemeni navy succeeded in imposing sanctions on the Israeli regime and its associated ships, and the success rate was almost 100 percent, and the US and UK efforts to lift this blockade also failed over the past year. The most important components of this failure were the closure of the port of Eilat and its failure to operate, and the employees of these ports were transferred to the ports of Haifa and Ashdod.