Yemen resumed its military operations to support the Gaza Strip, just hours after the Israeli enemy resumed its brutal aggression against the Strip. This comes despite Yemen being subjected to continuous US airstrikes for days, aimed at deterring it from supporting the Palestinian resistance.
American and Israeli experts said it is essential to recognize the fact that Yemen has a real army equipped with the best weapons in the field of drones and hypersonic ballistic missiles.
The experts emphasized that deterring Yemeni forces requires intelligence, which is a real problem today. The US Central Command does not have sufficient intelligence on what is happening on the ground in Yemen, nor does the Israeli enemy, as the matter is extremely complex.
Analysts and researchers specializing in international affairs told the Palestinian Sanad News Agency that the Yemeni operations against the Israeli enemy constitute real pressure on the Israeli enemy government and on the negotiating process regarding the war on Gaza. Abdul Majeed Sweilem, a professor of regional studies at Al-Quds University and a writer and political analyst, believes that the Yemeni operations have a significant impact on several levels, most importantly the Israelis’ sense of an existential threat and the possibility of their being exposed to dangers. This is in addition to their sense of anxiety, which leads them to flee to shelters at all times.
Academic Sweilem added that these operations are pushing Israel to consider ways to escape the successive crises it has been experiencing for more than 16 months, particularly the direct negative effects on the Israeli public, where the popularity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined significantly.
He believes that the Yemeni military operations have not reached the level of deterrence against Israel, but rather remain within the limits of solidarity with the Palestinians and pressure for the negotiation process. However, if the Yemenis intensify the scale, quality, and depth of these operations, this will seriously push the Israeli government to exit this impasse, not through counter-military operations, which are ineffective and have been tried over the past 10 years.
Suwailem continued, saying that American intervention plays a crucial role in this issue, and that the American dimension is partly related to “Israel,” but the strategic issue is the issue of control of the seas, which is an old strategic view and has been considered a red line for the United States since ancient times. He added, “Therefore, Yemen today poses a threat to this American military strategy. We note that the limits of the American response have not gone beyond deterrence alone; rather, it has not affected or even affected the Yemeni military structure.”
For his part, the head of the Political Science Department at An-Najah University in Palestine, academic Raed Nuairat, said that the Yemeni military operations began 15 months ago as part of solidarity with the Palestinian people in light of the barbaric aggression against them in Gaza. However, after the Yemenis carried out qualitative operations, they have become a real threat and have placed significant pressure on the Netanyahu government, which is already in crisis and unable to open more fronts.
Academic Nuairat explained that the Yemeni military operations were not limited to launching missiles and drones, but rather their most important aspect was stopping the maritime supply coming from the east toward Israel, which the Americans considered an extremely serious threat to maritime security.
He went on to explain, “30 percent of global maritime trade enters the area targeted by Yemeni operations, and this in itself constitutes international terror due to its significant impact on global supply lines.”
Nuairat believed that the matter has become a threat. Today, a different kind of threat is looming: a very serious military threat, after the Yemenis attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, severely damaging it. Therefore, the United States, especially under an administration like Donald Trump’s, will consider this an aggression that merits a decisive response.
Nuairat added, “The problem is not with the response and the American ability to respond, but rather that the United States today needs a decisive and deterrent response, which primarily requires intelligence information. This is not available due to the complexities of the Yemeni reality, which pose obstacles and challenges to an effective and decisive American response.”
