In line with confronting the American and Zionist aggression against the axis of Jihad and Resistance in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, and in rejection of the Zionist project seeking to establish what is so called “Greater Israel” under the name of the New Middle East, and in our endeavor to break the unjust and oppressive siege imposed by the American enemy on our people and the free and dear peoples of the axis in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran, and Based on the principle of unified fronts and confronting enemies, and in response to the Zionist aggression against Lebanon, Iran, and Gaza.
The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a missile barrage targeting sensitive Israeli enemy targets in the occupied Yaffa region, the missile strikes achieved their objectives with precision.
And in this context, the Armed Forces affirm the following:
First: We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and we consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our Armed Forces from the moment this statement is issued.
Second: We affirm that we will respond to escalation with escalation, and our military operations will intensify in accordance to the field developments, the battle, and in conjunction with the axis of Jihad and resistance.
Third: We affirm the right of our people and the peoples of our free nation to confront the American-Israeli aggression.
We will not stand idly by in the face of the unjust siege imposed on our people and the peoples of the axis of jihad and resistance in Palestine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq. All the enemy’s attempts will fail, Allah’s willing, and our operations will continue as long as the aggression and siege against us and the axis of jihad and resistance persist.
Sana’a,
Dhu al-Hijjah 22, 1447 AH
June 8, 2026 AM
Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
