Above photo: US Navy.
Yemeni officials have warned they will use ‘their legitimate right to defend, confront, and strike all hostile threats.’
NOTE: The Cradle also reports that the United States State Department announced that it will not suspend weapons shipments to the illegal state of Israel as was promised before the presidential election. In their usual Orweillian language, the:
“State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters on 12 November that the progress to date must be ‘supplemented and sustained’ but that ‘we at this time have not made an assessment that the Israelis are in violation of US law’ by blocking the entry of food, water, and medicine for two million Palestinians. ‘We are not giving Israel a pass,’ Patel stressed, adding that ‘we want to see the totality of the humanitarian situation improve, and we think some of these steps will allow the conditions for that to continue progress.’”
International organizations warn that conditions in Gaza continue to worsen. If killing, displacing and starving millions of Palestinians does not constitute human rights violations that would trigger a suspension of arms, then what would? – Margaret Flowers
Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced on 12 November fresh attacks against US warships in the Red Sea, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group.
“We targeted the US aircraft carrier Lincoln located in the Arabian Sea with several cruise missiles and drones while it was preparing to launch operations against our country. The operation successfully achieved its objectives,” the spokesman said.
Saree also confirmed that a second “successful” operation targeted “two US destroyers in the Red Sea using ballistic missiles and drones.“
“The US and British enemies are responsible for militarizing the Red Sea and its consequences on maritime security,” the Yemeni official added, stressing that the naval operations “lasted eight hours.”
Washington deployed the USS Lincoln carrier group to the Red Sea in August, replacing the USS Roosevelt, which in turn had replaced the USS Eisenhower months earlier.
The statement from Sanaa highlights that US and UK attacks against Yemen “in defense of the Israeli enemy” will push the Ansarallah-allied armed forces to “use their legitimate right to defend, confront, and strike all hostile threats in the Red and Arabian seas and any other region that Yemeni weapons can reach.”
Saree added that Yemeni operations “will not stop unless the aggression on Gaza stops, the siege on it is lifted, and the aggression on Lebanon stops.”
Tuesday’s operations reportedly “thwarted” a “large-scale aggression” that was being prepared by the western allies against Yemen, according to a senior Yemeni source who spoke with Al Mayadeen.
“The precision of [the attack] is known to the enemy itself,” the unnamed source said, adding that Sanaa “is studying the theater of operations carefully and is ahead of the enemy by several steps.”
Yemen’s latest attack on western warships comes days after Washington and London launched air raids across Saada and Amran provinces.
US, British, and Israeli planes have been relentlessly bombing Yemen since the start of the year in retaliation for the country’s support of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. In turn, Ansarallah has incrementally expanded its target bank and area of operations, including targets deep inside Israel.
On Monday, Saree announced targeting the Nahal Sorek military base near Tel Aviv with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile “within the framework of the fifth phase of escalation” against the Israeli front.
BREAKING: The Yemeni Armed Forces reveal footage of the new “Palestine-2” hypersonic ballistic missile, which targeted Occupied Yaffa (“Tel Aviv”) on September 15th 2024:
🚨Specifications of the “Palestine 2” missile:
● Hypersonic missile
● Range: 2,150 kilometers
●… pic.twitter.com/e08TRdR0cI— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) September 16, 2024
The Yemeni Armed Forces launched their military campaign in support of Gaza last November, prompting western nations to militarize the Red Sea and launch an illegal war against Yemen under the banner of “protecting commercial lanes.”