Yemen’s solidarity with Palestine
Yemen’s solidarity with Palestine
The bourgeois press is filled with a constant drum beat of Israeli destruction of the infrastructure of Gaza, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians — many of them children — inflicting great economic hardship on the Palestinians living in Jerusalem and the West Bank and of Israel’s ability to co
Ansar Aallah has been using their location on the Red Sea to conduct an armed struggle against ships connected to [neocolonialism] to physically support the Palestinians as well as politically supporting them.
Beyond the attacks on shipping, Ansar Allah has used drones to reach [Zionism’s neocolony]. While the vaunted […] Iron Dome air defense system has limited the effect of Yemen’s efforts, Ansar Allah has kept on trying. On July 19, a new drone got through Iron Dome, carrying explosives that damaged some buildings in Tel Aviv and came close to hitting a U.S. diplomatic facility.
In response to this successful drone attack, which caused a panic [under Zionism], there was a major [neocolonial] air raid on Hodeidah July 20. Hodeidah is Yemen’s major port on the Red Sea and has a lot of facilities to handle food donated through the World Food Program. Over half the families in Yemen, particularly in its northern region, are food insecure.
Ansar Allah attacks on shipping in the Red Sea as well as the Gulf of Aden have been very effective. Two ships have been sunk since last November and 90 ships have been attacked by missiles or drones. About a trillion dollars worth of goods — around 15% of the world’s merchandise — move through the Red Sea.
The U.S. Navy deployed the Eisenhower aircraft group with about 7,000 sailors to protect shipping, along with some British and French ships. According to interviews available on YouTube, done when the USS Eisenhower returned home, the fighting with Ansar Allah drones was intense. Planes from the aircraft carrier used hundreds of missiles to take out the drones, which were armed with their own missiles.
Ansar Allah also started using small, fast boats loaded with explosives as drones. They were particularly hard to stop. According to the World Bank, tolls on the Suez Canal have fallen to half of what they were before the Ansar Allah offensive. Ships now go around Africa, which adds significantly to the cost and is a major drag on the world’s economy. But the militants’ actions are carried out to pressure [Zionism’s régime] to end its siege of Gaza and in solidarity with the Palestinian people.