Yemen says ready to strike ‘painful blow’ deep inside Israeli-occupied territories
Yemen has vowed to carry out further attacks against targets lying deep across the occupied Palestinian territories in response to the Israeli regime’s ongoing deadly atrocities against the Palestinian people and other regional nations.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces, in all their formations, are at the highest level of readiness to deliver painful strikes deep into the Zionist entity,” Yemeni Defense Minister Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi said on Sunday.
“The military decision-making process has studied all military determinants and carefully analyzed the weaknesses of the Zionist enemy,” he added.
“The most important points in the Zionist target bank have been carefully and precisely identified, subjected to deep informational and intelligence analysis.”
Since October 7, when the regime began a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni forces have been carrying out numerous pro-Palestinian strikes against the occupied territories.
They have also been targeting Israeli ships and vessels heading towards or away from the territories as means of trying to force the regime into stopping the military onslaught and a siege that it has been simultaneously imposing on Gaza.
Reaffirming the forces’ preparedness, al-Atifi said they “possess the capabilities and means to execute accurate and precise strikes.”
He also addressed the readiness that has been announced by the Yemeni forces and the other components of the regional Axis of Resistance to respond strongly to the regime’s assassination of senior resistance figures. The targeted killing operations that took place late last month led to the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’s former Political Bureau chief, and Fuad Shurk, a ranking commander of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.
“We assure everyone that the response from the Axis of Jihad and Resistance to the Zionist enemy’s crimes is imminent and inevitable,” as confirmed by the leader of Ansarullah movement (Abdul Malik al-Houthi), and it will be “a strategic and decisive response,” he said.
Houthi says meticulous planning is among the reasons behind the delay in the Axis of Resistance’s painful and effective response to the Israeli assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
The Yemeni defense chief, meanwhile, underlined that the country would make the regime “pay a heavy price” for the attacks that it has been carrying out against the Yemeni territory in response to the Armed Forces’ pro-Palestinian strikes.
“The Zionist entity will only find strength and harshness from us,” he said.
“Yemen’s response in retaliation for the barbaric and vicious Israeli assault on Hudaydah will be delivered through any possible means.”
He finally downplayed the escalation in the American military presence that has taken place across the region in support of the regime, saying the buildup “means nothing, and it will be met with strength and will inevitably fail miserably.”
