#yemen armed forces

[guerillas-of-history]

🚨🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces:

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Footage of Yemeni air defenses shooting down an American MQ-9 drone while it was conducting hostile activities in the skies over Ma'rib Governorate on 17-05-2024.

Note: the cost of an MQ-9 Reaper drone is $31 million u.s. dollars

[adropofhumanity]

[workersolidarity]

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MASSIVE PROTESTS IN YEMEN IN DEFIANCE OF U.S.-LED COALITION STRIKES

📹 Video showing the massive rallies and protests being held in Sa'da, Yemen, after U.S.-led coalition forces launched several drone and missile strikes targeting "military" sites belonging to the Armed Forces of Yemen.

Protests have spread throughout the country in defiance of the U.S. coalition and in solidarity with Palestinians under bombardment and siege in the Gaza Strip.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[vyorei]

Live coverage of the 3rd of December 2023 has now begun.

Here is an amalgamation of news from the last hour, oldest at the top and latest at the bottom.

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[abu-obe1da]

Yemeni Armed Forces: Images of scenes from the operation targeting the oil tanker "CHIOS Lion" that was targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces yesterday in the Red Sea with a drone boat due to its owning company violating the decision to prohibit entry to the ports of occupied Palestine.

Source: Resistance News Network

[thisisabernieblog]

Iran hasn't killed over a conservatively 41,000 fucking people #KillerKamala

Fuck off, lol

[head-post]

Houthis issue email alert to shipping fleets

An executive of a Greek shipping company was warned in the spring that one of the company’s vessels travelling in the Red Sea was in danger of being attacked by Yemeni Houthi militants.

The Greek-operated vessel violated a transit ban imposed by the Houthi by entering an Israeli port and would be “directly attacked by Yemeni armed forces in any area they deem appropriate,” the message said, written in English and reviewed by Reuters. The email, signed by the Yemen-based Humanitarian Operations Coordination Centre (HOCC), a body set up in February to liaise between Houthi forces and commercial shipping operators, said:

“You bear the responsibility and consequences of including the vessel in the ban list.”

The Houthis have carried out about 100 attacks on ships travelling through the Red Sea since November, acting in solidarity with Palestinians involved in Israel’s long-running war on Gaza. They have sunk two ships, hijacked another and killed at least four sailors.

The email, received in late May, warned of “sanctions” against the company’s entire fleet if a ship continued to “violate the ban criteria and enter the ports of the usurping Israeli entity.”

The executive and the company declined to give their names for security reasons.

Dozen threatening emails since May

The warning was the first of more than a dozen threatening emails sent to at least six Greek shipping companies since May amid rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, according to six industry sources with direct knowledge of the emails and two with indirect knowledge.

The email campaign, previously unreported, indicates that Houthi rebels are spreading their net wider and targeting Greek merchant ships with little or no ties to Israel.

It is also the first time in recent months that entire fleets have been threatened, increasing the risk to those vessels still trying to cross the Red Sea.

“Your ships breached the decision of Yemen Armed Forces,” read a separate email sent in June from a Yemeni government web domain to the first company weeks later and to another Greek shipping company, which also declined to be named. “Therefore, punishments will be imposed on all vessels of your company … Best Regards, Yemen Navy.”

Ships owned by Greece, which represents one of the largest navies in the world, accounted for nearly 30 per cent of attacks carried out by Houthi forces through early September, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, which did not specify whether the ships were linked to Israel.

In August, Houthi militias, part of Iran’s Axis of Resistance alliance of anti-Israeli militia militias, attacked the tanker Sounion, after which it burned for weeks before it was towed to a safer area.

The Houthi email campaign began in February with messages sent to shipowners, insurance companies and the main seafarers’ union HOCC.

The first emails, two of which came to the attention of Reuters, warned the industry that the Houthis had imposed a travel ban on some vessels in the Red Sea, although they did not warn companies of the impending attack.

Decision to end co-operation with Israel

Messages sent after May were more threatening. At least two Greek shipping companies that received email threats have decided to stop such voyages through the Red Sea, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters, declining to name the companies for security reasons.

An executive at a third shipping company, which also received the email, said they had decided to stop co-operating with Israel to be able to continue using the route through the Red Sea. Stephen Cotton, General Secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation, the leading union organisation for seafarers, which received an email from HOCC in February, said:

“If safe transit through the Red Sea cannot be guaranteed, companies have a duty to act – even if that means delaying their delivery windows. The lives of the seafarers depend on it.”

The email campaign has heightened anxiety among shipping companies. The cost of insurance for Western shipowners has already jumped because of the Houthi attacks, and some insurers have suspended coverage altogether, sources told Reuters.

Greece’s Conbulk Shipmanagement Corporation stopped Red Sea voyages after its MV Groton vessel was attacked twice in August.

Attempts to fight against the Houthis

In response to Houthis attacks on merchant ships, back in December, the US launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. To ensure the safety of shipping, a 20-nation naval force was formed in the Red Sea, sending its ships to the southern part of the sea and launching multiple strikes against a number of Houthi military installations, including radars, air defence systems, weapons depots and missile launchers.

The Red Sea area, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, is important to the world economy. Nearly 15 per cent of world maritime trade passes through it, including 8 per cent of grain trade, 12 per cent of oil trade and 8 per cent of liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade.

As early as last December, the world’s largest shipping companies, primarily container shipping companies, announced their decision to divert ships around Africa, bypassing the Red Sea. Among them are Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Danish Maersk, German Hapag-Lloyd, French CMA CGM and a number of others.

Oil cargo carriers were also not left behind. British BP refused to transport through the Red Sea, then Norwegian Equinor joined it, and in January deliveries through the Red Sea were suspended by Anglo-Dutch Shell. In January, QatarEnergy, one of the world’s largest LNG exporters, also stopped shipping LNG tankers to Europe via the Red Sea.

Read more HERE

[sayruq]

I figured I should list setbacks and consequences (including signs of internal collapse) faced by Israel in the past couple of months. I'll make this as chronological as possible. Add any you think I missed.

While Hezbollah targets Haifa, Golan Heights, and new settlements

Gaza continues to punish the invading army

More and more western publications are forced to admit that Israel cannot defeat the Palestinian resistance

“This is a very high number that encompasses many sectors. About 77 percent of the businesses that have been closed since the beginning of the war, which make up about 35,000 businesses, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy,” Yoel Amir, CEO of Israeli information services and credit risk management firm, CofaceBdi, told Maariv. The report adds that “the most vulnerable industries are the construction industry, and as a result also the entire ecosystem that operates around it: ceramics, air conditioning, aluminum, building materials, and more – All of these were significantly damaged,” according to CofaceBdi’s risk ratings. The trade sector has also been severely affected. This includes the service sector and industries including fashion, furniture, housewares, entertainment, transport, and tourism. Israel is in a situation where “there is almost no foreign tourism,” the report said, adding that “damage to businesses is all over the country, and almost no sector has been spared.” This includes the agriculture sector, which is based mainly in the south and the north – both considered active combat zones due to the threat posed by the Palestinian resistance and Lebanon’s Hezbollah – whose support front against Israel has significantly contributed to the downfall of the economy. The CofaceBdi CEO estimates that 60,000 Israeli businesses are expected to be shut down by the end of 2024.

ICYMI, Yemen's armed forces have said they got a direct hit on Eisenhower, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, forcing it to leave the Red Sea

Israel's attack on Yemen is playing a role in bringing Yemen's civil war to an end.

Etc, etc.

The point of this post is to encourage everyone who reads it. Keep talking about Gaza, keep boycotting, keep protesting, keep resisting.

[fiercynn]

okay, if you have ever made or reblogged a “hold your nose and vote for biden” post, this is for you.

here’s the fucking thing about these kinds of posts. i've been seeing them since i first returned to tumblr in, I think, late 2022? they've certainly increased in frequency since october 7, but they were there before too, ready to counter any kind of opposition to biden that has cropped up. many of them are not just trying to educate people about what positive things biden has done, which, like, at least I can understand the motivation behind those ones? but so many of them are directly in response to people criticizing biden, and their only real point is “sure you’re upset at this thing biden did, but have you considered the election?” starting YEARS before the next presidential election, mind you.

and october 7 only made that clearer. i don’t think it had been a week before i saw these posts cropping up. can you not see how fucking ghoulish that is? to look at the rightful pain and anger of those whose relatives and communities are being slaughtered with active american support, to respond to one of the few pieces of agency most americans have in influencing what their governments do – their vote – by saying “yes but trump would be worse.” as if the primary people you’re lecturing – palestinians, muslims, arabs, black people, indigenous people, disabled people, other marginalized people – don’t remember exactly how bad it was under trump!

and even if you think not voting is an empty gesture – something i, who studied political science at a mainstream american lib college, who has worked as a field organizer on a previous democratic presidential campaign and for several policy campaigns, who currently works in public policy in america, used to believe, but have absolutely changed my mind on – what is in no way an empty gesture is saying publicly that you will not vote for someone. the arguments people usually have about why simply not voting is bad are that you can’t tell why someone is not voting, so it is as likely to be apathy or disenfranchisement as it is a political statement. but saying publicly that you will not vote for someone, and why you will not vote for them, absolutely is a political statement, and potentially a powerful one! but you choose to negate and/or ignore that by trotting out the “lesser of two evils” bullshit.

and then there’s the whole “yes but people will DIE under trump”. PEOPLE ARE DYING NOW. even if you’re fucking racist and have decided that palestinian lives don’t count, have you forgotten biden’s ongoing covid minimalism and dismantling of the CDC’s covid research and prevention infrastructure? have you forgotten his increase in spending for law enforcement scant years after the murder of george floyd and his administration's surveillance of protesters, including cop city protesters? have you forgotten his recent ramp-up in deportations of undocumented immigrants, including the active continuation of many trump-era policies?

maybe you have forgotten all those things and do purport to care about palestinians, but you just think that biden is doing his best to influence netanyahu and is getting nowhere! but then you must have forgotten all of the things that biden and his administration themselves have done to further this fucking genocide, including:

continuing to send arms to israel

putting together a military task force within days of yemen’s red sea blockade and attacking yemeni ships

bombing yemen

bombing syria

bombing iraq

vetoing three ceasefire resolutions at the united nations

testifying to defend israel and its genocide and occupation at the international court of justice

refusing to rescue palestinian-americans stuck in gaza

halting funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on israeli claims that 12 of UNRWA’s over 30,000 staff were hamas agents, even though u.s. intelligence has not been able to independently verify this

lying that he’s personally seen photos of babies beheaded by hamas when he hadn’t because they didn’t exist (and even when his own staff cautioned him that reports of beheaded babies may not be credible)

questioning the number of palestinian deaths reported by the gaza ministry of health (when even israel has not questioned them, since they are in fact proud of those numbers)

perpetuating lies about hamas having committed the attack on al-aqsa hospital

questioning united nations reports of adults and children raped by israeli soldiers while claiming to have proof (that no one else has seen) of hamas doing the same

honestly so many more things that i can’t remember them all but others feel free to add

or maybe you haven’t forgotten any of that, and think that you’re still justified in lecturing people about why they should vote for biden, because you genuinely believe trump would still be worse. if that is the case, you have still failed to see that by saying you will vote for biden no matter what, you are part of the problem of biden continuing to act like this. because biden is counting on fear of trump to win him this next election no matter what else he does. despite his appalling polling numbers, despite the knowledge that he is losing the palestinian-american vote, the arab-american vote, the muslim-american vote, the black american vote, the youth vote – despite all of that, he is secure in the idea that he will still win because he is better than trump. can you not see how that allows him to act without impunity? how it becomes increasingly impossible for his base to influence what he’s doing if he thinks that they will be with him no matter what? this is how you make yourself complicit to biden’s actions, by not affording anyone even the slightest power to hold him accountable for anything.

and in most cases, the “hold your nose and vote for biden” thing is the response of people who aren’t even being instructed by others not to vote for biden. it is their response to people saying they themselves are choosing not to vote for biden. fucking ghoulish.

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

The CPS has admitted destroying key emails relating to the Assange case, mostly covering the period when Starmer was director. A CPS lawyer working under Starmer also advised the Swedish authorities not to visit London in 2010 or 2011 to interview Assange. An interview in the UK at that time could have prevented the long-running embassy standoff. 

[guerillas-of-history]

🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces:

You are not alone.

[workersolidarity]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES ATTACK YEMEN'S PORT CITY OF HEDEIDAH

📹 Fires burn in the port city of Hodeidah in western Yemen after the Israeli occupation army launched a series of airstrikes on the city, resulting in a raging conflagration and a number of casualties.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched an airstrike on Saturday, targeting Yemen's western port city of Hodeidah on the Red Sea, triggering a large conflagration in an oil refinery and resulting in an unknown number of casualties.

The strikes were a response to a drone strike on Friday launched by the Yemeni Armed Forces that collided with an apartment building in Tel Aviv, killing one Israeli citizen and wounding at least 10 others.

Reporting and video from the strikes show the port of Hodeidah burning in a massive conflagration after the reported strike, which Hebrew media Channel-12 cited Al-Mayadeen News as stating the strike had been conducted by an Israeli F-35 fighter jet, while an American official confirmed the claim in an interview with the Israeli media outlet "Walla".

Yemeni media reporting on the attack confirmed the Israeli occupation's raids targeted an oil refinery in the port of Hodeidah, resulting in a large fire.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[i-am-aprl]

The day after the US and UK launched deadly airstrikes across Yemen, killing five, millions rallied across the country to affirm their support for Palestine and readiness for major war.

"This brutal aggression will not sway Yemen from its supportive stance for the plight of the Palestinian people," the Yemeni Armed Forces declared.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Yemen’s armed forces threatened on 22 April to expand military operations against Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea, Arab Sea, and Indian Ocean following the discovery of mass graves in Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex. “For the seventh month in a row, the genocidal crimes of the Israeli enemy continue, the latest of which is the brutal massacre in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis,” the armed forces said via a statement on Yemen’s Al-Masirah channel. The statement continued, “the genocidal crimes that the Palestinian people are facing in Gaza and the occupied West Bank reflect an unparalleled level of Zionist hatred and crime.” The statement by Yemen called to “escalate their operations in the Red Sea,” adding that Sanaa continues its full support for the people of Gaza. On Sunday, over 200 bodies were found across two mass graves located in Khan Yunis’ Nasser Medical Complex. Gaza’s Government Media Office announced that about 700 victims are expected to be found. “We found in the Nasser Complex corpses without heads and bodies without skins, and some of them had their organs stolen,” the media office said. “The occupation executed dozens of displaced, wounded, sick, and medical staff.”

[heritageposts]

In his seminal The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon could be writing about Gaza when he said: “In all armed struggles, there exists what we might call the point of no return. Almost always it is marked off by a huge and all-inclusive repression which engulfs all sectors of the colonial people.” In Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, that point has arrived. From Gaza to the Red Sea, on all fronts the West is now unmasked as a lawless killing machine in terror of losing control. Genocide, starvation and war, defended with Olympic-level diplomatic double-speak, are its only answers to the fact that the Global South, and the nations of the Middle East (if not their leaders) no longer wish to live under US hegemony. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his preface to Fanon's work, wrote of western colonialism: “Our Machiavellianism has little purchase on this wide-awake world that has run our falsehoods to earth one after the other. The settler has only recourse to one thing: brute force… the native has only one choice, between servitude and supremacy.” Fanon was a revolutionary thinker and a practising psychiatrist of colonial racism and its psychic impact on the colonised, and the coloniser. He and Sartre were writing about France’s imminent defeat in Algeria after seven years of brutal war. [...] Western powers are involved in conflicts thousands of miles from home, as they were in Fanon's time in Algeria, Congo and Indochina. Today the western political class has united behind Ukraine and Israel, but for millions of people it is no longer clear that the wars are worth fighting.  As Yemen’s spokesman, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, put it: “The war today is between Yemen which is struggling to stop the crimes of genocide, and the American and British coalition [who] support its perpetrators. Every party or individual in this world has two choices that have no thirds… who do you stand with as you watch these crimes?” Fanon, writing 63 years ago, agrees: “The colonial world is a Manichaean world… at times this Manichaeism goes to its logical conclusion and dehumanises the native, or to speak plainly, it turns him into an animal. The native is declared insensible to ethics; he represents not only the absence of values, but the negation of values… he is the enemy of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil. “The native knows all this, and laughs to himself every time he spots an allusion to the animal world in the other’s words. For he knows he is not an animal, and it is precisely at the moment he realises his humanity that he begins to sharpen the weapons with which he will secure victory.”

. . . full article on MEE (1 Feb 2024)

You can also find a free copy of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth on the Internet Archive (available as a PDF, EPUB etc.)

[sylvia-on-the-run]

The Yemeni ballistic response deep in the zionist entity strengthens the deterrence equation and further exposes the fragility of the zionist entity.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) salutes with all pride and honor, the brave Yemeni people and their valiant Armed Forces, who once again demonstrated their ability to penetrate deep into the zionist entity and bypass American and Western defenses by launching a ballistic missile that struck the capital of the fabricated entity. This new qualitative operation has proven Yemen's capability to enhance the deterrence equation against the occupation and deliver a powerful response to the occupation’s crime of bombing Al-Hodeidah port and the genocide against our Palestinian people.

This operation has left the zionist enemy in a state of shock and confusion, once again revealing the fragility of its defense system, which has long relied on support from the United States and its allies.

This missile strike comes as part of the continued Yemeni front of support and the strikes from the Axis of Resistance in response to the zionist genocide war against our people and in support of the resistance. The Yemeni armed forces have pledged to impose a naval blockade on the occupation and strike anyone who challenges this blockade.

Through this operation, the Yemeni forces have sent a strong message to the zionist occupation, stating that any aggression against Yemen or Gaza will not go unpunished, and the occupation’s losses will be severe at all levels and in the heart of the entity.

This qualitative operation also affirms that the American-zionist aggression on Yemen has failed to achieve its goals of breaking Yemen’s will or affecting its operations in support of Gaza.

The zionist reliance on American and Western defense systems, or the crimes of their allies against Yemen, has failed to protect the zionist entity. The Yemeni ballistic message today is clear and unequivocal: "Stop the aggression on Gaza immediately, or Yemen's responses will continue, intensify, and penetrate deeper into the zionist entity. There will be no red lines in defending the causes of the nation, foremost among them the cause of Palestine and its valiant resistance."

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department Mid-September 2024