Yemen has boasted about its military achievements against the United States and continued burgeoning capability to strike sensitive Israeli targets on the same day it fired yet another missile towards the city of Tel Aviv.
Remarking on Tuesday, Defense Minister Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi noted how the country had “foiled the American aggression, and ended the dominance of aircraft carriers.”
The official was referring to Sana’a’s forcing the United States into ending its acts of deadly military action against the country by incessantly targeting American naval assets in key waterways — something that forced successive US aircraft carriers to leave.
Washington entered a ceasefire with Sana’a early last month, thus ending the American aggression that had sought, unsuccessfully though, to stop the Yemeni Armed Forces’ strikes against the Israeli regime.
Atifi hailed the achievements in the face of the United States as the Yemeni nation’s “writing a new page in modern warfare.”
He, meanwhile, warned that the country was fully prepared to further escalate its strikes against strategic Israeli targets, which have been underway since October 2023, when Tel Aviv began bringing the Gaza Strip under a genocidal war.
The pro-Palestinian operations have also featured Yemen’s imposing a naval blockade on Israeli ships and the vessels heading towards the occupied Palestinian territories as well as an aerial blockade that came into force on May 4.
“We are ready for further escalation against the [Zionist] entity, which will lead to tightening of the [naval and aerial] siege and inflicting further losses on the enemy,” the Yemeni minister said.
‘We can fire missiles, drones around the clock’
Additionally, Atifi noted that Yemen “possesses the initiative and strategic deterrence capability to launch missiles and drones around the clock, targeting the enemy’s depth.”
He, meanwhile, reminded how the overall struggle against the country’s enemies had led to further development of its military capabilities.
The enhancement has witnessed Yemen producing missiles with longer ranges and greater accuracy and impact, he said.
Also on Tuesday, pro-Palestinian media outlets reported that missile sirens had gone off throughout the occupied territories, including in Tel Aviv.
Later, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, announced that the servicemen had targeted the Ben Gurion airport, the Israeli regime’s most important air terminal, with a “hypersonic ballistic missile,” codenamed Palestine-2.
“The operation successfully achieved its goal,” he stated.
According to the official, the strike caused millions of the regime’s illegal settlers to flee towards shelters.
It also halted airport operations there, and prevented a US military cargo plane from landing at the facility “for the second consecutive day.”
The airport has turned into a regular target of Yemen’s pro-Palestinian strikes, prompting many international airlines to decide against directing flights towards the facility.
“The criminal enemy will find nothing from dear, steadfast, and struggling Yemen, but more missiles and drones in rejection of the crime of genocide.”
He finally repeated Sana’a’s warning that such operations would continue as long as the regime sustained the war and a simultaneous near-total siege on Gaza.
