by Farrukh Abadi
Ansarallah struck Tel Aviv earlier this morning with a newly unveiled drone that saw at least one killed and several more injured. The strike occurred near a US Embassy branch office in what was the first known Ansarallah aerial attack to bypass Israeli radar systems, hinting at the toll the resistance has imposed on the US-funded Israeli Iron Dome as well as its potential limitations, as Ansarallah claims to have used stealth technology to fly undetected. Israel’s military capabilities have continued to decline even in the face of the billions of dollars that the US continues to send it in military equipment, admitting in recent days significant losses in tanks and skilled crews, ammunition shortages, and limited resources for machine repair.
Monopoly media has noted the threat the drone strike poses to Israel, with Newsweek describing it as “one of the most subversive attacks to Israel’s security since the large-scale Hamas-led attack that took the nation by surprise more than nine months ago.”
Ansarallah Political Bureau member Hezam Al-Asad stated that the struggle has “entered a new strategic phase in operations,” and that as long as the siege of Gaza continues, “there will be actions that even Yemenis themselves can’t imagine, nor can the Americans.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, among other organizations, have praised these developments, noting that the “operation represents a qualitative shift in the responses of the support resistance fronts and demonstrates their ability, especially the Yemeni armed forces, to penetrate deep into zionist territory. It also reveals the collapse of the zionist deterrence system and the occupation’s inability to provide security for its fragile entity.”
Ansarallah stated: “Our operations will not cease until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in Gaza is lifted.”
Over the past few weeks, Israel has bombed a number of schools and Israeli-declared “safe zones” in Gaza, murdering and injuring hundreds of Palestinians in what has been described as one of the deadliest weeks in Gaza since October 7. Attacks were carried out in busy areas during the day while children were in school. Despite 6 UN-run schools being bombed over the course of 10 days, the international body has yet to take any significant action against Israel.
The attacks were carried out using US-made weapons, including a 250-lb bomb manufactured by Boeing and Hellfire missiles manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Earlier this month, Biden gave the green light for 500-lb bombs to continue their delivery to Israel after being paused two months earlier for concerns of mass civilian casualty. Meanwhile, Netanyahu remains scheduled to address the US Congress on July 24.
The aerial strikes come as Israeli ground forces retreat from central and northern Gaza, where they have faced stiff resistance and a number of casualties from the Palestinian resistance, led by Hamas. The resistance continues to use complex, multi-stage ambushes with combined weapons and clear demonstrations of functional command-and-control to inflict heavy losses on the invaders all across the Gaza Strip. Electronic Intifada’s military analyst Jon Elmer describes “the Israelis using starvation and the massacre of civilians to try to achieve what they cannot achieve on the battlefield.”
Northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights continue to face pressure from the rockets and swarm drones launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah, which has supported the ongoing campaign since October 8. In late June, IDF commanders approved operational plans for an offensive against Lebanon and called for military readiness, though have yet to enter into a full-scale war. Hezbollah, which released drone footage of military targets deep within Israel, has previously won wars against Israel.
In Iraq, resistance forces have announced that they will resume attacks against US military bases in their country. A US base in western Iraq was targeted by two drone attacks earlier this week.
Photo: Remnant of the drone used in the Tel Aviv strike found following a massive explosion. (Photo: via social media)
