by Farrukh Abadi
US and British coalition forces carried out three airstrikes on the At Tuhayta district south of Hudaydah in Yemen on Tuesday (11/12), marking the third consecutive day of attacks. According to the Pentagon, the attacks target Ansarallah weapons storage facilities, which have served its successful year-long and ongoing naval blockade in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. For their part, Ansarallah stated the attacks were unsuccessful.
The US attack confirms the effectiveness of the naval blockade in weakening Israel and disrupting global imperialist commerce, through which 15% of global maritime trade normally passes through. Over the summer, a major Israeli port declared bankruptcy in direct connection to the blockade, even more significant owing to the fact that Israel receives the vast majority of its imports by sea.
Ansarallah has stated that its blockade will continue until the Zionist blockade on Gaza is lifted and Israel withdraws from Lebanon.
The US has been bulking up its military personnel in the region in recent months as various anti-imperialist forces have responded to Israel’s attacks which have spilled out of Palestine and into Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen.
Last month, President Biden authorized the use of B-2 stealth bombers against Ansarallah for the first time, aimed to “further degrade” their capabilities through the use of higher payload bombs. The commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command stated earlier this year that the US cannot defeat Ansarallah militarily.
In spite of the attacks, Ansarallah has maintained its naval blockade and continued its offensive attacks on Israel and US forces in the region.
On Friday (11/08), Ansarallah’s Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced that they struck an Israeli military airbase with a hypersonic missile in the southern occupied Israeli region of Nevatim. The military force launched its first hypersonic missile against Israel in September 2024, which they claimed successfully bypassed Israel’s Iron Dome and struck a military target in Tel Aviv.
Also on Friday, Yemeni air defense forces downed a $32 million American MQ-9 drone over Yemeni airspace, the twelfth to be downed since Operation al-Aqsa Flood.
On Tuesday (11/12), Ansarallah carried out two military operations against US naval forces in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. The YAF launched missiles and drones against a US aircraft carrier and two US destroyers in an operation lasting 8 hours, which they say thwarted the US naval forces’ plans to attack Yemen.
Photo: Yemen’s “million-man march” in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon, on November 8, 2024.
