Yemeni Armed Forces escalate operations, downing US drones and targeting Israeli subject sites successful enactment of Gaza.
The Yemeni Armed Forces changeable down an American MQ-9 drone portion it was conducting “hostile missions successful the airspace” of the Marib province, spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced connected Wednesday.
“The craft was changeable down with a locally-made surface-to-air missile,” Saree said.
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He added that this was “the 2nd level that our aerial defenses person been capable to sprout down wrong 72 hours and the fourteenth of its type” successful its efforts to enactment the Palestinian conflict against Israeli occupation.
The YAF, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, has vowed to proceed their operations successful enactment of Gaza and that “these operations volition not halt until the aggression connected Gaza stops and the siege is lifted.”
‘Technologically Advanced’
On Saturday, the YAF besides shot down an American MQ-9 drone with a locally made surface-to-air rocket portion “it was carrying retired hostile missions” successful the skies of al-Bayda Governorate.
Ansarallah ‘Technologically Advanced’, Not to beryllium ‘Underrated’ – Israeli Official
The equipped forces besides announced that it had targeted Israel’s Nevatim aerial basal situated successful the Negev portion successful the southbound utilizing a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.
In a caller article, the Washington Post cited an Israeli authoritative arsenic saying that the Yemeni Armed Forces was “more technologically precocious than perceived by many” and should not beryllium “underrated.”
Ongoing Genocide
The ongoing Israeli battle connected the Gaza Strip, which began connected October 7, 2023, has led to a humanitarian situation of unprecedented scale. As the decease toll among besieged and starved Palestinian civilians continues to emergence daily, Israel is presently facing charges of genocide against Palestinians earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Israeli airstrikes connected Jabaliya termination 21 Palestinians, astir of them children. Rain floods 1,500+ tents of the displaced, compounding their suffering. Resistance responds with rockets arsenic unit escalates.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) January 1, 2025
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, astatine slightest 45,541 Palestinians person been killed, and 108,338 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023. The toll is expected to emergence further, with astatine slightest 11,000 radical inactive unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes crossed Gaza.
The war, which Palestinians telephone “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” began aft a subject cognition carried retired by Hamas connected Israeli territory. Israel reports that 1,200 of its soldiers and civilians were killed during the archetypal onslaught connected October 7. However, Israeli media person raised concerns that a important fig of Israeli casualties were caused by ‘friendly fire’ during the assault.
Humanitarian Disaster
Human rights organizations, some Palestinian and international, person reported that the overwhelming bulk of the casualties successful Gaza are women and children. The ongoing unit has besides exacerbated an acute famine, with thousands of children among the dead, highlighting the severity of the humanitarian disaster.
#Gaza: dense rainfall continues, tripling the misery.
• Khan Younis: extended harm with implicit 100 tents flooded.
• Around 500 families inactive unrecorded on the Gaza shoreline.
Displaced people, already surviving done the unlivable owed to the war, are present battling heavy… pic.twitter.com/f2nnMrQZsZ
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) December 31, 2024
The warfare has displaced astir 2 cardinal radical from their homes crossed Gaza, with the bulk of the displaced forced into the already overcrowded confederate portion of the Strip. The colonisation successful Gaza remains trapped successful the ongoing conflict, with small entree to basal necessities specified arsenic food, water, and aesculapian care.
(The Palestine Chronicle)