Israel Loses Control of the Skies… Locally-Made Yemeni Air Defenses Foil Zionist Raids
In a strategic turning point on the regional theater of aggression, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced that their home-built air defenses successfully repelled a direct Zionist attack that had been poised to strike multiple Yemeni cities.
In response, the Yemeni army carried out a large-scale, dual-axis operation targeting key strategic sites within the occupied territories, confronting the Israeli entity with a reality it had never before encountered: Yemen’s skies were no longer open, and the Yemeni counterstrike was both formidable and unexpected.
The Zionist enemy attempted to launch air raids against Yemeni cities, but indigenous air-defense systems intercepted the assault with full competence, forcing hostile formations to withdraw from Yemeni airspace without executing a single strike.
This qualitative leap represents a watershed in Yemeni defensive capabilities—not only in terms of readiness and detection, but also in possessing local deterrent tools that challenge even the vaunted superiority of the Israeli Air Force, which has long boasted of its aerial dominance in the region.
Yemen did not stop at merely repelling the aggression; it initiated a combined rocket and air response of unprecedented scale, deemed one of the largest direct Yemeni operations since the launch of “Operation al-Aqsa Flood.” The Armed Forces employed eleven different offensive platforms.
From a military-strategic perspective, this marks the first official declaration of a direct confrontation between Israeli warplanes and Yemeni air defenses. Israeli aircraft no longer conduct their raids as freely as they do in Syria and Lebanon; Yemen today possesses a genuine deterrent system despite the blockade and international conspiracies.
The use of various hypersonic missiles indicates that Yemen has acquired a significant stockpile of technology that exceeds the speed of sound by many multiples—capabilities that are extremely difficult for any interception system to counter. These missiles not only pose a conventional threat but also redefine the rules of engagement.
The operations did not target marginal sites; they struck airports, ports, and energy facilities. This means the Israeli entity can no longer secure its vital arteries from strikes originating in Yemen, without the ability to mount a direct response—intensifying its internal pressure.
Thus, Yemen alternates between acting as an independent actor and as part of a unified regional front, guided by moral, humanitarian, and religious objectives: lifting the aggression and siege on Gaza, and establishing a deterrent against the Israeli enemy.
The communiqué’s messages were resounding for every party. To the Zionist enemy: if you target Sanaa, then (Jaffa, Ashdod, and Ashkelon) will pay the price—and every Yemeni strike will exact its cost in the heart of occupied Palestine.
To the allies of the Zionist entity: remaining silent over aggression against Yemen means accepting responses that will extend beyond the Red Sea to the arteries of the regional and global economy. Do not force us to document this in word and image.
And to Palestine and all free peoples: here in Yemen, we share your concern for Palestine and fight for you where others have been silent—and we will never relent in supporting the oppressed wherever they may be in the world.
These operations have gone down in history as the moment of transformation in the confrontation with Zionism and the shattering of its arrogance upon the rock of Yemeni resilience—adept at defense and sure of when and how to strike and inflict pain.
Yemen—under its faithful leadership, its mujahid army, and its steadfast people—proves today that it is not merely a backer of Palestine but a central actor in its liberation. Let the enemy know “that aggression against Yemen will cost them dearly… and will only strengthen Yemenis’ steadfastness and resolve.”