Yemen and the Battle of Awareness: Confronting Israeli Intimidation and Consolidating the Deterrence Equation

Israeli Media Intimidation: The Weapon of the Powerless in the Face of Yemeni Achievements
The Battle of Awareness and Steadfastness: The Leader’s Directives and the Consolidation of Yemeni Resilience

Over the past two years, Yemen has emerged as a pivotal player in supporting Gaza, carrying out qualitative strikes that reached deep into the Zionist entity, as well as military operations targeting Israeli vessels and those linked to them en route to ports in occupied Palestine. This has been accompanied by the imposition of a tight naval blockade that the United States and Britain have failed to stop or lift.

With these achievements realized, the enemy found itself facing a new reality defined by the erosion of deterrence and the failure to disable Yemen’s capabilities.

In response to this shift, the Israeli enemy and its allies escalated campaigns of media intimidation and disinformation in an attempt to conceal their military failures. These campaigns are merely an extension of psychological warfare, built on spreading rumors, inflating falsehoods, and sowing fear in the collective consciousness of Yemeni society—after direct aggression and economic blockade failed to achieve their objectives.

The Weapon of Intimidation: Manufacturing Fear to Compensate for Failure

The Israeli enemy, alongside the United States, resorts to what is known as the “weapon of intimidation,” which relies more on threatening the use of force than on actually employing it, with the aim of creating psychological shock and internal pressure on society.

Its objective is less military than cognitive: to reshape awareness by implanting a persistent image that links resistance with destruction, alienates the people from their leadership, and portrays confrontation with the Israeli enemy as a burden on Yemen—rather than as a moral, religious, and humanitarian stance in support of the causes of the nation.

When the enemy fails to secure a precise target bank, it turns to indiscriminate bombardment of neighborhoods, facilities, and markets in an attempt to reassure its domestic audience with the image of an “army capable of striking from the air,” despite the lack of real military value in such strikes. Thus, the conflict shifts from a contest of force to a battle of nerves and awareness.

Targeting Daily Life and Turning Society into a Pressure Tool

Before a bullet is fired, a rumor is launched—this is the principle underpinning the new war against Yemen. The goal is no longer to bombard Sana’a with missiles, but to bombard the Yemeni citizen’s awareness, dismantling trust in leadership and institutions. This war seeks to fracture internal cohesion by igniting disputes, planting seeds of frustration and despair, and diverting attention from the real battle against external aggression toward internal conflicts.

Even during periods of de-escalation, intimidation does not cease; it transforms into a cold war waged through conspiracies via agents, economic pressure, and the constant spread of anxiety over an impending new round of aggression—turning suffering into a way of life that slowly exhausts society.

This war begins on every phone screen, through electronic armies and fake accounts skilled in deception, creating a distorted digital environment that casts doubt on every national stance. It is the most dangerous form of warfare—without smoke or explosions—yet it targets the social fabric itself, seeking out the weak-willed, recruiting and training them for acts of betrayal, with the aim of detonating society from within and pitting people against one another.

Israeli intimidation focuses on threatening everything that touches people’s lives: homes, children, hospitals, schools, ports, and airports—so that every individual feels trapped within a circle of danger, with their personal life at risk. In this way, civilians are turned into tools of pressure on political and military leadership, while simultaneously being presented as bargaining hostages to force Yemen into concessions that serve American and Israeli hegemony.

The Dahiya Doctrine and Media Engineered to Manufacture Terror

The Israeli and American enemy, along with their regional tools, adopt what is known as the “Dahiya Doctrine,” based on the large-scale destruction of civilian areas to convey the message that the civilian environment itself is a field of punishment. This is accompanied by media campaigns aimed at demonizing homes and civilian facilities through the “human shield” narrative, stripping civilians of their legal immunity.

At the same time, media outlets are used as a central platform for psychological warfare, broadcasting threats such as “we will end your existence” and “we will destroy your capabilities”—threats designed more for media consumption than as genuine military plans. Images