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The first operation, announced on Thursday by Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e, was part of the fifth phase of the escalation. It targeted "two key military and sensitive Israeli targets in the occupied Jaffa area using two hypersonic ballistic missiles, Palestine-2." This operation marked the first time the Palestine-2 missiles were launched in this manner, underscoring the exceptional efforts by the Yemeni Armed Forces to enhance their missile stockpile. These missiles are of great strategic significance and have opened a new, unexpected operational path within the Yemeni support front, posing a severe and shocking threat to the security of the Zionist entity due to their difficult-to-intercept nature.
The operation’s targets included the Israeli Ministry of War headquarters, a move that surprised the enemy, which admitted through its new aggression against Yemen that it was no longer capable of bearing the increasing Yemeni escalation, which posed a significant security and strategic threat. However, it had no effective way of halting or limiting it.
The operation forced the enemy to confront the reality of this major threat, as Israeli air defenses, including the "Arrow" system, failed to intercept the missiles, despite the system’s claim of a $3 million price tag per missile. Israeli media documented the rapid arrival of the missiles at their targets deep within what is called the "center" region.
The failure of interception, however, didn’t stop there. It escalated into a major blow to the credibility of the enemy's army in front of its settlers. Initially, the enemy claimed that the missile had been "intercepted" before reaching the occupied territories, but this claim was shattered by a wave of visual evidence showing the missile’s arrival and causing significant damage. The Israeli Channel 12 reported that shortly after alarms were triggered, reports came in of damage to a school in the Ramat Efal neighborhood of Ramat Gan, including numerous nearby vehicles. Upon arrival, the Israeli forces confirmed the collapse of the school’s main building. The municipality later stated that the school would remain unusable until further notice due to the damage.
Before the enemy could formulate any further deceptive claims, the Israeli Minister of Education confirmed that the missile had struck the school, which forced the Israeli military to abandon its previous narrative and call for an investigation. Yet, evidence continued to pour in, as Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a colonel in the Israeli home front command stating that "this appears to be a case of a missile strike" and adding that "this caused enormous and unprecedented damage."
As the true extent of the missile’s successful strike became clear, the Israeli military attempted to downplay its failure by claiming it was a "partial interception," a vague term that has been repeatedly used in their statements since the introduction of the Palestine-2 missiles into service. This term merely signifies that these missiles have a powerful ability to evade the enemy's defense systems and inflict precise damage, a much more impactful outcome.
Zvika Heimovitch, a former Israeli air defense commander, confirmed that what happened was not a "partial interception" as the army claimed, noting that the warhead directly hit the building. This exposed the futility of the Israeli narrative and amplified the credibility collapse.
The situation worsened when media outlets reported that "intercepted missile fragments" had fallen near the Israeli Knesset in occupied Al-Quds without any alarms being triggered, raising further questions about the enemy's narrative. The Israeli "Ice" site noted that this raised more suspicions about the missile launches from Yemen, suggesting that the Israeli military could not provide a coherent explanation.
Furthermore, Maariv newspaper estimated the damage to buildings in Ramat Gan at over 40 million shekels, and data from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange showed a noticeable drop in various indexes following the operation, while Ben Gurion Airport was shut down for more than an hour. This was further highlighted by the Yemeni leader’s warning to foreign airlines not to return to the airport, marking the economic and security ramifications of this strike on the enemy's credibility and public perception.
Additional Consecutive Attacks: Ready for a Long War
In addition to the significant escalation brought about by the missile attack—its nature, objectives, and the destruction it caused—the operation delivered a heavy blow to the enemy leadership, which had been threatening for days to launch a large-scale assault on Yemen to stop the support operations. In the end, the result was the enemy facing new exceptional strikes even as the aggression unfolded. Instead of achieving its intended "deterrence" image within Yemen, the image of Yemeni escalation and its failure to counter it dominated the narrative.
The leader of the revolution Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi revealed that the Yemeni missile strike, which coincided with the attack on Yemen, disrupted enemy aircraft and prevented them from completing their bombing missions. This confirmed the enemy's previously expressed concerns, which had been highlighted in various Israeli reports, about the difficulties of carrying out attacks in Yemen, which is 2,000 kilometers away, particularly the fear that any damage to aircraft would be difficult to handle without ground bases.
The blow was compounded when the Israeli military reported that a Yemeni drone, coming from the Mediterranean Sea toward Tel Aviv, was detected just hours after the major missile strike, further confirming the inability of the Zionist entity to stop Yemeni support operations or limit their escalation. The only viable strategic and security option left for the enemy was becoming increasingly clear: to stop the genocide in Gaza.
The Armed Forces later announced this second operation, confirming that it had successfully targeted a "military site belonging to the Israeli enemy in the occupied Jaffa area."
The Yemeni Armed Forces emphasized in a statement their readiness for a long war with the Zionist enemy, in defense of Yemen’s sovereignty and in support of the Mujahideen in Gaza. This marked yet another bold and resolute strike, shattering the enemy’s hopes of reviving its propaganda deterrence narrative, which had been crushed by the missile attack before it could even take form.
In a defiant move, the Armed Forces followed up with a third and fourth operation, revealed by spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e during a massive march in Sana'a. The first of these operations targeted "an Israeli military site in the occupied Jaffa area" using a drone, achieving a successful hit, while the second targeted "vital Israeli sites in southern occupied Palestine" with a number of drones, in coordination with Islamic resistance in Iraq.
Despite these successes, the enemy quickly adopted a tone of despair, as reflected in comments by military analysts in Israeli media. Yedioth Ahronoth observed that the launch of a drone towards Tel Aviv’s shores after the Israeli bombing was proof of the difficulty in inflicting significant harm on the "Houthis".
Military commentator Ron Ben-Yishai noted that "this offensive operation will not deter the Houthis nor harm their ability or intentions to continue launching missiles and drones toward Israel," and that "the difficulty of targeting the Houthis stems from the lack of intelligence capabilities, as Israel has limited resources available for gathering intelligence on such a distant target."
This sense of despair from the enemy was evident before the new aggression, as Israeli analysts discussed the challenges posed by Yemen’s distance, estimating that Israel's ability to strike Yemen was "limited" and that the enemy had "no high-value military targets" there.
Sharon Shir Zabludovsky, an Israeli expert on public policy and national security, also noted that the geographical distance was an advantage for the "Houthis", allowing them to prepare for attacks while Israel’s resources were spread thin. She added that the cost of intercepting ballistic missiles and drones was "millions of dollars per interceptor missile," something Israel wanted to avoid.
The American website Media Line confirmed that so far, Israeli strikes on the "Houthis" have failed to neutralize the threat, leaving them as a persistent nuisance. It noted that, while reports indicated that Israel was preparing to launch a major strike on the "Houthis" in Yemen, the "Houthis' motivations" for continuing to target Israel remained firmly in place.
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