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The bombings followed a > campaign of strikes by the Houthis against shipping vessels and targets > inside Israel, in retaliation for its war in Gaza. > > The U.S. airstrikes reportedly targeted hardened underground facilities > housing weapon depots in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a and Sa’da province. > “These actions were taken to degrade the Houthis capability to continue > their reckless and unlawful attacks on international commercial shipping > and on U.S., coalition, and merchant personnel and vessels in the Red Sea, > Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, and to degrade their ability to > threaten regional partners,” CENTCOM said > <https://substack.com/redirect/44ce8702-d9c7-42c0-b0bf-49195261b9e0?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > in a statement. > > Whether the strikes will have the intended effect is unclear. With the > Israel-Gaza war entering its second year, Ansarallah appears bent on > continuing its attacks in solidarity with Palestine. “The attack will not > deter Yemen from continuing its support and assistance to Gaza and Lebanon > in the face of American-backed Israeli arrogance,” the Houthi politburo > said > <https://substack.com/redirect/bed20441-fee6-4e1e-941f-c896b5e070fe?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > in a statement following the bomber attacks. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/0b96d2a9-c179-475f-b2eb-35b2563c3186?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > Yemenis > participate in a memorial ceremony for Hamas Leader Yahya Al-Sinwar / > Source: Mohammed Hamoud, Getty Images > > The group has also shown a remarkable ability to endure. Since taking > power following a popular revolt against the country’s Saudi-allied > government in 2014, Ansarallah has withstood military assaults backed by > Emirati and Saudi Arabia airpower, firmly entrenching itself in the > country. Many of the sites hit by the U.S., including al-Hafa and the TV > district, have been frequent targets of the Saudi-led coalition. Through > years of fighting, Ansarallah has adapted its force posture specifically to > evade and withstand the impact of airstrikes, dispersing its munitions > stores and maintaining limited heavy infrastructure on the ground that > would be vulnerable to targeting. > > Ansarallah has also invested in building subterranean facilities to > protect its military hardware and leadership from attack, including numerous > underground missile storage facilities > <https://substack.com/redirect/a9c65c7e-1f99-46e0-97cf-2dfb9aa8c006?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > and bases, some of which have been visible in satellite photography. > Despite repeated U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, including attacks against the > critical port of Hodeidah earlier this year, the group has remained > defiant. > “Our nation has declared its position” > > At the time the war in Gaza erupted, Yemen was on the verge of signing a > UN-brokered truce with Saudi Arabia that would have ended a 10-year > conflict. Combined with an air and sea blockade, the Saudi- and Emirati-led > war brought large parts of Yemen to the brink of starvation and resulted in > widespread shortages of medicine and other vital goods, along with the > spread of disease. By the end of 2021, an estimated > <https://substack.com/redirect/ea199951-ed2a-45be-b23a-a350ba3ba136?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > 377,000 Yemenis had died as a result of the coalition's military and > economic attacks. > > On October 10, 2023, three days after Hamas attacked Israel, Abdulmalik > al-Houthi, the supreme leader of Ansarallah, vowed > <https://substack.com/redirect/c61686d0-ef94-44ba-9b54-24194b6e133b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > to use all means possible, including military action, to support Palestine. > By late October, the Houthis had begun launching missiles and drone attacks > against Israel, demanding an end to its bombing of Gaza. The next month, > they began attacking ships they claimed were linked to or bound for Israel. > “Our nation has declared its position, fully prepared for its > consequences,” al-Houthi said > <https://substack.com/redirect/7d02d90e-a5c3-4840-babe-c4f2b40556d4?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4>. > > > The Houthi missiles strikes and drone attacks targeted the port of Eilat > in southern Israel. The group also declared an embargo on ships allegedly > linked to Israel transiting through Yemen’s Red Sea, which they have > enforced by firing on ships. So far, these attacks have killed > <https://substack.com/redirect/e12defa1-fce1-4ce9-8103-4f0fe76e3a29?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > at least four merchant sailors. Since November 2023, the Houthis have > launched > <https://substack.com/redirect/c4704d05-5d7d-4333-b108-31cb405069fd?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > over 100 attacks, resulting in the sinking of two ships and the hijacking > of another. By December 2023, traffic to the port of Eilat had dropped by 85 > percent > <https://substack.com/redirect/f8dcaa22-1eed-44c0-bb4b-695049e7af9a?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4>, > and the volume of container shipping through the Red Sea plummeted by about > 90 percent > <https://substack.com/redirect/3c56ad40-6024-46f7-8d4b-82d5519ee575?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > by mid February. > > The Houthi campaign may have bolstered the group’s position, both within > Yemen and across the region, according to a recent analysis > <https://substack.com/redirect/cadfbc73-b2c8-49e3-b8a3-58110891aa1d?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > from the International Crisis Group. “The attacks on shipping have helped > stave off popular anger at the Houthis’ misrule in areas they control, as > they can tap into the reservoir of sympathy for the Palestinians among > Yemenis,” the International Crisis Group wrote. With the Houthis’ > successful strikes on Israel and the U.S. Navy, they have also showcased > their military prowess, boosting their relative standing within the > Iran-led “Axis of Resistance,” the International Crisis Group added. > > Early this year, U.S. forces began striking > <https://substack.com/redirect/a56c889f-0abd-4c52-8c61-2950524a089a?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > Houthi targets in Yemen. So far, it’s had little effect on the group’s > capabilities. Houthi attacks have surged over time and grown more > sophisticated, with some strikes launched from Yemen reaching as far as Tel > Aviv. In response to the Houthi missile attacks, Israel has bombed the port > city of Hodeidah twice, with the most recent attack on September 30 hitting > civilian fuel storage and electricity plants. On October 7, the anniversary > of the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Houthis launched two missile and > drone attacks on the Israeli capital. > > Israel has made clear that it views all members of the Axis of Resistance > as legitimate targets, characterizing Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis as > tentacles of an Iranian octopus. Unlike Israel’s bombings of Gaza and > Lebanon where the U.S. role involves providing weapons, intelligence, and > political support, in Yemen, the Houthis have conducted overt unilateral > strikes. Statements from the U.S. military and political officials make > clear that, so long as the Houthis maintain their attacks on Israeli > targets and international shipping lanes, Washington will keep the Houthis > in its scope. > > Yet the task of taking them on may be a challenging one. Over the past > year, Houthi forces have proven they can inflict both military and economic > damage to their far more powerful, well-armed adversaries. > > Despite operating in a state of siege and internal strife and conflict, > the group has amassed a vast arsenal of weapons and built a naval force > capable of disrupting global trade. While it is unknown how effective U.S. > and Israeli attacks against Houthi stockpiles have been, the group’s > leaders maintain they have the firepower to sustain military operations > against Israel. Even after seven years of sustained bombing by the Saudis, > conducted with high-tech U.S. and British weaponry, the Houthis still have > the ability to conduct surprise attacks on faraway targets inside Israel. > > On the defensive front, Yemen’s mountainous terrain also offers a natural > fortification against aerial attacks, including from so-called “bunker > buster” bombs frequently used by Israel in Gaza and by the U.S. during the > war in Afghanistan. During their air war against Yemen, Saudi forces > repeatedly failed to take out weapons depots housed in Al-Nahdayn, a > naturally fortified mountain base in Sana’a. > > In recent weeks, the U.S. has defended and praised Israel’s campaign of > assassinations targeting the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas, effectively > endorsing Israel’s practice of killing large numbers of civilians in an > effort to eliminate senior Axis of Resistance officials—a list that could > plausibly include Abdulmalik, the Houthi leader the Saudi-led coalition > reportedly also tried and failed to kill. Israel, too, will find it > difficult to pinpoint his location: Ansarallah remains relatively > unpenetrated by foreign intelligence services. > *What *Ansarallah does next > > In the event of a ceasefire in Gaza, questions remain as to what the Axis > of Resistance will do. Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s late leader, > maintained that his group would respect the wishes of the Palestinian > resistance to decide when the fight ends. Other fronts in Syria and Iraq > may also see a reduction of attacks against Israel. Yet Israel seems intent > on killing not just leaders of the Axis of Resistance, but redrawing the > political map of the entire region. > > Ansarallah has always maintained that its attacks against Israel or ships > linked to the country would end once the country ends its war in Gaza. > While some officials in Washington believe the Houthis will fall in line > with Iran’s wishes, they have, at key moments, demonstrated a measure of > independence > <https://substack.com/redirect/a7072e81-7f98-4728-a039-4a1db9fedf85?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > from Tehran. In a well-known example from 2014, Ansarallah defied its > requests to refrain from capturing the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a in a > military offensive while Iranian leaders were in the midst of negotiating a > nuclear deal with the West, according > <https://substack.com/redirect/a7072e81-7f98-4728-a039-4a1db9fedf85?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > to U.S. intelligence sources. > > Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world and remains locked in a > domestic power struggle. Despite this, Ansarallah has shown a remarkable > ability to inflict damage both economically and militarily on far more > powerful adversaries. > > In declaring war on Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, > Ansarallah also put itself on the map globally. In some quarters of the > world, it is celebrated for its willingness to confront Israel as other > Arab nations stood on the sidelines. Ansarallah’s position has also > elevated its status: It is now a major target of both the U.S. and Israel. > > Speaking last week to an audience of Arab officials at the Gulf > International Forum in Washington, D.C., U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim > Lenderking suggested the Houthis are using the Gaza conflict to their own > ends. “I think we see this group using it for their own agenda, and that > they don't have the interests of the Yemeni people in mind,” he said, > suggesting that Houthi leaders are requiring Yemenis to attend > demonstrations in support of their operations to support Palestinians. > Instead, Ansarallah should be “doing things to help the Yemeni people,” > Lenderking said. “We have to be able to separate our passion, our pain, our > fury, for what's happening in other parts of the world. That doesn't mean > we need to endorse what the Houthis are doing,” he added. > > If anything, the group appears intent on keeping the pressure on Israel, > launching > <https://substack.com/redirect/5a94188a-fdd9-4028-9830-644c035ac25d?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > a missile at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on September 28. (Israel > claimed it intercepted the missile.) “If the Iran-Israel conflict spirals, > the Houthis are likely to carry out more attacks, including in coordination > with other ‘axis’ groups, such as Iraqi militias,” the International Crisis > Group wrote. > > The Houthis seem to have prepared for a long fight, determined to > capitalize on the momentum they have gained. > <https://substack.com/profile/115390176-shuaib-almosawa> > A guest post by > Shuaib Almosawa > <https://substack.com/@shuaibalmosawa?utm_campaign=guest_post_bio&utm_medium=email> > Freelance journalist based in Yemen capital Sana'a > Subscribe to Shuaib > <https://substack.com/redirect/7743b1b2-bcc9-4787-a05b-771f9e9d287c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> > * Become a Drop Site News Paid Subscriber * > > Drop Site News is a reader-supported publication. 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