The Telegraph Says Yemen’s ‘Threat Is Real’ in Red Sea Battle

On Feb 3, 2024

A British newspaper shed light on several advantages enjoyed by the Yemeni armed forces, describing the Yemeni intelligence apparatus as prestigious and resilient in its continuous work despite American and British strikes.

The British newspaper, Telegraph, in a report by the writer Tom Sharpe, pointed out Friday, that the battle in the Red Sea is in favor of the Yemenis, stating that achieving the final goal of the Sana’a forces, which is to disrupt the flow of navigation, is easier than the international coalition’s attempt to regain it.

This is attributed to the fact that the Yemenis have the advantage of being the landowners, as they are countries overlooking the Red Sea, and they are therefore fully aware of the conditions of the sea and the climate. Both of these points are in favor of the attacking party.

The British newspaper highlighted that the Yemenis have various options that enable them to launch accurate attacks, including ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, ground attack missiles, apparently an unlimited quantity of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), a significant number of fast attack boats, and occasionally ships and unmanned boats.

Over the past month, the Yemeni Armed Forces have been staging many such strikes against Israeli vessels or those bound for the occupied Palestinian territories’ ports.

The operations have been described as a response to the October 7-present war and siege that the Israeli regime has been waging against Gaza following an operation carried out by the Palestinian territory’s resistance movements.

Over 27,000 Palestinians, some 70 percent of whom are women, children, and adolescents, have been killed in the brutal onslaught so far.

The United States and the UK have also conducted several missile attacks against Yemeni targets in response to the Yemeni strikes.

From November 19, 2023, to January 31, 2024, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out 22 naval operations, targeting 25 ships. These included three ships owned by the Israeli entity, nine American ships, including warships, one British oil tanker, and ten ships heading to the occupied Palestinian ports. Several ships changed their course in response to warnings from the Yemeni Navy.