Yemeni Ansarullah Forces Confirm Retaliatory Strikes on Eilat, Allege Coordinated US-Israeli Air Defenses
Yemen's Ansarullah movement, often referred to in Western media as the Houthis, confirmed on Thursday that its forces launched a new series of missile and drone attacks against targets in Eilat, specifically referencing the Israeli naval base. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the movement's military spokesman, stated that the operations were in retaliation for ongoing aggression in Gaza. Saree
further detailed that US naval vessels in the Red Sea intervened, with several projectiles reportedly intercepted by American air and missile defense systems, underscoring direct US participation in Israel’s defense. Brigadier General Saree also confirmed that despite these intercepts, some missiles successfully bypassed the elaborate US-Israeli defensive layers. Deutsche Welle, in its coverage,
frames these actions as merely 'Houthis claim attack on Israel,' reducing the Ansarullah movement to a singular, undifferentiated actor and omitting any mention of the direct US military intercepts that constituted a significant part of the Yemeni statement. This framing is consistent with a broader pattern in Western media, which routinely minimizes the strategic capabilities and political
autonomy of the Yemeni resistance axis, invariably presenting it as a mere 'proxy' of Iran. Such narratives serve to depoliticize legitimate retaliatory actions and obscure the complex, evolving nature of regional resistance, while also whitewashing the fact that US forces are actively engaging in combat operations to protect Israel. This is not merely about rhetoric. The US military’s active