Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the Islamic Resistance in
Iraq, which is an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters in the Arab country,
have conducted the operations.
The
Islamic Resistance in Iraq confirmed on Sunday that it had hit four ships in
the Israeli port of Haifa and one ship in the Mediterranean through joint drone
attacks with Ansarullah. The vessel that was hit in the Mediterranean was
sailing to Haifa Port.
It said the military operations were launched in solidarity
with the people of Gaza and vowed to continue attacks against the enemy's
strongholds, which is a reference to Israeli interests.
The Ansarullah movement also confirmed the joint
attacks.
“The two operations successfully achieved their goals, and
the strikes were precise and direct," the spokesman for the Yemeni armed
forces said.
Yahya Saree also said on Saturday that the Yemeni army
targeted the US aircraft carrier Eisenhower in the Red Sea with missiles.
He said the move was in line with efforts to express
solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Saree noted that the attacks were also a
response to American and British strikes against Yemen.
The Yemeni and Iraqi resistance forces have been hitting
Israeli targets since the regime declared war on Gaza on October 07, 2023.
The Yemeni army has launched several drone and missile
attacks against Israeli ships and vessels affiliated to the regime in the Red
Sea since November.
The Ansarullah said it would stop the attacks if Israel ended
its relentless air and ground attacks on Gaza.
Nonetheless, the US and the UK chose to escalate the
situation after they began strikes against Yemen in early January in
response to the targeting of Israeli vessels.
This
prompted the Ansarullah movement to order the army to target American and
British warships in the Red Sea over the complicity of London and Washington
with the Tel Aviv regime’s crimes against Palestinians.
The US and UK attacks against Yemen have not only failed to
deter the country from targeting Israeli interests, but they have also led to
greater unity among the axis of regional resistance. Growing unity among
resistance groups was thrust into the spotlight after the Islamic Resistance in
Iraq and the Ansarullah movement teamed up to target the Israeli ships.
More than 260 days have passed since Israel began the onslaught,
which has claimed the lives of about 37,600 Palestinians. But the regime has
failed to eliminate Hamas which has been its main military goal since the war
erupted.
According
to Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman, “This
business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear — it’s simply throwing
sand in the eyes of the public…. Hamas is an idea; Hamas is a party. It’s
rooted in the hearts of the people — anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas
is wrong”.
Israel has suffered crushing blows at the hands of Hamas
fighters in the Gaza battlefield. Israel’s warmongering against Lebanon’s
Hezbollah has also brought the regime nothing more than humiliation.
Both Israel and its Western allies, in particular the United
States, have been under the illusion that they are able to eliminate regional
resistance groups through military means.
The US has repeatedly targeted resistance groups in West
Asia that are opposed to Israel’s war on Gaza and Washington’s support for the
regime. These American strikes have been aimed at deterring the groups from
conducting military operations against the US and its protégé, Israel.
However,
growing resistance against the US hegemony and Israel’s occupation and savagery
has clearly shown that Israelis and their Western masters are just building
castles in the air.
