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💠 @Slavyangrad:
⭕ Boris “Colonel Cassad” Rozhin: The Houthi command confirmed that today a Houthi drone hit the Maersk Gibraltar container ship off the coast of Yemen. The extent of the damage is unknown. The Houthis continue to act in a principled manner that has allowed Iran’s defense minister to declare that Iran controls the Red Sea.
Actually, this situation clearly shows why Iran supported the Houthis in the Yemen War, forming Hezbollah 2.0 next to the Saudis. And now, having such clients, Iran receives a return on its investments, achieving significant results with their hands. According to various estimates, the damage to Israel from the actions of the Houthis in the Red Sea ranges from several hundred million to several billion in direct and indirect damage.
⭕ The White House has warned Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, that his “days are numbered.” Israel constantly threatens Sinwar, but the first statement by a US administration official on the same topic may indicate US involvement in the hunt for him. A little earlier, a senior White House official said that the United States is discussing with Israel the possibility of reducing the intensity of hostilities in Gaza and moving to more targeted operations.
⭕ There are reports that today in the Red Sea, two merchant ships have already been shot down by Ansar Allah (Houthis) forces. First, a container ship “Al Jasrah” flying the Liberian flag of the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd (which also has offices in Israeli ports) was hit by a certain “shell”, and a fire started on board. After this, an anti-ship ballistic missile launched from Yemen hit another Liberian-flagged container ship, the MSC Palatium III, which also started a fire on board. They write that the ship belongs to the Swiss company MSC, which continued to cooperate with Israel even after the start of the current war. As I understand it, the Houthis were the first in the world to achieve a ballistic missile hitting a ship moving at sea in real conditions. That is, the Yemenis’ missiles are, of course, Iranian, but it is clear that Iran could previously test them only against training targets. In the footage, there is a trace from a launched rocket filmed in the Yemeni Taiz area. They write that the rocket was flying towards the Red Sea.
💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ How does every Israeli soldier and officer @IDF feel when he sees his own army flooding the tunnels under #Gaza with 147 of the soldiers and officers in the tunnels, including four generals?
⭕ Israel has never heard about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, which states in Article 1: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
⭕ Samer Abu Daqqa, @Aljazeera journalist, has died, joining the other dozens of journalists killed by the Israeli occupation forces, who are violating every single article of international law in this war. He was left to bleed when an Israeli drone hit him and his colleague. RIP. |THREAD|💠 @MedManTG:
⭕ According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the only functioning maternity center in Gaza, “Al-Sahaba” center, was bombed by Israeli forces yesterday.
💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Yemen’s Houthis hit ship with ballistic missile for first timeIn a first, the Houthis struck a Liberian-flagged container ship MV PALATIUM 3 with a ballistic missile as it transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
This would be “the first operational instance of a ship being hit by a ballistic missile at sea” and “potentially the first successful anti-ship ballistic raid”.
The Houthis did fire two ballistic missiles at another ship, but they missed.
The MV PALATIUM 3 broadcast a distress call and reported that the vessel was on fire. The US Navy’s USS MASON responded to this request. [Yemenis = a most practical, efficient people who do not waste resources. Why not use cheap ballistic arrows rather than pricy cruise contraptions best reserved for Zionist targets and floating western tombs?? And heavier ballistic missiles pack bigger bangs which shows better images on social media deterring others considering running the Gauntlet]
You’re welcome! That was a most pleasant surprise. And a strong positive message to their enemies — they are one with their own people. Decapitation won’t work here. Another will seamlessly replace any that fall… and like Palestinians, they fear neither satanist threats nor their bombs..And did you see the nearly million man march that came out in his city San’a! Yemen is a terrible unsolvable conundrum for the globalists. They sit at such a strategic location for Sea trade, and can influence the Petrodollar via missiles on the GCC oil infrastructure, not to mention controlling the sea tanker traffic too. Zugzwang
Re: “The Sailing Directions describes the ashore topography in some detail. Highly advantageous to natives. Also the difficult currents, shoals…”
Yes, the currents and navigation challenges are something out of Greek nightmare — like traversing between Scylla and Charybdis. Bab-el-Mandeb means “The Gate of Grief“ or “Gate of Tears.”
💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ Israeli newspaper The Marker: “Due to threats from Yemen (Houthis ed.), the Taiwanese giant shipping company Yang Ming Marine has decided to stop sending cargo to the port of Ashdod.”
American publication Axios: “The arrival of ships at the Israeli port of Eilat has been almost completely stopped due to Houthi threats.”
⭕ Israeli media recently reported an IDF attack along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the purpose of which is to establish control over the so-called “Philadelphia Corridor” and allegedly destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons to the Palestinian resistance.The “Philadelphia Axis”, or “Salah al-Din Axis”, is approximately 14 km long and extends from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip. It constitutes a border buffer zone provided for by the terms of the Camp David Peace Treaty signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979.
As IDF ground operations expand in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities are asking displaced Palestinians from the northern and central areas to move to the smaller Al-Mawasi area on the Mediterranean coast (southern Gaza Strip). According to eyewitnesses, the number of displaced people here is increasing daily, and the intensity of IDF attacks on the border area is increasing every day. Their intensity causes buildings on the Egyptian side to shake.
“This is a dangerous development that could lead to an explosion in the situation between Egypt and Israel. The strikes take place just meters from the Egyptian border. The enemy continues to carry out his plans. Egypt’s borders are a red line,” wrote Mustafa Bakri, a member of the Egyptian House of Representatives, on his page.
For their part, the Egyptian authorities regularly emphasize that they are fully fulfilling their duty, especially in preventing any prohibited materials from entering the Gaza Strip. According to Al Jazeera’s source, Egyptian authorities have demolished and destroyed all the tunnels that were used for smuggling from Egyptian Rafah to Palestinian Rafah. Any Israeli talk that Hamas is using this border to smuggle weapons into the country is false.
In September 2005, after 18 months of negotiations, Egypt and Israel signed the Philadelphia Agreement, which allowed the presence of lightly armed Egyptian forces in the region to prevent the infiltration of criminal elements from the territories of either country. Since then, about 750 Border Patrol soldiers have been stationed here, armed with light weapons and specialized in combating terrorism, cross-border infiltration and smuggling.
In October 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi decided to demolish a residential area in the Egyptian city of Rafah to protect the Egyptian border from “the danger of tunnels leading to Palestinian Rafah.” Operations to clear the area were carried out until 2017. At the same time, the Egyptian army carried out a major campaign to dig a transverse canal from the sea coast in the north to the Rafah crossing in the south to ensure the complete destruction of the tunnel connection between the two sides.
⭕ Israeli President Isaac Herzog : ” Yemen (Houthis) crossed the red line. An international coalition must be created against these terrorists .” [Western Suicide Squad: YESSIR!]
🗣🇾🇪 Yemeni Forces (Houthi) spokesman : “ We have prevented many ships from leaving for Israel in the last 24 hours. We targeted those who did not heed our warnings, using drones to force them to return .”
⭕ Member of the European Parliament Marc Botenga from Belgium reacts to the silence of the European Parliament on massacres in Israel
▪️ You talked about genocide when mass murders took place in Ukraine. Today some of you are trying to legitimize Israel’s actions.
▪️ There is a very simple difference between you and me: Humanity. I hope you can look at yourself in the mirror again.PLEASE NOTE: I will update the daily summaries for both Hezbollah and the entire Resistance Axis (by “Fotros Resistance” TG channel) on the new BIG SUMMARY thread, thx.
💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸📝 There’s currently two Carrier Strike Groups in the region and the U.S. is still unable to protect trade against the Houthis. The USN is fundamentally incapable of conducting anything like Operation Praying Mantis anymore; Pax Americana is dying.
new Hamas poster: “The moment of truth and confrontation”
💠@Strategika51:
⭕ The Houthis of Yemen have just, on this day of December 15, 2023, broken their own record by hitting four commercial ships and forcing seven others to turn back. In the process, they launched drones at two US warships which were forced to change course to avoid further surprises. [Ahoy there Pirates! Stop playing the sorry tough. Come ashore, pay reparations, and enjoy our legendary hospitality!]
⭕ Gaza Strip (video from Al-Qassam brigades) 14/12/2023 |video|
💠@Resistance News Network:
⭕ 🟡🟢 “On the Road to Al-Quds.”
Hezbollah publishes an infographic detailing its operations on the Palestine-Lebanon border from October 8th until December 14th, 2023.
🔹509 operations targeted 58 IOF sites and barracks.
🔹Of these, 209 used guided weapons, 131 used artillery, 48 used sniper weapons, 43 used rocket strikes, 35 used Burkan missiles, 20 used anti-air missiles, 14 used direct weapons, and 9 used aerial attacks.
⭕ 🚨 Ministry of Health in Gaza:
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🔹In the past hours, “israeli” occupation forces committed 18 massacres and acts of genocide across the Gaza Strip.
🔹The toll of the “israeli” aggression since October 7 has reached 18,787 martyrs and 50,897 injuries.
🔹”Israeli” forces have transformed Kamal Adwan Hospital into a barracks and staging area for military operations, threatening to evacuate the wounded and sick to Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which lacks essential medical facilities, effectively sentencing them to death.
🔹The occupation has arrested 70 medical staff and wounded, including hospital director Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlout, and is forcing staff and the injured.
🔹The health situation in south Gaza hospitals is the worst due to a lack of capacity, treatment facilities, and medical staff. They are choosing between serious cases to save as many lives as possible from the large numbers arriving.
🔹”Israeli” forces continue to detain 38 health personnel under harsh, inhumane conditions, including Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, subjecting them to interrogation, torture, and starvation.
🔹”Israeli” aggression against the health system resulted in the martyrdom of 300 health workers and the destruction of 102 ambulances.
🔹”Israeli” occupation forces targeted 138 health institutions, putting 22 hospitals and 52 health centers out of service.
🔹The health and humanitarian situation in shelters is unbearable, with fears of tens of thousands dying due to the spread of infectious diseases, malnutrition, lack of clean drinking water and personal hygiene, and absence of health services.
🔹Health teams recorded 327,000 cases of infectious diseases from shelters, a number that represents only those who could reach health centers.
⭕ We’ve all heard of the news about the Golani unit that was eliminated by Al-Qassam brigades, but some of us are unaware of Golani and it’s dark past in Al-Shujaiya neighborhood. “The curse, the nightmare, the disaster” all nicknames allocated to it by Israel. But why? |video|
⭕ 🔴 Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: After a number of our fighters returned from the clashes in Al-Shuja’iya, they reported targeting a troop carrier and a tank using RPG shells and attacking the enemy forces at the fronts of engagement in the Jabalia camp from point-blank range.
⭕ 🚨 The traitorous Palestinian Authority Security Forces opened fire towards the vehicle of the former representative of the Islamic Bloc at Al-Najah University, Amir Shalhoub, without him getting injured, and he managed to escape. Amir was arrested by the PA last June for over two weeks despite a court order to free him. He conducted a 7 days hunger strike and was released on July 16, after he was detained for 20 days. The Security Forces also arrested a young man accompanying him, following a march for Hamas in Nablus. [WB]
⭕ 🚨Government Media Office in Gaza: The “israeli” occupation army deliberately targeted Al-Jazeera channel crew for the fourth consecutive time, committing a crime that is fully constituted and violates international law. The targeting and injury of colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al-Jazeera correspondent, and colleague Samer Abu Daqqah, Al-Jazeera channel’s cameraman, are part of an intimidation and scare tactic against journalists and a failed attempt to obscure the truth and prevent them from exposing the occupation’s crimes against children, women, and civilians.During the war on Gaza since October 7, the occupation army has killed 89 journalists, arrested 8 journalists, and injured many others, indicating that journalists and media personnel are in the crosshairs of deliberate killing and targeting.
We demand all journalistic unions, media, legal, and human rights bodies to condemn this crime and denounce its repetition by the occupation. We also call on them to restrain the criminal occupation and pressure it to stop this criminal war against journalists, civilians, children, and women.
⭕ 🟢 Hamas:
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most MercifulToday, the zionist occupation forces committed a brutal, compounded crime by targeting the Farhana School, which is run by UNRWA and shelters displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis. Then, they executed a second deliberate bombardment, targeting the press teams who arrived at the school to cover the first bombing. This resulted in several injuries, including Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh and Al-Jazeera photographer Samer Abu Daqqa.
This intentional targeting of displaced civilians at a United Nations-flagged displacement center, as well as journalists, is part of the genocidal war waged by the zionist occupation against our people. It is an attempt to intimidate the press from documenting their massacres in the Gaza Strip. This requires widespread international condemnation and serious efforts to protect civilians and journalists from the crimes of the Nazi occupation army.
We affirm that this cowardly targeting will not deter journalists from fulfilling their media and humanitarian mission in covering the heinous crimes of the occupation against our Palestinian people. Their voices and cameras in the field will remain witnesses to the ongoing genocide that shames humanity.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Friday: 02 Jumada Al-Akhir 1445 AH
Corresponding to: December 15, 2023
[this has been a standard criminal US tactic since at least 2001 – to double tap the first responders.. used for journalists this time. And the third crime was targeting Khan Younis itself in south Gaza, into which were funnelled most Gazans, a supposed “safe zone.”]
⭕ Power has been completely cut off in the settlement of “Beit Shemesh,” west of #AlQuds [Jerusalem] after a rocket from #Gaza made impact in it.
⭕ 🚨 Footage emerges of the moments following the latest barrage of rockets fired by the resistance targeting occupied #AlQuds and central Palestine as the resistance proves it is still capable on striking the zionist depth after 70 days of war.
Palestinians in several areas were seen clapping, cheering, and performing takbeer for the resistance. In the meantime, colonial settlers at the Western Wall were running to hide in shelters. |video|
⭕ 🚨 Al-Jazeera photojournalist Samer Abu Daqqah has ascended to martyrdom after the IOF deliberately bombed Farhana school, which is run by UNRWA, in Khan Younis where him and his team were covering.Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh was also wounded at the scene. Following the bombing, the IOF prevented medical teams from reaching him, leaving him to bleed for over 5 hours on the ground. Three civil defense members were martyred while attempting to rescue him.
Glory to the martyrs.
⭕ 🟡🟢 Hezbollah: The Northern Settlements Crisis.
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Highlights from the video detailing what settlers in the northern settlements are saying:
🔹”There is a strong feeling that we have become like ducks on the [battle] field”
🔹”In reality, there is a war happening in the north.”
🔹”[We are] scared to the point of madness. We live here under the fires and war.”
🔹”How are we supposed to walk in ‘Shlomi’? From this moment on, we are in danger.”
🔹”No one is willing to come back. Sleeping here is horror.”
🔹”It is hard to live here to the point where it has become impossible”
🔹”This dilemma created by Hezbollah inside the state of ‘israel’ is a security belt. We evacuated ‘citizens’ 5 km away from the borders.”
🔹”Again, it is not me saying these words, the settlement heads are saying that Hezbollah is teaching us a lesson.”
🔹”The situation here is very bad, we have taken 200,000 jews and made them refugees in our country.”
🔹”Let us leave, ‘israel.’ They see us, ‘israel.'”
🔹At the end, a quote from a recent speech of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah says: “If we looked at what is happening on the borders objectively, we will find it very big, important, and effective.” |video|
💠@Resistance News Network:
⭕ 🟡🟢 Hezbollah: Summary of the operations of the Islamic Resistance against the positions and deployment of the “israeli” enemy army on the Lebanese-Palestinian border on 15/12/2023: The Islamic Resistance today, Thursday, dated 15/12/2023, issued seven military statements, which included seven operations targeting bases, sites, and the deployment of the “israeli” enemy army in the eastern and western sectors at the Lebanese-Palestinian border.
🔹Eastern Sector:
1- At 14:15, targeting of Bayad Blida site with appropriate weapons, achieving direct hits.
2- At 15:00, targeting of Ramim barracks (occupied Lebanese town of Hounin) and surrounding “israeli” enemy soldiers and their vehicles with rocket and artillery shells, achieving direct hits.
🔹Western Sector:
1- At 13:50, targeting an “israeli” force entering the headquarters of the intelligence battalion in Metat barracks with appropriate weapons, resulting in deaths and injuries.
2- At 14:10, targeting of Al-Jardah point with Burkan missiles, achieving direct hits.
3- At 15:15, following surveillance of an Israeli infantry force east of Hanita site, targeted by Islamic Resistance fighters with appropriate weapons, achieving direct hits.
4- At 15:30, targeting of Al-Rahib site with Burkan missiles, achieving direct hits.
5- At 16:20, targeting of a gathering of “israeli” enemy soldiers in Shtula forest (occupied Lebanese village of Tarbikha) with appropriate weapons.
💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ ⚡️| 🌍 BIG SUMMARY of all resistance operations today, December 15, against US-israeli forces1️⃣ 🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces:
🔻Targeted 2 container ships (MSC Alanya & MSC PALATIUM III) headed towards israeli ports, with two anti-ship missiles.2️⃣ 🇵🇸 Al-Qassam Brigades:
🔻Clashed with 10 Israeli soldiers at point-blank range, inside their military tent in the Juhar al-Dik area. Followed by seizing an M16-rifle from one soldier. Documentation of the operation will be presented tomorrow.
🔻Targeted a building, housing israeli soldiers in the Juhar al-Dik area, with a TBG explosive.
🔻Successfully detonated a building housing several israeli soldiers using explosive devices, east of Khan Yunis.
🔻Targeted IOF field command rooms in the Juhar al-Dik area, using the short-range rockets & heavy-caliber mortars.
🔻(Partially) destroyed 3 Merkava tanks & 1 APC in various combat axes.3️⃣ 🇵🇸 Al-Quds Brigades:
🔻Shelled IOF military formations in northwest Gaza with a barrage of mortars.
🔻Ambushed 2 IOF snipers taking cover inside a building in the Beit Lahia axis north of Gaza.
🔻Shelled an IOF infantry force in the vicinity of “Qalb Soafa” with a barrage of mortars.
🔻(Partially) destroyed 2 Merkava tanks & 3 military vehicles in various combat zones.4️⃣ 🇵🇸 Martyr Omar Al-Qassem forces:
🔻Shelled military vehicles east of the Abu Mutaybiq military gate, east of Rafah, with heavy-caliber mortars.5️⃣ 🇵🇸 Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades:
🔻(Partially) destroyed 1 APC, and 1 Merkava tank in the Jabalia camp from point-blank range.
🔻Targeted IOF soldiers in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, engaging with them from point-blank range, inflicting confirmed casualties among their ranks.
— 🇵🇸 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
🔻Clashed with IOF forces at several fronts, including the Al-Mahatta neighborhood in Khan Yunis & Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza city.
🔻(Partially) destroyed an APC on the western axis of Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.6️⃣ 🟡 Hezbollah:
🔻Targeted al-Jardah with Burkan IRAM rockets
🔻Targeted an israeli force as it entered the HQ of the Intelligence Battalion in the Mitat Barracks.
🔻Targeted the Bayad Blida IOF site
🔻Targeted the Ramim barracks & IOF soldier deployments. Directly hitting their location & its vehicles with rockets.
🔻Targeted an israeli infantry force east of Hanita.
🔻Targeted the Al-Raheb IOF site with Burkan IRAM rockets
🔻Targeted a group of israeli soldiers in the Shtula Forest with suitable weapons.7️⃣ 🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq:
🔻Targeted the US “Ain al-Assad” base in western Iraq with suicide drones, hitting its targets directly.
This list did not include rockets fired from Gaza towards settlements.
💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The humbleness of Yahya Sarae, this is how he left after he made his speech in the public.
Yes, he could have gotten inside a very modern bulletproof car, but instead he drove off just like his own people. The humbleness of the Yemenis has always been fascinating to me. |video| [this is the Houthi’s military spokesman after the speech above. Can John Kirby or any talking head in most of the world mix around like that? Amazing how a simple life can be led by the honest who do not fear their own people!]
⭕ 🛑 After intense clashes, the occupation forces withdrew completely from Al-Ain camp and the city of Nablus (West Bank).
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Satellite images show the complete destruction of the U.S. Operational Headquarters in Al-Harir Airbase after an attack by suicide drones on November 17th [this is in north Iraq in Kurdistan, a zionist Mossad ratsnest supposed to be the nucleus of Greater Kurdistan, allegedly run by Kurdish jews. Near Iran and a constant bleeding sore. Iranian military themselves openly missiled several groups nearby in the recent past. This may be the one justified occupation of the Turk Sultan — he prevents a plague on the entire region, in service to zionism and USUK, from materializing to harm Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.]
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 WATCH: The USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group exits the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz while being monitored by IRGC surveillance UAVs & surrounded by missile-armed speedboatsWhile the carrier strike group was passing the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC Navy ordered all U.S. warships to keep their helicopters and planes grounded on deck, with which they complied.
🇮🇷 IRGC Communications Officer:
“American warship, this is IRGC Navy. We are sending some speedboats towards you. Keep your helicopters grounded and away from our vessels.”🇺🇸 U.S. Communications Officer:
“Understand all. Over.” |video| [these daily humiliations are too much! From trying to strut with chest puffed out, they are mocked into irrelevance. Thank God Trump’s not around; he would have slammed the Red Button already]
⭕ 📑 And if attacks in Gaza against journalists weren’t enough, Israeli border guards (Israeli soldiers) severely attacked Anadolu Agency [AA] reporter on live TV in Jerusalem. |video| [AA is one of top Turk channels… was this a zionist response to Erdogan’s threat against the desecrators of the Jenin masjid?? Lol. Who will expunge the child-killers first! The line’s end is too long to see]💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ The moment of a point-blank shot from an RPG-7 at an Israeli Merkava Mk.4M tank with a Trophy KAZ. |video| [Good morningVietnam, err Gaza. Fish in a barrel. Not that Palestinians are looking a gift horse in the mouth dear emerson!]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇲❗️Russia may ban uranium supplies to the USA. Russian exporter of uranium products JSC Techsnabexport (Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom) notified clients from the United States about Russia’s likely ban on the export of nuclear fuel in response to a similar law adopted by the American authorities on December 11, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. |BACKSTORY| [this is huge for the US grid’s nuke component, critically reliant on the villainous Rooskies. The US congressional scoundrels voted incognito (voice), planning on introducing loopholes to continue fueling their grid and the US military nukes. I think the measure was largely to get EU to suicide itself further. Now the US is screwed too]
⭕ With the help of a UAV, at night the Yemeni Houthis attacked and captured a Bulgarian cargo ship, which was heading towards Israel. The team of 18 people does not get in touch. |video|
⭕ The Houthis set a record by firing at 4 ships off the coast of Yemen. Got a taste for it. Threats from the United States and Israel do not frighten them at all.
Meanwhile, foreign ships have practically stopped visiting Eilat, as this now involves the threat of attacks from drones and anti-ship missiles. As a result, the main damage to Israel is caused not even by the fact of attacks on individual ships, but by the general threat of such attacks, forcing shipowners to postpone or cancel voyages, or to send ships around Africa, so as not to risk passage through the Red Sea, where any container ship heading to Israel risks getting hit by an anti-ship missile.
⭕ The Red Sea is the eastern funnel into the Suez Cannel, and accounts for about 22% of the international container trade and about 10% of the global oil trade. That Maersk is pausing all Red Sea voyages is significant because they operate 15.3% of the global container ship fleet, taking second place after the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), controlling 18.6%.“Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice”, a Maersk spokesman was cited as saying. The attacks appear to have escalated in the past several days with the ships’ connections to Israel appearing to be less direct. That suggests risks are widening beyond the Israeli theater. At least three container ships have been attacked or disrupted near Yemen in the past day or so.
If this materializes into closures at Suez Cannel, etc., oil is extremely mispriced. Also note that container ships, particularly those passing through geopolitical flashpoints like the Suez Canal, are subject to steep insurance premiums, which the shipping company then passes down to the consumer (an example of supply-side inflation, not really seen since COVID).
“Some war-risks insurers are in the process of applying higher additional premiums for the already listed high-risk area in the Red Sea,” said Despina Kalfa, general manager at the Greek branch of Aries Marine Insurance Brokers Ltd. Others are applying additional terms or even not offering cover where Israeli interests are involved.
⭕ 🏹 🇺🇸 🇾🇪 US Navy Faces Houthi Anti-Ship Missile Threat ‘Superior’ to Most States
🔶️ The U.S. Navy in the Red Sea is contending with Yemen-based Houthi rebels, but little is known about what exactly the Iranian-backed forces have in their arsenal. Yet one thing is clear—they are stocked up with anti-ship missiles that could, under the right circumstances, pose a threat to the U.S. military in the Middle East.
🔶️ The Houthi rebels’ “anti-ship missile arsenal is not only comparable but superior to probably most state actors,” according to Fabian Hinz, a research fellow specializing in Middle East defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank.
🔶️ Anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles are “a very, very niche capability that only very few countries have—including Iran—and Iran shared it with the Houthis,” Hinz said.
[the $6M Question: will one of the last fig-leaves of the apparition of former military power, the US Navy, risk it? The Agony! General Soleimani’s people invented chess.. Everything unfolding now was predictable.. and consider what Hamas was given and how well prepped and how savaging the zionists every day with their trademarked sandals in Gaza.. How to deal with the new Boss about the Bab El Mandeb?? And the sinking will be captured and beamed worldwide in near real time..]
💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🛑 BREAKING: Maersk shipping company will pause all container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice.
— Statement:
“Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice.” (Via Reuters) [now if Yemenis or allies really took the other vessel off the horn of Africa, the long route around Cape of Good Hope, may turn out to be Bad Hope too. This is going to put a premium on NATO escort vessels they can ill-afford during current face-off with Russia-Iran-China, lol. Let’s see what the USS Ike does this weekend. Clocks ticking on their favorite cannibals and they will need to show the flag]
⭕ 📝 While this may look like a win for the resistance, it’s actually rather an insult. AnsarAllah Yemen has consistently stated they don’t target ships with active coms unless they are bound for israeli ports. Other ships headed towards non-israeli ports are not targeted.
The intentions behind this announcement seems to craft a perception that Yemen is destabilizing the sea, potentially contributing to a global rise in commodity prices. Whereas in reality, it is israel that is destabilising it.
⭕ ⚡️Speech HIGHLIGHTS of Hamas military spox Abu Obeida:
🔹It has been 70 days since the beginning of the Battle of Al-Aqsa flood, and our people continue to wage this unprecedented battle.
🔹Our fighters are confronting a force heavily armed with weapons, equipment, and lethal ammunition, supported by their aircraft.
🔹The US administration is facilitating its air bridges to support this entity as if it were fighting a major power.
🔹In the last 5 days, our fighters have managed to target more than 100 israeli military vehicles. [this is just Hammas. PIJ has been more active lately, and other groups too]
🔹Our fighters used anti-fortification explosives to demolish buildings over the heads of israeli soldiers.
🔹The enemy is employing mercenaries in its aclaimed existential war.
🔹We are the people who remain on our land, and they are those who will depart, God willing. This enemy only understands the language of force
🔹The enemy’s war is based on lies and forgery, and the truth will inevitably emerge
🔹The enemy is attacking with technology, not with its soldiers, and they are fleeing from our forces.
⭕ MORE TANKS: Hamas published a new video showing scenes of targeting military vehicles (incl tanks) & soldiers penetrating the areas of Khan Yunis.
So many close tank encounters! |video| [see next video too]💠@MedManTG:
⭕ Ex-Defense Minister and the current head of the Israeli opposition political party, the extreme secular and nationalist Yisrael Bieteniu, Mr. Avigdor Lieberman seems to have had a mental breakdown earlier today.In an interview, he states that Israel must immediately increase the funding for its Ministry of Defense by 25 billion Shekels, or around 7 billion US dollars, for 10 years, he also states that Israel must prepare for some serious preparations against Egypt on the Egyptian border, including the deployment of 2 combat-ready brigades, alongside them, a QRF brigade consisting of special forces who are ready to infiltrate and invade Sinai, who would be, by his own words, “on constant alert 24 hours a day 7 days a week”
I also quote the following.
“f I want to build a villa in the forest, it costs money.. Everything around us is burning, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and Israel.. And who said that Egypt is stable? Is Jordan stable? That Syria will not rebuild its army soon? In the Middle East, everything is temporary, and you must always be prepared for any scenario. The Eastern Front can return at any moment. We are not in Scandinavia.”
He also says, and I quote, “We must be prepared for war against Egypt and Jordan even though we are currently at a no-war, and no-peace state, we have nothing but our reputation to defend us, and that has taken a heavy hit lately in Gaza, the Israeli people must feel safe and have trust in Israel, that Israel is capable of restoring peace and regaining national honor.”
⭕ Mr. Avigdor, I have never seen such a suicidal politician before, your mental breakdowns rival those of the emotional and mental quirks of Hitler and Mussolini, and your megalomania rivals the Cannibal King of the Central African Republic and Idi Amin of Uganda.If you genuinely think war against my country is going to be your salvation, then I have nothing to say, never has a man thought that the bite of a poisonous snake would be his cure.
Now – you, you will be safe in the bunkers and inside the mountains as any Knesset guy would, but a war with Egypt would be catastrophic for your people, who you so claim to champion the rights of, you will have signed your death warrant and I highly doubt you can recover from it. [Note the zionists keep saying their intentions out loud. Against Egypt, Sinai, lebensraum for Erez Israel… sorry MedMan, you’re too rational for your evil region. Abattoir appointment time has arrived for the Egyptian Red Bull. And I wouldn’t let the USS Ike transit Suez in the current pregnant moment….]
⭕ Abu Obedia (end of speech missing from above):
🔹”We monitor around the clock rescue attempts for enemy soldiers”, and, “The enemy uses mercenaries during its operation, which it claims is an existential war.”
🔹”Our mujahideen still have their hands on the trigger and are lurking for the enemy everywhere”, and, “The clash of our mujahideen with the enemy forces revealed what a weak and cowardly army it is.”
🔹”The numbers of deaths announced by the enemy army are unreal“, and “The enemy’s war is based on lying and misleading its soldiers and people.”
🔹”The duty now is intifada, revolution, and boycotting the occupation with all forms of resistance.”, and, “We call again on all our nation’s free men and fighters to escalate field action against the enemy on every front”💠@MedManTG:
⭕ Heavy Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip.
⭕ A School in Southern Lebanon that services the town of “Mays Al-Jabal” has had its surroundings bombed by Israeli artillery, there are reports of causalities, but not on their status.
⭕ Heavy clashes reported between the IDF and Khan Younis in the Southern Gaza Strip.
⭕ Missile launches from Gaza have been fired towards Jerusalem, 4 impacts have been recorded. [note this is seat of zionist occupation government. Risky though. Zionists can fire a missile at Al Aqsa Masjid and claim it was the Resistance… next significant event to happen is the expected demolition of Al Aqsa Masjid.]
⭕ Maersk Shipping Co. has announced that it will halt all operations and redirect any ships belonging to the company from crossing the Red Sea.
⭕ Former Army Minister Moshe Ya’alon has went on air and demands a ceasefire in Gaza and for the Israeli government to enter negotiations with Hamas to exchange prisoners. [Moshe doesn’t appear to know the iron script! One cannot retreat from these crimes. One side or the other, likely both in the short term, will be totally wiped out]
⭕ The families of Israeli hostages in Gaza are threatening to go on a hunger strike as a means of pressuring the government to return the hostages. [the cluelessness of exceptional chosenites. They didn’t get the memo either]
⭕ Following Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd Shipping Company has stated that it will suspend all travel of it’s commerical freighters through the Red Sea for the next three days, as they’re examining whether to suspend it for the foreseeable future or not, as no final decision has been made. This company is the 5th largest shipping company in the world. [Let’s see what the western Armada and the essentially toast GCC can do this weekend to clarify matters, lol]
💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Yemen’s Houthis operate far from their Saada Mountains in the north of the country.
This ship was apparently boarded and captured. [this is WAY outside their jurisdiction.. coordination with south Yemen?? Somalis? Let’s wait & see what they announce]
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Hezbollah has been pounding IOF assets at the northern border non-stop since 2 hours ago. Rocket sirens have not stopped ever since and it’s still on-going. [qualitative escalation? lets wait & see]
⭕ Today, the first meeting of the joint Iranian-Saudi-Chinese tripartite committee with attendance of the three countries’ Deputy Foreign Ministers [good time for this, in order to keep the GCC spine inflated. The mother and father of all pressure is on the desert bedouins. If they obey USUK, Yemenis will destroy the source of their wealth; if they do not, they will be killed by their USUK masters……..]
💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🚨Al-Jazeera Gaza correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, who had previously lost his entire family in an airstrike, has been wounded while reporting on an airstrike targeting Haifa School in Khan Younis, along with Abu Daka, the cameraman. [This was heartbreaking story of a courageous man, who continued reporting the same day his family, including infant son, was massacred. On Oct 25, I posted his story in prior thread, and this cartoon drawn in his honor:]
⭕ ⚡️| 🇾🇪 Statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces Spox, Yahya Sarae:The Yemeni Armed Forces announce targeting 2 container ships, “MSC Alanya” & “MSC PALATIUM III,” headed towards israeli ports, with anti-ship ballistic missiles.
The operation aims to defend the oppressed Palestinian people currently facing killing, destruction, and siege in the Gaza Strip.
This operation follows the refusal of their crews to respond to the warnings and messages issued by the Yemeni naval forces.
We reassure all ships heading to ports worldwide, except Israeli ports, that they will face no harm. They are advised to keep their identification systems open. The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target any ship that violates the principles outlined in our previous statements.
We affirm our commitment to preventing all ships destined for Israeli ports from navigating in the Arabian and Red Seas until the needs of our steadfast brothers in Gaza for food and medicine are met. [note the western TNCs Maersk & Hapag-Lloyd Shipping counter-escalate by cancelling Red Sea transit for ALL customers — raising global ire against Yemen, since now ALL freight costs will soar… will this work? TBD]
⭕ Yahya Sarae made this statement in front of thousands of Yemenis demonstrating support for Gaza |video| [No. Yemen will be able to keep it up for months.. It is now beyond a matter of honor or mere support for arabs. It has become religious duty helping fight satanic hordes culling other humans. They will sacrifice everything to bring the satanic global commerce to its knees, if need be. ¡No pasarán!]
Re: “Then we attack, then women string them up by the xalls.” Thus name, stringemupbytheballzcanyon.”This is a fine ancient tradition in Afghanistan and Africa too. Indeed, quite well known to the British imperialist for many centuries. Kipling immortalized the conundrum and one solution.
The Young British Soldier
“When the ‘arf-made recruity goes out to the East
‘E acts like a babe an’ ‘e drinks like a beast,
An’ ‘e wonders because ‘e is frequent deceased
Ere ‘e’s fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier ~OF~ the Queen!Now all you recruities what’s drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an’ ‘ark to my lay,
An’ I’ll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what’s fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .First mind you steer clear o’ the grog-sellers’ huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay’nets that rots out your guts —
Ay, drink that ‘ud eat the live steel from your butts —
An’ it’s bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .When the cholera comes — as it will past a doubt —
Keep out of the wet and don’t go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An’ it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .But the worst o’ your foes is the sun over’ead:
You ~must~ wear your ‘elmet for all that is said:
If ‘e finds you uncovered ‘e’ll knock you down dead,
An’ you’ll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .If you’re cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don’t grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it’s beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .Now, if you must marry, take care she is old —
A troop-sergeant’s widow’s the nicest I’m told,
For beauty won’t help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain’t enough for a soldier.
‘Nough, ‘nough, ‘nough for a soldier . . .If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch ’em — you’ll swing, on my oath! —
Make ‘im take ‘er and keep ‘er: that’s Hell for them both,
An’ you’re shut o’ the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .When first under fire an’ you’re wishful to duck,
Don’t look nor take ‘eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you’re livin’, and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .When ‘arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don’t call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She’s human as you are — you treat her as sich,
An’ she’ll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .When shakin’ their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o’ the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an’ don’t mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .If your officer’s dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it’s ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen!”
💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🚨🇾🇪 BREAKING: Another incident in the Red Sea, Yemeni armed forces targeted a ship under the flag of Liberia (owned by Germany) because it ignored all warnings by Yemen. A fire broke out on the ship. Another ship was apparently ordered to change course towards Yemen. [Good morning fromCairoYemen]
⭕ IRIB military correspondent: US aircraft carrier Eisenhower leaves the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman after 19 days of continuous activity in the Persian Gulf under constant monitoring by Iran (IRGC & Army).
This comes after its strong media coverage about its arrival. It has now silently exited the Persian Gulf, passing through the Strait of Hormuz at 2 AM. [LOL. Iran trolls to purrfection. They must have known were leaving yesterday when they warned they were evicting them soon?? Or maybe sent the prior obeyed demarche? Time and lost vigor is never kind to old toothless Kings. BTW, let’s keep an eye on what they attempt against Yemen — if headed back that way. Yemen assuredly save a carrier-killer for a rainy day. Or maybe Destiny moves the floating coffins eastwards toward adorning the silt and scum at the bottom of the South China Sea]
⭕ Among the so-called “surrendered” Hamas fighters, is a Gazan physician who got arrested and paraded around by the IOF, pretending he is a captured Hamas fighter.
Don’t fall for such propaganda.
⭕ 🛑 Al-Qassam (Hamas): Engaged with 10 IOF soldiers from point-blank, inside their military tent in the Juhar al-Dik area, central Gaza Strip. The Hamas fighters managed to seize a M16 rifle from one of the soldiers and safely returned to their bases. [there are two simultaneous ungodly grinds going on: of Palestinian civilians and zionist stormtroopers, both relentless]
⭕ — 🛑Israeli Kann channel: “It’s difficult to follow the pace of incidents in the Red Sea, but the bottom line is quite clear – AnsarAllah Yemen is acting as the masters/sailors of the region without any serious reaction to their attempt to block one of the world’s main shipping and goods transit routes”💠@Strategika51:
⭕ A commercial ship linked to Switzerland hit by a projectile off the coast of Moka.
Other sources indicate that the ship was captured.
Two warships, one from the US Navy and another from the Spanish Navy, are currently heading towards the targeted ship.
⭕ A ballistic missile fired from Yemen has just hit a Liberian–flagged commercial ship near the strategic Bab-el-Mendeb Strait.💠@MedManTG:
⭕ UKMTO clarifies the two incidents that occured recently.
1) The agency received a report of a small white vessel with a black roof with 10 people on board declaring that they were Yemeni authorities and ordering a ship to change course towards Yemen, near Bab al-Mandab, 50 nautical miles north of the port of Mokha, Yemen.
2) The agency received a report stating that a ship had been affected by an unknown object, which led to a fire on board. No injuries were reported. The incident occurred 60 nautical miles southwest of Hodeidah, Yemen, and authorities are investigating.
⭕ The entire contact line in the North and South of Gaza is flared up, and there’s heavy clashes all around.
⭕ General Michael Kurilla, the Commander of all US forces within the CENTCOM theater, visited Egypt and Jordan on December 10th and 11th.I can not speak for the state of affairs in Jordan, but I can speak for Egypt, I have heard, from reputable sources at least, that General Kurilla and the Egyptian Chief of Staff, Osama Askar, discussed the Gaza war in general, with particular interest given to the IDF incursion into the Philadelphi corridor, where IDF forces went across the 14km limit from the Egyptian border around the 10th of December, but has not advanced since then. [this is the last remaining lifeline of Gazan Palestinians to outside world — via Rafah and short span around it; the West controls the other three borders]
Chief of Staff Osama Askar, to put it bluntly, “informed the American side of the severe repercussions of the Israeli violations on the Philadelphi corridor.”, and that it is a redline for Egypt, and that Egypt, again, will not allow for the mass eviction of Palestinians from Gaza. [the fat useless Egyptian red oxen are a sorry lot! They KNOW at this point, the entire zionist cancerous entity is a western outpost and project. They had in front of them the key belligerent — the American warmonger who supplies everything and even commands the IDF movements inside Gaza and gives their bombers ISR and the UNSC vetoes and media cover. And they mewl at him pitifully. So USUK took their temperature and judged these losers well. And will finish shafting the Red Ox as they deserve. Egypt is screwed every which way. Due to their own cowardly hands]
⭕ A Swiss-owned vessel has been targeted 37km away from the Port of Mokha, Yemen, the USS Mason is now on its way to render assistance.
⭕ A Spanish warship is approaching a vessel that is unresponsive to international calls near Bab-El-Mandab, it could have been hijacked by either Somali pirates or Houthis.
⭕ Landline, cellular, and Internet communications have been completely cut off from the Gaza Strip, only those who have E-sims can still have access to the internet. [the beasts will escalate, trying to expedite the culling and genocide as regional outlook worsens and they need to wrap it up faster to face other fronts and to extricate their invaders sinking in unwinnable guerrilla war]
