Yemen battle footage reveals Saudi losses, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report on day 1098 of Israel's genocide, 3 years and a day after the October 7th cross-border raid by the Qassam Brigades that collapsed the IDF's Gaza division in a matter of minutes, and really broke the idea for upwards of a day following that operation. I am reporting this live on the afternoon of Thursday, October the 8th. I'll be covering the Yemeni resistance, but I want to first start in Gaza. appropriate. Um [snorts] we look at the first slide here is of Yahya Sinwar. People will recognize this footage. I showed it before. Um this is from October 2004 in the days just before his assassination when he was on the front lines in Rafah. Uh and he gave the famous uh Ahmed Shawqi line that says in effect in front of true freedom is a closed door pushed a little more open by every hand bloodied in the struggle. And here we see unblurred, you know, we saw these images, but they were blurred. We didn't see these details, and these have come out in the Moons of the Flood, which is Qassam's martyr series. Um they published more than 1,500 uh individual martyr uh videos so far, and this one we're watching today is from a company commander in the Tel al-Sultan battalion, Anis al-Darbi, and that's him there you see walking with uh Yahya Sinwar. Also, you saw over the map Mahmoud Hamdan, who is the battalion commander for Tel al-Sultan in the Rafah Brigade. And there you see the three of them there. Those uh faces were previously blurred, and we're seeing in the Moons of the Flood series that they're unblurring this footage. Um and it's pretty remarkable. And as we know now, uh Yahya Sinwar sitting there uh on the right, Hamdan in the middle, and Darbi on the left, that we know that Yahya Sinwar's stomach was empty uh when he was found dead a few days later um after an accidental assassination by the Israelis uh in Rafah on the front lines. You can see these videos that he's touring the front lines. He's not just there saying hi. He's looking at the battle maps. He's participating in the battle. And the first day that he got at release from prison in the prisoner exchange, he said that he was going to take his play his rightful place in the Qassam Brigades as soon as he got back to Gaza. And he became a political leader, but he never let that part go. That image right there is of him looking at an Israeli position right there that you can see on the left side. That's a school that's been over and he is in a foxhole looking at Israeli positions. So, you know, I don't even like to to to give it air, but the lies that were told about where Sinwar was throughout the war were profound lies and these videos, like all the videos from the resistance, just put lie to all of the pop the propaganda that we that we had jammed down our throats through this time. So, there's Yahya Sinwar in his final days and we saw that footage originally in an Al Jazeera documentary in early 2000 early 2025, but this footage is from October 2024. And as I said, >> [snorts] >> we're going to follow the Yemeni resistance today and I think that's something that the Palestinian resistance is following closely and we know that Yemen also followed the Palestinian struggle closely and we'll get to some of those quotes in a moment. Let's take a look at the map going to talk about the Bab al-Mandab. Here you see it there. >> We're looking across Yemen into Africa from this view. But you can see the choke point of the Red Sea there. And early on October 7th, the Yemeni forces joined the war in Gaza blockading effectively the Red Sea, bankrupt Israel's Eilat port. And throughout the war, Abu Obaida, the Qassam Brigades, the PFLP, Saraya al-Quds, they never missed an opportunity to salute Yemen, the fighters in the field, and their leadership and vice versa for the Yemenis. And we remember one notable moment when missiles passed in the air as Abu Obaida said in May 2025 when Palestine two ballistic missiles fired from Ansar Allah and the Yemeni armed forces hit Ben Gurion Airport and Abu Obaida said, "Glory to Yemen, Palestine's equal as it continues to defy the most brutal forces of oppression and refuses to submit or be defeated despite the aggression it is subjected to. It escalates its attacks on the heart of the Zionist entity surpassing the most advanced missile defense systems in the world to accurately hit its targets. May God guide your aim, bless your struggle, and accept your sacrifices. You are from us and we are from you." Abu Obaida said. Abu Hamza said about Abdul Abdulmalik al-Houthi's speeches, the leader of Ansar Allah, he said, "Whose detailed speeches on the battle in Gaza, its course, and its consequences that we in the Palestinian resistance to have listened to closely as if he were present with us on the battlefield in the heart of the confrontation in Gaza." The Yemeni armed forces released a video entitled, "Even if the entire world lets you down." And Yahya Saree, the spokesperson, says, "The Yemeni armed forces closely follows the battle in Gaza, stand in reverence and respect for its said its steadfast sons, Qassam, Saraya al-Quds, and and all the factions. Yemen will never let you down, not during the war and not during the siege." By November 2025, Yemen had carried out more than 758 operations in solidarity with Gaza targeting using 1,835 cruise and ballistic missiles, drones, and unmanned naval vessels in that Red Sea siege. And the Eilat port is bankrupt. It was bankrupted within months and it still has not recovered from those solidarity actions. Let's take a look at the next map cuz we'll just give you a chance to see Yemen, which is dead center there shaded in brown, but I wanted to just give you a wider view of the maps that we show you. You can see Africa on the left there. You see the Red Sea running up in the center up to the up to Eilat in southern Israel. There you go left to the Suez Canal and out into the Mediterranean. You can see the Persian Gulf on the right there, the Strait of Hormuz choke point. If you follow the Strait of Hormuz choke point down into the left, you get the Bab-el-Mandeb choke point into the Red Sea. You see the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean. There you see Pakistan, India. So you get a good sense. And then of course, up at the top of the map you have the Mediterranean and Europe. Um in the first week of September, Ansar Allah and the Yemeni armed forces carried out a lightning offensive that took six districts across two provinces of Hodeidah and Taiz and captured the Red Sea coast, which cemented their control over the entire west coast and the islands in in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait that are also now under Ansar Allah and Yemeni armed forces control. I covered this part of the battle a few weeks ago. If you didn't catch that, you can find that in our YouTube playlist channel for the resistance report. I'm not [snorts] going to cover that ground again. We'll try to move forward with some of the newest material. And again, fundamentally, this is a Yemeni liberation story, but it is impossible to extract, to separate from the larger war and the war that began on October 7th. There's been a decade-long air war with embedded US officers in targeting cells. The UK is now providing air-to-air refueling for Saudi aircrafts that are bombing Yemen hundreds of times a day. The Greeks maintain a Patriot battery in Yanbu to protect it. France is sending soldiers, radars, defense systems to help secure energy infrastructure. So and of course, Israel brags about sharing intelligence on assassinations. They have done that throughout this war. So we really are looking at uh the the global alliance, the uh the the alliance of genocide uh attacking Yemen. And Yemenis' resistance to this has been remarkable. That lightning raid to capture the west coast uh is very significant. Since then the US and UK uh supplied fighter jets to Saudi >> uh more than 100 of those Royal Saudi Air Force fighter jets have participated in the counteroffensive that you probably hear a lot about media, um but doesn't show many results on the ground. But just to give you a sense, yesterday the Yemeni armed forces said Saudi warplanes have conducted 156 air raids and missile strikes targeting civilian sites in the capital of Sana'a as well as the governorates of Taiz, Sa'dah, and Al Jawf. Uh and the attacks were carried out by fighter jets that took off from the King Khalid King Khalid airbase in southwestern Saudi. This brings the total number of Saudi-led coalition air strikes since the escalation began to 1,798, and that is already passed by the time I delivered that material. Let's take a look at number three because you can see um the areas of control there. So it's down the west coast from Hodeidah from southern Hodeidah uh where uh Ansar Allah did not have control and they took all the way down the coast to the Bab al-Mandab through Mocha, which is a key strategic port. Uh and the main thrust of the fighting is along the mountain range that separates Mocha from Taiz. Taiz is the third largest city in Yemen and it's connected to Aden, and Aden is the main supply base for the Saudi forces. Um used to be Saudi and UAE forces, now just Saudi forces. Um so the splitting of Taiz from uh from Aden will be uh a major development in the war. It'll be very difficult to roll that back once it happens. Um so that's the key strategic area that you're looking at. The shading of the dark green shading is all the area of Yemen that Ansar Allah controls, which is um Um, vast majority of the population. the eastern part of Yemen is desert and sparsely populated. Um, again, that gives you a good sense from a different angle, again looking up into the Bab el Mandeb and the Red Sea uh goes up from there. Let's take a look at number four because the key to this battle is the difference between the coastal plain, which you can see on the left. Um, and you can see Taiz up in the mountains there and Mocha along the coast. You see the Bab el Mandeb and you can see those islands through which um should Ansar Allah decide to uh take control of the Bab el Mandeb, they would control the transit uh um transit separation scheme for shipping running through there. Essentially, um it could operate as checkpoints because of the placement of those islands that you see in the south and then also that set of islands further up. They captured those uh as well. Um, the like I said, 100 Saudi jets joined the offensive this week. Um, the Saudi general who announced it said that the coalition is providing air support for Yemeni ground forces on the ground, quote, around the clock. And we saw it the other day uh Saudi air strikes on Ansar Allah Yemeni armed forces uh fighters who were wounded and then were driven over by uh Saudi-backed forces in their western-supplied uh armored vehicles drove over the wounded uh disarmed soldiers that had been um severely wounded in the Saudi air strikes and it kind of sounded looked a little bit like the sectarianism that ISIS uh flashbacks of um just devaluing the lives um of the Yemeni people in a way that uh I I think is going to be uh it's not forgotten. Um, let's take a look at the next map. Cuz here you can see the Sarat Mountains. This is the spine of mountains that runs uh from the Bab el Mandeb up uh through Yemen, uh >> but particularly separates Mocha that you could see at the top there um from Taiz. So, they have to fight through these mountains. I showed you the videos from the first assault and I'm going to show you more today where the fighting in those mountains is definitely to the advantage of the Yemeni armed forces. They are mountain fighters from their original base in Sa'dah. All of their dozens of wars between and skirmishes between Saudi over the last two decades have been mountain-based fights, but of course there's a lot of desert in Yemen, so we will see that as well. And if you can see the eastern coast of the eastern coast of Africa there in the horizon line and that is the kind of strategic importance of these mountains is that they have overwatch over that entire coastal plain, the functioning of the ports, overwatch over the Red Sea, ability to target the Red Sea from positions um of advantageous positions. Um and they have this territory. The fight is not over. I'm not going to give an hour-by-hour blow of the changes in the lines, but this vast majority of this territory that has been taken will not be will not go back into Saudi hands is uh my prediction and just because of the fighting that it takes to hold and the corruption and the lack of uh ability of the fighters of the Saudi mercenaries. So, we are going to look at a video now. There's going to be gunshots in this video just for a brief moment that I want to I'll warn you about it, but I just wanted to show you the soundtrack of the battle. And the way that the Yemenis have been doing this is they release 48-minute videos, 43-minute videos, 28-minute videos. And of course the we don't have time to go through all of those. So, I have edited these down to a Resistance Report version of these videos, which I think holds all of the key elements of it. Uh and so let's take a look at that number seven now. These are the Rajum drones. These are their drone bombers. You can see uh these are the first shots of them. We're going to see their handyworks here dropping mortars. Um they've been using these Rajum uh drone bombers for the last number of weeks of this offensive that really began I mean, the mounting offensive began in August, but really the lightning advance on the 3rd of September and ran to the 10th of September and they basically overran all these mountaintops. Here comes the gunfire. You're watching a fighter climb up the mountain. He's literally going to go over the top here to take this satellite base. That's remarkable footage uh face-to-face fighting over these hilltops. The Saudis have uh Saudi positions on these hilltops um need to be literally overrun and that's what you're seeing these fighters do and we saw it in the previous videos. Here they are out on the road and a fighter brings uh his captured weapons. Uh there's a lot of captured weapons. The uh the Ansar Allah spokesperson, Mohammed Bukaiti, said that their weapons Everyone says their weapons are from Iran, which is a an honor for them, he said, but our weapons come from captured uh Saudi mercenaries. Um of course, they're because they're blockaded, uh [snorts] there's no major weapons shipments from Iran. There's of course tons of technology transfer and lots of support, um but this is truly a Yemeni story. There you see them up in one of those bases that um that have to be uh overrun. You can see it with this Western surveillance gear here um >> that they're showing you and you just look in the background of all of these shots and it's just remarkable the how rugged these mountains are um as you can see there. And the ability to roll that back for the Saudis in their current state uh, doesn't seem like a bet uh, people should be making here. Here's these bases that have been overrun. They're overrunning all of these key bases along the port. Here they're going into the Mocha port. Um, and in that port is a key strategic port. These are these bases that were completely full and you can see all of their captured gear here. All of these captured trucks, M113s, not much use these days. But here's inside the base. There's the flag for the National Resistance Forces. And then the Saudi flag and the American flag. Like that picture right there tells you everything. Here's the badges they found, Royal Saudi Land Forces. Um, they're going to show in a moment here the ammo. It's all Saudi ammo, NATO standard uh, ammo. There you see the MRAP, Oshkosh MRAP from the United States. Also Saudi Land Forces there on the door as the fighters are pointing out here. Um, just really underlining what they have been saying all along here is that this is a Saudi force um, that's being called in the Western media the government of Yemen, but the government is in Riyadh and the the country of Yemen is under a brutal blockade, um, you know, one of the worst in modern history. Uh, and so this is an occupation. And you can see here the fighters talk you can see this is all just ammo, all Saudi uh, all not NATO standard small arms ammo. But everything that the fighters are finding in these bases are all Saudi. Um, and that's something that Abdul Malik al-Houthi talked about just the other day when he said the Saudi injustice and tyranny served the American Israeli enemies. The aggression has been ongoing since March 2015. And it is still planned and managed by the Americans. Here you see straight group born in Canada, these armored vehicles that came through the UAE originally uh, being captured. This British MRAP with cope cages, I guess, around them. That's a Streit Group Cougar. And all of these vehicles are working. You can see them driving off in them. You can see them celebrating around Um And like we said, uh uh Saudi Canadian researcher researcher of Saudi affairs in Canada and Anthony Fenton, he was counting these and had more than 40 counted. I think that is an undercount and in recent videos, um a conservative count and in recent videos, we've seen even more. There's another one of the Typhoons. Um that's a BMP and burning vehicles. Uh the destruction of this raid. This is the This is from earlier in September and there you see Mocha Port, uh the strategic port that was captured during that raid and is will be a very important part of uh Ansar Allah and the Yemeni armed forces control in Yemen. Um let's look at number eight. There's audio in from the start here and I will just say this is a a little bit of a veer away from this battle line and this is in Al Jawf province up on the Saudi border. Um but I just wanted to show you this from early September, second week of September, because it's again just the destruction of all of these Western supplied uh uh armored vehicles that you see. Let's Let's take a look at number eight. We just saw the launch there of an RPG they're using over these berms in the a full-on desert >> um using RPGs as artillery firing them on a ballistic trajectory having them the self-destruct fuse that goes if it doesn't if the round doesn't hit anything. That self-destruct fuse goes off and it and effectively creates an air burst munition. And that's how they they won on this battle on this battleground. Um it's pretty remarkable. They also um in this fight you you're going to see burning vehicles uh west and you'll also see this retreat um and the Yemeni armed forces used uh unintentionally maybe, but um they used uh Mao's famous guerrilla war doctrine of uh the enemy camps we harass, the enemy tires we attack, the enemy retreats we pursue. Because this was the Yemeni armed forces statement, "Our forces were able to expel and target Saudi enemy concentrations east of Al Jawf following failed attempts to advance toward our positions of our fighters. The targeting expulsion operation resulted in the following, the burning of a large number of vehicles belonging to the Saudi enemies concentrations, killing and wounding dozens of their concentrations um troop concentrations, pursuing and chasing down those who remained of them in the Al Jawf desert, and targeting the gatherings of those concentrations with a number of ballistic missiles and drones." So um there you go. When they uh when they when the enemy retreats, uh we pursue as Mao said, and that is what we're seeing here from the Yemenis. Uh again, taking uh a look around inside of this uh Streit Group Cougar >> uh in the back enjoying the uh bounty of their war captures. Those are the armor vehicles burning in the field in the in the desert uh [snorts] on the battlefield. There you see another one there, another one there. Um there really is dozens of them that we have seen destroyed, dozens more that we have seen captured, and you could see the trenches here didn't work very well for um these Saudi-backed forces in the Al Jawf desert. Um so this is full-on desert fighting uh separate from the rugged mountain fighting, which itself is separate from the coastal plains fighting. So we have three very distinct um environments for the battle in Yemen, And it's one of the more, uh, remarkable elements of it and the ability of these fighting groups by of Ansar Allah to fight in each of these different types of environments successfully is remarkable. Um, you can see these desert fights offer no cover whatsoever. And we'll see more of that as we move along in the show. Today, there's another Cougar. destroyed straight and this is a Typhoon. All of these are from the straight group that were born in Canada. Uh, and these vehicles are, uh, mine resistant, uh, ambush protected, armored vehicles. Troop carriers in this case. Okay, let's take a look at number nine because here's the resume, the drone bomber uh, carrying out operations with, um, really stunning precision. They're dropping 60 mm mortar rounds, which sometimes you can catch, uh, a view of as they turn. This one might turn. Uh, dropping them on old M60 Patton tanks that came from the US to Saudi Arabia. Um, dropping mortar rounds on them. I think this next one might spin and you can see the the mortar better. Uh, >> again, direct hits on all of these that they're showing from great heights. But again, they have a completely different, uh, battlefield circumstance than Hezbollah has. There you can see the mortar really clearly when it, uh, goes on its side. Um, but yeah, the the lack of counter drone technology, um, in this battle allows these drones to play a really significant role. And these are not We haven't seen the munition other than to see it fall from the sky. Um, we saw the build of this drone of it's a hexacopter. Um, you can see this one here. He puts it right through the roof. Um, which is pretty much bull's-eye in terms of drone dropping mortars from, uh, Uh, whatever this is, hundreds of feet. That is a field gun, 155 howitzer, being destroyed with another direct hit. Uh, and in this last one, you can see the shadow of the mortar. If you look to the right, you'll see the shadow of the mortar go through um, as it falls. Again, directly on the truck that we're seeing in this base. And the truck rolls off to its demise. Pretty remarkable targeting. Let's take a look at number 10, cuz they've also introduced this week FPV drones. They haven't showed us the build of these, either. They often release, um, weapons cards. So, we may see weapons cards for these. Um, they haven't shown, um, their missile weapon card or these, uh, weapon card, but historically, they have done that. Um, but [snorts] you're seeing uh, something that's has been familiar on battlefields uh, over the last number of years. Uh, these small, lightweight drones. You can see in the shadow a couple of times. I forget which one, exactly, but if you keep following it, you'll see the shadow of the of the build. Um, and you can see the fiber optic spool. So, these are fiber optic there. You can see it here. Look onto the right there. You can see it flying, and underneath, you see the spool. Um, so, that's the fiber optic spool. And people ask why the video isn't as clear if it's running a fiber optic cable. And the the reason for that is that the the software, the the patch um, to make to split the channel and have your video and your your driving um, come through the same, uh, fiber optic cable, costs about as much as the drone itself. So, essentially doubles the cost of the drone, somewhat defeating the purpose. So, we're getting radio feed from the video. Um, but the controller is impervious to, because it's fiber optic, it's impervious to electronic warfare. Um, it's very low latency, uh, very sharp control um, between the controller and the vehicle itself. And so it's obviously a massive asset to have that fiber optic capability in the targeting. Um for us watching it, we wish maybe that they would put the the splitter and give the video feed in fiber optic, which would be easy to do in terms of the fiber optic cables, but like I said, adds a cost that is probably an unnecessary cost when the real one of the real advantages of these FPV drones is the cost and the reproducibility of them. You can see on the replay of this one on the right, you can see the uh straight group armored vehicle firing at the drone, apparently missing it, and just chasing down these vehicles in the desert. Um you know, it's a desert, they're not going uh this they're not going highway speed, but it's uh obviously a pretty swift drone that's able to catch up to these and target these forces um these Saudi-backed forces. As you can see here, we're watching them burn. And in the video after this, we'll get battle damage assessment for for people I can already hear people saying, I want to see what it looks like afterwards. Ansar Allah answered that for us. They will show us battle damage assessments in these next ones. Again, just repeatedly hitting these technicals, repeatedly hitting these troop vehicles. You can see the mounted machine guns on both of those, the auto cannons on that one, anti-aircraft guns. Um so, high-value targets that's firing at them as well. You can see as it comes in, they're being fired on. Appears to miss or [snorts] can't impact it at that point in the stage of the strike. And again, just out in this coastal flats, pure desert, leaving their doors open like the Israelis did, Doesn't make much difference on these soft skin vehicles. Um but the the addition of this to the force is obviously significant, especially in this mountain fighting. Um uh the ability to get drones uh up on over the hills um is a major asset. Let's look at a number 11. This is a 12 drone uh barrage and three with battle damage assessment. We're going to target bases here. We're going to see them target bases. You can see this unclear if the truck sees it until right about the last minute. Um but a troop carrying vehicle struck. Another truck's going to get hit here. Again, sheltered but able to be hit by drone, something we saw in Lebanon repeatedly. And there's the battle damage, a second drone recording that same one. Here it comes from the right in the green circle. Hits the truck that we just saw. So, battle damage assessment. What happens after it hits? There's your answer. This is going to hit a uh a bunker in a base here. Tucks it right around the open door. Pops it in. Quality uh piloting as we have seen in all of these videos. The accuracy uh and the targeting very precise. The skills are real. Here's coming in on another base. Popping another troop carrying truck. Going to pop a convoy of armored vehicles after this. You see in the desert here. There you see the straight group vehicle about to get hit. You can see its gun turret on top there. Being struck. So, they're hit they're hitting armored vehicles. There's another straight group being hit. M-rap troop carrier. Communications gear. You're going to get battle damage assessment of this one, too, that makes it look like they're using an anti-tank uh rocket like the Hezbollah drones did. If you watch this coming in from the right, and then you can see the way that it blasts through. That looks like a shape charge from an anti-tank weapon. But like I said, we haven't seen the actual uh separate builds here down into a bunker. A direct hit. And again, these vehicles have surveillance capabilities. They can find where the forces are. Here's another battle damage assessment of that bunker hit. And they're devastating. No question about that. Here it is in slow motion. That looks like something different than an anti-tank weapon. But it's tough to tell because it's just blasting the desert, so maybe it's just a a version we haven't seen uh in comparison to what we were watching in Lebanon. Let's take [snorts] a look at number 12. The fight is moving uh at this point. This is the key look at the fight. Aden is the um main supply uh and obviously major city in Yemen that's been in control um of the Saudi and UAE forces for many years. Taiz up in the mountain is being encircled. Right now, we use this map from Al Jazeera because their graphics department uh has fancy graphics, but don't use Al Jazeera's maps for battle lines uh in general or their reporting on this. Again, they they seem to struggle with these um uh with these fronts in Lebanon and um and and even more so in Yemen. But we're using their maps because they're good uh good graphics here. But you can see the encirclement of Taiz is happening. Taiz is a major city. It's up in the mountains there. It's separated uh from Aden by a uh really remarkable road that we will look at right now in number 13. Uh this is a a road out of the mountains. So, this is how you get uh uh out of the mountains into the coastal the coastal plains. It's just a a wild road that you're looking if you're just listening. >> Uh I don't even know how to describe this. We're looking at uh a mountain that has uh switchbacks in it all the way up this sheer cliff face uh up into these mountains. The mountains are more than 2,000 m, 7,000 ft high. Uh and this is a key strategic road that were it to be cut off would cut off ties from Aden and ultimately will be a part of this uh struggle. It has been a a key part of the struggle since 2015, since the Saudi war started. Um we can see the video in the next uh number 14 shows uh this is actually from the Saudi uh development company, but you can see uh the switchbacks on this road. Uh it's a perilous road and and if you're making a road like this, you don't have an alternative and that that is the key to uh this road uh between Taiz and Aden. And if Taiz is completely in Taiz is completely encircled and falls, um they'll be cut completely from Aden and that will be a major step uh in the war. Um let's take a look at number 14 um because we're here seeing in these ones now. These are ballistic missile targeting. This is uh Ansar Allah graphics. Um they do a pretty good job here, too, showing the coastal flats. Uh this is just between uh the Bab al-Mandab and Aden. And here we're seeing them use uh drones for targeting. And that's what we're seeing here. The drones set up the target, send the coordinates presumably, um and that's when the um ballistic missile strikes happen. And we can see when we see down on the ground, you'll see there I mean, you can see just by the burning vehicles here that these are very precise strikes with their tactical uh ballistic missiles. They're using Fatah class and Badr >> uh class tactical uh ballistic missiles. You can see vehicles burning here. And using the drones that can stay in the air, again, something that can't really happen in the battlefields that we've been watching over the past 3 years in Lebanon and Gaza uh because of Israeli controlled skies. sky, we can see the next one, um number 15. And to this one, Yahya Sarea said, "Our armed forces have successfully propelled several attempts by Saudi-backed enemy forces to advance towards the Bab al-Mandab. Uh we forced them to retreat without without achieving any progress. We targeted their gatherings with 10 ballistic missiles. This operation resulted in the death of injuries of dozens as well as destruction of a large number of vehicles. Our armed forces, thanks to God Almighty, managed to target 11 gatherings of the enemy Saudi forces during the past 24 hours in the Bab al-Mandab Strait uh Ras al-Arra uh and along with 11 more ballistic missiles um towards Ras al-Arra, which is what we were just seeing right there. We can take a look at the next one because it's not simply fighting in Yemen. They have taken the fight to Saudi Arabia. They are targeting Aramco, the Saudi oil company uh installations in Yanbu. They're targeting them in uh in Riyadh as well, in the capital. You're seeing this free there uh on the map here that uh Ansar Allah is showing with their field reports, and this is what their field reports look like. And each day this week this has happened, but this is from a couple days ago, um but it happened again today targeting the um main airport, main international airport in Riyadh. And the Yemeni said, "The Yemeni armed forces carried out three qualitative military operations with a large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones. First targeted the King Khalid Airport in Riyadh. The hit was precise and direct leading to the disruption of air traffic there. The second target, Aramco facility >> uh that was hit with a precise and direct was hit with precision and direct strikes um with the operation leading to fires around the targeted sites. The Yemeni armed forces will continue to strike at the bases and oil facilities of the Saudi aggressor with the Yemeni made missiles and drones which have proven their ability to accurately hit targets and successfully penetrate Western defenses and interception systems. The armed forces will not stop carrying out more painful operations against the Saudi enemy targeting its concentrations and enforcing the equation of a siege for a siege and a blockade for a blockade. Like I said, they've done that three times this week and they did it again today just as we were going on air. Uh, so I don't want to uh, get too ahead of ourselves, but the airport has been closed in Riyadh for several hours uh, today. Uh, we can take a look at the next one is the Aramco facility earlier this week burning. Uh, Aramco refinery south of Riyadh burning uh, earlier this week. Um, and so those are the um, those are the aspects of this war that have taken it international uh, angle to it because it matches with the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz and the Western powers are concerned that uh, if Saudi's oil goes offline um, that the crisis will be even worse. So, it's a card that the Yemenis have to play. They've been playing it carefully to this point, um, but they have promised like they just said to uh, increase uh, those attacks. So, this has been the resistance report on day 1,098 of Israel's genocide in Gaza.