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Resistance Report β€” 1 Jan 2025

Yemeni ballistic missiles evade Israel’s air defenses, with Jon Elmer

Day 451: Jon Elmer covers the latest resistance news from Yemen. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s day 451 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by UK-based writer and activist Tony Greenstein, EI contributor Abubaker Abed live from Gaza and emergency physician Mimi Syed who is working in Gaza. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/4g0Zo145dYY

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Full transcript
and a couple quick points from Yemen in the resistance report this week we saw number 40 here is two Palestine 2 uh a pair of Palestine 2 ballistic missiles being fired people may remember this one we showed it earlier in the War uh it's the one with the uh cfia nose cone for it's a nice touch U but this is a missile with a 2200 kilm range um that were launched um they've been launched daily over the last uh week or 10 days um launched at Israel and we can look on the um after we see these from a different angles they're showing these launches from a different angles the impressive ballistic missiles that uh set off uh alarms in Israel had millions of Israelis running to the shelters every night uh for about the last 10 days um these ballistic missiles um have been penetrating Israeli airspace as we're going to see in the upcoming clips that I have organized for you here after this departure of these last two Palestine two missiles they arrive in from launch to arrival in Israel targeting uh benorian airport they said and um the two air bases in southern Israel have been the targets um that Anor Allah has said these are 11 11 minutes flight time um from to cover the 250 km from Yemen to Israel and this these uh ballistic missiles have made it so that the airport in benorian are essentially shut down no foreign flights uh are coming in the we know of course because of the blockade uh of the Red Sea um by uh an alah that there has been Ships coming into a lot Port um so we can do number 40 41 just shows you um this makes it look like you're getting hammered by a missile barrage but this is just the number of sirens um and the number of people that are fleeing to shelters and in the next video clip I stitch together some civilian videos that will show you what it sounds like uh when these operations take place there there's the two failed intercepts from the arrow 2 system can see it from a bunch of different angles the two flashes are the arrow two attempting to detonate um and you can clearly see the Palestine 2 uh Warhead travels right through see it again there's the two the miss [Music] again there's the two arrows missing and then here again you'll see the two two arrows trying to get it multi-billion dollar air defense system being penetrated and this one's even more obvious so that was uh uh a clear test of the failure of the ar2 and arrow 3 system um Israel has a Thad system that we talked about that uh sends up 12 million dooll interceptors that uh was put in play um over the last few days and they got their first they shot down their first uh Anor La missile yemeni Armed Forces missile uh but again the port is closed the airport is closed travel to Israel is basically non-existent and I just wanted to bring this back to Abu abeda because Kasam released a statement about these operations and Abu abeda said we commend the missile strike carried out by our truthful Brothers aner Allah La in Yemen targeting the heart of the Zionist entity We Salute their steadfast support uh for Gaza and call on them to escalate their attacks on the occupation as it yields um until it yields and halts the genocidal War we also condemn the terrorist attacks carried out by the Zionist entity and it might be added by the US the US is also bombing Yemen um the people of Yemen um which undeniably prove that the enemy that they are that they that Israel is an enemy of the entire nation this necessitates all components to confront its crimes and support the resistance of the Palestinians the first line of defense against the nation and also yesterday uh although we don't have footage we may have it for next week to show you um the many Armed Forces downed the 13th mq9 Reaper drone uh of the Americans um we saw footage from the ground um we may see official military media footage of that and if that is uh published I'll of course bring that to you next week so that is the resistance Southern Gaza to the tip of Northern Gaza uh some operations in the West Bank uh and operations in Yemen as well