When the Israeli Cabinet holds its weekly meeting today, Sunday, in a well-fortified secret location for fear of a Yemeni response to the assassination of the martyr Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Rahawi, the Prime Minister, and a group of his associates in an Israeli airstrike, it reveals the occupying state’s state of terror, even before the inevitable and expanded revenge and retribution begin.

The most serious error made by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is the repeated airstrikes carried out by Israeli planes on targets in Sana’a and other Yemeni cities, in direct acknowledgement of the pain they have suffered from ballistic missile and drone attacks over 22 months of war on the Gaza Strip, which reached deep into Israeli territory and caused enormous material, human, and moral losses, driving the enemy to lose its composure and nerves.

The biggest mistake made by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was the repeated airstrikes carried out by Israeli planes on targets in Sana’a and other Yemeni cities, in a direct acknowledgement of the pain they suffered from the ballistic missile and drone attacks over 22 months of war on the Gaza Strip, which reached deep into Israel and caused enormous material, human, and moral losses that drove the enemy insane and lost their composure.

The most serious error made by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is the repeated airstrikes carried out by Israeli planes on targets in Sana’a and other Yemeni cities, in direct acknowledgement of the pain they have suffered from ballistic missile and drone attacks over 22 months of war on the Gaza Strip, which reached deep into Israel and caused enormous material, human, and moral losses, driving the enemy to lose its composure and nerves.

Yemen has become a confrontational state, and Yemenis are not afraid to seek revenge and avenge their victims since it is part of their mentality. This vengeance is compounded several times when the offender is Israeli, which implies Yemeni missiles will continue even if Israeli aggression and genocide in Gaza end. The retaliation for the martyrs’ blood is “sacred” and will continue until it is accomplished and the thirst for vengeance is quenched.

What Israelis, politicians, and settlers don’t realise is that the Yemeni fighter is the fiercest of his peers in the Arab and Islamic countries, and he will not stop until he has avenged the blood of his martyrs. This is why Yemen has historically served as a graveyard for empires and invaders, and the Israeli occupation state will be no exception. Therefore, when Mr. Mahdi Al-Mashat, head of the Supreme Political Council of the “Ansar Allah” movement, vows to avenge the blood and souls of Prime Minister Al-Rahwi and his comrades, and confirms in his speech delivered after the massacre that he “pledges to God Almighty, the families of the martyrs, and the wounded, that we will take revenge, and we will turn deep wounds into victory, and what the enemy has achieved is a stroke of luck,” then the Israelis should build

Netanyahu and his government’s use of “showy” assassinations against civilians to establish “illusory” triumphs will fail to achieve their objectives. On the contrary, the exact reverse will occur, particularly when Yemenis are both targets and victims. The evidence shows that all Israeli attacks on Sana’a, Hodeidah, and other Yemeni cities had no impact on the Yemeni government or population. Instead, they have intensified their fighting determination, endurance, and steadfastness, enlarged the conflict, and assaulted Israeli ships in the Red Sea, effectively cutting them off from trade. Additionally, they have bombed deep into Israeli territory with hypersonic missiles equipped with fragmentation warheads that have shaken and terrified the Zionist entity.

If the United States, the world’s greatest power, has raised the flags of surrender in the Red Sea after Yemeni missiles disabled its aircraft carriers and warships, and has asked for intermediaries to intervene to reach an agreement to stop Yemeni missile launches, then the Israeli occupation state is not stronger than America, and its “acrobatic” airstrikes will not stop Yemeni missiles unless the flags of surrender are raised and defeat is acknowledged. The assassination of the sector’s resistance heroes did not weaken them; rather, it boosted their strength, resilience, and steadfastness, while also increasing the enemy’s casualty rate.

The Yemeni hypersonic missile designated “Palestine 2,” which was armed with a cluster warhead, scared the Israelis and disturbed their leaders’ sleep. It caused a military and moral shock for them due to its penetration of all Israeli air defences, reaching its targets, and expanding the battlefield through the missiles and explosive shells that spread within it, resulting in very high human, material, and moral losses. This explains why the Israeli leadership and its war council gather in secret underground sites at depths of more than 100 meters. We must always remember that “Israel” does not disclose the number of casualties or the amount of its losses.

When millions of Yemenis take to the streets in the capital, Sana’a, and most other Yemeni cities every Friday in demonstrations of solidarity and support for their people facing the war of extermination and starvation in the Gaza Strip, they will now do so on a dual mission, an old and escalating one, to avenge the blood of the martyr Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Rahawi and his comrades, as well as all Yemenis killed in recent Israeli raids.

*** Netanyahu and his generals should have referred to the memoirs of the British “convert” General Abdullah Philipy (John Philby), who served as an advisor to King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially the chapter where the latter asked his two princes, Saud and Faisal, to return immediately and halt their incursion and army in Yemeni territory to avoid defeat and loss. He famously said, “Yemen is the graveyard of empires.”

Netanyahu and his generals should have read the memoirs of the British general “Islamized” Abdullah Philipy (John Philby), who served as an advisor to King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, particularly the chapter in which the latter asked his two princes, Saud and Faisal, to return immediately and halt their incursion and army in Yemeni territory to avoid defeat and loss. He famously said, “Yemen is the graveyard of empires.”

Mr. Mahdi Al-Mashat was right when he addressed the leaders of “Israel” in his speech yesterday, Saturday, saying, “Dark days await you due to the deeds of your treacherous, filthy government.” The practical translation of this statement is more missiles, drones, and military operations in the White and Red Seas, “and the Israeli depth,” and perhaps in other places in the region and the world. Just as Israel was surprised by the “Palestine 2” hypersonic missile equipped with a nuclear warhead that only great powers possess (and Yemen has become one of them), it will be surprised by other missiles that might be even more painful and very soon… And the days are between us.