The decline of the Israeli deterrence force in Yemen

After two years and months of Yemeni-Israeli confrontations, the latter appears to be the weaker party in the equation, despite its possession of huge military capabilities and the utilization of the resources of the superpowers in its favor, compared to a country that has not yet emerged from a series of raging wars and sieges for more than a decade. How has the Israeli deterrence force been eroded?

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In November 2023, Yemen began a series of practical steps against the Israeli occupation in support of Gaza, which the occupation had begun a brutal aggression on with unprecedented American and Western support. Over the first few months, Yemen succeeded in closing the most important Israeli ports on the Red Sea, particularly Eilat, and did not stop there but targeted Israeli ships and seized one of them before expanding its naval operations to the Mediterranean.

Today, after hundreds of Yemeni ground and naval operations, the occupation is gradually acknowledging the extent of the impact of those operations, which it had repeatedly tried to downplay at one time and attempted to suppress at another, which is confirmation that Yemen has achieved what the great military powers could not.

The matter was not limited to the consequences of the Yemeni attacks but also extended to the direct confrontations. The occupation, which was keen in each attack on Yemen, out of 12 operations it carried out during the last few months, to unleash its most important combat capabilities in the aggression in order to display its deterrence capabilities and attracted for that purpose American strategic bombs, strategic bombers, and fighters of various models, numbering in the dozens in each attack, retreated in its last aggression to below zero, and this time resorted to long-range drones and weak military capabilities and targets that do not exceed, as Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said, fuel barrels.

Unlike every time the occupation had ignited a large fire due to the oil stock in the port tanks that were previously destroyed by the occupation and America, the Israeli strikes this time were limited and did not ignite a flame that Netanyahu could boast about, and the credit for this goes to the success of the Yemeni forces in deploying defensive systems along the occupation’s path across the Red Sea and their ability to repel its last attack six weeks ago.

Between the beginning of the aggression on Yemen and its end, the Israeli weakness in restoring deterrence appears evident on this front, and even its air strikes with small bombs carried by a drone have become merely saving face, nothing more, so that it is not said that the army, which was considered an invincible force in the region, has become besieged by air and sea by modern forces that have barely caught their breath from years of war.