[News] YAF Chief of Staff: Israeli strikes on Sanaa not to go unpunished

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YAF Chief of Staff: Israeli strikes on Sanaa not to go unpunished
Al Mayadeen English
August 30, 2025
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The Yemeni Armed Forces Chief of Staff vowed escalation as Yemen reaffirms
support for Gaza.

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   Footage shows fire and smoke at a location in Sanaa from an Israeli strike
   on August 24, 2025. (X screengrab)

The Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul
Karim Al-Ghamari, confirmed that the "Israeli" occupation’s targeting of
civilian neighborhoods in the capital Sanaa will not go unpunished.

In remarks to Yemen’s *Saba news* agency, Al-Ghamari stressed that Yemen will
not retreat from supporting Gaza
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/Sayyed%20al-Houthi:%20Yemeni%20missile%20breakthrough%20alarms%20'Israel'>,
regardless of the sacrifices.
Escalation met with escalation

The senior military commander described the Israeli escalation in Gaza and
Yemen as “a sign of inability and failure to achieve its goals over nearly
two years.” He vowed that such aggression would be answered in kind.

Al-Ghamari praised the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and the
resistance fighters in Gaza, “who are preparing to inflict heavy losses on
the enemy in its escalation towards Gaza City.”

He also saluted the “loyal and steadfast Yemeni people,” who have mobilized
in the millions over the past two years in support of Palestine.
Targeting allegations denied

The statements came after the "Israeli" occupation claimed it had targeted
Al-Ghamari, Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Al-Atefi, and several
Ansar Allah leaders during recent strikes on Yemen.

On Thursday, the Yemeni Ministry of Defense rejected these claims, with an
official source describing the allegations as “a failure like the previous
rounds of Zionist aggression.”
Sayyed al-Houthi: Yemeni missile breakthrough alarms 'Israel'

The Yemeni armed forces had achieved “a qualitative breakthrough that
alarmed the Israeli enemy, through the development of cluster warheads for
the Palestine-2 missiles,” the leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement,
Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi, affirmed on Thursday during his weekly
speech.

In a televised address on the latest developments in the Israeli war on
Gaza and regional dynamics, Sayyed al-Houthi explained that these newly
developed warheads “split into several warheads,” describing the
achievement as “a very important qualitative success that has worried the
occupation.”

He further revealed that “operations from Yemen’s front against the Israeli
occupation
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-attacks-al-lydd-airport-in-yafa-using-ballistic-missil>
 continued this week, using hypersonic missiles and drones, targeting Yafa
and Askalan.” Sayyed al-Houthi said the strikes triggered “sirens in more
than 200 locations inside the occupied territories, sending millions of
settlers into shelters and suspending air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport.”

Commenting on the Israeli occupation’s recent strikes on Yemen, Sayyed
al-Houthi stressed that “targeting the oil company’s station and the
electricity stations is a failed aggression.” He added that the occupation
“attacks facilities that serve the entire people to say, 'I am targeting
you all without distinction'.”

Despite the aggression, he insisted that Yemen’s stance remains firm, “Our
position continues officially and popularly, along its path of doing what
is stronger and greater, of further developing our military capabilities
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--detects-missile-launch-from-yemen--temporary-airpor>,
and of supporting the Palestinian people with full determination.”
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