hello and welcome to spotlight. as part of their anti-israel operations, the ameny armed forces have targeted tel aviv for the first time. lebanon's hesbollah is engaged in almost daily exchange of fire with. israel

and the resistance groups uh in iraq have been conducting strikes on us and israeli bases in the region over the past several months and uh the most oppressed people of west asia, palestinians are getting killed every day by the israeli regime, but they refuse to give up uh their right to live on their own land. will the international community take decisive action to remove this western imposed occupying regime of israel from the region. let's see what our guests think. on uh tonight's spotlight, here are our guests, we have activist and political commentator hussein al-bukaiti joining us from the yemini capital sana and academic and political analyst um ali ham joins us uh from the lebanese capital bayrut. well welcome uh to the program to both of you. uh, we're

going to start off with mr. al-bukaiti in sana. sir, yemen has carried out a drone strike on tel aviv, as part of its ongoing retaliatory operations against israel over the war on gaza, there's so much significance to this attack, especially because uh, the uh, yemenese used a drone capable of evading the supposed state of the art radar systems of the israelis. give us your perspective. on this scen operation? mean it was significant this operation and how important it is, because we know that benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of the zin state of israel has cancelled a trip uh toward united states, this is a clear message that they were really uh surprised and that they were actually really hurt bad and as well because this drone had actually avoided all the radar system even the radar system in in around them. either in in egypt as well saudi arabia

and as well in in israel, that's why uh they are now thinking what will yemani do next? will they launch? as an example, yemani armed force can launch tens of the same drones with the which they called yafa toward tal abib, and i believe that the israeli regime will not be able actually to stop these drones, because we have seen footages by zionist media which the shows the impact of that drone, there was no... warning uh sirens by the uh israeli regime air defense, this means that this drone actually has uh gun through the red sea or through saudi arabia has a distance of more than 20 kilometer and then that it has reach and impacted building or area inside abib and i believe that will not be the first attack, there are more to come and army is still trying to... course israeli

regime to stop its genocide and the demand is so simple, stop the genocide, stop the killing and we will actually stop the attack and target against the resint state, we know that the first stage germany has actually successful conducted total blockade against the state of israel in the red sea and as well the gulf of aden and the second step was as well to target any shipping company that actually have a relation or or or is having ships that goes towards israel like they did of today in the gulf of eden, it was not only of about targeting telling, it was as well, they have targeted asib in the gulf of eden because it have violated the uh the blue cade that temani has formed against israel and now we see less actually less ship uh is going toward israel is going through uh see this mean yemany has successfully formed this blockade and i believe they will expand their attack to target the mainland to target occupied palestine and to target area like taviv and in the... area in in in the entire

occubied palestine. mr. ali ham in beirot, we actually spoke to mr. kai following the yemeni operations. he said: that this drone attack on tel aviv sends a clear message that nowhere and occupied palestine is safe, of course, in no way is there a comparison here, but the israelis are now finally getting a drop at least of their own medicine. what a strong warning this was to the israeli regime? let me start by saying that we have three phases of this attack from any army against the zionist. entity first we say that from let's say military strategy strategically and religious wise starting by the statements of general sari with the new verses quaranic verses different from the all

the other statements before and talking about entering of the mosk this is one thing the other thing is us new terminology by the true names of the cities such ash instead of ilad and yeffa instead of tel aviv. secondly using from al yeman to tell aviv or yafa a drone called yafa going to yeah passing more than 2000 kilometers over. all the american and british fleets and israeli fleets, all avoiding all radars, the fighter jets and the iron dome in israel and hitting the heart of tel aviv, diplomatic quarter in the most

fortified area on earth, in this case if israel cannot protect this area, it means that all israel is and secured now, sure, mr. the yemen army spokesman yahya sadi said that the drone that eluted the israeli radars was new generation uav and that attacks will continue leader abdulthi has also promised that the pro-palestinian operations will increase in frequency and in scope. in your opinion, how worrying should these promises be for these radies given the fact that their radars didn't de nor intercept this drone, mean of course they are so worried at this point, because uh we know they know yemen when they threat they actually do what they have threatened the z state of israel from

the beginning from the beginning of the attack against the shipping in the rid sea and as you mentioned the failure of the israeli regime to stop this this drone or even to uh to... born uh their settler in tel aviv of a coming drone, this show actually huge uh uh failure and as well, i don't believe that this drone is one of the latest drone that yemani have, of course yemani army we have known since the beginning as an example of the saudi aggression against yemen in 2015 uh which has gone for more than nine years, yemeny always they uh they upgrading their wible, they are not putting uh everything on the table and i believe they still have. bigger drones, more stronger drones with more explosive and they will continue to target tel avif as the spoke person of yemani army has said that declared tel aviv as as he said unsafe zone and this

is a clear message to all the settlers in ter abiv they should actually uh rethink twice if they are not gonna leave that area because we've seen that since the attack of october 7 and as well the attack from hisbollah from the north and the attack from yemen toward in the south and now towards this mean that there is no area that is safe for the settlers and as well when they called this drone as y yafa which is the the original name before it was changed by the occupation to this mean that yemen is actually they sent the clear message that they are not recognizing israel and they are not if you using this name the king that israel existent the zin state of israel should actually seized and should actually stopped and yemenes will do whatever it takes to help the palestinian not only stop the genicide in gaza but in the future - there is any a big battle for the liberation of palestine yeman i believe they will do whatever take uh to to

uh to to to uh stop the occupation of palestine and the latest attack shows as well a failure of the united state or the so-called prosperity. guardian, mean they could not stop this attack, they could not stop the blue cate against the zient state of israel, and i believe as an example today, millions of yemen march to the street in many cities. and villages and towns across yemen, they are actually demanding the yemani army to take a bigger step, to target more, to target other area occupied palestine and i believe this is what gonna be in the coming days. israely prime minister benyu netanyahu was facing even more criticism inside israel following the yemini drone attack on tel aviv, his political opponents and the public are particularly furious at him for his handling of the gass of war and his numerous. failures now this attack to the list as well uh, it appears that the sands of time are

running quite low uh for benjamin netanyaho, give us your views on how this could be the final nail in netanyahu's coffin, this is one good point to say the final nail in netanyahu coffin, but before i have something to say about the technology of this uav that uh hit tel aviv this morning, we are talking about a declaration or a state. from the israeli army saying that they detect an flying object, but they thought that it's a frend flying object, that means that either this drone is very advanced technologically or it has a passive imprint, we are talking about an armed drone flying 2000 kilometers and getting straight to the target to the diplomatic quarters quarter in tel aviv, it means israel is not

understanding any of the messages, about two weeks ago we had a big demonstration in in yemen about the simulating or simulation of how to attack by drone inside in the heart of israel and then we had hoodhood operation one and two by law and showing all the vital points in in the occupied territory, then now today we have the big hit by this drone in the heart of israel entity, so it means up to now benyamin netanyahu living in a very confusion in strategic confusion, military confusion, intelligence confusion, and it's like disintegrating coming out of the cabinet, we see that netanyahu saying

something, the head of the army, the commander and chief saying something else, and also we see gannet saying different things and also gallant, so it means they are living in a confusion, first of all in the beginning about what's the next day, what's coming in the next day, they don't know, so it means they are in big. fusion and now they are not reading well all the the messages that are sent by all the uh the resistance access and saying that either you stop and you stop your aggression against gaza and left up the siege or this this war will be passing all that the terrence and maybe it it it's will go all the way up to liberation, how big of a failure has this war been uh for

israel and it's murderous far right cabinet, resistance in gaza is still fighting, the resistance in the region is united and unified. netanyahu claimed this war would make israel safer, we see that the exact opposite has happened, and most notably the projected aura of israeli invincibility has now evaporate. in thin air uh, i mean, it's clear what we see on the ground, it did not make the giant state of israel uh save the attack against gaza, it make it more vulnerable attack from hizbollah and as well from the resistant in iraq and as well from from yemen, i mean those attack and especially the joint attack is sending a clear message as well to all uh arab nation and muslim nation, if we combine our strength we can actually defeat the giant state of israel, we can l palestine, i mean the strength of of israel we shown the only

strength they have is killing civilians in the in in in gaza strip, i mean we've seen that the resistant in gaza is still conducting attack and killing a daily basis israeli so solder destroying tank and also launching missiles against areas in occupied palestine around gaza and this is huge failure, i mean thanks to the united states and uk and germany and other country support and full supplies of weapons. and money to the israeli regime, if they haven't actually supported israel, israel will not be able to conduct any war against gaza, we've seen what's happening now uh with hisbollah is launching attacks a daily base. and what israel is doing, they just respond by launching attacks against lebanon and mostly they are killing uh civilians, i mean, but if if the attack from hizbullah came before uh october 7, we will see maybe major attack and a ground attack against against lebanon, but this is actually shows that israel is so weak now and as well the united state strength in

our region is not because of their military power because country like saudi arabia united emirate and jordan and other country who is actually allowing united state basis in those area, but what happened with yemen, we've seen the failure in the red sea by the united states is because yemani has sent the clear message saudi arabia, united arab emirate and all countries around yemen that have bases of the united states that if they if they are allowed to use those bases to attack yemen, yemen will attack every infrastructure in those country and this is actually one of the main failure of united states in in in our region. and i believe that if yemen will continue and expand their attack and bloocaid against israel, this this actually will force israel to stop its aggression against the people in gaza and as well, they will not actually try to target lebanon or to invade lebanon, because uh i believe that if they do so after any deescalation in gaza this mean that yemanies will not lebanon alone, they will actually

conduct the same attack against the z state of israel, i ham. resistance groups in the region have all reacted to the drone attack in tel aviv with all of them hailing the yni operation uh as heroic uh successful operation several resistance factions have said the any attack shook the zionist foundation to his core and uh the attack showed that security for israel is unattainable in the occupied territories how do you feel about these reactions and also share with us your views about the effect that this unified regional resistance has had on the pertrators of the gaza genocide, which also includes the united states. let me say first about the israeli army when he lost uh now the the israelis lost their confidence in their power and in in the army and by that

attack from lebanon and from yemen and join attack by yemanies. and irakis as a specialized fronts against the israelis entity. now we can see that we are either a step ahead of the enemy or we have advanced technology and why i want to concentrate on advanced technology, we are talking about a payload payloaded weapon triggered drone against flying thousand kilometer. and then the israeli statement saying that it's a friend flying object, it means as we know military wise that every weapon, i'm talking about drones or fighter jets or even main battle tanks, they have a system called iff,

identify identifying a friend of four, so when this this drone... penetrate all those obstacles and the statements of the israeli army saying that it's a frontline object, it means that either we have now the technology of coding and decoding of iff system or the the israeli army is weakening now now the if if we see what's going on "if we compare between what's going on since the 7th of october, we see that israeli army for seventh of october called the undefeetable army. now it's not only undefeatable or defeatable, now the the israeli army is collapsing from within and disintegrating, we see that the

salary is gone down, we see lack of numbers the..." main battle tangs, the pc's and the avs, we see that women soldiers are, they have no places to or they have no personal carriers to take them to the to the front, on the other side we see that the yemen, yemenese army extending to 650,000 fighter, lebanese declaring, the lebanese resistance declared that we have over 100 thous fighter, so it means we are moving from one phase to another, we are moving from resistance phase to liberation army, this is one thing, the other thing that we are also controlling the the phases. "we the time is on our side, the time is not in the israeli side, and i think if the israelis now smart, they go for cease

fire and and leave gaza right away, because after that they will be to to go for negotiations and we might accept or not. okay, and mr. albkhaiti, the lebanese resistance movement as well of course says uh it's recently said it fired rockets at um abi reem settlement in northern israel says that that settlement was hit for the first time since fighting broke out with israel early october. we know the tensions have been running high along the southern lebanese border ever since israel started this genocidal war on gaza. are the israelis still willing to risk a full-blown war with at this point? with the heart of tel aviv being targeted by the yemenes and all-out war with hezbulah doesn't seem like a good idea anymore. of course, i mean it will be an idea that will uh maybe resulted in major attack

by hizbollah and it will not be that israeli will be able to invade uh southern lebanon, i believe that hizbollah now are ready to actually to start to liberate areas in northern in northern palestine, israeli has actually used all its power, they have used all its types of weapons. all the support from the united, but we see on the other hand, as in yemen, they always have new step to take like they did today by targeting ilat and as well hizbollah when they targeted new area in in north of occupied palestine, this mean that the target list of the resistant either in iraq or in yemen or in in in lebanon is still big and they are the one who actually have now the upper hand and as well israeli will fear if they will target lebanon, they are sure that yemani actually will continue their attack against israel and i believe we've seen that we are now in the in the fourth stage of yemeny escalation which included a total ban against all

shipping company not only uh israeli own ship and this latest attack until avib is the second step of this for the stage i believe that yemen as well can actually expand their uh their attack and their blocate uh to reach the mediterranean sea and as well they could at one point form a bluecid in the red sea against countries. that have relation with the israeli regime, especially countries that actually supporting israeli regime like germany and as well, france are or any other european country, and this is actually a clear message that yemen and the resistant will continue the attack and as well, i just want to mention that sayid abdul malik, the leader of ansarullah have said in his latest speech uh the last 24 hours uh that and send the clear message and a warning uh to countries like saudi arabia. united arab emirates, because here in yemen, they are, they they know that there is something is planned by the united states maybe to conduct a major attack against yemen, but they are actually cannot start this attack only if

they are allowed from this this country, that's why i believe yemany have set all the steps uh to to stop that, and all the warning has been sent and we've seen that from the beginning yemen actually has used a new type of missiles like the united states have said anti ship ballistic missiles has not been used. before anazul hypersonic anti-ballistic ship missile, i believe that yemanis at one point they have a hypersonic missile that could actually reach the sign state of israel and the coming days it will shows that yemani will actually do uh what is needed to help the palestinian all right unfortunately out of time for tonight's uh show activis and political commentator hussein al bukhari joining us from the emmy capital sanner uh academic and political analy ham joining us from bayrut, thank you for contributing uh to the program tonight, and also special thanks to your viewers for staying with us tonight, spotlight, it's good night for now and see you next time, revear

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