Ansarullah member hails latest anti-Israel operation, says Tel Aviv after false security

A senior member of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement has praised the latest anti-Israel operation that was conducted in response to intensified crimes and violations committed by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians.

On Tuesday,a motorcycle-riding gunman killed five illegal Israeli settlers in an attack near Tel Aviv before being shot by Israeli forces.

The attack is the third such incident in a week, in response to the Tel Aviv regime’s continued violence and expansion of its illegal settlement projects in Palestine.

Speaking at an interview with Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network on Wednesday, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansarullah’s political bureau, described the incident as “the operation of lonely lions,” noting that the operation was“a message” to the Israeli regime, which, he said, was looking for “false security.”

“Meetings and visits won’t achieve security for Israel,” Bukhaiti said, in an apparent reference to the meetings between Israelis and officials from some Arab regimes on normalization of ties.

On Sunday and Monday, top diplomats from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Morocco, Bahrain, Egypt, the United States, and Israel met to press ahead with a US-brokered normalization of relations between the Arab states and the Israeli regime.

In 1980, Egypt established diplomatic relations with Israel as the first Arab country to forge diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv. The UAE and Bahrain reached normalization agreements with Israel in 2020 through mediation of former US President Donald Trump's administration.

Morocco and Sudan later reached similar US-brokered deals with the Israeli regime.

The deals have been roundly condemned by Palestinians as a brazen betrayal of their cause.

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The Yemeni official further said that the anti-Israel operations would play a role in tipping the balance not only in Palestine, but in the entire region.

Israel has put its forces on “heightened alert” following the deadly operation near Tel Aviv.

On Wednesday, Israeli forces opened fire on two young men working in a shop west of the occupied al-Quds, before arresting them, the Palestinian Information Center said.

The PIC cited Israeli media reports as saying that the two were arrested on suspicion of allegedly planning to conduct a stabbing attack in al-Quds.

Tensions heightened across the Palestinian territories on February 13, when Israeli forces and illegal settlers renewed their attacks against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah in al-Quds.

The neighborhood has been the scene of frequent crackdowns by Israeli regime forces on the Palestinians protesting against the threatened expulsion of dozens of families from their homes in favor of Israeli settler groups.

The initial tensions that erupted in Sheikh Jarrah last year in part sparked a May 2021 war between the Israeli regime and resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.

In the latest bombardment campaign, at least 260 Palestinians, including over 60 children, were killed in a time span of 11 days that began on May 10, 2021. The Gaza-based resistance movements retaliated.

The regime was eventually forced to announce a ceasefire, brokered by Egypt, which came into force in the early hours of May 21, 2021.

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