'Fighting Israel's battles': Netizens denounce latest US aggression against Yemen

The latest deadly US airstrikes against Yemen have sparked a firestorm across the global social media platforms, with critics denouncing Washington for waging war on behalf of the Israeli regime, its most cherished regional ally.

The extensive attacks, which the United States carried out on President Donald Trump’s orders with the UK’s cooperation against the capital Sana’a and several other locations, targeted purely civilian targets on Saturday, leaving at least 18 non-combatants dead and wounded close to 20 others.

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Hala Jaber, a prominent award-winning journalist, condemned the assaults, reminding on X (formerly Twitter) that the aggression went underway after Yemen resumed its ban on Israeli ships’ crossing major waterways over Tel Aviv’s refusal to allow entry of direly-needed aid into the Gaza Strip.

“For clarity: Yemen threatened to ban Israeli ships until aid reached Gaza—there was no threat against American ships. So why did the US launch a war on Yemen? Once again, the US and UK are fighting Israel’s battles,” she wrote.

Fiorella Isabel, international journalist and geo-political analyst working across the globe, noted that the US had hit the impoverished Arab Peninsula nation because it was “fighting against the eradication of the ethnic people of West Asia, including Palestine, Syria & the entire region.”

She was pointing to the Israeli regime’s genocidal war against Gaza, and escalated deadly aggression towards Lebanon and Syria besides other places throughout the region.

“Ansurallah is an example of what Resistance must do & thus is a threat to Washington’s plans with Israel,” Isabel wrote, referring to Yemen’s popular resistance movement.

Filmmaker, journalist, writer, and West Asia affairs’ analyst, Robert Inlakesh railed against the attacks, defining them as Trump’s “declaring war on Yemen.”

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This, however, “is a war for Israel,” which did not serve the American people’s interests, he remarked, asking, “How does it feel that while you are robbed of your First Amendment rights when it comes to Israel, your “America First” President fights their wars with your money?”

Inlakesh was referring to the part of the US Constitution that prohibits curtailment of free speech and the right to peaceful assembly -- principles that have been clearly trampled upon with the US’s ongoing suppression of pro-Palestinian protests.

Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada online publication, likewise linked the attacks to the Israeli regime’s interests, not the Americans’ needs and preferences, posting, “Trump is doing this for Israel, while pretending it is for America and Americans.”

Ryan Grim, a reporter with Drop Site News, a website developed by veteran contributors to American news organization The Intercept said the US was bombing Yemen because it would be “easier” for Washington to wage bloodshed against the country than to make the regime let aid into Gaza in line with the terms of a ceasefire deal with the Palestinian territory’s Hamas resistance movement.

21st Century Wire news website journalist Patrick Henningsen reminded that before the Saturday raids, the US, the UK, and the Israeli regime had been bombing Yemen’s vital infrastructures as a means of “defending” the regime.

“Now they want to do more killing of Arabs in Yemen,” he added.

US Representative Thomas Massie said the atrocities were being carried out in compensation for the US’s apparent decision to reduce its contribution to the conflict in Ukraine.

He, meanwhile, regretted that the American military industrial complex “demands about $50 billion a year from our government, above and beyond what’s necessary to defend our own country.”

Dylan Saba, another netizen, emphasized that the airstrikes marked the richest country in the world bombing the world’s poorest nation.

The atrocities were being perpetrated over Yemen’s daring to take a stand against the Israeli genocide,” he added, chiming in with others.

Dan Cohen with the Uncaptured News, a platform for multimedia investigative journalism, regretted that there was no US national security justification for bombing Yemen.

“This is purely about punishing resistance to the Zionist genocide of Gaza. Donald Trump betrays the Constitution, which he is sworn to uphold. He demonstrates loyalty to international Zionism, not the American people.”

Earlier on Saturday, Trump had announced on X that he had ordered the United States military to launch “decisive and powerful military action” against, what he described as, Yemen’s Ansarullah, although the Saturday American attacks just targeted Yemeni civilians.

"We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” he had added.

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