What trouble has Yemen brought to the Israeli port of Eilat?

Fars News Agency International Group – Note

Two years ago, when Muhammad Al-Bakhiti, one of the leaders of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, said in a live Al-Jazeera program, according to the Quranic texts, we Yemenis God willing, we will liberate Al-Quds. Some, including Al-Jazeera anchor, mocked this statement and did not take it seriously, but today they see that Yemen, a country that is completely surrounded by the Saudi-American coalition, is effectively helping Gaza. /p>

Warnings that were implemented

At the beginning of the current war in Gaza, Yemen warned Israel, if the Zionist regime , launch a ground attack on Gaza, Sana’a will go to war with Tel Aviv in support of Gaza, again, many people did not take this position seriously. But three days after the ground attack began, on October 31, Yemen targeted the port and city of Eilat in the southernmost point of occupied Palestine with several missiles and drones to show that among the Arab rulers, the rulers of Sana’a are true to their word.

As ​​the war progressed, Yemeni attacks on this southern city increased. Since this action of Yemen was not as effective as it should have been and Israel did not deliberately respond to these actions of Yemen during this period, Yemen announced that it will not allow Israeli ships to safely pass through the Bab al-Mandab strait and the Red Sea from now on.

On November 19, Sana’a announced the seizure of the merchant ship Galaxy Leader, which is owned by an Israeli businessman. The Yemeni forces moved it to the coast of Yemen to ambush other Israeli ships. On Sunday, December 3rd, Yemen announced the attack on two other ships. The spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces said that two ships, “Unity Explorer” and “Number Nine” ship, were targeted; The first ship was targeted by a Navy missile and the second ship by a Navy drone.

Two ships that were targeted in Yemen on December 3

Eilat port under pressure from Yemen

Following this action by Yemen, Eilat port was under pressure. This pressure has increased to the point that the economic news website Gallobs wrote on Sunday that Itlat port is the biggest loser in the war of ports. The war has caused huge damages to the port of Eilat. Informed sources in the industrial sector say that if the government does not do anything, we should think about laying off the employees and workers of the port and closing it. will be While every three months, about 37,000 to 47,000 cars were imported from Eilat port, this number decreased to 9,000 cars in October (the month the war started). The regime’s Ministry of Transportation has not published the November statistics, but this downward trend has definitely intensified. Most of the 21,000 cars that were supposed to be imported in December are being imported through Haifa port.

However, according to Israeli experts, this decrease is not related to the end of the year. It is not and purchases will decrease, but the impact of the war is quite clear. On the other hand, the replacement of Haifa port in the north of occupied Palestine has increased the transportation distance and its costs. The geopolitical horizon of Eilat port is dark. Companies like ZIM and other companies have announced that they cannot cross the Red Sea and go through the Suez Canal at the moment, and they have to replace other routes, which are much longer. Almost no ships enter the port these days. Gideon Golbar, the director of this port, told the local newspaper “Yom Yom” (Ruz Roz), that the threat of the Houthis has affected the traffic of all ships, both those ships that came from the Red Sea and those that arrived from the Mediterranean. The danger zone is at the gate of Egypt.

Tariff increase by Europe; Double pressure from Yemen

The problem of the increase in transportation costs from Europe was small, the Yemeni pressure also caused the ships to go to the African continent instead of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. bypass and deliver the goods to occupied Palestine through the Mediterranean. Daniel Shamal, the correspondent of Marker Israel, says that Israel’s shipping industry has a challenge from the West these days, and that is that Grimaldi Company, one of the largest companies that transport goods from Europe to Israel, announced yesterday, Sunday, that from January 1st (less From one month, the cost of transportation will be 4% more expensive due to the environmental tax of Europe, while Yemen has also caused ships coming from the east to have to go to the African continent instead of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. bypass to reach the coast of Israel. For example, on this route, the time it takes for a ship from China to reach Israel reaches two months, which increases the costs altogether. Yemen’s threats have made the movement of ships coming from far east miserable. The ships coming from Japan, India and China to occupied Palestine have to take the route of the Cape of Good Hope instead of the Mokran Sea (Arabian Sea), the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, the Red Sea and finally the Suez Canal, and make a long lunar circuit to go through the Mediterranean. reach occupied Palestine.

The path imposed by the Cape of Good Hope instead of Bab al-Mandeb

In such a situation, Eilat port management says that if the government does not take action, it should close the port doors due to heavy costs and non-entry of ships. to close and they have communicated this to different ministries. Although it is possible that with financial assistance from other countries, this port will not be closed for the time being, but the Zionist regime is well aware that the budget of next year is facing many problems due to the increase in the expenses of the Ministry of War, and Israel has to pay ten billion shekels of other expenses to cover half of the budget. finance the war and provide the other half through borrowing or raising internal taxes. Therefore, the economic sector of this regime cannot bear the prolongation of the war.

The pressure that Yemen has put on the Zionist regime in this way will be effective in its own way; effective in the set of factors by which Tel Aviv is forced to decide the war as soon as possible; A war that has not yet achieved any of the announced goals, and on the other hand, its goals have been and are only residential houses, hospitals, refugee camps, and public gathering centers.

Chand The other day, Mary Regev, the Minister of Transportation, along with Moshe Ben Zaken, her office manager, went to Eilat Port and during a visit there, they promised that they will not allow this port, which has been handed over to the private sector for several years, to be closed because Eilat Port and Ramon Airport They play the role of sea and air ports for Israeli imports. These two did not take into account that if Eilat port is the gateway to Israel’s imports, the Bab al-Mandeb strait, which is in the hands of Yemen, is the first gate that is currently closed to Israeli ships.

The port of Eilat is just another economic pressure that the Zionist regime is enduring. It remains to be seen how much the Israeli economy can withstand the prolongation of the war.

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