Al Mayadeen – August 4, 2025
Yemeni missile fired at Israeli target; sirens sound in central cities
Sirens have sounded in multiple Israeli city settlements after a missile was launched from Yemen.
The Israeli occupation's military command said that it identified a missile launched from Yemen early on Tuesday, saying that it is monitoring the situation.
As a result of the attack, sirens sounded in multiple city settlements in central Israeli-occupied Palestine at around 1:00 am (local time).
Israeli authorities later said that the missile was intercepted. Nonetheless, the attack marks yet another Yemeni strike, launched in support of the Palestinian people. Sanaa has pledged continued assistance to Palestinians by taking on an active role. The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) have successfully enabled a naval blockade on Israeli-affiliated shipments, cutting off the vital Red Sea - Arabian Sea route for the occupation.
Additionally, the YAF has launched dozens of drone and missile attacks against Israeli targets, stressing that it will continue to do so until the Israeli war on Gaza is ended.
Palestinian Resistance destroys Israeli military vehicles across Gaza
The al-Quds and Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades destroy Israel" military vehicles in Khan Younis and Gaza City using explosive devices, inflicting casualties amid continued resistance.
The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, announced on Monday that its fighters successfully destroyed an Israeli military vehicle using a pre-planted Thaqib explosive device in the Abu Hudhaf area, northeast of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a brief statement, the brigades declared: "Your vehicles have become ruins," a reference to the ongoing Israeli military operation dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots”, launched months ago with the stated aim of fully occupying the Gaza Strip, dismantling the Resistance, and forcibly displacing the population of Gaza.
The operation has failed to achieve any of its strategic goals, according to Israeli officials themselves.
In a separate operation, the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said they destroyed an Israeli armored personnel carrier in coordination with the al-Quds Brigades. The operation involved an anti-armor explosive device detonated on Al-Montar Street, east of the Shujaiya neighborhood in northern Gaza City.
The brigades confirmed that the explosion resulted in casualties among the crew, with members either killed or injured, and emphasized that the operation was part of a continuing response to the crimes committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people.
These operations reflect the ongoing resistance to Israeli incursions into Gaza and serve as a direct response to the prolonged aggression and blockade. The resistance factions stress that such attacks have led to significant losses among Israeli forces on multiple fronts.
Massive civilian flotilla set to sail for Gaza to break Israeli siege
A massive civilian flotilla is scheduled to depart for Gaza at the end of August in an effort to break Israel’s blockade, which has pushed the territory to the brink of famine.
Organizers announced on Monday at a press conference in Tunis that activists from 44 countries have united for this coordinated initiative.
Dozens of boats, both large and small, will set sail from ports worldwide, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla ever organized.
This summer, we will witness the largest civilian flotilla in history, said organizer Haifa Mansouri.
The flotilla comprises four initiatives: the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Global Movement to Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and Sumud Nusantara.
Their shared goal is to "break the illegal blockade on Gaza by sea, establish a humanitarian corridor, and confront the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people," Mansouri explained.
Seif Abu Keshk, another organizer, noted that over 6,000 activists have already registered to join.
“Participants will undergo training at departure points, with solidarity events and encampments planned along the way,” he added.
“This is a renewed effort to pressure governments by sending dozens of ships and thousands of activists to break Gaza’s blockade,” Abu Keshk stated.
The first convoy will depart from Spanish ports on August 31, followed by a second wave from Tunisian ports on September 4.
The announcement follows the interception of the Handala aid ship by Israeli naval forces on July 26, as it approached Gaza, with the ship being redirected to Ashdod Port.
Israel’s genocidal campaign, which began on October 7, 2023, has resulted in the deaths of nearly 61,000 Palestinians, primarily women and children, without achieving its declared objectives.
Human rights groups have condemned the Israeli blockade of vital supplies as a crime against humanity and a violation of international law. Since May, Israeli forces have killed over 1,330 Palestinian aid seekers and injured more than 8,810 others, primarily at humanitarian centers.
The United Nations reports that over 6,000 Palestinian children are being treated for malnutrition due to the blockade. At least 175 people, including 93 children, have starved to death in Gaza since the onset of the war.
Israel has rejected calls from the UN, humanitarian agencies, and world leaders to increase aid deliveries to alleviate the crisis. As a result, Palestinian families are increasingly dependent on humanitarian aid while struggling to survive amid intentional restrictions that have made hunger a deadly reality in the besieged territory.
Iranian lawmaker: Visiting IAEA team will have no access to nuclear sites
A senior Iranian lawmaker says the delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that is expected to visit the country next week will have no access to nuclear installations.
Ebrahim Azizi, the head of Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Monday that the IAEA team will be authorized exclusively and solely to hold “technical and expert-level talks” with Iranian officials and experts.
“According to the laws passed by Parliament, Iran will not let physical access to its nuclear facilities under any circumstances,” he said.
“Also, no inspector from the IAEA team or any other foreign organization will be allowed to be present at our country's nuclear sites,” the Iranian lawmaker added.
Azizi stated that the restrictions are final and irreversible, and that the government is obligated to fully adhere to them.
Issues such as granting access to Iran’s nuclear facilities or permitting inspections requested by the IAEA are not on the agenda of the government and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), he said.
On June 25, Parliament unanimously agreed to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA.
The legislation was passed a day after Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations, managed to impose a halt to June’s Israeli-US aggression that also targeted three of the country’s nuclear sites.
Under the law, inspectors will not be permitted to enter Iran unless the security of the country's nuclear facilities and that of peaceful nuclear activities is guaranteed, which is subject to the approval of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
The rationale for the move was the IAEA’s politically-motivated resolution, which paved the way for the 12-day Israeli-US aggression against the Islamic Republic, and the agency's failure to condemn the terrorist assault.
Iran, IAEA will discuss ‘method of interaction’
During a press conference on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that no IAEA inspectors are currently in Iran.
He also noted that Tehran’s cooperation with the UN’s atomic watchdog is regulated based on the recent law.
The upcoming visit by IAEA officials to Iran is meant to discuss the “method of interaction” with the agency, given the recently approved legislation, the spokesman said.
"We are facing exceptional circumstances, as the facilities of a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have been illegally attacked by two nuclear-armed regimes," he said.
"Unfortunately, the IAEA did not remain impartial, failed to condemn the attacks, and instead issued a report that provided a kind of political ground for making excuses,” he added.
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‘No longer safe’: Iran’s new intelligence breakthrough exposes Israel’s 'flying assassins'
By Masoud Khalili
The silence after an explosion is often louder than the blast itself. And on Saturday, in the stillness following Tehran’s latest strategic revelation, the echo was manifestly thunderous.
Israel’s self-proclaimed fortress of air and intelligence supremacy crumbled once again – and this time, no missile was needed.
Iranian media released footage containing leaked sensitive data on Israeli Air Force personnel, including comprehensive dossiers on pilots and commanders, their locations, flight histories, and base assignments.
Each name, each photo, each datapoint represented another dagger driven into the myth of Israeli “invincibility,” which was already exposed during the 12-day war of aggression on Iran.
Among the names was Major Yael Ash, the once-celebrated aspirant to restore Zionist “security.” In an earlier interview, she had spoken of her desire to become the regime’s flying savior. Now, ironically, she has become a marked figure, her legacy turned into a liability.
Her grandfather vanished in the fog of the Yom Kippur War. She may yet vanish in a far more digital and calculated storm. Her husband, Bar Prince, is now just as visible, and just as vulnerable. The irony is painful, poetic – and now even deadly.
Iran’s message couldn’t be clearer – We see you. We know your pilots. We’ve mapped your bunkers. We’ve walked your cyber corridors, while you still believed you were untouchable.
Israeli mass murderers once thrived in the shadows. Iran just turned on the light.
But the Islamic Republic didn’t stop at exposure. It fully knows who they are, where they live, how they operate – and, most chilling of all, it has already acted.
Some of these Israeli air force personnel have seen their homes in cities like Yavne, deep in the heart of the occupied Palestinian territories, struck by precision Iranian missiles.
From now on, every Israeli military pilot preparing for another deadly regional strike will ask themselves: “Am I already marked? Has my address been mapped?”
Trained from adolescence and glorified as “heroes,” they now stand exposed and reduced to vulnerable “assets.” Their faces broadcast, their data compromised, their movements tracked.
In every cockpit now sits a ghost: the creeping fear that they are being watched and tracked meticulously. This is no longer just a morale issue; it has become an existential one.
"Has my name been entered into the ledger of justice?" That’s the question these flying assassins may now ask themselves before being tasked with another suicidal mission.
Because this is what justice looks like in the era of asymmetric warfare. You don’t need aircraft carriers. You need clarity, courage, and conviction.
Iran has delivered all three with remarkable success.
The Iranian retaliatory strikes that targeted the settlements of Israeli air force personnel came in response to Tel Aviv’s so-called “Operation Rising Lion,” launched on June 12, a desperate attempt to regain the initiative by striking Iranian nuclear facilities, senior military officials, atomic scientists, as well as ordinary civilians, including little children.
Those attacks were absorbed, assessed, and answered. Iran’s retaliation through Operation True Promise III was calculated, disciplined, and at the same time, devastating.
On June 19, amid the retaliation, a precision missile strike leveled key research facilities at Ben Gurion University, known to be involved in pilot training and drone warfare development.
Operation True Promise III also struck key Mossad nodes and Israeli military-industrial complexes in the occupied territories with pinpoint precision.
Realizing their vulnerability to direct retaliation, the regime scrambled to shield its military personnel by hiding them among civilians. Many were moved into non-military structures, including schools, in a calculated effort to manufacture outrage if those sites were hit.
It was a propaganda play: risk the lives of settlers and then cry foul.
But Tehran didn’t take the bait. It exposed the tactic. Saturday’s footage revealed it all.
As for the intelligence capabilities that enabled Iran’s calibrated response to the unprovoked and illegal Israeli aggression on Iranian soil, they were no accident.
On June 7, less than a week before Israel launched its aggression, Iranian officials publicly confirmed what had long been dreaded in Tel Aviv and anticipated in Tehran: a vast trove of sensitive Israeli documents in Iranian hands.
The leak included everything from nuclear blueprints to internal military correspondence. The message was clear: we know your secrets and we choose when to act on them.
Revealed as a multi-phase operation, this masterstroke showed how the Islamic Republic not only infiltrated Israel’s highly-protected intelligence strongholds but also exposed the strategic nerve centers of Tel Aviv’s war machine – nuclear, military, and industrial
No bullets were fired, yet the psychological blow struck deeper than any drone or missile.
This revelation, confirmed reluctantly by Israeli media, was historic in scale, showing how the heart of Zionist deterrence – its supposed technological dominance – was exposed to daylight.
For years, the Islamic Republic has cultivated a counterintelligence doctrine centered on “ma'rifat” – knowledge not merely as awareness, but as dominion.
This doctrine of “information superiority” draws directly from the Islamic Revolution’s foundational logic: Asymmetric confrontation, spiritual conviction, and strategic depth.
From the 1979 takeover of the US embassy (den of espionage), when Iranian students turned shredded CIA files into intelligence mosaics, to the present day, the Islamic Republic has understood that wars are won not just with weapons, but with insight into the enemy’s soul.
The Zionist regime, built on secrecy and perception management, thrives only when its enemies are blind. Once its secrets are brought into the open, deterrence decays from within.
Tehran’s brilliance lies in flipping the script: turning espionage into preemption, secrecy into deterrence, and counterintelligence into ideological power.
“Rising Lion” might have targeted Iranian facilities, but it failed to stop the blowback. Instead, Iran showed how intelligence could be operationalized into real-time retaliation, hitting the regime where it hurts most: Its myth of control.
And it goes, painfully for Tel Aviv and its allies, against the regime’s decades-long endeavor to carefully engineer an illusion of technological edge, of impenetrable missile systems, and of unchallenged intelligence dominance.
Because now, striking Iran means more than war—you write your name on a list. And now that list is being read, one by one.
Masoud Khalili is a Tehran-based writer and strategic affairs commentator.
Iran’s president:
Silence in face of Israel’s atrocities amounts to complicity
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says silence in the face of Israel’s atrocities amounts to complicity with oppression, urging Muslims not to remain indifferent to the regime’s crimes against the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza.
In a meeting with a group of prominent Pakistani Shia and Sunni Muslims in Islamabad on Sunday, Pezeshkian said the Israeli regime’s actions in Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria are a clear example of crimes against humanity.
He criticized those who claim to advocate human rights, democracy and human values for keeping silent in the face of the Israeli regime’s crimes.
“How can they block access to water, food, and medicine for women and children, allowing these defenseless individuals to perish from hunger, while some are merely witnessing and even justifying such crimes?” Pezeshkian asked, saying this is an “intolerable” situation.
As Gaza continues to grapple with the consequences of violence and blockade, experts warn that without immediate action to ease restrictions and ensure access to aid, the humanitarian situation is likely to worsen, deepening the suffering of civilians caught in the crossfire.
Since May, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,330 Palestinian aid seekers, and over 8,810 others have been wounded in Israeli attacks, mainly at so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) centers.
The United Nations agencies say more than 6,000 Palestinian children are being treated for malnutrition resulting from an all-out blockade of Gaza.
Israel has rejected calls from the UN, aid agencies, and world leaders to allow more aid trucks into the besieged region to alleviate the crisis.
The Iranian president criticized divisions among Muslim nations, emphasizing, “If Muslim countries were united, neither Israel nor the United States would dare commit such crimes.”
He explained that the ongoing situation is the outcome of the policies that aim to sow discord among Muslims, create internal conflicts and target each nation individually.
“Lebanon, Syria, and even Iran have been attacked just like Gaza, and they will not hesitate to target Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan next,” he said.
Pezeshkian emphasized that the primary objective of enemies is to weaken each Muslim country separately, noting that this strategy is based on causing division and discord to detach Muslims from their true power.
He pointed to the important role of religious intellectuals to counter the enemies’ plots, urging Muslim scholars to take the initiative and reinforce unity among nations through cooperation and dialogue.
The Iranian president emphasized that solidarity among Muslim nations would guarantee regional security and protect their dignity in the face of bullying powers in the world.
