Al Mayadeen – July 29, 2025
Yemen targets Ben Gurion Airport in defense of Gaza
Yemen’s armed forces launched a hypersonic missile targeting Ben Gurion Airport in occupied Yafa, causing major disruption.
The spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yihya Saree, announced on Tuesday that the missile force carried out a precision military operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport in occupied Yafa using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.
In an official statement, Saree confirmed that the operation successfully hit its intended target, resulting in mass panic among millions of Israeli settlers and the disruption of airport operations.
Saree emphasized that the missile strike was a response to the ongoing genocide committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and a show of support for the Palestinian people and their Resistance.
He stated that military operations by the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue until the blockade on Gaza is lifted and the aggression is halted.
Brigadier General Saree stressed that Yemen, its people, leadership, and armed forces, will persist in their operations in solidarity with the oppressed and starving people of Palestine. He reaffirmed that Yemen stands with the Resistance, offering backing to its steadfastness as it endures the siege and aggression alone and unsupported.
In a direct message to the Palestinian people, Saree said, "Your brothers, your people, and your kin in Yemen are with you and stand beside you. We will do all that is in our power as a duty to you."
Earlier today, the Israeli military reported the interception of a ballistic missile launched from Yemen toward the occupied Palestinian territories. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, al-Quds, and the Askalan area.
According to Israeli Channel 12, air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport was suspended following the missile launch, with both takeoffs and landings temporarily halted.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-targets-ben-gurion-airport-in-defense-of-gaza
12-day war demonstrated unmatched firmness of Islamic Republic’s foundation
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent 12-day war revealed the strength and determination of the Iranian nation, and showed the world the unmatched firmness of the Islamic Republic’s foundation.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks on Tuesday during a ceremony at the Imam Khomeini Hussainiya in Tehran to mark the 40th day since the martyrdom of those killed in the war. The event was attended by families of the fallen, government officials, and people from various walks of life.
He said the war served as an occasion for the Islamic Republic to display its willpower and capabilities, stressing that the root cause of enmity toward Iran lies in the nation’s “faith, knowledge, and unity.”
“The Global Arrogance, led by America, opposes your religion and your knowledge,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. “They are against this widespread faith of [our] people, their unity under the banner of Islam and the Qur’an, and they are against your knowledge.”
“These events were not unprecedented for us,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. “The Islamic Republic, in addition to the eight-year imposed war, has faced numerous incidents over the past 46 years, including coup d’état, and different military, political, and security plots .”
The nation has thwarted all previous plots against it, he said.
The Leader’s remarks come in the wake of Israel’s June 13 aggression targeting senior Iranian officials and nuclear scientists in an act of terrorism that killed scores of civilians as well. Days later, the United States escalated the war by bombing three civilian nuclear facilities in Iran.
In a powerful response, Iranian Armed Forces launched retaliatory strikes on strategic Israeli targets across the occupied territories and also hit the al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military outpost in West Asia.
Iran’s coordinated operations forced a halt to the aggression by June 24.
Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed Western claims over Iran’s nuclear program and human rights as mere pretexts, saying the real concern of the enemies is the Islamic Republic’s growing power.
“Our nation, by divine grace, will never abandon its religion or its knowledge,” he said. “We will take great strides in strengthening our faith and deepening our scientific advancement.”
Much to the enemy’s dismay, we will be able to raise Iran to the pinnacle of advancement and pride.
UN conference urges worldwide recognition of Palestinian Sta
te, rails against Israeli genocide in Gaza
A high-level United Nations conference has urged recognition of Palestine as a state by all countries, while also lambasting the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
The two-day event wound down on Tuesday after the participants signed the “New York Declaration” that urged the global recognition.
As many as 147 out of the United Nations 192-strong member states have recognized the State of Palestine. Those that have so far refused include the United States, the regime’s biggest ally, which invariably sways its veto power so it can shield Tel Aviv against punitive UN measures.
Without naming Tel Aviv and Washington, which also supports the former with untrammeled lethal aid, the document said “illegal unilateral actions are posing an existential threat to the realization of the independent state of Palestine.”
The conference further denounced the regime’s aggression against civilians and civilian infrastructures in Gaza and its “siege and starvation, which have produced a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis.”
More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of the war that has seen Tel Aviv also tighten its already severe 2007-present siege of the coastal sliver to insufferable proportions.
Even major Israeli rights bodies, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, have affirmed that the regime was committing genocide in Gaza, calling the US and Europe accomplices to Tel Aviv’s atrocities.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the meeting. The US too has boycotted it, calling it “unproductive and ill-timed.”
Amid the provocations, the event was postponed from June and downgraded from top officials to ministers.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/30/752106/United-Nations-Palestine-statehood-Israel-genocide
Palestinian Information Center – July 29, 2025
16 Palestinians killed, dozens injured in Israeli targeting of aid seekers
Sixteen Palestinian civilians were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday evening after Israeli occupation forces shelled and opened fire on crowds waiting for humanitarian aid in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources confirmed that six civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli artillery attack targeting aid seekers near the “Morag axis” northwest of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.
Additionally, ten more civilians were killed and several others were injured when Israeli tanks and artillery fired on aid seekers in the Al-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza.
The sources also reported that six critically wounded individuals were transferred to Al-Quds Hospital following a direct drone strike that targeted aid seekers at the Al-Nabulsi junction.
Earlier, Al-Awda Hospital reported that 15 aid seekers were killed and dozens injured by Israeli fire near the Netzarim axis in central Gaza. In a separate attack, seven civilians were killed near aid distribution points between Khan Younis and Rafah.
Overall, medical sources across Gaza hospitals confirmed that 81 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire since the early morning hours, including 32 aid seekers, underscoring a deadly pattern of targeting those desperate for food and relief under siege conditions.
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2025/07/30/344353/
Palestinian Information Center – July 29, 2025
Boats from 44 countries to participate in largest mission to break Gaza siege
The Global Sumud Flotilla coalition has announced preparations for the launch of the largest civilian Gaza-bound maritime mission to break the Israeli siege on the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
According to the organizers on Monday, boats from around 44 countries will participate in the pro-Gaza mission to challenge the Israeli blockade, to voice condemnation for governments’ silence on what is happening in the Palestinian coastal enclave, and to demand urgent action to end the genocide and provide the population with their humanitarian needs.
US activists are involved in organizing this mission, coordinating efforts to prepare two boats bearing the American flag, as reported by Al Jazeera Net.
The organizers hope that this American involvement in the mission will have significant symbolic meaning, reflecting the widespread public anger in the country towards the Trump administration’s blind support for the Israeli siege and genocide in Gaza.
