Yemen: At this sensitive stage of the confrontation, the outlines of a new war are emerging — one led by the American and Zionist enemy and joined by the Saudi and Emirati regimes. Its priorities focus on targeting the Yemeni people’s steadfastness, cohesion, and awareness, aiming to defame and erase Yemen’s strategic and honorable stance in the campaign of support and victory for Gaza and the Palestinian cause.

After the failure of the US–Israeli aggression to break Yemen’s will or contain its supportive stance for Gaza, war experts in Washington and Zionist circles have concluded that Yemen can no longer be deterred by military force alone, but rather through unconventional means — including fifth-generation warfare methods that blend security, economic, psychological, and targeted media warfare. Through vast media systems, funded heavily by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, these forces seek to belittle Yemen’s role and to smear its humanitarian and military position on the support front for Gaza — a position that achieved strategic gains that changed the rules of engagement against the Zionist and American enemy and presented Yemen as a symbol of honor, sovereignty, and dignity worldwide.

Therefore, the US–Zionist enemy, together with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, aims to dismantle this strategic stance through fierce media campaigns, electronic armies, and channels and websites that systematically and daily broadcast lies and rumors, as is happening now.

Psychological weapons and black propaganda

Fifth-generation wars rely on controlling collective consciousness through precise psychological and media tools — spreading rumors, repeating falsehoods, and creating a confused intellectual environment that undermines societies’ morale. These wars are run from joint intelligence operation rooms involving the CIA and Mossad, fueled by massive financing dedicated to breaking the Yemeni people’s morale and confusing their perception of the nature of the struggle, while also attempting to defame them before global public opinion.

The “fifth column,” internal agents, and hypocrites play a dangerous role in propagating misleading narratives from abroad into the domestic sphere to spread fear and slander, provoke internal discord, and manufacture an atmosphere of despair and division.

This composite warfare seeks to achieve a set of systematic objectives, most notably:

Diverting internal attention by magnifying secondary problems to distract from the real battle against the forces of aggression, foremost among them the American and Zionist enemy.

Striking the home front by sowing discord, doubt, and undermining trust in national institutions, especially security ones.

Disassembling collective awareness and turning public opinion into an arena of internal conflict that drains societal energy and scatters its compass from strategic issues and priorities.

Exploiting social media and cyberspace to run disinformation and smear campaigns and to try to manufacture a contradictory and collision-prone intellectual environment.

Yemen in the battle of awareness

Despite the magnitude of the conspiracy and the breadth of its tools, the Yemeni people have shown exceptional awareness and a great ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. All attempts by the aggressors to break their will or affect their steadfastness have failed, because Yemenis now understand that this media war is merely evidence of the aggressors’ impotence following their military and political failures.

The authentic Yemeni position in supporting Gaza is not mere fleeting solidarity; it reflects deep Arab and Islamic belonging and values of liberation. That is why it has become a direct target of smear campaigns — because it presents a model of a free state and an honorable Arab stance that stands with the oppressed and the downtrodden.

In the era of media struggle, the word becomes deadlier than the bullet, and awareness becomes the strongest weapon. Therefore, the responsibility of intellectuals, activists, and journalists today is to strengthen collective awareness, fortify society against deception, and present facts with professionalism and honesty.

Building trust, spreading national culture, and cementing authentic religious and humanitarian concepts constitute the first lines of defense against this soft aggression that aims to topple will rather than cities.

The enemy’s bet on the battlefields has failed, and now it seeks revenge on the people’s awareness and their trust in their leadership and liberation project. But no matter how intense this media war becomes, it will shatter against the steadfastness and firm awareness of the Yemenis, a people who stood firm against the aircraft will not be shaken by rumors, and Yemen will remain at the forefront of the nation in defending Al-Quds and Gaza and the dignity of Arabs and Muslims everywhere.