# Bab al-Mandab: Conflict, Yemeni Sovereignty and Shipping Risks - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2108203706797666539 - Source account: [@AlMayadeenNews](https://x.com/AlMayadeenNews) - Source language: Arabic - Target language: English - Duration: 3:30 - Published: 2026-10-08 - Machine translated. 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[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=10) This is what he did and worked toward, a media fanfare filled with many lies, and some regional channels of certain regimes fell for these lies in the Arab world, and exaggerated horrifically, to the point of total collapse and presenting lies in a horrifying way, [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=33) before the facts emerged to expose them. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=36) That is all it was, opening a front from the outskirts of Lahij Governorate, in a desert there near Bab al-Mandab, to confront or attack Bab al-Mandab with it. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=50) Saudi resentment, and behind it Zionist resentment, American resentment, and Western resentment, and the resentment of the forces aligned with them and orbiting around them, is over Yemen asserting its national sovereignty over Bab al-Mandab. [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=68) All their resentment is over this, because in terms of military operations in support of Palestine throughout the entire past phase of Al-Aqsa Flood, through missile operations, we achieved our objectives from any place in Yemen, [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=85) We target targets in the Red Sea or the Arabian Sea, and anywhere in the Red Sea, anywhere in the Gulf of Aden, even in the Bab al-Mandab. We can do so from any point in Yemen, but they are deeply, deeply resentful, deeply resentful because Yemen has asserted its national sovereignty over its land, [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=109) and that is its right, its right under all international norms, which is why they are trying to restore foreign control and occupy that region and that geography of Yemeni land. [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=125) What is noticeable, for example, and prevalent in, in fact, public opinion and international politics, is that there has been no global outcry from some countries at the international and regional levels that Saudi Arabia is working to turn Bab al-Mandab into a war front and a field ablaze with confrontations. The position of our armed [2:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=149) forces, thanks to God, in the confrontation there is strong and effective, and they are inflicting severe losses on the Saudi mobilizations, inflicting severe losses by destroying their vehicles and gatherings, and the armed forces released documented footage of that In that desert, [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=170) they target them with missiles, drones, all kinds of weapons and brutalize them. [2:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=177) But the issue is that the Saudi enemy is turning Bab al-Mandab into a war zone and a battlefield, a place of confrontation, and this is what threatens the safety of international shipping and poses a danger to international navigation when that area becomes a zone of clashes, [3:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1o8CEntDsfNE/en/bab-al-mandab-conflict-yemeni-sovereignty-and-shipping-risks?t=200) fighting, battle, and ongoing war and exchanges of fire. This affects international navigation.