Yemen’s Ansarallah are combating Israel’s expanded military outpost project, centred in Somaliland, as it accelerated plans to control the Red Sea and overthrow Yemen’s resistance government that had bankrupted Israel’s Eilat Port. Israel lost its foothold on Mayyun Island following a Yemeni operation that ended with Sana’a taking control of the Bab al-Mandab strait and capturing US-made Saudi military equipment in an embarrassing defeat.