President of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Field Marshal Mahdi Al-Mashat, congratulated Lebanon as a "state, an army, people, and Resistance," on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of its victory in the July 2006 war against Israeli aggression.

Al-Mashat's congratulation letter came on the 17th anniversary of the victory in the July war, wherein he underlined that "Hezbollah's confrontation of the Israeli aggression war and its significant victory in 2006 demonstrated to all free people the effectiveness of jihad for the sake of God and resistance against enemies, rather than surrender, submission, and compliance."

"The Islamic resistance in Lebanon, through its victories in 2000 and 2006, managed to turn the page on defeats into and pave the way for triumphs, providing all the Islamic nation's children with hope for liberation and independence."

The July 2006 war, waged by the Israeli occupation forces against Lebanon following Operation Truthful Promise in which Hezbollah succeeded in capturing two Israeli soldiers in a high-profile operation on the Lebanese-occupied Palestinian occupied border on July 12, 2006. The Israeli occupation referred to it as the "Second Lebanon War."

The war was waged with the objective of destroying Hezbollah's power and occupying wide parts of Lebanon, but it failed to do so after the Lebanese resistance successfully confronted it and inflicted significant losses on the attacking forces, both on the frontlines and domestically.

The war ended after 33 days of fighting, without the Israeli forces managing to occupy any Lebanese territory. They faced precision strikes on land, sea, and air, as well as rocket barrages that resulted in dozens of casualties among settlers and reached the southern parts of Haifa.

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The Israeli occupation forces suffered around 150 casualties, mostly from elite forces, in addition to hundreds of injuries and substantial losses in tanks and military capabilities.