Above photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah.
Reaffirms Support For Palestine.
The Yemeni Armed Forces has stated it will continue to enforce an air and sea blockade against Israel until the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza comes to a halt.
The leader of the Ansarallah resistance movement, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, stated during a televised speech on 8 May that Yemen will continue supporting Palestine against Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign.
“Our country has resumed its full stance – militarily, officially, and popularly – to support the Palestinian people since the resumption of the genocide,” Houthi said, emphasizing that the Yemeni position is “firm and comprehensive regarding support, whether through bombing deep inside occupied Palestine or the ban on Israeli ships.”
His statement comes two days after US President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement ending Washington’s unconstitutional war against Yemen in an Omani-mediated truce deal that omits Israel.
“The escalation of US aggression did not affect our military capabilities, did not stop operations, and did not affect popular will in any way,” Houthi stated on Thursday, revealing that, since mid-March, the US bombed Yemen over 1,712 times.
He also confirmed that the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) is fully prepared “to confront any new round of US aggression.”
“[The US] would not have mobilized, with all its capabilities, potential, aircraft carriers, and bombers, had the Yemeni people’s stance not been influential,” Houthi added and stressed the naval blockade on Israeli-linked vessels “has been a complete and total success.”
“The operation targeting [Ben Gurion] Airport exposed the vulnerability of the Israeli enemy to Yemeni missiles and revealed the failure of both Israeli and US defense systems … From 15 March to 7 May, our support operations totaled over 131, carried out with 253 ballistic, cruise, hypersonic missiles, and drones,” the Ansarallah leader said, noting that Tel Aviv is under “four layers of protection” including the recently-deployed US THAAD missile defense system.
“The attack on Ben Gurion Airport caused more than 3 million Zionists to flee to shelters and froze airport activity for an important period. The state of fear and mass panic among the Zionists has its significance and great role in pressuring the Israeli enemy.”
Houthi also spoke about Israel’s destruction of Sanaa International Airport earlier this week, saying that Tel Aviv was “forced to enter directly into aggression on our country” due to Washington’s failure in the Red Sea.
“Everything the Israeli enemy targeted were clear and known civilian sites, and they are evidence of the American and Israeli failure to confront Yemen’s military capabilities,” Houthi said.