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As Palestinian Factions Meet Ansarallah.
Yemeni officials recently welcomed members of Hamas, PIJ, and the PFLP to coordinate efforts to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The Yemeni armed forces have conducted military drills simulating ground battles against US and UK troops in one of its largest military maneuvers, which included the participation of Ansarallah-allied Popular Committees.
“During the military drill, an air landing by US and British enemy forces on a Yemeni village was simulated. Popular groups arm themselves to resist the invasion until the arrival of the Yemeni Armed Forces,” the Yemen Press Agency reported on 17 March.
Yemeni media released footage of the drills, named the “Promised Day Maneuver,” which shows the extent of Sanaa’s combat training. The drills included the use of “catastrophic death traps” for the invaders and counter-offensive operations on enemy positions.
As the drills occurred, the Yemeni Minister of Defense, Major General Nasser al-Atifi, delivered a speech stressing Sanaa’s capacity to “deal with an international community that respects only the strong.”
“We will enforce new rules of engagement forcefully, and the price will be paid dearly by the Americans, the British, and the Zionists and those in their orbit. The battle of The Promised Conquest and the Sacred Jihad in support of Al-Aqsa Flood will triumph and inevitably lead to geopolitical changes in line with a new world order,” Atifi said on Sunday.
He noted that the people of Yemen are not “warmongers” but stressed that Israel’s campaign of genocide in Gaza has prompted “freedom-loving nations of the world to declare their position against such atrocities.”
“Yemen’s involvement in operations against the usurping Zionist regime and its naval blockade is all a sovereign, national, Islamic, and humanitarian decision,” the Yemeni war chief said, adding that Sanaa “will make Washington, London, and their allies realize the non-negotiable sovereignty over our seas and territorial waters.”
Yemen’s military preparations were launched a few days after officials from Palestinian resistance groups Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) met with their counterparts in Ansarallah to “coordinate the next stage” in the battle against Israel and its sponsors.
“The US-British airstrikes will not succeed in bringing about change or dissuading [Ansarallah] from its commitment to the Palestinian people and their resistance,” the Yemeni officials told the Palestinian factions, according to informed sources who spoke with Al-Mayadeen.
The Palestinians, in turn, reportedly conveyed their “great appreciation for the pivotal and important role” played by Yemen since last November.
Last week, Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi announced plans to expand Yemen’s maritime operations against US, UK, and Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea. His speech came a day after a Yemeni military source revealed to Russian media that the armed forces recently tested a hypersonic missile and are preparing to introduce the technology into the country’s military arsenal.