Yemen warns Israel after aggression: Response is coming
A senior Yemeni official has issued a stern warning to the Israeli regime following the latter’s intense aerial aggression against the Arab Peninsula nation.
“The response is coming,” Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, a high-ranking member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, said on Tuesday.
He asserted that the nation would sustain its unyielding support for the Gaza Strip — which has been suffering under a genocidal United States-backed Israeli war since October 2023 — by continuing to target the occupied Palestinian territories.
“The Yemeni people will not be intimidated by American and Israeli terrorism,” the official added, referring to both the Israeli aggression and other airstrikes against the country by the United States, Tel Aviv’s biggest ally. The US has markedly intensified its attacks against Yemen since in March as a means of trying to stop Sana’a’s pro-Palestinian strikes.
‘US-Israeli crimes in Yemen not short of genocide in Gaza’
Al-Houthi said the US-Israeli crimes in Yemen “are the same genocidal crimes they commit in Gaza.”
He, however, asserted, “What we refused to [witness] continue in Palestine, we will not accept being passed on in Yemen.”
“[Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu must prepare his resignation, for his crimes are failed terrorism,” the Yemeni official said.
Yemeni President Mahdi al-Mashat also echoed these sentiments, asserting, “There will be no retreat from supporting Gaza, no matter the cost.”
‘Israeli settlers should either hide or leave’
“What has happened proves that our strikes are painful and will continue,” he added, noting that the Israeli aggression against Yemen indicated that Tel Aviv had suffered extensively as a result of the Yemeni strikes.
He warned the Israeli regime’s illegal settlers to either seek shelter or leave, as their regime could no longer guarantee their safety.
Ansarallah vows continued resistance, retaliation
Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement’s Political Bureau, meanwhile, denounced the Israeli attacks on civilian facilities, including ports, airports, and power stations, as evidence of the Israeli regime’s desperation.
It affirmed that such aggression would not deter Yemen from its supportive stance towards Gaza and called upon the international Muslim community to take effective action against Zionist and American arrogance.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the bureau, stated in an interview with Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television channel, “The Zionists have crossed red lines, and they should expect a Yemeni response.”
On another noted, he emphasized that Yemen’s operations were being coordinated with Palestinian resistance groups and were not influenced by external parties, such as Iran, as the US and its allies were trying to project.
Earlier in the day, Israeli warplanes launched significant airstrikes on the Yemeni capital Sana’a’s airport, destroying its runway and parked aircraft.
Additional Israeli strikes targeted Yemen’s lifeline Red Sea port of al-Hudaydah and other infrastructures, resulting in civilian casualties.
The attacks came after a Yemeni ballistic missile struck the vicinity of the regime’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, injuring four.
It also followed Yemeni forces’ announcing imposition of a comprehensive aerial blockade on the Israeli regime, warning international airlines to suspend flights to airports in the occupied Palestinian territories to ensure passenger safety.
The blockade aims to ramp up pressure on the regime to cease the war of genocide in Gaza and also stop a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing on the coastal sliver.
Yemen is already enforcing a naval blockade against ships carrying cargoes, including military cargoes, to the occupied territories in line with its pro-Palestinian support.
