SANAA (Dispatches) –
Yemen’s Ansarullah leader said on Tuesday his forces would make further attacks on Israel and target Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
The movement launched several missile and drone attacks against Israel. Ansarullah, at war against a Saudi-led coalition since 2015, has emerged as a major military force in the Arabian Peninsula, with tens of thousands of fighters and a huge arsenal of ballistic missiles and armed drones.
The group controls northern Yemen and its Red Sea coasts.
“Our eyes are open to constantly monitor and search for any Israeli ship in the Red Sea, especially in Bab al-Mandab, and near Yemeni regional waters,” Abdulmalik al-Houthi said in a broadcast speech.
He also called on Arab countries and the Muslim world to adopt a clear stance against Israel’s ongoing atrocities in the besieged Gaza Strip.
In a televised speech broadcast live to commemorate the anniversary of “Martyrs” in the Yemeni capital, he said the Zionist regime is committing genocide in Gaza and the Muslim world has shown a “weak and limited” stance on the occupying regime’s atrocities.
“Gaza is experiencing genocide and cold-blooded killing of its people even at the mosques, schools, hospitals, and the international organizations in which they take shelter,” he said.
“In the face of the major tragedy that the Palestinian people have been facing for more than 70 years, a limited and weak stance has been shown by over a billion Muslims,” he lamented. “Arab regimes are losing seriousness and do not have the will to act seriously towards Gaza.”
Houthi underlined that the Gaza Strip is subjected to a joint Israeli-Arab siege, and the neighboring countries are not seriously trying to deliver food, medicine, and humanitarian aid that the blockade area needs.
The Ansarullah chief also expressed his disappointment with the final statement issued by the Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh at the weekend.
“Although the Arab-Islamic Summit was an emergency meeting of 57 countries, it did not come up with a position or practical action, and this is shameful and sad,” Houthi said.
“The summit that claimed to represent all Muslims only produced statements with no practical stance. Is this capability of over a billion and a half Muslims?” he said. “Fifty-seven Arab and Islamic countries, with all their … capabilities, came out with a statement that could have been issued by a primary school and by one person.”
The Ansarullah chief said the outcome of the summit was a very ordinary statement that was “ridiculed by the Israelis.”