SANA’A (Dispatches) -- A senior official in Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has called on Saudi Arabia’s ruling family to remove Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, warning that his continued rule poses a threat to the kingdom.
“We will support any move within the ruling family … to oust bin Salman,” Muhammad al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansarullah’s political bureau, said in an interview with The Grayzone. He urged Saudi citizens and opposition groups to act as well.
Al-Bukhaiti said Yemen’s military has adopted a policy of meeting blockade with blockade and escalation with escalation “until peace is achieved by ending the war and the blockade on both sides.”
Tensions escalated after Saudi Arabia bombed Sanaa’s international airport in July. Yemen’s armed forces responded by declaring an embargo on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. 
In recent weeks, the Yemeni military has announced several naval operations targeting ships linked to Saudi Arabia, affecting Riyadh’s energy exports, and has carried out retaliatory strikes on targets deep inside the kingdom.
Yemeni forces have also advanced rapidly across Yemen’s coastal plain over the past month, strengthening their control over the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait. This month, Yemen warned airlines against using Saudi airspace, saying only the airspace over Mecca and Medina is safe.
Al-Bukhaiti warned that Yemen could launch further missile and drone attacks targeting Saudi oil facilities, power plants, ports and airports. He said Yemeni forces have taken Jabal Han, overlooking the southwestern city of Ta’izz, adding that “only the city of Ta’izz itself is left.”
He described territorial gains along the western coast to Bab al-Mandeb and now toward Ta’izz as “an outcome of a battle forced upon us,” saying the operation followed the Saudi breach of a ceasefire and the strike on Sanaa airport.
Al-Bukhaiti said Yemen’s operations target Saudi Arabia only. He said Sana’a has assured domestic opponents they could keep their territory and weapons pending a Yemen-Yemeni dialogue, and accused Saudi leaders of trying to internationalize the conflict by involving the UK, the U.S., “the Zionist entity,” Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan, and of stirring local factions. 
Saudi-backed forces, he said, were the first to break the ceasefire on the western coast and in Ta’izz.
He said Riyadh sought Omani mediation after the July escalation and that Sana’a accepted a proposed five-day ceasefire for direct talks, but Saudi Arabia did not. Any peace agreement, he insisted, must end the war and the blockade.