Millions in Yemen Say Revenge for Haniyeh, Shukr ‘Definite’

Date: 03 August 2024 - 22:00

News ID: ۱۳۰۰۱۴

SANA’A (Dispatches) – Millions of Yemenis have held pro-Palestinian rallies across the country, pledging to seek revenge on the Israeli regime over its recent assassination of senior resistance figures.
The demonstrations were held on Friday under the slogan, “Loyalty to the blood of the martyrs...with Gaza until victory.”
The protests came days after the regime’s assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, and Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Reacting to the atrocities, the participants asserted in a statement that members of the regional Axis of Resistance, including Yemen’s Armed Forces, “must prepare for an honorable response.
Such response “will eliminate what remains of the illusion of strength in the Israeli enemy,” they added.
The regime, the demonstrators stated, must know that its times of staging deadly aggression without meeting appropriate response were over.
“You know that assassinating the leaders of the resistance will not save you from your inevitable fate, which is annihilation,” they said.
The Yemeni protesters noted that the regime had resorted to the assassinations as means of “escaping from the defeats” that it has been suffering at the hands of regional resistance movements since October 7.
The day saw the Gaza Strip’s resistance groups stage a uniquely daring retaliatory attack against the occupied Palestinian territories, capturing hundreds of Israeli troops and settlers.
The operation has been followed up by numerous attacks against the occupied territories by other regional resistance groups from Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq.
“The Zionist enemy has become fully convinced that [its] deterrence has fallen and its prestige has been trampled in the sands of Gaza,” the Yemenis noted.
The daughter of the senior Hezbollah commander says the occupying regime will suffer more after the assassination.
“We tell the enemy you will not feel comfortable with the martyrdom of Hajj Mohsen as you didn’t during his life. Just as he pained you when he was alive, he will pain you exponentially after his death,” Khadija, the daughter of Shukr, told Lebanon’s al-Manar television network on Friday, using his nickname.
She stressed that the acts of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah don’t hinge on one commander.
“Our message today is that our family will continue this path and approach with the same momentum, and the resistance doesn’t stop for anybody,” she added.
Khadija noted that her father was known for his strength and steadfastness while being kind at the same time.
“My father …was always preparing us for this day, and his wish was that his life ends with martyrdom,” she added.