The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah popular resistance movement warns that the Israeli regime will start attacking other countries if it manages to defeat the Palestinian cause of liberation from its occupation and aggression, recommending military action by the world’s Arab and Muslim countries against the regime.
“If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, it would undoubtedly extend its aggression to other countries unrestrained,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi cautioned during a televised address on Tuesday.
“Those relying on agreements with Israel should recognize that Israel disregards commitments, even when guaranteed by the US,” he added.
The Yemeni leader was referring to the regional Arab states that had either entered United States-facilitated rapprochement agreements with the regime or contemplating the prospect, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia.
The remarks came after the regime resumed its intensified deadly aggression against Gaza earlier in the day, despite a standing ceasefire agreement that took effect in January with the aim of ending more than 15 months of a war of genocide against the coastal sliver by Tel Aviv.
According to Palestinian health officials, 424 people were killed in the attacks on Tuesday alone, including 174 children and 89 women. More than 600 others were wounded as Israeli forces targeted homes, mosques, and shelters.
The bombardments have exacerbated an already dire humanitarian crisis, with medical supplies running out and border crossings remaining closed for the 17th consecutive day.
The escalation is aimed at forcing the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas into releasing those of the regime’s captives, who remain in Gaza in one batch, without Tel Aviv’s keeping its side of the bargain by letting the ceasefire deal transit into its second phase, releasing thousands of Palestinian prisoners, ceasing its bloodletting in the Palestinian territory, and enacting a complete withdrawal from it.
Amid the situation, al-Houthi said, “Military action by Arab and Islamic regimes [against the occupied Palestinian territories] is ideal.”
Such operation, however, was “unlikely,” he added.
Arm Palestinian resistance; boycott Israel’
The Yemeni leader, meanwhile, asked, while refusing to strike the regime, “why don’t they (the world’s Arab and Muslim countries) provide military support to Palestinian fighters?”
He advised the countries to supply weapons to Palestinian resistance movements as a counterweight to substantial military support for the regime on the part of the West, especially the US.
“Palestinian resistance needs financial and military support; Arab and Muslim states are responsible for providing this.”
Among the Arab and Muslim states, al-Houthi urged Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to impose economic boycotts on Tel Aviv to deprive it economically.
He lamented Arab states’ refusing to “make any serious effort—even minimally—to oppose its (the regime’s) aggression.”
This is while ”watching genocide in Gaza without action is disgraceful, shameful, and a stain on humanity. No one will escape shame and divine punishment for standing by while Gaza’s genocide occurs,” the Yemeni leader stated, describing the fresh Israeli escalation as Tel Aviv’s resuming the genocidal warfare.
He condemned the US for lavishing billions of dollars in terms of financial and military aid on the regime and its markedly stepping up the support during the genocide.
“Israel’s heinous crimes and genocidal campaign rely heavily on American support and complicity,” al-Houthi said.
The Yemeni official also reminded that the regime had consulted Washington before resuming the genocide -- as announced by the White House earlier -- saying the intensified Israeli raids have “occurred with American advice, as openly admitted by American officials.”
Sana’a, though, would keep up and escalate its pro-Palestinian strikes amid the circumstances, besides continuing to stand up to the US’s deadly aggression towards Yemen that has notably increased since Saturday in an attempt to force the Arab Peninsula nation into stopping its operations against Israeli targets.
'Hamas not to cower'
Elsewhere in his remarks, al-Houthi put it past the Israeli regime to be capable of forcing Hamas into accepting its demands through either the escalation towards Gaza or its siege of the territory.
“Hamas will never compromise on obligations regarding the second phase, nor bargain to avoid war.”
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