Hundreds of protesters have held a rally in New York City, condemning the US military assault on Yemen after the Arab country’s retaliatory operations in the Red Sea in support of the Palestinian people of Gaza.
“Long live Hamas,” a man waving a “Free Palestine” flag cried during the rally on Friday.
Other protesters also chanted “From the river to the sea, Yemen will be free,” as well as “Gaza called, Yemen answered.”
Others yelled out “Genocide Joe has got to go,” referring to US President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
In addition, several protesters scraped “Stand with Israel” stickers off of light posts as they marched. Others were seen ripping down posters for Israeli captives.
In the meantime, Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of the pro-Palestinian organization Within Our Lifetime, expressed her outrage outside the United Nations building, saying that “the Yemeni people and the Palestinian people are the only free people because we resist by any means necessary.”
“We have no faith in your courts, your institutions, your governments. The United States, the United Kingdom, all puppet Arab Zionist normalizing regimes…We only have faith in the resistance,” she said.
She also said that they will continue their support for Yemen and Palestine “as long as there is a blockade on Yemen and Gaza.”
The outrage came after the US military announced that it had conducted a fresh military attack on Yemen, targeting the capital Sana’a in response to Yemen’s pro-Palestinian operations.
The US military claimed that the new attack, which was carried out at 03:45 a.m. local time (0045 GMT) on Saturday morning, struck a radar site that belonged to Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement.
The first US-UK dual attack on Yemeni fighters took place on Thursday.
Ansarullah said the attacks targeted the capital city of Sana’a as well as the western cities of al-Hudaydah, Sa’ada, and Dhamar, blaming “American aggression with British participation.”
After Thursday’s assault, Ansarullah’s leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, warned of a “big” response to the United States and its allies if they proceeded with any military attack against his country.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in several cities on Friday to condemn the strikes.
Strikes on Yemen came after Yemeni forces targeted several Israeli-owned and -bound shipping in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians in war-torn Gaza, where more than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli onslaught since October 7.
Yemen has declared its open support for Palestinians since the beginning of the war.
Reports revealed that Israeli shipping companies have already decided to reroute their vessels in fear of attacks by Yemeni forces.
Yemeni forces have also launched missile and drone attacks on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories after the regime’s aggression on Gaza.
