The prime minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government has vowed that his country will proceed with its anti-Israel operations until the Israeli regime stops its atrocities against Palestinians, even if that causes a setback in the peace talks with the Saudi-led coalition.
Speaking in an interview with Press TV, Abdulaziz bin Habtour said defending the Palestinian people and fighting Israel is “a sacred duty for every Muslim and Arab.”
He noted that Sana’a is ready to defend Palestinians against US-backed Israeli atrocities, even if that would hamper peace talks with the Saudi-led coalition that waged a war on Yemen in 2015.
“We are fully aware that any position we take has consequences, but our people in Palestine and their interests, and their defense are the top concerns for the Republic of Yemen, Sana’a. If they want an Arab-Arab or Arab peace with the US, we have declared it clearly, some time ago, that we are ready,” Abdulaziz bin Habtour said.
“But today a brutal aggression is being launched against our people in Gaza with the assistance of the US. And it’s not just assistance, they (Americans) participate in the operations room that manages the genocide in Gaza, and they bring their ships, submarines, and planes and all the mercenaries; now they have brought mercenaries from Kiev, Ukraine, to the occupied Palestine.”
The premier further said that the Western alliance is led by the Zionist movement, adding that this kind of alliance is ”openly against us”.
“If peace talks between us and the Saudi and Emirati governments fail, then dozens of other steps will fail,” he said.
He also noted that Yemen’s involvement in the war is “modest”. Still, he stressed “We will continue to support the resistance in Palestine with all our strength and all our capabilities and we will not stop until the Zionist killing machine stops in Gaza and the West Bank.”
The senior official noted that Yemen’s involvement in the war is backed by the Yemeni people, referring to millions-strong pro-Palestine marches that took place in Sana’a and other Yemeni cities.
He added that all political forces in Sana’a have also thrown their weight behind the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
Commenting on US, and Israeli threats to Yemen, he said “The power that some believe the US possesses is not real. This belief comes from the failure of some regimes that don’t have the courage to oppose the American tyranny. If every country said no and stopped dealing with the US, America would know its degraded place.”
The Yemeni official decried the position of some Arab nations that have normalized ties with Tel Aviv on the Israeli aggression on Gaza as “weak” and “shameful.”
He also urged Arab nations to support the resistance in Palestine “with all strength and capabilities” in their possession.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed and injured in the Israeli strikes, most of them women and children.
Since the start of the Israeli aggression, Yemeni Armed Forces have targeted Israel with drones and missiles in a show of support for Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip.
