Thousands of fighters from Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement recruited to back up Palestinian group Hamas in its struggle against Israel have staged a parade in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, before heading to the Gaza Strip to help their Palestinian brethren.
On Saturday, the new military recruits, armed with rifles and waving Yemeni as well as Palestinian flags, marched through the al-Sabeen Square and streets nearby.
They held up placards and carried banners calling for a boycott of American and Israeli products.
The participants also vociferously chanted slogans like “At your service, O Al-Aqsa”, “O al-Quds, God’s soldiers are coming”, “O al-Quds, Ansarullah is coming”, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” while expressing rage and indignation over the continued Israeli atrocities and crimes in Gaza.
The new Yemeni military recruits underlined that Palestinians and their resistance fighters will not be left alone, as they will stand by their side and are fully prepared for any possible scenario.
“On this great day, the Yemeni people affirm their readiness, as the Ansarullah leader (Abdul-Malik al-Houthi), may God protect him, said: ‘Open the path for us, and you will find that the Yemeni people, in hundreds of thousands, are ready to move towards defending the noble al-Aqsa Mosque and joining their brothers in Palestine,” Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, a member of the Supreme Political Council, said.
He added, “These crowds demonstrate the readiness of the Yemeni people and their awareness and concern for the central cause of the Muslim world.”
On November 9, Yemeni Armed Forces launched a batch of ballistic missiles at various sensitive targets lying across the southern part of the occupied territories.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network, citing the forces’ spokesman, reported at the time that the projectiles hit military targets in the Umm al-Rashrash area in the city of Eilat.
“Saree also confirmed that the operation had successfully achieved its objectives and led to direct casualties,” the report added.
The official reiterated that the Yemeni forces would continue to carry out their military operations “until the Israeli aggression against our brothers in Gaza stops.”
Days earlier, Yemeni forces had launched a large-scale drone strike against “sensitive” targets in the occupied territories in a show of support for Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
On November 19, Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters seized Galaxy Leader, a ship believed to be operated by a company that is ultimately owned by a major Israeli businessman with links to the Israeli cabinet.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after 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.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, over 15,000 Palestinians, including more than 6,500 children and 4,000 women, were killed in Israeli strikes. Many more dead are feared to be under the rubble.
Tel Aviv has also imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
