Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the country’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, staging massive rallies in solidarity with the Palestinian people and rejecting US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Gazans.
According to Yemen’s al-Masirah TV, the demonstrations were held across dozens of districts and regions in Sa’ada, including Majz, Ghamr, al-Dhaher, Baqim, Kitaf wa al-Boqe’e, al-Hashwah, Monabbih and Qatabir, on Friday.
The protesters waved flags of Palestine and Yemen while chanting slogans condemning Trump’s Gaza displacement scheme and voicing support for the Palestinian cause as well as the Axis of Resistance, which includes the Yemeni Ansarullah movement.
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“Your military power and the support you offered to the occupier (Israel) will not force the Palestinian people to leave their homeland,” said Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, addressing Trump during the rally in the provincial capital.
Al-Houthi stressed that Yemen stands by Palestine, and the US will witness the full extent of the Yemeni military prowess, which he said the US has not experienced so far. He warned that the missiles and forces dispatched by the US to Palestinian territories will fail to displace the people of Gaza.
The senior Yemeni official also pointed to the recent collision of the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman with a large merchant vessel in the Mediterranean, saying the incident exposes the anxiety and distress that the US Navy is enduring as a result of battles with the Yemeni armed forces.
Al-Houthi reiterated Yemeni people’s unwavering support for the Palestinian nation, adding that their million-man marches over the past 15 months attest to such a stance. He stressed that all options are on the table, and Yemeni armed forces stand fully prepared for any possible scenario, especially after recent remarks by Ansarulalh leader Abul-Malik al-Houthi that Yemen will intervene, even militarily, if the US and Israel attempt to enforce the Gaza displacement plan by force or collude with Arab regimes to implement it.
Source: Agencies (edited and translated by Al-Manar English Website)
