Al-Houthi: US starving Gaza, turned Red Sea into battlefield
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Thu / 25 January 2024 / 23:57
The leader of the Ansar Allah movement highlights the US' direct role in war crimes against Palestinians in his latest address.
Tehran-ISNA- The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abul-Malik al-Houthi, lambasted the United States for its role in supplementing and supporting the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, during his weekly address to the Yemeni people and the Ummah at large on Thursday.
Sayyed al-Houthi underlined the essential role that Washington plays in extending the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, holding the US administration accountable for piled-up humanitarian aid outside the Gaza Strip and the closure of the Rafah border crossing.
Moreover, the leader pointed to the ongoing US-UK-led aggression on Yemen, which the two Western nations claim aims to secure international maritime trade routes. Contrary to US-UK claims, Sayyed al-Houthi said that Washington "does not care about the threat to international navigation and the fact that it has turned the Red Sea into a battlefield, nor about the arrival of food and medicine to the people of Gaza."
He added, "[The US] has no problem with expanding the conflict [and increasing tensions in the region]."
In fact, the Resistance leader said the US "insists on keeping Gaza under total siege and keeping the Rafah crossing closed most of the time," adding that Washington "insists that there be no flow of [humanitarian aid] to the Palestinian people in Gaza."
It is worth noting that Sayyed al-Houthi's statements coincide with a months-long effective Naval campaign launched by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), aiming at pressuring the Israeli occupation to lift its siege on the Gaza Strip and allow humanitarian aid in. The Biden administration in Washington has opted to support the Israeli occupation's genocidal war on Palestinians and launched at least eight strikes on Yemen.
In this context, Sayyed al-Houthi said, "While the Americans fight for the supplies to reach the Israelis, they prevent food and medicine from reaching Gaza," pointing out that "[Washignton] is the one behind the continuation of Zionist crimes and behind [the incompetence of international organizations]."
The US "contributes directly to starving the Palestinian people, causing them to die of hunger, not only with the bombs [it provides the Israeli occupation forces with] to kill them."
The leader of the Ansar Allah movement said the Yemeni Armed Forces launched more than 200 attack drones and fifty cruise and ballistic missiles in support of the Palestinian people.
He stressed that Yemen would continue to launch operations in support of the Palestinian people "until food and medicine reach all residents of Gaza and the Zionist crimes" in the Gaza Strip stop.
Sayyed al-Houthi stressed that the US' military aggression and its insistence to reject a humanitarian deal "will not affect our position," stressing that the Yemeni people "will never retreat."
"Our battle is ongoing and is entirely linked to the Gaza battle."
He also indicated that the US is attempting to "justify its aggression against our country and its protection of Zionist crimes," under the pretext of protecting international navigation.
In response to these claims, Sayyed al-Houthi said that since the beginning of the Yemeni Naval campaign, "4,874 commercial ships have crossed," through the Red Sea, untouched, adding that the US-UK-led escalation "is [the real] threat to international navigation" and has violated "the sovereignty of countries" in the region.
He went on to advise Europeans against allowing the US to exploit their govenrments' funds for such purposes.
He explained that "no matter how much the Americans and the British escalate," the results of this escalation will "be counterproductive and will not affect our decision and position, but we will continue to develop our military capabilities."
"Whenever the Israelis and the Americans insist on [committing war crimes in Gaza], we must be more resolved and determined to prevent it."
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