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The leader of the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah), Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, stated that the current week is the harshest and most tragic since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. He emphasized that scenes of starvation and massacres, particularly against children, are a disgrace to humanity—especially the Islamic and Arab world.
In a televised speech on Thursday evening, al-Houthi described the situation in Gaza as an “escalating humanitarian catastrophe,” noting that around 900,000 children are suffering from hunger, with more than 70,000 having entered the stage of acute malnutrition, under what he called a “crime of the age”—the suffocating siege on Gaza.
He added that American “killing meals” in Gaza have taken the lives of over 1,000 Palestinian martyrs in just one week, arguing that U.S. support and Arab silence or normalization efforts are deepening the catastrophe.
Al-Houthi accused major Arab and Islamic countries of “actively participating in the crime of starvation,” pointing to their continued trade with Israel during the aggression. Some of them, he claimed, display media sympathy while doubling their economic engagement with the Israeli enemy.
Regarding Yemen’s stance, the Houthi leader said that the naval and aerial forces of Sanaa have carried out 1,679 military operations since the start of the support campaign for Gaza. These included missiles, drones, and attack boats, leading to the complete shutdown of the Port of Eilat (Umm al-Rashrash).
He noted that this past week saw the launch of 11 hypersonic missiles and drones toward Israeli targets, affirming that the maritime blockade on Israel remains in place and that the operations continue to escalate.
Al-Houthi revealed that U.S. and British airstrikes on Yemen have reached 2,843 strikes, including naval attacks, but said these assaults have failed to deter Sanaa from its “jihadist” stance in support of Gaza.
On the political front, he launched a scathing attack on Arab regimes, accusing some of them of targeting those who support the Palestinian cause and promoting the Israeli narrative in Arabic.
He described Al-Azhar’s withdrawal of a statement condemning Israeli crimes as a “disgraceful position.”
He also criticized calls for Hamas or Hezbollah to disarm, calling such logic foolish and biased in favor of the Israeli entity, asserting that the ones who should be armed are the Palestinian people—not the occupying entity.
Al-Houthi concluded his speech by renewing his appeal to neighboring regimes to open border crossings for Yemenis to move in the tens of thousands toward Palestine. He affirmed that the Yemeni people remain steadfast and determined to continue their jihadist stance despite economic, military, and media aggression.
