NEWSMAX | Published February 15, 2025
Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi threatened military action if the United States and Israel proceed with President Donald Trump’s plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and relocate displaced Palestinians.
During a televised speech in Yemen on Thursday, al-Houthi said Trump should move Jews to America and give them their own state instead of trying to pressure Arab nations to take in Palestinians while the region is rebuilt.
“If the Americans and Israelis try to implement the plan by force or agree with the Arab regimes to implement it, we will intervene even with military force,” al-Houthi said.
“We will intervene through missiles, drones, naval operations, and other means if the U.S. and Israel implement the displacement plan by force,” he continued. “We will confront them with all means. We will never stand idly by in the face of a plan of attack against the Palestinians.”
The Iran-backed Houthis began launching attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in what they said was in support of the Palestinians following Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. They have since routinely attacked Western shipping vessels with missiles and drones in addition to Israeli targets.
The Houthi leader’s antipathy to Trump’s plan echoes that of other Middle East leaders.
Earlier in the month, representatives from a coalition of Arab nations rejected Trump’s proposal to relocate displaced Palestinians from Gaza. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab League reiterated the call for the implementation of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urged efforts to achieve peace in the region.
During his speech, al-Houthi labeled Trump a “criminal” and said his plan “denied rights and justice.”
“I call on the armed forces to be prepared for military intervention if Trump carries out his threats. We will be monitoring and coordinating with the fighters in Palestine and the resistance axis,” he said.
The “resistance axis,” which includes the Houthis, is collection of Iran-backed terrorist organizations in the Middle East, including Hamas, the Lebanese terrorists Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and several other Iraqi proxy terrorist groups.
READ FULL ARTICLE
SOURCE: www.newsmax.com
RELATED: Houthis threaten to target US warships if they attack Yemen
Demonstrators lift Palestinian and Yemeni flags and placards depicting the Houthi movement leader Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, and flags of Palestine during a protest staged in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Sana’a, Yemen on 15 December, 2023 [Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images]
Published February 15, 2025
A leader of Yemen’s Houthis, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, yesterday warned that the group will strike US warships and interests if Washington targets Yemen.
“We will not stand idly by if the Americans are tempted to escalate further and commit foolishness by targeting our country or waging war against it,” he said.
This came after US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced on Monday the formation of a multinational force with the aim of “deterring” the Houthi group’s attacks in the Red Sea and its “threat to maritime trade”.
The Houthi group targets ships owned or operated by Israeli companies or transporting goods to and from Israel as they pass through the Bab Al-Mandab Strait “in solidarity with the Gaza Strip,” which has been subjected to continuous Israeli aggression since 7 October.
In his address yesterday, Al-Houthi said the American move in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden does not protect international navigation, but rather harms it.
“Any American targeting of our country will be targeted by us, and we will make American battleships, interests and navigation a target for our missiles, drones and military operations,” he added.
The Houthis have controlled the city of Hudaydah in western Yemen, overlooking the Red Sea, since 2014. Since Israel launched its aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip in October, the group has been attacking Israel-bound commercial ships.
“The greatest danger threatening international navigation and the movement of commercial ships is the American move that seeks to militarise the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden, and seeks to turn the sea into a battlefield,” he added.
The Houthi leader stressed that the group’s operations in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandab, the Arabian Gulf, and the Sea of Aden exclusively target ships linked to Israel, and do not target any other ships or harm international navigation.
He advised all countries not to involve themselves, nor sacrifice their interests, in the service of the Israeli enemy.
Earlier on Tuesday, a leader of the Yemeni Houthi group and a member of the group’s Supreme Political Council, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, told Iran’s Al-Alam TV that any country that moves against Yemen will have its ships targeted in the Red Sea.
READ FULL ARTICLE
SOURCE: www.middleeastmonitor.com
Be the first to comment