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Leader of Yemen’s Houthi group, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, said yesterday that the group has fired 39 ballistic, winged and drone missiles this past week, without clarifying the targets, Anadolu agency reported.
In a speech broadcast by the group’s Al-Masirah channel, Al-Houthi considered the Houthis’ ‘Palestine 2’ missile a “great achievement”, after it entered into service for the fifth phase of the escalation in support of Gaza.
He warned that the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden have become a completely forbidden area for the Israeli, American and British enemy.
Al-Houthi pointed out that the US has used many means to influence the group’s support for Gaza, including military aggression, but they did not achieve anything, but rather contributed to developing the group’s military capabilities.
Regarding Israel’s war on Lebanon, the Houthi leader said the Israeli goal is to prevent Hezbollah from supporting Gaza and the Palestinian people.
“We will never hesitate to support Gaza and Palestine in general and in supporting Lebanon and Hezbollah and cooperating with it, and as long as the aggression on Gaza continues, all support fronts will continue, and the American and Israeli attempt to stop them will never succeed, Gaza will not remain alone, and we say to the Palestinian people you are not alone and we are with you until victory, we said it as a firm position of faith that we will never retreat from,” he stressed.
In solidarity with Gaza, which has been facing devastating Israeli attacks supported by the US since October last year, the Houthis have been targeting Israel-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean with missiles and drones.
Since the beginning of 2024, a US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes claiming to target Houthi positions in Yemen in response to the group’s maritime attacks.
With Washington and London intervening and tensions escalating in January, the Houthi group announced it now considers all American and British ships as military targets.
Israel has killed more than 41,500 Palestinians in Gaza since October.
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