The screen grab shows a Yemeni missile fired at Israel at an unknown location, on December 19, 2024.
Yemen’s Ansarullah popular resistance movement has reasserted the country’s unyielding determination to resist and confront foreign aggression aimed at forcing the Arab country to stop its pro-Palestinian operations.
"Sana'a was not broken by 200,000 raids, and its steadfastness will not be broken by a million raids," Abdulrahman al-Ahnoumi, director of the Yemeni General Corporation for Radio and Television said.
The official was referring to the Arab Peninsula nation’s coming under numerous incessant aerial assaults by a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition, which invaded the country in 2015, as well as ongoing American, British, and Israeli attacks against the Yemeni people.
He made the remarks as the United States claimed to carry out major airstrikes across Yemen on Sunday night, hours after the Ansarullah resistance movement warned that the Yemeni Armed Forces will target the American aircraft carrier, and warships in the region.
“The Yemeni people will not abandon Gaza, even if we are all martyred,” he told Palestine's Shehab news agency, pointing to the Palestinian territory that has endured more than 15 months of a heavily-US-backed Israeli war of genocide.
Under the authority of Ansarullah’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, Yemen’s Armed Forces began targeting key Israeli sites in October 2023 after the regime launched the brutal war and significantly tightened its restrictions on the entry of essential supplies such as food, medicine, and other crucial resources into the coastal sliver.
The strikes, along with other operations against Israeli ships carrying military and commercial supplies to the occupied Palestinian territories, severely impacted the Israeli economy.
Yemeni forces halted their operations in January following a ceasefire agreement between Tel Aviv and the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
However, the Israeli regime has repeatedly breached the agreement, causing deadly and devastating consequences for Gaza’s population. It has also blocked humanitarian aid from entering the territory in an effort to pressure Hamas into handing over remaining Zionist captives in Gaza.
Al-Houthi recently issued a four-day ultimatum to Tel Aviv, demanding the opening of Gaza’s crossings so aid supplies could reach the impoverished territory’s two-million-plus population.
After the regime ignored the deadline, Yemen’s Armed Forces resumed enforcing their ban on Israeli vessels passing through the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.
In response, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Saturday, sanctioning deployment of “overwhelming lethal force” towards forcing Sana’a into lifting the ban. According to the Yemeni health ministry, the escalation has so far claimed the lives of scores of non-combatants, targeting purely civilian targets.
Al-Ahnoumi emphasized that the ongoing aggression against Yemen, primarily led by the United States and the United Kingdom, would ultimately fail. He asserted that Yemen’s principled stance against Israeli occupation and aggression would be victorious in the long run, despite the Western atrocities.
“The Yemeni people are adhering to their firm position in supporting Gaza, despite threats and aggression,” he said, asserting that under al-Houthi’s leadership, the country would continue with its retaliatory measures until the siege on Gaza was lifted and the Israeli regime’s assault against the Palestinian territory came to an end.
‘US threats equal psychological warfare’
The official dismissed Trump’s threats as “psychological warfare” designed to intimidate the Yemeni people and weaken their resolve.
“These threats, along with the airstrikes, are nothing but propaganda aimed at dissuading us from our support for Gaza,” he said. “They repeat the phrase: ‘Your time is over…,’ but, thank God, such rhetoric does not frighten us or deter us from our duty of jihad (struggle) for the sake of God and Palestine.”
The Yemeni forces have, meanwhile, been responding firmly to the American escalation.
On Sunday, spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced that the troops had successfully targeted a US aircraft carrier for the second time in 48 hours, besides thwarting a hostile enemy attack against the Arab country.
