Al-Houthi: US first culprit in Israeli genocide in Gaza

Yemen’s Ansarullah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi says the silence of the international community on Israeli crimes in Gaza, in which the US plays a main role, is a source of shame.

"The aggression of the US and the Zionist regime against the people of Gaza continues for the sixth month, and these crimes and genocide of Palestinians are being carried out before the eyes of the international community," he said in a weekly televised address on Thursday.

"The genocide of the people of Gaza is a crime against humanity, and no place in Gaza is safe from the aggressive attacks of the occupiers and the Zionists, using prohibited weapons and targeting everything for destruction," he added.

Al-Houthi said, "The silence of the international community on the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza is a source of shame, and America plays the main role in this regard."

“The Americans bear the shame and are the first culprit in crimes against Palestinians,” he added.

Al-Houthi said Washington is trying to deceive the nations of the world by airdropping some token aid for the people of Gaza, while it provides large quantities of weapons to Israel to massacre Palestinians.

The US, he said, is also obstructing the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip through land, sea and airports.

Nevertheless, Israel is unable to achieve its goals in the Gaza Strip, including its campaign to find captives in Gaza or "eradicate the resistance”, he said.

“On the other hand, the occupiers have failed in the field of psychological warfare and their forces in Gaza have lost their morale.”

Al-Houthi said the failure to achieve the goals, which some Israeli officials had also considered unrealistic, has disappointed the US and the occupying regime.

“Therefore, to compensate for their failures, they have resorted to the genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”

Al-Houthi said all the countries of the world want the Israeli aggression to stop, except the US and the UK, where public opinion is pushing for a permanent ceasefire.

The Ansarullah leader praised the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance groups, saying without them, “the enemy could have caused great damage to the Islamic and Arab ummah”.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah, he said, continues to influence the situation “in an unprecedented way through direct confrontation with the occupiers”.

“The Iraqi front also continues to target the Zionist invaders and it is hoped that its operations will increase,” he added.

On Tuesday, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it had targeted the power station at Israel’s Haifa airport using drones. It also attacked the Israeli airport in Kiryat Shmona near Lebanon, the group said in a statement. 

Iraq’s resistance conducts drone strike on Israeli airport

The Iraqi umbrella group of anti-terror groups said in a statement it targeted the airport at Kiryat Shmona near Lebanon.

The operations coincided with Hezbollah firing dozens of Katyusha-type rockets at Kfar Blum kibbutz in the Upper Galilee region in what Israeli media outlets described one of the heaviest since early October.

On Wednesday, a US-owned bulk carrier hit off the southwestern coast of the port city of Aden in another retaliatory operation by Yemen’s armed forces. 

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said a missile attack left at least three crew members dead, the first fatalities since the Arab country launched operations against Israeli and Israel-bound vessels in the region.

Al-Houthi touched on “the greatest mobilization of the Yemeni nation in supporting the Palestinian cause and its oppressed nation in the recent aggression of the Zionist regime in Gaza”.

He said the statements of Islamic countries on the issue of Palestine are insufficient, adding they are adjusted in a way that pleases Israel.

He called on the oppressed nations of the world to act in concert to support the Palestinian nation, not least by boycotting American and Israeli goods.

Yemen’s armed forces, al-Houthi said, have carried out 96 operations in support of the people of Gaza so far, using 403 missiles and drones that targeted 61 ships.

“We have conducted 64 operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, and targeted the positions of the occupiers in the occupied Palestinian territories by conducting 32 operations.”

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