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Ansarullah slams US designation of Yemeni strikes as ‘terrorist’

Tuesday, 18 June 2024 1:56 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 18 June 2024 2:43 PM ]

Footage from a video published by al-Masirah TV shows Yemeni forces dropping from a helicopter and seizing the Galaxy Leader cargo ship bound for the Israeli-occupied territories, in the Red Sea on November 20, 2023.

The Ansarullah resistance movement of Yemen has denounced the United States over designating anti-Israeli maritime operations by Yemeni naval units as “terrorist.”

The Yemeni resistance movement said it was all part of attempts to conceal the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“The primary purpose of the designation is to divert the world public opinion from the full-fledged terrorism that the Israeli regime is exercising in Gaza.

“Yemeni military operations are completely of ethical nature, and aimed at protection of human rights and self-determination. They will stop once the ongoing aggression and all-out siege on Gaza cease,” Ansarullah’s political bureau said in a statement released on Tuesday.

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The statement further noted that Ansarallah's demands are realistic, reasonable and clear: We will stop our military operations once the invasion of Gaza ends and the tight blockade on its residents is lifted.

“Yemen will continue its struggle to end the hypocritical approach pursued by the United States and its allies on human rights. We praise pro-Palestine encampments and protests that continue to spread in universities across the United States and Western countries, where participants demand an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Ansarullah noted.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.

Yemeni Armed Forces have said that they won’t stop their attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.

Israel has killed at least 37,370 people and wounded over 85,400 in Gaza since October.

Leader of the Ansarullah resistance movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has said it is “a great honor and blessing to be confronting America directly.”

The attacks have forced some of the world’s biggest shipping and oil companies to suspend transit through one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes. Tankers are instead adding thousands of miles to international shipping routes by sailing around the continent of Africa rather than going through the Suez Canal.

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