As the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview for Al Mayadeen on July 25 that "we in Yemen are not mediators... Rather, we are a party alongside the Yemeni people," many residents in Sanaa widely welcomed this remark.

Nasrallah told Al Mayadeen CEO Mr. Ghassan Ben Jeddo who interviewed him that "in the war on Yemen, Hezbollah is not qualified to play the role of mediation, because we are a party that sides with Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the Yemeni people, and Ansar Allah movement."

Nasrallah delivered these remarks during the "Dialogue of the 40th Anniversary" on the occasion of establishing Hezbollah. He added that "the mediator usually requests concessions from the two parties, but what concessions can be requested from Ansar Allah?"

He stressed that "the Iranians gave a clear answer regarding mediation in the Yemeni war, which means that the Yemenis won’t in any circumstances waive their rights."

These remarks were broadly welcomed by a wide range of residents living in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.

"We consider Sayyed Nasrallah as the head of Mujahedeen and the leader of the resistance," said former Judge Mohammed Ali Ahmed who was sitting in the yard of the Great Mosque of Sanaa. "Nobody will lead our prayers in Al-Aqsa except Nasrallah."

The Great Mosque is an ancient mosque that is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Old City of Sanaa and is one of the oldest mosques in the world.

"Nasrallah is in pain when it comes to remembering the sufferings of the Yemeni people, and he expresses solidarity with us in both actions and words, and if it were not for the circumstances and location he has been in, he would have come to stand with the Yemeni people, with his comrades just as he did in Syria and Palestine," said Ahmed.

"For me, as a former judge and a Yemeni citizen, I consider Nasrallah as a role model," Ahmed told Al Mayadeen English.

He added, "Nasrallah is the only person in the Arab World to stand in the face of the US and Israel, and he has been challenging them with the power of faith more than the power of weapons."

"May God brings us together with Nasrallah at Al-Aqsa after he would have raised the banner of Islam and led the Islamic Ummah in prayers there," explained Ahmed.

'Hezbollah's stances make us proud'

Ahmed Atef, a resident of the Old City of Sanaa and an academic at the University of Sanaa said Sayyed Nasrallah has aligned himself with the Yemenis "because he feels their pain."

"He said his words as if he is one of the Yemeni people who have been targeted by the countries of aggression for the last seven years," said Atef.

"Nasrallah is being called to play the role of mediation between Yemen and the Gulf States, but he aligned himself with the Yemenis so that he can enhance the strength and position of Yemeni youth out of his love for the Yemeni people," Atef told Al Mayadeen English.

"I would like to tell Nasrallah may God honor and bless you in this life and the hereafter for supporting your Yemeni brothers," noted Atef.

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Atef said, “In many stances, Nasrallah has been supporting the Yemeni people. He once expressed his wish to be among the soldiers of Sayyed Abdul-Malek."

When the Saudi-UAE coalition launched the battle of Al-Hudaydah in 2018, Nasrallah appeared in a televised speech saying, "I feel ashamed that I am not with you and among you [fighters in Hodeidah] and I say, I wish I am with you fighting under the banner of your dear and brave leader [Sayyed Abdul-Malek]." 

"Hezbollah's stances from Yemen are so great that they enroot the Islamic and Arabic brotherhood within the Axis of Resistance," said Atef. "All Hezbollah's stances from Yemen make us proud."

Speech of victory 

This is not the first remark of siding with Yemen and the Yemeni people made by Sayed Nasrallah in his interviews and public televised speeches.

On March 27, 2015, one day after Saudi Arabia launched its US-backed "Arab coalition" aggression against Yemen, Sayyed Nasrallah denounced it in a televised speech dubbed: "In solidarity with oppressed Yemen."

"They said this war aims to defend the Arab identity of Yemen. Well, have the Arab people authorized the Saudi regime to launch a war [against Yemen] in their name?" Nasrallah said in a televised speech on that day.

Saudi Arabia justified its aggression against Yemen using claims of returning Sanaa to the Arab world, in a ridiculous propaganda, especially with those fighting in Yemen, such as the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain who were seen falling into the lap of Zionism by signing normalization agreements. 

"Secondly, an Arab war against whom? The war of Arabs against whom? Against Arab people!," Nasrallah wondered, adding in a firm intonation, "If the Yemeni people are not Arab, then who are the real Arabs?"

Ahmed, the former judge, said, "I remember the first speech of Nasrallah about the Saudi aggression on Yemen. It was a victory speech and a warning for Saudi Arabia to stop its war which it failed to achieve because it shows full political dependency on America and Israel."

"We see Nasrallah as the gate of victory leading to Al-Aqsa, not only Yemen," added Ahmed. "May Allah protect you, support you, and make us one of your soldiers," Ahmed told Al Mayadeen English, praising Nasrallah and praying for him when asked what would he tell him.

Ahmed also sent a message to Saudi Crown Prince MBS who did not listen to Nasrallah's advice on the second day of his war against Yemen, saying, "After seven years of war, this is the last chance for you [MBS] to get your hands off Yemen before you see the Yemeni flag raised on top of Jeddah towers."

Fighting "Israel" with Hezbollah

Khalid Al-Hanbasi, an activist in the Old City of Sanaa, said he spent his night of July 25 watching the interview of Sayyed Nasrallah and was encouraged by his remarks regarding Yemen.

"All thanks and loyalty to Sayyed Nasrallah for this great stance with Yemen. My words can't express how proud I am," Al-Hanbasi told Al Mayadeen English.

Al-Hanbasi sent his "congratulations to Hezbollah on the 40th anniversary" of its establishment and expressed his "solidarity and loyalty" to Hezbollah and its Secretary-General Sayyed Nasrallah.

"I thank him for being a party with the Yemeni people, which is not new," said Al-Hanbasi. "We thank God for this leadership that has been frightening Israel."

"We are with Hezbollah in one coalition that is ready to fight Israel in any upcoming battle," he finally stressed.