US forces in Red Sea are having no rest: Yemen's SPC official
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Mohammed Ali al-Houthi stresses to Al Mayadeen that the Yemeni people are not intimidated by all of Washington's threats and wars across all arenas.
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Yemen's Supreme Political Council member, Mohammad Ali al-Houthi in 2024 (Yemeni media)
The operations of the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue as long as the Israeli occupation entity continues its war and siege on Gaza, a member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, told Al Mayadeen on Friday.
Speaking with the news channel from the resting place of the founder of Ansar Allah, martyr Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, in Saada Governorate, the Yemeni official said that the people of Yemen are not intimated by the United States nor fear its threats of war.
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"They used to [question] the martyred [founding] leader: 'How will you face America when it has missiles?'" he recalled. "We say to them today, here are our missiles terrifying the Americans."
Al-Houthi noted that the US forces in the Red Sea are under persistent Yemeni pressure and "are having no rest .. and the American aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower is planned to return to the US." The Yemeni official expressed confidence that "God willing, the remaining [US] battleships and frigates will also be compelled to retreat and head back home."
"The Americans are aware of the sincerity of our fighters' presence and actions on all fronts, and they know that the Yemeni people have disregarded their threats," the Supreme Council member said. "Their terrorism, statements, media, political, and intelligence wars do not intimidate us."
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The reality of the war on Yemen today has revealed that all US threats were inflated and exaggerated and "do not harm the Yemeni people," al-Houthi concluded.
His remarks came just a few days after the Yemeni army announced carrying out four operations on Wednesday morning in the Gulf of Aden as a response to the ongoing aggression against the Yemeni people and in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Two Israeli vessels, identified as the MSC DARWIN and the MSC GINA, and the American ship MAERSK YORKTOWN, were attacked by the Yemeni naval, drone, and missile forces, the army said in a statement.
Additionally, a US warship was targeted by the armed forces using drones.
Army spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree underscored the significance of these operations, portraying them as a fulfillment of religious, moral, and humanitarian obligations toward the Palestinians enduring a prolonged siege and brutal war in Gaza. He emphasized that these actions were also intended to safeguard Yemen's sovereignty and interests in the region.
Saree reiterated the YAF's commitment to ongoing operations in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean until the aggression ceases and the blockade on Gaza is lifted.
