The leader of the Houthis in Yemen, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said on Thursday that the victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential elections will not end the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Iranian-backed group, which launched dozens of attacks on ships in the Red Sea under the pretext of solidarity with... Gaza, the escalation will continue.
Al-Houthi said, “The enemies have no choice but to stop the Israeli aggression and siege on Gaza, and stop the war on Lebanon,” adding, “In Yemen, we have experience with Trump during his previous term between 2017 and 2021, and the result is that he did not resolve the fronts in the country, and he did not succeed in Palestine.” Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq
He continued, "Neither Trump nor Biden nor anyone else will be able to dissuade us from our firm, principled, religious position in supporting the Palestinian people."
He said that American presidents are “competing to see who provides more services to the Israeli enemy,” adding that “Trump himself was in a previous presidential term, and was keen to provide achievements for the Israelis,” promising to “recognize all of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy to it.” Addressing the Arabs, he added that Donald Trump "wants to milk you. He sees your wealthy people as a cash cow."
He pointed out that “the best option for the Americans and others is to stop the aggression and siege of Gaza, stop the aggression against Lebanon, and end these wars.”
Throwing more operations, Al-Houthi said, "We will continue to escalate with everything we have, and strive for what is greater, what is greater, and what is stronger."
Trump, the Republican Party's candidate, defeated his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, in presidential elections held in the United States, Israel's first political and military ally, in the wake of the war that has been ongoing for more than a year in the Middle East.
Within the framework of the war, since November, the Houthis have continued to launch attacks with missiles and drones in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, which began first on commercial ships that they consider to be linked to Israel or heading to its ports. They say that this comes in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in light of the ongoing war. Between the Hebrew state and the Hamas movement since the seventh of last October.
Since the beginning of this year, a US-led coalition has launched raids on Houthi sites in various regions of Yemen to deter their naval attacks, which was met with a response from the group from time to time.
As Washington and London intervened and tensions took an escalating turn in January, the Houthi group announced that it now considered all American and British ships among its military targets