It seems to use the Gaza file, the Houthi militia announced, on Friday, a 4 -day deadline to introduce aid to the sector or return to attacks against shipping ships.

The militia leader, Abd al -Malik al -Houthi, said: “We announce to the world a four -day deadline for mediators ... If the Israeli enemy continues to prevent the entry of aid to the Gaza Strip, we will return to the resumption of our maritime operations against it.”

While Al -Houthi, who is classified with his group in terrorism lists, accused Israel of not "fulfilling its obligations, especially those related to the human file," praised the position of Hamas and its full commitment to the agreement, "he said.

Revenge and barter

The Houthi threats, which are a "planned escalation run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards," according to observers, came six weeks after the ceasefire in Gaza.

The threat of the Houthi militia and its declared shameful is a retaliatory attempt by the Iranian -backed group, to pressure under Gaza's cover on the United States, after the latter classified the militias as a foreign terrorist organization.

According to political observers and experts, the threats of the Houthi militia are also “an escape from the internal pressure and a confirmation of its regional presence after its isolation due to international sanctions”

According to the experts, the Houthis, and behind them Iran, seek to "invest the slogan of" victory of Gaza "in an attempt to score Washington with the file of the sanctions imposed on the group recently."

Facing penalties

The expert and political researcher, Rashad Al -Soufi, believes that the recent Houthi militia threats are “indeed a retaliatory attempt after the classification of a terrorist group, but under the cover of the Gaza file and the entry of aid.”

Al -Sufi said, in an interview with Al -Ain News, that “Houthi militias are well aware that all their hollow movements and threats have no actual impact on the situation in Gaza, and remains merely a noise to obstruct mediation efforts, aborting the ceasefire and igniting the area.”

He added that the Houthi militia “seeks to blackmail Washington after classifying a terrorist organization.”

He pointed out that the Houthi militia "is heading to raise the slogan of Gaza to confront the sanctions and international pressure, in addition to attracting the local street, which is witnessing a shift in its areas of control after the changes in the region.

The Houthis had participated in a series of attacks on Israel, in addition to attacking more than 100 ships in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden and Bab al -Mandab, during the Gaza war.