Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi Speaks on Latest Developments

Last updated Jun 23, 2025

I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the outcast.

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

Praise is to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. I believe that there is no god but Allah, the Sovereign and the Manifest Truth, and that Muhammad, our master, is His servant, Messenger, and Last Prophet.

O Allah! Confer Your salat and blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad as You conferred Your salat and blessings upon Ibrahim and the Family of Ibrahim. You are Owner of Praise, Owner of Glory! And be pleased with Muhammad’s good companions and all Your righteous servants and mujahidin.

Brothers and sisters, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

In today’s speech, we speak about the latest developments in the brutal and criminal aggression on the Gaza Strip carried out by the Israelis, who commit acts of genocide against the Palestinian people on a daily basis, relying on American support and partnership, as well as broad Western backing.

This week alone, the Israeli attacks on Gaza have left over 1,200 people killed or wounded, most of whom are women and children. Entire displaced families have been wiped out by the Israeli enemy.

Since Israel resumed its savage and brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip, the number of martyrs and wounded has exceeded 2,800 and 7,700 respectively. This brings the total toll over the past 19 months in Gaza to more than 182,000 people killed, wounded, or missing. A large proportion of these victims—estimated at 60 percent or more—are women and children. These figures do not include the martyrs, wounded, kidnapped, or imprisoned from the West Bank; otherwise, the total would be even higher.

These figures reveal the horrific scale of crimes committed by the Israeli enemy, which clearly amounts to genocide, taking place within the Islamic world and in full view of all.

The Israeli enemy targets every segment of society in Gaza, deliberately aiming to cripple healthcare services and bring humanitarian efforts to a halt. So far, more than 1,400 humanitarian workers and medical staff have been martyred. It also targets displaced persons in their shelters, often designating these locations as ‘safe zones’ beforehand. Over the course of 19 months, it has bombed approximately 250 displacement shelters.

The Israeli enemy also continues its pursuit of genocide not only through bombardment, but also through starvation. In addition to carrying out genocide with American bombs and Western-supplied shells, provided by Western regimes, the Israeli enemy deliberately uses starvation as a tool of extermination. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has become extremely catastrophic, following the depletion of food stocks held by relief organisations and the closure of all bakeries and most kitchens that had been offering a limited number of meals to only a fraction of the population.

Tragic and heartbreaking scenes show the cries of children and their weeping, as they wander aimlessly in search of scraps of food. Mothers stand helpless, unable to soothe the cries of their infants, some of whom now have skin clinging to their bones due to the total lack of infant formula. Desperate to secure basic sustenance, some Palestinians attempt to reach the sea to fish for food—yet the Israeli enemy targets them relentlessly, attacking from land, sea, and air. Many have been martyred while trying to bring back fish to feed their families. Even access to tree leaves has become difficult after the Israeli forces bulldozed 80% of Gaza’s farmland. Seventeen United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations confirmed in an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report that the vast majority of Gaza’s children are suffering from extreme food deprivation.

The tragedy is immense, revealing the extent of Israeli crimes and aggression on one hand, which—as we mentioned—relies on the support and partnership of the Americans and on the unrestricted backing from Western countries such as Britain, Germany, and others. At the same time, the Israeli enemy fully benefits from the Islamic world’s apathy and inaction, especially in the Arab countries.

Some of the crimes committed by the Israeli enemy in the West Bank and Al-Quds!

As for the West Bank and Al-Quds, the Israeli enemy also continues its assaults in all forms:

Foremost among these is the desecration of Muslim holy sites, with near-daily incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Further acts of aggression include the storming of UNRWA schools in Al-Quds, where students were expelled in a prelude to closing the schools. In fact, it wages war on the Palestinian people in every aspect of their lives, aiming to deprive them of all means of life and even denying them the right to education.
Likewise, the Israeli enemy has raided an educational complex north of Al-Khalil, expelling and assaulting students.
Another example of violations in Al-Quds involved Israeli forces halting a wedding in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Al-Quds, and detaining the groom—a clear reflection, as previously mentioned, of Israeli aggression and injustice against the Palestinian people, targeting every aspect of their lives, even their weddings.
The Israeli enemy also continues to demolish homes across various parts of the West Bank, particularly in refugee camps. In the Nur Shams camp alone, over 400 houses have been destroyed.
The herds of usurpers, referred to as ‘settlers’, continue to carry out all forms of vile and degenerate assaults, tantamount to lawless thuggery. These acts include various forms of robbery, attacks on livestock, destruction of crops, the burning of farms, and, most disturbingly, assaults on Palestinian women, such as those reported in the village of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah.

The Israeli enemy continues its crimes of killing and abduction throughout various areas of the West Bank, along with the uprooting of olive trees, including fruit-bearing ones. Among the developments that reveal its continued push for full control over the West Bank is the decision by the so-called ‘ministerial committee’ to confiscate vast areas of the West Bank.

In parallel with the actions of the Israeli enemy in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority—which is deeply regrettable—continues its bad practices against the Palestinian people through its repressive security apparatus, which is supposed to protect them. Some of these harmful practices amount to serious crimes against the Palestinian people, including the killing and bloodshed of its own citizens, all in collaboration with the Israeli enemy and in an effort to gain its favour. Just this week, the Palestinian Authority cold-bloodedly killed a young Palestinian man in Al-Far’a refugee camp and assaulted an elderly man in the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin. It is truly tragic and shameful for the Palestinian Authority to engage in such actions.

The Nakba anniversary: A wound that has never healed for 77 years!

Today marks the anniversary of the Nakba (the 1948 Catastrophe), a day filled with many lessons and of great significance. It is a sorrowful and painful anniversary of a catastrophe that has continued unabated for seventy-seven years. Nearly sixty thousand criminals from the Zionist gangs at the time, backed by British forces, launched their assault on defenseless Palestinians who possessed neither weapons nor organised resistance and were left as easy prey to those savage gangs.

The anniversary of the Nakba is a reminder of a profound injustice that was orchestrated even before its officially known date. As we have said, it is an ongoing catastrophe that has not ceased against an entire people—the Palestinian people. Millions of Palestinians have been driven into exile or forced from their homeland, while others remain besieged, terrorised, and under constant assault. This has persisted for more than seven decades in full view of human society and international institutions that claim to be concerned with and responsible for the protection of humans and their rights.

The anniversary of the Nakba is no ordinary or passing anniversary—it is a tragedy and an open wound, marked by the blood and shattered bodies of women and children across seventy-seven years, from the Deir Yassin massacre in April 1948 to the ongoing massacre in Gaza today. It commemorates a historic crime whose chapters are still being written—a crime committed by Britain and the West and resulted in the usurpation of an entire country and the displacement of millions of its people!

It is a day that reminds us of the Jewish hatred and malice towards Arabs and Muslims as clearly manifested in the Israeli enemy’s daily criminal, aggressive practices throughout this entire period. It shatters all ideas and calls for surrender or coexistence between Arabs and Zionists, exposing them as illusions and grand deceptions.

This day is remembered by the mujahidin and the Palestinian people, with legendary steadfastness unbroken by tragedies or suffering and with an unerasable memory and identity. They firmly hold onto their rightful claim to all of Palestine—its waters and its sanctities—which remains inviolable, immune to distortion, division, or compromise. It reminds them—and all Arabs and Muslims—of Al-Jalil, Tabariyya, Al-Nasira, Beisan, Akka, and Safad. It reminds them of Haifa and Yaffa, of Al-Khalil, Al-Ramla, and Al-Quds. It reminds them of Gaza and Bir Al-Sabi’, and of the duty to remain steadfast in Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, and every occupied Palestinian town and village. It reminds them of their right to all of Palestine—its sea, its river, its plains, and its mountains. All of this shall inevitably be restored, by the will of Allah (the Almighty), as promised in His true word, which neither fails nor changes.

It also serves as a reminder of the string of defeats inflicted upon the panic-stricken Arab armies in a matter of days, when they were overcome by negligence, weakness, and a collapse of fighting spirit, leading to the Israeli enemy’s unchecked expansion and escalation throughout the region. Seventy-seven years of total Arab futility—at the official level—to deter the occupying entity stand in stark contrast to the resilience and resistance of the Palestinian people, who endure siege and starvation while being denied even the most minimal support or reinforcement needed to confront this criminal enemy.

Vital lessons and profound insights drawn from the Nakba

It is important to shed light on at least some of the pivotal lessons of the Nakba, for no matter how bitter, hard, or harsh events may be, they contain vital lessons and profound insights that can be leveraged in the pursuit of serious efforts to alter the current trajectory. This requires embracing the immense responsibility that rests upon this Ummah, relying on Allah (Glory be to Him) and holding firm to His true promise.

The aggressive, criminal approach of the Zionist Jews has continued unabated for 77 years!

The first of these pivotal lessons of the 1948 Nakba—which, as we said, persists to this day—is that the criminal, brutal, and aggressive Zionist-Jewish trajectory has not changed across all these decades. For seventy-seven years, its daily criminal practices of aggression have remained unchanged—whether during periods of escalations, where the enemy grows even more savage and ruthless, or at other times. The enemy persists in the same criminal conduct:

killing children and women;
seizing land by force;
violating sanctities;
forcibly occupying territories, farms, homes, and dwellings without any right;
subjecting the Palestinian people to every form of injustice and humiliation—beatings, insults, arrests, even raids on weddings, and more;
and keeping its prisons and detention centers perpetually overcrowded with abductees and detainees, all of whom endure all kinds of relentless violations and aggression at the hands of the Israeli enemy.

For seventy-seven years, these Israeli criminal practices have persisted unabated. Indeed, the Israeli enemy has never stopped committing these acts to this day. This is not to mention the roots of these actions and this criminal behaviour of the Israeli enemy: those Jewish beliefs, ideology, and culture based on a classification system that views the so-called ‘Goyim’ (non-Jews) as subhuman and permissible to exploit under divine law. Falsely and slanderously, they invoke divine scripture to justify shedding blood, seizing land, plundering wealth, permitting themselves everything. It is an indoctrination of hostility, saturated with hatred, contempt, malice, and extreme enmity. As a result, each new generation surpasses the previous generations in terms of malice, hostility, contempt, and the violation of all what is forbidden.

The Israeli enemy has not changed, and this is a clear testament that it is a criminal entity. There is no possibility of coexistence with it, nor peace with it. It is fundamentally incapable of such relations due to its culture, psychology, orientations, beliefs, practices, and goals. The foundation upon which the reality of this Zionist-Jewish criminal gangs was built makes it absolutely impossible to deal with others peacefully, respectfully, or with any regard for rights. Moreover, the entire matter is fundamentally based on injustice, aggression, and criminality; this is a clear matter. It is an entity that cannot coexist with others and is, since its inception, founded on usurpation and criminality.

How was this entity established? How were those criminal gangs brought to Palestine? This was all based on occupation, killing, displacement, oppression, and the confiscation of rights. This is an aberrant entity, built on injustice and crime, and it is unsustainable because it does not operate within a normal framework like other human societies. Rather, it is based on a state of oppression, usurpation, aggression, and continuous crimes, among other things.

For 77 years, the West has never changed its policy of backing Zionist Gangs!

The second lesson is that Western policy has not changed over this entire period: The policy of Britain, America, Germany, and the major European and Western countries has remained unchanged in terms of full support and sponsorship of those criminal gangs. These regimes have always been exposed because they have never respected the slogans and principles they often claim to uphold, such as the rights of peoples, the right to self-determination, human rights, and so on.

What has become of the banner of freedom the Americans and Europeans keep waving? It is completely absent when it comes to the clear and undeniable right of the Palestinian people; it is nowhere to be found when it comes to the criminal practices and aggressive, enslaving conduct that the West supports against the peoples of our Ummah. They neither respect the slogans they constantly raise—which are nothing but deceptive tools for peoples—nor do they even show any regard or appreciation for the peoples of this Ummah, especially Arab countries, despite taking its wealth to serve their own major interests. In fact, America has major interests in the Islamic and Arab countries, and so does Europe. They benefit immensely, plundering the wealth of this Ummah, which serves as an open market for their products. Their interests in these countries are largely economic, which come at the expense of this Ummah, as evidenced by reality. In other words, they gain significant benefits, while our Ummah experiences exploitation, deprivation, and injustice.

Despite gaining such immense benefits, they still show no regard for the peoples of this Ummah, whose wealth and interests they continue to exploit—none of this has done anything to change their behaviour. In contrast, America, Britain, and Germany do not gain significant economic benefits from the Israeli enemy. In fact, they are the ones who are providing for it. It is not a source of benefit to them; it takes from them and gives nothing in return. In contrast, their relationship with the Arab world and other Islamic countries is one of exploitation—plundering raw materials, petroleum resources, and more, worth trillions of dollars. They reap massive economic gains while showing no appreciation, recognition, or even a shred of respect or consideration for the peoples of this Ummah. They also show no regard for their rights, their grievances, or anything else.

The ongoing failure of the official Arab position and its descent into the so-called ‘normalisation of ties’!

Thirdly, one of the important lessons from the Nakba of 1948 is that the official Arab side, for the most part, did not take serious steps to address its failures, as there were significant failures throughout every stage. The Nakba of 1948 was a major Arab failure and a resounding defeat, followed by continuous failures in the subsequent periods. The official Arab approach consistently failed, and that failure kept recurring. However, the real issue is that no serious effort was made to address these failures or correct course, nor was there any success in leading a unified global Arab-Islamic-humanitarian effort that follows a practical and clear path to support the Palestinian cause, uphold Palestinian rights, and advocate for this cause, which has Islamic, humanitarian, and moral dimensions:

It has a global dimension, grounded in its humanitarian nature.
It also has an Islamic dimension that concerns all Muslims, as the Palestinian people are part of the Islamic world, the land of Palestine is part of the Muslim world, and its holy sites, foremost of which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, are at the forefront of Islamic sanctities.

The Arab position has a negative impact on the international level and on other countries, which do not see it as their responsibility to show more concern than the Arabs or Muslims themselves. Such a position has also negatively affected the Islamic position of many Muslim countries.

The official Arab position has taken the opposite path by adopting disgraceful proposals of surrender and offering free concessions, which it continues to insist upon despite the aggressive responses of the enemy and the clear failure of such of such proposals. Even in dealing with the criminal Sharon at the time, the Arabs used the same language: the language of free concessions and talk of peace that, in reality, meant surrender. Throughout all previous phases, they have clung to the same proposals, while the Israeli enemy has consistently responded with increased aggression, further denial of rights, and a brazen reaffirmation of its well-known and exposed stance: that it has absolutely no intention of giving the Palestinian people even a portion a portion of their land, not even under those initiatives involving free concessions.

Therefore, this official Arab course has continued to spiral into deeper decline, offering one concession after another, until some regimes have become deeply entangled in the grave act of betrayal referred to as normalisation of ties. This stands as the greatest betrayal of the entire Ummah and represents a complete reversal from supporting a cause that is both just and rightful —a cause for which the entire Ummah is responsible. Consequently, it leads to recognising the Israeli enemy, despite its criminality, aggression, injustice, tyranny, bloodshed, and extermination, as well as everything it represents: plunder, usurpation, hegemony, and menace to this Ummah and its sanctities.

The steadfastness of the Palestinian people has not only persisted but grown stronger since the Nakba—A vital lesson!

One of the most important lessons throughout this entire phase of the ongoing Nakba is Palestinian steadfastness: Palestinian steadfastness has only grown stronger, despite all the conspiracies targeting the Palestinian people. The Israeli enemy has orchestrated numerous schemes against them, even seeking to undermine their spirit of jihad and resistance. It has attacked them through both hard warfare and corrupting, misleading soft warfare. Through every possible means, it tried to sow despair in their hearts, foster psychological defeat, and push them to accept Israeli domination as an inescapable reality. It also sought to make them lose hope in the possibility of any form of salvation, but it failed. Despite employing every tactic to reach its goal and orchestrating dangerous and various schemes, it failed. Instead of driving the Palestinian people to despair, surrender, and loss of hope and trust in Allah’s true promise, their steadfastness has only continued to grow stronger, accompanied by a marked increase in awareness, insight, willpower, determination, resilience, and a firm commitment to their legitimate and undeniable rights. This is a matter of profound importance. This also represents a grave concern for the Israeli enemy and has now begun to have a significant impact even within Western societies. So the steadfastness of the Palestinian people has intensified; their awareness has deepened, and the unwavering resolve of their mujahidin offers an inspiring and successful model—one that has proven its effectiveness and success.

The Palestinian people and their dear mujahidin have engaged in multiple full-scale rounds of confrontation with the Israeli enemy in the Gaza Strip. In five major rounds—possibly more, as this is not necessarily an exhaustive count—the Israeli military ended up with failure. Israel’s repeated failures, beginning in 2008 and continuing through several subsequent rounds, stand as clear evidence of the high effectiveness and unwavering steadfastness demonstrated by our fellow mujahidin in the Gaza Strip. This resilient model offers a profoundly important lesson for the entire Ummah and, in fact, constitutes the principal factor behind the Israeli enemy’s failure to fully realise its expansive Zionist project: the establishment of the so-called ‘Greater Israel’.

What has prevented the Israeli enemy from inflicting catastrophes similar to the Nakba of 1948 upon the neighbouring peoples and countries surrounding Palestine?

In Lebanon, Hezbollah’s mujahidin and the Lebanese resistance are the ones who expelled the Israeli enemy from Lebanon and delivered the Israelis major defeats through their jihad, patience, and sacrifices.
In other countries, the most crucial and fundamental role has been played by the Palestinian mujahidin, who bravely and steadfastly confront the Israeli enemy in the Gaza Strip, carry out operations in the West Bank, and demonstrate great resilience in places like Jenin Camp and beyond. This is due to the efforts of the Palestinian mujahidin and their grassroots supporters who share their commitment to jihad in the path of Allah, to steadfastness, to upholding their right, and to resisting the Israeli enemy. Despite all the hardships and sacrifices, they did not lose their determination in the face of the Israeli enemy, nor did they succumb to weakness, frailty, or submission. In fact, these sacrifices hold profound significance, yielding substantial results and bearing important fruits of Allah’s true promise that never fails nor changes.

The major lesson drawn from this Palestinian steadfastness is that it stands as a successful model that has proven its effectiveness. There is absolutely no justification for any regime or nation to turn its back on this model, to withhold support, or to fail to offer any form of assistance. Failing to support this model in every way possible or—worse still—adopting a negative position towards our fellow mujahidin in Palestine, as some regimes do, constitutes a crime in every sense of the word—one that cannot be justified.

Remembering the Nakba brings to mind significant, undeniable truths that expose all lies and misleading narratives!

One of the important lessons of the Nakba—from its inception to the present day, especially in its early stages—is that remembering its events and details, whether from 1948 or earlier, reveals significant truths that expose the lies of those who seek to distort the Palestinian cause or discredit the mujahidin of Palestine and the free people of the Ummah. These truths expose those who seek to present misleading labels of the Palestinian cause and portray any stance against the Israeli enemy as a purely Iranian issue, irrelevant to Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims more broadly: Anyone from the Islamic world (within Arab countries and beyond) who take a position against the Israeli enemy is portrayed as providing a free service to Iran in a cause that holds no relevance for anyone other than the Iranians!

This is the Israeli-American narrative, one that deceives the Arabs and treats them as fools. As we have said many times, it is one of the ugliest and most insulting ways of underestimating Arabs, before anyone else, when it is said to them, as well as to the people and mujahidin of Palestine, that this is not their cause to oppose the Israeli enemy and that would make them Iranian proxies as this is merely an Iranian-Israeli conflict that they had better stay out of and not get involved in support of Iran against Israel, which could be their friend and has no real issue with them. Since the very beginning, this rhetoric has always been an Israeli one. It is repeated by the Israelis, the leaders of the Israeli enemy, and its media outlets. The Americans have also reiterated it many times, and they continue to do so. However, their mouthpieces within the Arab and Islamic world continue to parrot the same rhetoric to justify their complicity or their inaction.

The issue is clear: This Nakbah took place in 1948 and was preceded by events that began even earlier. This means it predates the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and it happened long before the victory of this revolution. What does this mean? It means that the Zionist Jewish gangs entered Islamic Arab Palestine under British and Western protection and with early American support to kill the Palestinian people, occupy Palestinian land, and take control of the Islamic holy sites in Palestine, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque. From the very first moment they arrived in Palestine, they began forming gangs that carried out killings and acts of genocide against the Palestinian people. That was before the Islamic Revolution in Iran and long before its victory, as we have mentioned. They killed the Palestinian people and occupied Palestinian land, and their crimes extended to the Lebanese people and other Arab countries. As early as the very first day of their occupation of Palestine, they presented themselves as enemies of Muslims in general—particularly Arabs—and chanted ‘Death to the Arabs’, a slogan they continue to repeat to this day. They have occupied the land, killed its people, and committed acts of genocide. They have persisted in these acts to the present day. Thus, the issue has these undeniable facts, which expose the falsehood of all those who attempt to present it in any other way.

The Islamic Republic of Iran—beginning with the Islamic Revolution, both before and after its victory—took an honourable Islamic stance in adopting the Palestinian cause, supporting the Palestinian people, and providing aid to the mujahidin in Palestine. This is what every regime in the Islamic world, whether in Arab countries or beyond, must do since the Palestinian cause is an Islamic cause. It is also a humanitarian one; human society must rally around it to support it in every possible way, for it is a humanitarian issue. In addition, all Muslims must rally around it as it is a cause that directly concerns them, due to their Islamic and religious responsibility towards a people that is part of them, a land that is part of their lands, and great sanctities that are among the most important and at the very top of the list of Islamic sanctities. This is a clear and evident cause. Nonetheless, Zionist mouthpieces constantly repeat the Israeli narrative regarding the Palestinian cause and the position against the Israeli enemy, including in the context of Yemeni support. As we mentioned, some do so to justify their complicity, and others to excuse their inaction. What do the Zionist mouthpieces in Yemen (Yemeni proxies of the Jews) say in their statements about this Yemeni support? They claim that it is a dispute between Iran and Israel, and the ‘Houthis’ are interfering. In other words, they repeat the Israeli rhetoric that portrays the Israeli enemy’s occupation of Palestine and its killing of the Palestinian people (who are Muslim Arabs) as a matter that concerns no one. They repeat this same rhetoric that gives the Israeli enemy the right to do whatever it wishes in our region, without anyone responding, resisting, or standing against it. If anyone responds, resists, or stands against it, they will be accused of acting on behalf of Iran and serving its interests. The Islamic Republic of Iran has firmly upheld its honourable Islamic duty in supporting the Palestinian people and embracing the Palestinian cause. This is an Islamic and humanitarian obligation upon all Muslims, without exception.

There are even some Palestinians who speak ill of our fellow mujahidin in the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades, which is very unfortunate! They mischaracterise the mujahidin’s struggle in the path of Allah (although these mujahidin have a clear, just cause and face undeniable injustice), describing it to be for the sake of Iran, claiming it is Iran’s cause, and calling the mujahidin Iranian proxies. It is as if this Ummah, these peoples, and the Palestinian people themselves did not face an injustice or have any cause of their own.

Traitors are those who repeat the Israeli-American narrative by describing the Palestinian cause and the stance against the Israeli enemy as an issue that has nothing to do with Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims—as if it were a mere dispute between Iran and the Israeli enemy, irrelevant to the wider Ummah. They do a grave disservice to the Palestinian cause. They echo the very same narrative that originates from the Israeli enemy. They are parrots as they repeat Israeli rhetoric, and they are mouthpieces for Zionism.

In their great steadfastness in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people continue their heroic jihadist operations. The Al-Qassam Brigades executed a series of deadly, complex ambushes that dealt a significant blow to the Israeli enemy east of Rafah, as well as conducting operations elsewhere in the Gaza Strip. Similarly, the Al-Quds Brigades launched significant missile barrages at the usurped lands referred to as ‘the Gaza Envelope’. This is a remarkably significant achievement that sends a powerful message to the Israeli enemy concerning its failure: Since renewing its aggression against Gaza, it has been manifestly failing.

Our dear fellow mujahidin in the Al-Quds Brigades announced that they dedicate this blessed operation to the Yemeni people and conveyed their greetings in their statements. In return, we send them heartfelt greetings on behalf of ourselves and on behalf of our people and their fellow mujahidin in the armed forces. We also pray that Allah grants them and all fellow mujahidin in the Gaza Strip assistance, victory, and support.

The Israeli enemy continues its assaults on Lebanon in all forms, including air strikes and artillery bombardment. This week saw an important and informative speech by the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem (May Allah protect him), which covered everything that needs to be addressed about the situation in Lebanon.

The Israeli enemy persists in its assaults on Syria, as it continues to cut deep into Syrian territory, such as in Quneitra, carry out detentions and house searches, and completely violate Syrian airspace, including the skies over Damascus. It is gravely wrong for some in Syria to describe these actions as ‘Israeli interference’. What the Israeli enemy is perpetrating is not mere interference but outright assaults and crimes—it is an aggression in every sense of the word. Softening the terminology won’t help at all in the face of the Israeli enemy.

A brief commentary on the visit of the infidel Trump to several countries in the region

This week, the infidel Trump paid visits to several countries in the region with obvious goals: to secure funds and to score political points. We would like to comment on his visit by highlighting two points briefly:

First, America’s policy towards Arab regimes—even those with deep, longstanding ties—is built on extortion. The American approach to this entire region, particularly to the Arab regimes, relies constantly on extortion and never shows any respect. The Americans are explicit about this policy that relies on financial and political extortion. Very often, the Americans threaten and intimidate these regimes to extort them, and they paint a picture for them suggesting that they would collapse and vanish if it weren’t for America’s protection. Indeed, Trump stated that what those regimes provide is merely a token of appreciation for America’s role in keeping them safe and claimed that America keeps them secure and without it their very presence even on the map wouldn’t have been sustained. As you see, it is a logic of exploitation and extortion.
Second, the Israelis are partners in all American financial and political gains. This is evident at the financial level, as the Americans collect money from the Arabs and lavishly supply the Israelis with weapons, bombs, shells, and even cash. In effect, the Israelis share in all that the Americans get from the Arab regimes, which amounts to substantial sums—trillions of dollars!

Moreover, Trump incites hostility against the Palestinians and even slanders them, fabricating lies about them. In his remarks about the mujahidin in Gaza, he concocted falsehoods to defame them, accusing them of rape and other crimes—the very atrocities that are actually perpetrated by the Israeli enemy. Our fellow mujahidin are entirely innocent of them. Yet he levels these accusations against them while simultaneously justifying all Israeli crimes and rationalising America’s unwavering support for the Israeli enemy. Also, he clearly seeks to ensnare the Arab regimes into the crime of normalisation and allegiance to the Israeli enemy.

The Americans also exploit their influence at all levels across Arab regimes and states—especially since some of those very regimes are keen to align themselves with the Americans. In other words, the Americans profit on both ends: once by taking what they can from these regimes and a second time by ensuring these regimes channel everything they receive back into advancing American interests. This represents a grave problem. They further leverage this influence to reshape their entire landscape—politically, culturally, intellectually, through media, and by erasing the faith-based identity of the Ummah, among other objectives.

To our entire Ummah, we say:

Whatever you do for the Americans and Israelis will never benefit you; they will instead utilise it to serve their unchanging aggressive policies towards this Ummah. Allah says in the Holy Quran, {‘Here you are! You love them but they do not love you‘}[Ali ‘Imran 3:119]. {‘But they do not love you,‘} and they will never love you at all. This is why there is no change in their policy, culture, or attitude towards this Ummah. The American and Israeli mindset remains unchanged: their contempt for this Ummah—both regimes and peoples—and their position towards it in all its forms.

Allah says, {‘Never will the Jews or Christians be pleased with you, until you follow their faith‘}[Al-Baqarah 2:120]. Appeasement does nothing to alter an aggressive, negative attitude. Appeasement is a failed and losing strategy. Although the Americans and the Israelis benefit from whatever is offered to them, they do not change their attitude towards this Ummah, including those who make concessions to them—they are simply exploited!

A range of pro-Palestine activities, including a major step towards economic boycott in America!

This past week has witnessed protests and student-led initiatives in support of the Palestinian people across several countries, especially in the West. Notably, a significant and extraordinary development has been the launch of economic boycott campaigns by American universities. These boycotts target America-based companies that play a role in supplying weapons to the Israeli enemy. It is deeply shameful when we call on the peoples and even the governments and regimes of our Ummah to fulfil their responsibility (which we keep stressing) to boycott anything that materially or economically benefits the enemy—as the enemy relies on economic and material resources to carry out its aggression against the Palestinian people, committing genocide and killing women and children—and then see no response. This is the case, especially when we see American universities taking action and withdrawing investments from companies that arm the Israeli enemy. Motivated purely by human conscience, they have taken stronger action than some Muslims. This is unfortunately the case when some among this Ummah lose their sense of humanity, ethics, and Islam and completely fail to have sound perceptions and calculations regarding this Ummah’s national security and genuine interests. So American universities are continuing to withdraw investments from companies supporting the Israeli enemy with weapons!

Student activism at American universities is now met with all forms of assaults, including beatings, detentions, and even expulsions and dismissals from universities in some cases. There are also demonstrations taking place in more than 10 European countries and in 5 Arab countries as well. However, for the sake of brevity, we will not delve into the details.

The momentum of Yemeni support operations and grassroots activities and their significant impact on the Israeli enemy!

Regarding the support operations from Yemen (the land of faith and jihad), as part of the Battle of the Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad, this week witnessed nine operations involving hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones. Among the most significant were the operations targeting Lod Airport, as part of the ongoing efforts aimed at imposing an air blockade against the Israeli enemy. Our armed forces are striving to achieve this crucial objective. Some operations coincided with Trump’s speech.

Dozens of airlines continue to suspend their flights to Lod Airport, which the Israeli enemy calls ‘Ben Gurion Airport’. This suspension has a clear impact on the Israeli enemy across all levels, most notably economically.

The Israeli enemy is prohibited from navigating the Red Sea through the Bab Al-Mandeb strait, the Gulf of Aden, or the Arabian Sea. In fact, the Israeli enemy is acting accordingly and has stopped its activity there. This effort will continue to prevent the Israeli enemy’s maritime movement. As we have mentioned, our position in supporting Gaza has never faltered or weakened. It is steadfast, and we are constantly seeking to intensify our support.

Regarding the American failure in the aggression against our country, there is a consensus on the American failure among the West, America, and even Israeli commentators, whether experts, research centres, or the media: They all affirm that the American aggression on our country was a complete failure, as they emerged from this aggression defeated in this round. In fact, they had faced the same destiny in the previous round of aggression, which involved supporting the Israeli enemy under Biden’s administration, just as failed under Trump’s administration. However, Trump is clowning around to conceal his failures, yet even failing to cover up the failure of the American aggression!

Our dear people continue their popular activities with great momentum, thanks to Allah:

The past week’s marches have been immense, large, and honourable, taking place in the capital Sana’a, as well as across other governorates, districts, and rural areas. Indeed, the weekly million-strong demonstrations of our dear people represent an extraordinary turnout, unparalleled anywhere in the world, with great momentum sustained tirelessly. This reflects faith, human conscience, and high moral values; it also reflects nobility, sincerity to Allah (Glory be to Him), and loyalty in every sense of the word.
In the past week, the number of marches and demonstrations has reached 1,067, both large and small, across the governorates, taking place at Al-Sabeen Square and other places in several districts and rural areas.
Student activities at universities and schools are ongoing and vibrant.
The armed tribal gatherings persist with great momentum, reflecting this people’s decisive stance at the highest levels and demonstrating our people’s steadfastness, their faith-based pride, resilience, bravery, and trust in Allah, the Almighty.
Popular mobilisation activities continue, including military training, manoeuvres, parades, and marches, thanks to Allah.

This is a blessing, and it comes as a result of Allah’s favour upon our dear people. It protects us from the disgraceful and shameful guilt of failing to support the Palestinian people in this great test for our Ummah. Therefore, our dear people, strengthened by their faith, remain steadfast in their position, activities, and initiatives. They stand tall and firm alongside the Palestinian people, setting an inspiring example for all peoples around the world.

First and foremost, this noble position holds great importance before Allah, and it holds great significance for the Palestinian people themselves. Our dear brothers in Palestine—both the mujahidin and the Palestinian populace—deeply appreciate this position taken by our people. Likewise, all the free people of the world, even within Western societies, highly value this position of our dear people.

However, what is more important than all of that is the pleasure of Allah (the Almighty) and the fulfilment of this responsibility, which carries great significance for the future of this Ummah, and for what Allah may decree for the peoples of this Ummah. Allah distinguishes between those who seek His pleasure, respond to Him, obey Him, trust Him, and rely on Him, and those passive, negligent ones who have chosen to disobey Allah for fear of America or others and neglect their humanitarian, religious, and moral responsibilities for fear of America instead of fearing Allah (the Almighty, Who says, {‘Do you fear them? But Allah has more right that you should fear Him, if you are [truly] believers‘}[At-Tawbah 9:13].

This role and this undertaking and mobilisation hold great significance in shaping the reality of our dear people and confronting the Israeli enemy, which poses a threat to this entire Ummah.

The outcomes of this cause are clear. No matter the arrogance, injustice, corruption, and crimes the Israeli enemy commits or how much Western support it receives, the result of this cause is certain because we have a promise from Allah (the Almighty) in His Noble Book, and even in the Torah and the Gospel. The Israeli enemy is destined to vanish and perish; its existence is temporary and doomed. This is the unbroken promise of Allah, Who says, {‘Then when the final [second] promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the masjid [the temple in Al-Quds], as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction‘}[Al-Isra 17:7]. He also says, {‘But if you return [to sin], We will return [to punishment]‘}[Al-Isra 17:8]. Allah (the Almighty) has given a promise that will never fail. He also promises loss for those who hasten to support the enemy, their allies, and those who stand by their side—they will lose and fail alongside them.

I call upon our dear people to join the great, honourable million-strong demonstrations tomorrow, Allah willing, in the capital Sana’a and other governorates. Let your voice be loud and clear, steadfastly supporting the Palestinian people: We stand with you, and Allah is with you. The ultimate victory belongs to you and to those mindful of Allah, Who will never break His promise.

We ask Allah (the Almighty) to grant us success in seeking what pleases Him, have mercy on our virtuous martyrs, heal the wounded among us, set free our captives, and grant us victory. We also ask Him to hasten relief and victory for the oppressed Palestinian people and their dear mujahidin.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.