Yemeni tribes nationwide are mobilizing en masse to prepare for renewed conflict with the Saudi-led coalition, following a call from the Ansarallah leader for the “expulsion of occupiers.”
Multiple local reports on 29 June and statements from officials confirmed widespread popular movements and mobilization across Yemen.
SABA reported that a “massive armed gathering was organized on Monday by tribes of Al-Mansouriya district in Hodeidah to declare the full mobilization and complete readiness [for a battle] to reclaim the rights of Yemenis.”
The gathering was held as part of efforts to “end the [Saudi and Emirati-led] aggression and blockade.” The tribes additionally commended Iran’s “great victory” over the “tyrants of this era.”
Similar mobilizations of armed local tribes and Ansarallah members also took place in the capital, Sanaa, including in the Shuub district.
Khaled al-Madani, the First Undersecretary of the Capital in the Ansarallah-led Sanaa government, attended the Shuub gathering on Monday and urged Yemenis to reclaim their country and natural resources from Saudi and UAE-backed forces.
“Yemen [has] delivered a clear message to enemies and occupiers: the Yemeni people know their true enemy – who has been waging aggression against them for over ten years and imposing blockades,” he said.
“[The Saudi-led coalition] continues to plunder Yemen’s resources, transferring their revenues to the Saudi National Bank, while the people are deprived of their basic rights,” Madani added.
Armed rallies occurred in Sanaa, Dhamar, Hajjah, and Al-Jawf, where the Bani Nawf tribes pledged to follow Ansarallah leader Abdel Malik al-Houthi’s directives.
Houthi issued a call for mobilization in a speech on 25 June.
“We will not accept the continuation of the US-Saudi aggression, occupation, and blockade, and we will act within the framework of our grievance to rid ourselves of this by all legitimate means until our people enjoy freedom, independence, and a life of dignity,” the Yemeni resistance leader said.
“I commend the broad popular movement and widespread tribal gatherings within the framework of general mobilization. I call upon our people to close ranks, strengthen the home front, maintain the spirit of general mobilization, and continue … military training.”
Houthi also pledged to target any Israeli presence in Somalia amid increasing relations between Tel Aviv and Somaliland.
Ansarallah and the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) are “closely monitoring the situation in Somalia and the actions of the Israeli enemy aimed at controlling the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab,” Houthi declared.
Footage on social media reportedly shows Ansarallah-backed tribes and Sanaa government forces advancing toward the front lines.
Saudi Arabia launched a brutal war on Yemen in 2015, leading a Gulf coalition with the UAE as a major partner. This followed a popular revolution in 2014 that saw Ansarallah seize control of the government in Sanaa, ousting the Saudi-backed regime.
Riyadh also imposed a complete air and sea blockade on the Arab world’s poorest country, causing unprecedented famine, the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis.
After nearly ten years of waging war against the YAF and creating separate Emirati and Saudi-supported proxy governments in Aden, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi began competing against each other for dominance and influence over Yemen late last year.
At the time, Ansarallah referred to the clash as a “crisis between occupiers.”
Sanaa has warned for years that it will not tolerate the foreign presence and would eventually move to fully expel Saudi Arabia and the UAE from the country.
source: The Cradle