Yemeni people voice support for Gaza, Lebanon in massive Friday march

On Friday, Yemeni people took to the streets of the capital Sana’a and other provinces across the country, including Sa’ada, Ta’izz, Ibb, al-Bayda, and Hajjah.

Carrying the Yemeni, Palestinian and Lebanese flags, the protesters reiterated their solidarity with the Gazans and the people in Lebanon.

They chanted slogans such as “Oh Gaza (Oh Lebanon), we are with you. You are not alone.” and “Swearing by the blood of the martyrs, we will not fear the deception of the enemies.”

They slammed the American support for Israel, hailing the Yemeni retaliatory operations against Israel and the US.

A statement issued by the organizers of the protest praised “the courageous and historic” decision of the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, to conduct an operation against an American aircraft carrier and a number of US warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea which thwarted a planned US attack on Yemen.

The statement also condemned the Western-backed Israeli war on Gaza that extended to the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

On an almost weekly basis, Yemenis have been staging mass protests across the country to condemn the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, and to reiterate their support for their country’s retaliatory operations.

Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Yemeni forces have carried out scores of operations in support of the war-hit Gazans, striking targets throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to targeting Israeli ships or vessels heading towards ports in the occupied territories.