Yemen says ready for next inevitable war, urges Muslims to be vigilant

“We are preparing for the next round of conflict, and we are working on this day and night because we are aware of what is happening, what the enemies are striving for, and what they are planning,” Sayyid Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi said in a televised speech on Friday.

The remarks come a day after Zionist regime’s minister of military affairs Israel Katz vowed to continue military assaults against several countries, including Yemen, following the Arab country's pro-Palestine operations.

Al-Houthi warned that silence in the face of American and Israeli colonial projects would only embolden aggression across the Muslim and Arab world.

He stressed the necessity for everyone to be vigilant, attentive, and prepared.

He said, “The Americans failed to stop us. With all their weapons, aircraft, and air and naval bombardments, they were unable to halt our military operations in support of the Palestinian people, whether missile, drone, or naval operations.”

In his speech, the Ansarullah leader also warned against US-Israeli schemes aimed at reshaping the region, citing open calls from Washington and Tel Aviv to “change the Middle East.” He urged Arab and Muslim nations to confront these plots instead of remaining silent.

“Talking about what is called Greater Israel is to subjugate the peoples of the region to the most criminal and worst enemy, and it’s a disaster for the nation to accept that,” he said.

Zionist regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly spoken of his attachment to the vision of a so-called “Greater Israel,” which includes the occupied Palestinian territories as well as parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, describing it as a “historical and spiritual mission.”

Referring to Western-backed crimes committed by Israel and the US in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, al-Houthi said the enemies, through their “tools” in the region, are trying to normalize killing and violations.

“So that people accept being killed by Israel whenever it wants,” he said, stressing, “this is a very dangerous issue.”

“In the face of killing and violation, the enemies want there to be no reaction and for it to become an acceptable matter,” he added.

Al-Houthi said it is “very unfortunate” that “the blame continues to be directed at those who oppose” the normalization of these crimes, rather than at the perpetrators themselves.

“Our operations against the Americans continued until the ceasefire agreement was announced, and the Americans will not be able to stop them in the future,” he said, adding, “The weapons we possess are the weapons of a nation that relies on Allah and trusts in Him, a nation that embarks on a principled, Quranic, faith-based, ethical, and value-driven path.”

He also rejected calls to disarm the resistance, saying such demands are designed to leave the region defenseless.

The call to disarm resistance is meant to strip the nation of any means to confront American and Israeli aggression, he said, adding that submission to the US and Israel is falsely presented as a solution, while it only deepens humiliation and exploitation.

Yemen’s stance follows months of confrontation triggered by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Zionist regime’s forces have martyred more than 70,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023, before a fragile ceasefire, brokered by the United States, was reached last October.

As part of its response, the Yemeni Armed Forces launched a pro-Palestine campaign in November 2023, targeting Israeli-linked shipping and striking sites in the occupied territories. The campaign came a month after the Zionist regime unleashed its genocide in Gaza.

In response, the US and Zionist regime carried out repeated airstrikes across Yemen, in flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter. Washington escalated its aggression by deploying aircraft carriers to the region in an attempt to deter Yemeni operations.

In May, Yemen and the United States reached a ceasefire brokered by Oman, following sustained US-led bombardment of Yemeni cities and continued Yemeni retaliatory strikes on American forces in the region.

Yemen has halted its operations against Zionist regime since the start of the ceasefire on October 10 while warning that it is ready to resume its military support for the oppressed Palestinians if the truce is shattered.