Statement of Yemeni Resistance Organization Ansarallah
Ansarallah Commander Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr El-Din Al-Houthi delivered a speech October 7 marking the anniversary of the start of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. "The Israeli enemy has launched more than a quarter of a million airstrikes and artillery bombardments on the Gaza Strip over the past year and around 100,000 tons of explosives through bombs, missiles, and shells provided by the Americans," he said.
He listed estimated statistics on the destruction meted out against the people of Gaza through Israel's ongoing genocidal campaign.
"More than 10,000 tons consist of temporary mines that have not yet exploded, aimed at booby-trapping the Gaza Strip," he pointed out.
"The bodies of 7,820 martyrs in Gaza have not been buried, have not reached hospitals, and have not had their data recorded. These are all estimated numbers," he said.
"The disappearance of many bodies is due to the Israeli enemy's use of internationally banned U.S. weapons and bombs with genocidal and mass destruction effects," he said.
The Ansarallah Commander continued: "The Zionist enemy has mobilized all its resources, backed by America, Britain, and the supportive West, to attack Gaza with an army of 350,000 regular and reserve soldiers. Approximately 150,000 martyrs, missing, and wounded in the Gaza Strip."
"The Israeli enemy has committed nearly 3,700 massacres against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip," Al-Houthi said.
"Sequence of Aggression"
Al-Houthi emphasized that, "The criminal and aggressive path of the Israeli enemy was not born from the Al-Aqsa Flood; it is part of a historical sequence of aggression and crime by the Israeli enemy.
"Since the cursed Balfour Declaration and the beginning of gathering Jews to Palestine, the Zionists have followed a policy of massacres and brutal killings against Palestinians before the declaration of the entity."
He added that "The steadfastness of the Palestinian people has proven that resources, equipment, and supplies are not the decisive factor in battles. The resistance factions in Gaza continue the battle against the Israeli enemy, which is supported by the U.S. and the West, with great steadfastness in a very small and completely besieged area for nearly 20 years."
"The Al-Aqsa Flood operation comes within the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to confront the occupying enemy, which holds no legitimacy in its occupation, oppression, or crimes. Al-Aqsa Flood is a natural outcome of 105 years of aggressive war, occupation, land theft, murder, genocide, displacement, and assaults on sacred places, as seen in the first and second intifadas, after Arab failures and abandonment of Palestine since the humiliating agreements."
Al-Houthi also addressed the intensification of Israel's attacks on the occupied West Bank saying this crime was not born out of the Al-Aqsa Flood but is a historical sequence of crimes.
"The number of abductees in the West Bank has exceeded 11,000 Palestinians, with about 750 martyrs and more than 6,200 wounded. Some statistics have recorded approximately 1,400 attacks in the West Bank by the occupying settlers over the past year."
Lebanese Resolve
Turning to Lebanon he said: "If the enemy thinks that killing the esteemed Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, may Allah be pleased with him, will weaken resolve, break morale, and lead to surrender, they are deluded and mistaken."
"The calls, words, and speeches of the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah are now even more motivating and driving forces for action and steadfastness in position. The Israeli enemy has not learned from past lessons in either Palestine or Lebanon."
He said that similarly, "the enemy" expected the morale of the al-Qassam Brigades "would collapse" after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Al-Houthi said "Efforts on the Yemen front continue in developing capabilities, raising performance levels, and increasing operations more and more. The popular mobilization in Yemen is unprecedented, unmatched in the Islamic world or anywhere else."
"We Are with You"
"We in the Yemen front have launched over 1,000 missiles and drones over the past year, and we have also used boats in the seas. Our armed forces have targeted 193 ships linked to the Israeli enemy, and also to the Americans and the British."
"Air and naval strikes by the enemies on our country amounted to 774 attacks, resulting in 82 martyrs and 340 injuries. No matter the extent of their military aggression against our country and the sacrifices we make, it will not deter us from our stance."
"Whoever supports the Israeli enemy with even a single word becomes complicit in all the crimes it commits. I say to our brothers in the Hamas movement, in Al-Qassam Brigades, in the Palestinian jihadist movements like Islamic Jihad, Saraya Al-Quds, and all the movements fighting in Palestine: We are with you, and our people are your supporters, moving with you in every way they can."
(Palestine Chronicle, October 7, 2024)
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