Arab regimes supporting Israel complicit in crimes against Palestinians: Houthi

The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement has roundly denounced attempts by a number of Arab states to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, saying such countries are complicit in the Tel Aviv regime’s crimes against the Palestinian nation.

“The Arab regimes supporting the Zionist regime are indeed partners in crimes against Palestinians,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech broadcast live from the capital, Sana'a, on Thursday evening.

He also censured efforts by certain Arab states to portray a good image of the Tel Aviv regime, emphasizing that such countries are actually turning a blind eye to facts, and telling lies in a bid to justify their normalization of ties with the illegal Zionist entity.

“The Zionist regime was created through stealing Palestinian land and killing innocent people. Israel is the worst enemy of the Muslim world, and has been sinister, destructive and illegal ever since its creation,” Houthi pointed out.

The Ansarullah chief then condemned a deal that will lead to full normalization of diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

He said that the United States and the Tel Aviv regime only think of exploiting Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf region.

“Persian Gulf Arab regimes do not seek peace for Muslims, but rather try to sow the seeds of discord and division among Muslim nations," he noted.

Also in his Thursday remarks, Houthi censured the deployment of US troops to Iraq as “illegal,” saying, “US [military] presence in Iraq is a gross violation of international law as well as the country’s sovereignty.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, the leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement described the deepening economic crisis in Lebanon as the “upshot of continued plots hatched by the country’s enemies.”

The crisis in Lebanon is aggravated by the sanctions of the US and its allies, which have caused the Lebanese pound to lose more than 80 percent of its value.

Turning to Yemen’s domestic issues, Houthi underscored that Yemenis could successfully overcome lingering problems in the impoverished Arab country through reinforcing the agricultural sector despite the Saudi-led sanctions and tight blockade.

He then hailed the recent victory by Yemeni Armed Forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees in battles against Saudi mercenaries and Riyadh-sponsored militiamen loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s central province of Bayda, noting such triumphs were scored in spite of the US and Saudi air support for the enemies.

“The Yemeni people are in the right in the face of the Saudi-led aggression and sanctions,” Houthi concluded.

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