Yemeni people hold rallies in Sanaa to protest against US airstrikes

Tens of thousands of people held a large-scale rally in Sanaa, the capital controlled by the Houthi armed forces in Yemen, on the 17th to protest against the US military’s air strikes on Houthi armed targets in Yemen. The rally participants raised their weapons and shouted anti-US slogans. Huge posters of Houthi armed leader Abdul Malik Houthi and others were hung at the rally site. Mohammed Ali Houthi, chairman of the “Supreme Revolutionary Committee” of the Houthi armed forces in Yemen, delivered a speech at the scene under the escort of fully armed guards, saying that the US’s actions were “aggression and terrorism” and “we will respond to escalation with escalation.” Hassan Alavi, a student at Sana’a University who participated in the rally, said: “If the United States thinks that attacking us will prevent us from supporting the Palestinian people, it is a big mistake.” The United States began a large-scale air strike on the Houthi armed forces in Yemen on the 15th, and the Houthi armed forces subsequently launched an attack on the US aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships. Waltz, the US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, said on the 16th that the US military killed several Houthi armed leaders during the air strike on Yemen on the 15th. The Yemeni Houthi armed forces issued a statement on the 16th saying that the US air strikes on Yemen have killed 53 people and injured 98 others.