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Yemenis held a mass rally in Sana’a on Tuesday to show support for the country’s Houthi Ansarullah movement on the fourth anniversary of a Saudi-led war that has killed thousands of people and pushed the country to the brink of starvation.
Men, women and children marched waving the red, white and black national colors, and chanted slogans against Saudi Arabia, which leads a military coalition against the country, and the United States which backs it.
They also blamed U.S. ally Israel for destroying the country.
Massive speakers played “America and Israel, death and mutilation to you” and “five or fifty years, we will face the criminal coalition”.
A crowd of tens of thousands of people, including supporters of the Houthis’ Ansarullah group, had gathered in Sabeen square in central Sanaa since the early hours of Tuesday morning.
“This is a message to the world, that at the start of the fifth year (of the war), Yemenis will be stronger... a message that the Yemeni resistance will be even greater,” said Mohammed Haidarah, a protester.
Many people taking part in the rally painted their faces in the colors of the Yemeni flag and others danced holding assault rifles and traditional daggers as Houthi leaders cheered the crowd from the main podium.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC), denounced the U.S. decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty on the Golan Heights.
“It is a recognition from someone who does not own to someone who does not deserve,” he told the crowd.
Tens of thousands of people have died in the war pitting the Houthis against the Saudi-led coalition, which bombarded Yemen in 2015 to forcefully restore Hadi’s resigned regime to power.
The war has displaced over two million people and driven the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country to the verge of famine.
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Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
