Ansarullah has expressed satisfaction over Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s condemnation of their strikes against the occupied Palestinian territories, describing his anger as a testament to their effective pro-Palestinian efforts.​

Deputy Director of the Yemeni resistance movement’s Media Organization, Nasr al-Din Amer made the remarks on Tuesday, a day after the Israeli official vowed to respond to Yemen’s ongoing operations against Israeli targets.

The Arab Peninsula nation’s Armed Forces have been conducting hundreds of such strikes since October 2023 in response to the Israeli regime’s war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.

The strikes have, among other things, been targeting Israeli ships and vessels carrying supplies to the occupied territories, forcing the vessels to go around Africa to reach the territories, thus raising the prices of the commodities that are available to illegal Israeli settlers and heavily damaging the Israeli economy.

“Netanyahu is our enemy, and we always strive to keep our enemies angry,” Amer stated.

Yemen’s solidarity with Palestine

He separately noted the Yemeni Armed Forces’ having named one of their drones after the occupied city of Yaffa. The forces have been deploying the aircraft against the occupied city on many occasions.

“We chose this name after consulting with Hamas and Ezzedine al-Qassam commanders, who have been martyred by now,” Amer noted, referring respectively to Gaza’s main resistance group and its military wing.

The official said Yemen had named the aircraft Yaffa in a deliberate act of solidarity with Palestinians, saying “the name of our drone is a source of joy [for us too].”

The Ansarullah official reiterated Yemen’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause of liberation from Israeli occupation and aggression, saying the support aligned with the sentiments of other Arab and Muslim nations too.

“Assisting the Palestinian people is the request of the Yemeni people,” Amer affirmed, noting how the Yemeni populace would stage weekly millions-strong pro-Palestinian marches to convey the support and demand that their country contribute even more to realization of the Palestinian cause.

Call for accountability

Amer, who also heads Yemen’s official Saba news agency, meanwhile, identified Netanyahu as a war criminal, pointing to the Israeli premier’s conviction last year by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Israeli regime’s war on Gaza.

The Israeli official, he said, had to face prosecution rather than issue threats.

He additionally highlighted the disparity between the Israeli regime’s actions and the international community’s response, stating, “Silence in the face of the crimes of the Zionist regime encourages this regime to commit even more crimes.”​