Yemen Upholds Allegiance To Gaza: ‘Peace Or Long War, World Must Choose’

An official in Yemen vowed hours after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria that Sanaa is ready for either “peace” or a “long war,” maintaining the position of the Sanaa government and Ansarallah resistance movement to continue fighting Israel until the war on Gaza is brought to an end.

Hussein al-Ezzi, a member of Ansarallah’s Political Bureau, said on social media on 8 December, following the storming of Damascus by extremist militants, that “Sanaa works for peace as if it were tomorrow, and works for war as if it were forever,” adding, “Nothing matches our readiness for peace except our readiness for war.”

As Syria was falling to Turkish and Qatari-backed militants on 7 December, Ansarallah official and member of Sanaa’s negotiating team Abdel Malik al-Ajri said, “When the axis of resistance decided to establish a joint operations room to support Gaza at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa flood, we realized that we would enter a situation where Israel would be in front of us and the axis of treachery would be behind us.”

“As for us in Yemen, we kept one eye on Israel and two eyes on those lurking behind us, and for every bullet fired by Israel and its agents, we counted nine for those lurking around us,” he added.

Ajri referred to the situation in Syria as “a network of complexities and is more affected by the results of the Zionist aggression, especially [on] Lebanon, but perhaps it is linked to wrong bets.”

A source confirmed to Al-Akhbar newspaper that the Syrian government’s decision last year to close Sanaa’s embassy and replace it with representatives from the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) – the Saudi-backed government in Yemen – was influenced by a request from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, stemming from Assad’s normalization with Saudi Arabia and its strengthening of ties to the UAE.

Sanaa has avoided officially commenting on the fall of Assad’s government, but has warned of the danger of Israel’s exploitation of the situation and its invasion and expanded occupation of Syria, as well as its violent airstrikes on the country in the hours after Damascus was stormed.

Ansarallah’s Political Bureau said in a statement on 8 December that it “condemns and denounces this criminal Zionist aggression against Syria,” which “constitutes a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and a blatant attack on its lands and vital facilities, aiming to impose a new reality in Syria and exploit the circumstances the country is going through.”

Al-Akhbar wrote on Monday that “the fall of Damascus to US-backed armed groups and Syrian opposition forces represented an opportunity for the forces loyal to the Saudi–Emirati coalition in Yemen to revive talk about transferring the Syrian model to Yemen.”

It adds that as Syria fell to violent extremist groups, international forces began work to revive a negotiation process for Yemen. According to Yemeni media, the US and Saudi Arabia have presented an offer to Ansarallah for a deal to end its naval operations against Israeli maritime interests and its missile and drone strikes.

Meanwhile, the UN special envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, recently warned of a potential return to conflict across Yemen.

A Yemeni drone blasted into a penthouse in Israel’s central Avne settlement on 8 December. It was the third consecutive day of Yemeni attacks against Israel. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported on 8 December that Tel Aviv is planning a major attack against Yemen.

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