Yemen vows ‘direct, equivalent’ response to Saudi aggression

Yemen's Supreme Political Council has condemned the latest Saudi attack on Sana’a international airport, vowing a “direct” and “equivalent” response to the aggression.

In a statement, the Supreme Political Council described the Saudi attack on Sana’a airport as “a new crime added to the record of brutal aggression and unjust siege, which aim to deprive the Yemeni people of their most basic human rights”, including their right to travel, and treatment.

They also aim to control the Yemeni people's wealth and restrict their access to food and medicine, intensifying their suffering in “flagrant” violation of international conventions, and human rights, the council said, holding Riyadh fully responsible for the consequences of the ongoing aggression.

The statement stressed that Sana'a will respond in a "similar and direct" way based on the deterrence equations announced by the leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, namely "airports for airports, ports for ports, siege for siege, and comprehensive escalation for comprehensive escalation."

The council stressed that the Yemeni people’s rights to sovereignty and freedom, to operate their vital facilities such as airports and ports, and to invest their national wealth, are “non-negotiable”, “firm” sovereign rights.

According to the statement, the Saudi aggression is intended to serve the interests of Israel and the US, which lie in subjugating the entire region, stripping it of its elements of strength, and targeting forces that oppose arrogance.

The council vowed to continue to defend Yemen’s sovereignty, independence, and freedom, and to reclaim the nation’s legitimate rights.

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Earlier this month, tensions flared when Saudi Arabia tried to prevent the return of an Iranian plane carrying a delegation of Yemeni officials to Tehran for the funeral of Iran’s martyred Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The plane was diverted after the Sana’a airport was bombed and landed safely in the city of Hudaydah.

Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched the blockade on Yemen as part of a full-scale war on March 26, 2015, with military, political, and logistical support from the United States and other Western states.

The war has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis, while consistently falling short of its main objective of restoring power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly regime.

The government had fled the country amid a power struggle, prompting Ansarullah, Yemen’s popular resistance movement, to start running state affairs.

Following a fragile UN-brokered ceasefire in 2022, the United States, Britain, and the Israeli regime waged many rounds of wholesale aggression against Yemen.

The attacks sought to cripple Sana’a’s capability to stage solidarity strikes against Israeli targets in response to Tel Aviv’s war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.

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