Alwaght- Leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi accused the US of being involved in the recent assassination of the country’s head of the Supreme Political Council, Saleh al-Samad, in the western coastal province of Hudaydah.
Addressing his supporters via a televised speech from the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Saturday, Houthi stated that Americans played the leading role in Samad’s murder, and their fighter jets closely monitored the entire phases of the terror operation carried out by Saudi warplanes.
He added that aggressors were killing innocent Yemeni women and children on a daily basis, and their crimes had now become an indispensable part of life in the crisis-hit Arab country.
“Having received the green light from Washington, aggressors are carrying out their appalling crimes against Yemenis as part of their military tactics,” the Ansarullah chief pointed out.
He further noted that Saudi Arabia and its allies were committing acts of "genocide" in Yemen by targeting civilians and residential neighborhoods.
Houthi also censured the Saudi-led coalition over assassination of Samad, emphasizing that the move was in contravention of international law.
“Samad never took advantage of his position. His primary goal was to serve the interests of the entire Yemeni nation. Officials from the Ansarullah movement will do their utmost to follow in his suit,” Houthi commented.
“Since the beginning of the military onslaught against Yemen, the related developments have pointed to the heroic resistance and steadfastness of the Yemeni nation against the Saudi-led aggression. Aggressors proved their baseness by dispatching warplanes to bombard Samad’s funeral,” he said.
Houthi added that Samad’s murder boosted public resilience in the face of aggressors, and consolidated their determination for self-sacrifice.
“Aggressors will obtain adverse results out of the assassination. They had planned Samad’s murder in the hope of sowing the seeds of discord and division among Yemenis, and breaking their will. Nevertheless, his martyrdom bolstered their morale and added to their rage against Saudi Arabia and its allies,” the Ansarullah leader underlined.
Houthi concluded that aggressors were weighing plans in order to bring more mercenaries into Yemen.
Samad lost his life when Saudis targeted him in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah on Thursday.
He was number two on the Saudi-led coalition’s most-wanted list and the alliance had offered $20 million for any information that would lead to his capture.
The Supreme Political Council was formed by the Houthi movement and the General People’s Congress Party to run state affairs in the absence of an effective government in 2016, a year after the Saudi regime and a coalition of its allies began their US-backed military aggression.
