Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi enumerates 4 parties that stood with the Palestinians after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the Iranian-backed Houthi group in Yemen, commented on the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas-led attack inside Israel under the name “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.”

This came in a speech by Al-Houthi broadcast on Al-Masirah TV, affiliated with the Houthi group, where he said: “We must stop at the results of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation to evaluate the reality of the nation and remind those around us of the great responsibility towards the Palestinian issue and the position towards the Israeli enemy.”

He continued: “When we come to evaluate the operation, we find that it is the greatest epic in the jihad of the Palestinian people, and that the Americans, the British, and Western countries took the initiative to save the Israeli enemy after the Al-Aqsa flood, as the feeling of the extent of the operation’s impact prompted the West to take action as a result of the state of turmoil that befell the enemy.”

He added: "The operation provided an opportunity for our nation and opened a horizon for it in reality and on the ground. It was an opportunity for the nation to stand up to support the Palestinian people within its humanitarian and moral duty and for considerations of the nation's national security. The nation had to take the initiative in providing all kinds of support to the Palestinian people, but what happened was that the ones who took the initiative to support the occupying, usurping enemy were the West and the tools of Zionism."

Al-Houthi claimed in his speech, saying: “Only the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, the Islamic Republic (Iran), the Iraqi factions, and the Yemeni Support Front stood by the Palestinian people, while the prevailing situation in the nation was one of betrayal and complicity on the part of some, and the support was within a limited framework in the axis of jihad and resistance.”

Al-Houthi considered that "Muslims and Arabs in particular missed a real opportunity to support the Palestinian people because the Al-Aqsa Flood operation represented a shift for the entire nation in its struggle with the enemy, as he put it."

It is noteworthy that on the morning of October 7, 2023, gunmen led by the Hamas movement stormed Israeli residential communities along the border with the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into the Strip, according to official figures.