Ansarallah chief warns KSA against escalation in Yemen: 'Your allies cannot save you'

Houthi’s speech came amid reports that Riyadh is planning a large-scale ‘land and sea’ campaign against Yemen  

News Desk - The Cradle 

The leader of the Ansarallah resistance movement, Abdel Malik al-Houthi, warned Saudi Arabia on 30 July that it will face “full escalation” in the event that a broad war against Yemen is renewed.

"Indicators show that the Saudis are heading toward full-scale escalation ... We will meet Saudi's full escalation with full escalation,” Houthi said.

“The oppressor will learn [that] America won't save him. Britain won't save him. Israel, the Zionist enemy, won't save him."

Houthi went on to warn that “the Saudi regime will face severe consequences” for its “crimes, tyranny, and insistence on continuing injustice, aggression, and oppression against the Yemeni people without justification.”

Additionally, he vowed that Sanaa will continue to reinforce the “blockade for blockade equation,” referring to the maritime ban imposed on the kingdom by the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF).

Houthi also praised Iran and its allies in the Axis of Resistance across the region. 

“We are partners with our brothers in the axis of jihad and resistance, and this partnership is based on positions of truth,” he said, stressing that the popular gatherings held in the capital on Fridays aim to “express solidarity” with Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, and Iran. 

In his speech, Houthi also condemned the recent US-Saudi strikes on Iraq. These strikes killed and injured dozens of members of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).

Houthi’s speech coincided with a report by The Guardian saying that Riyadh is “preparing” for a massive and “major” military assault against Yemen, which would involve both land and sea operations.

On Thursday, the Saudi Defense Ministry said it was readying a “multinational naval coalition” for the Red Sea, claiming that over a dozen nations backed the proposal.

The YAF announced a naval blockade on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea earlier this month in response to over a decade of war and siege imposed on Yemen by the kingdom. Saudi tankers have already been struck multiple times.

Sanaa also attacked a Saudi airport and a key Aramco energy facility in retaliation for recent Saudi airstrikes on Yemen this month—marking the kingdom’s first significant assaults on Yemeni civilian infrastructure in years.

The Aramco facility was set ablaze and has been forced shut by Yemen's operations.

Data released on 26 July revealed that Saudi crude oil loading volumes at the Red Sea port of Yanbu have plummeted by 40 percent due to Yemen’s blockade and retaliatory strikes.