Analysis of Houthi Military Actions in Yemen

From Sana'a, Hussein al-Bukhaiti, a writer and political analyst,

and also from Taiz, Dr. Ahmed,

al-Jabri, a media professional and political analyst.

Welcome to you both. Let me begin with

our guest from

Sana'a, Hussein al-Bukhaiti. How do you

explain this, this escalation that

the Houthi Ansar Allah group is carrying out at this

time, to the point of striking

and targeting a security center affiliated with

government forces? What messages does this

move send?

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear sister, there are no messages.

There is a war and there is

complete Saudi targeting of all Yemen. Most recently,

a house in Sahar, north of Yemen in Saada, was targeted, resulting

in the deaths and injuries of more than 30 Yemeni civilians, most of them women

and children. But the attacks from Sana'a are focused on

military camps, including the Al-Alam camp in Shabwa.

I mean, I'm surprised, I mean, how they cry over the targeting of a camp

where mobilization and recruitment take place, I mean,

this. This is a military site, and Sana'a has repeatedly warned.

Either through Maj. Gen. Yahya Saree or the Ministry of Defense, or through many

politicians and military officials here in Sana'a.

They warned all the camps in occupied southern and eastern Yemen against

any continued deployment of forces there or

sending reinforcements, because ultimately, any forces, training, or reinforcements

will ultimately be deployed to fight the Yemeni army, either in Bab al-Mandab

or in any other area. Therefore, these are legitimate operations despite

the existence

of warnings against receiving any reinforcements in those areas.

These are the circumstances of war. But what are

the limits that the Ansar Allah Houthi group sets for

this war?

The only limit, my dear sister, and the only demand is a complete Saudi withdrawal

from Yemeni territory, noninterference, full payment of compensation, and no support for

any militias or groups, whether they call them a government or not, meaning

let them stay there in Riyadh, in Riyadh's hotels. This is the limit, that there will be…

I also think the attacks will expand. We have noticed that in

operations over the past 24 hours, there has been widespread targeting

across all of Saudi Arabia, and there are also warnings not to

continue using Saudi airports, and I think these operations will

expand to other airports. Yemen

now wants only one thing, its sole demand is that Saudi Arabia stops, and Yemen will stop.

What is strange, dear sister, is that those lamenting, for example, the Saudi news channels,

speak of a bloody toll in Shabwa. One final point,

and they say, “Martyrs, martyrs.” One final point, martyrs in a camp.

Yes, please.

Allow me to ask Dr. Ahmed Al-Jabri if...

I ask you, Mr. Hussein Al-Bukheiti.

Some believe that the Houthi Ansar Allah group was the one that

started this war. So,

to

where will the fronts of the fighting\_go or shift

that are expanding today, day after

day?

To begin with, dear sister, who targeted Sana’a Airport on July 13

with Saudi airstrikes, although it said it was not, its forces

The government it supports, and they are one party, meaning they were a party to the truce.

Sanaa is one party, even if it is that government that does not have any aircraft.

But let’s say, they have a saying: the liar’s truth has no door to his house.

If it is them, that means the truce has been breached, and Sanaa—

I believe that, in expanding the war, it is focusing on expanding the war in

Saudi territory by targeting Saudi oil infrastructure and airports.

A stage may come when all

Saudi power stations are targeted. Sanaa has announced that the two

safe areas exempt from the no-fly zone or from any

attacks are the Mecca and Medina region, but Sanaa does not

target any camps inside Yemen unless

Saudi Arabia brings in reinforcements, so it is trying to concentrate all

its force on Saudi Arabia, and any attacks inside Yemen are out of necessity

because they are there.

Diplomatic efforts in the region

to de-escalate, so how open

is the Houthi Ansar Allah group to this

The initiatives?

My dear sister, anything called de-escalation, I believe Sanaa has one demand here.

I mean, since 2022, up until

the targeting of Sanaa Airport, Sanaa had complied with the truce and had not

violated it. Saudi Arabia exploits any truce or any path in

negotiations to strengthen and equip its forces and supply

its forces on the ground. Therefore, I think that for Sanaa, this de-escalation

issue, while Yemen remains under siege, while Saudi Arabia is able to regroup,

is unacceptable to Sanaa. There is even information, as Mohammed al-Bukhaiti

spoke about it,

a member of Ansar Allah's Political Council. He said there was

a Saudi request to Iran for a truce in Yemen

for two weeks. But what benefit would Yemen gain from

that truce?

Saudi Arabia only wants to catch its breath, because now it is the one losing

internally in Yemen, and it is also losing and cannot stop

the attacks against it.

Dr. Ahmad al-Jabri. Okay, Mr. Hussein.

Al-Bukhaiti, do Ansar Allah, the Houthis,

see this as a long battle?

A battle of attrition, especially since their

military capabilities, I mean, strike

daily, and there seems to be American readiness to

take part in carrying out

specific attacks.

My dear sister, Yemen has been targeted by over 300,000 airstrikes since

2015, and America, the Prosperity Guardian coalition, Britain

and the Zionist entity targeted Yemen during the blockade operations against

the entity over the genocide in Gaza. They targeted it with thousands of airstrikes.

And Saudi Arabia targeted Yemen for the past two months, approximately, with nearly 3,000

airstrikes.

Has that ever made them feel, at any point, that

the attacks coming from Sana'a against Saudi Arabia had diminished? No, on the contrary.

In the past 48 hours, we saw the largest attack on many Saudi military and vital sites

and airports, from north to south of Saudi Arabia.

This means, my dear sister, that the attacks that

what Saudi Arabia is doing

in fact, achieves none of its objectives. The reason is simple: they cannot

locate the weapons or identify their launch sites,

the drones, or the warehouses. Therefore, we see the attacks targeting

civilians, civilian facilities, and also people's homes.

Yes, allow me to ask Dr. Ahmed. Thank you very much, both of you. From Taiz, Dr.

Ahmed Al-Jabri, media figure and political analyst, and from Sana'a, Hussein

Al-Bukhaity, writer and political analyst.

We will continue the discussion with our guest here in the studio.