Yemeni govt. gearing up for operations to break 11-year-long blockade

Yemen's Sana'a-based Government of Change and Construction is reportedly making preparations for a new round of operations aimed at breaking the years-long blockade imposed on the Arab nation following a call from the leader of the Ansarullah resistance movement.

In light of the request made by Abdul-Malik Baddredin al-Houthi, and his call for practical measures to end the military presence of foreign occupation forces in Yemen's southern provinces and to make the necessary decisions to end the imposed siege that has in effect for the past 11 years, the General Mobilization Forces affiliated with the Ministry of Defense announced an increase in the level of its combat preparedness to carry out operations and intensify retaliation strikes, the government said in a statement released on Tuesday.

The Sana'a government went on to express its readiness to dispatch hundreds of thousands of trained fighters to the battlefield, emphasizing that the number of volunteer forces now stands at hundreds of thousands and includes dozens of military brigades, and that the training and formation of the forces is seriously underway.

In this regard, the Lebanese Arabic-language newspaper al-Akhbar daily newspaper, citing some informed military sources, reported that the number of General Mobilization Forces trained by the Yemeni Ministry of Defense since late 2023 has hit approximately one million individuals.

The newspaper noted that all Yemeni tribes have declared their readiness to actively participate in battle for freedom and independence.

Furthermore, Yemeni volunteer fighters have staged parades of general mobilization in a number provinces controlled by the Ansarullah movement over the past few days.

Several tribes in the provinces of 'Amran, al-Jawf, Hajjah, al-Huwayt, Dhamar and Sana'a have announced their tribal mobilization.

These come a day after the Sana'a government completed legal measures to end the Saudi presence in areas outside its control in southern and eastern Yemen.

Earlier, the Yemeni parliament had endorsed a legislation to intensify operations aimed at breaking the siege imposed on the country. The Sana'a Shura Council has also announced its support for Ansarullah's call.

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 went on to claim the lives of tens of thousands of Yemenis, while consistently falling short of its main objective of restoring power to Yemen's former Riyadh-friendly government.

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 would seek 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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