Yemen’s Houthis will immediately take military action if the US and Israel attack Gaza, Al Jazeera reports citing the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

He said in a televised speech that the Houthis would monitor the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and “immediately move militarily if the Americans and Israelis move, based on the tyrant Trump’s threat, to attack the Gaza Strip on Saturday or before or after it”.

“I call on the [Houthi] armed forces to be ready for military intervention if the criminal Trump carries out his threat [to displace Palestinians from Gaza],” he added.

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