Remarks by the Leader Al-Sayyid Abdul Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi (May Allah protect him) on the Recent Developments in Syria

22 Muharram 1447 A.H. (17 July 2025 A.D.)

Regarding Syria, the Israeli enemy continues its assaults despite the officially declared path of normalisation pursued by those in power. Just yesterday, it launched air strikes on the Syrian capital, Damascus, marking a clear escalation.

Through its relentless assaults on Syria, the Israeli enemy is seeking to impose new realities:

  • The first is a reality of unchecked aggression—assaults met with no retaliation. This is the condition it aims to impose across the region: that it may kill at will, destroy at will, occupy, abduct, and demolish farmlands and homes without facing any response.

This is the very definition of unchecked aggression, and it is the very reality that both the Americans and Israelis want the entire Ummah to accept—but why? It is because it serves the Israelis’ goals of domination, occupation, and tyranny and allows them to freely practice oppression, usurpation, and plundering. The Americans and Israelis want this Ummah to accept this condition: to be a subjugated, enslaved, crushed people, so thoroughly violated that even their sacred sites are desecrated, their religious identity erased.

  • The second reality the Israeli enemy is pushing for is to insert itself into Syria’s internal dynamics under the guise of protecting the Druze and other minorities. It has taken advantage of the flawed policies of the armed groups there towards these minorities. These policies have given the Israeli enemy a convenient pretext. In fact, this very enemy stands behind the creation of such sectarian and denominational currents that oppose other groups based on sectarianism, which it then exploits to further fragment the peoples of this Ummah.

Therefore, those armed groups in control over Syria must first completely change their approach that discriminates on the basis of sect, ideology, and region, removing the pretext Israel is exploiting. This is a very important matter, and it is a responsibility they must fulfil.

At the same time, Syria’s minorities must remain vigilant against Israeli manipulation. Nothing but greed drives the Israeli enemy, for it harbours no goodwill towards anyone—it is an opportunist! It manufactures crises and disputes to exploit them and even pushes for certain positions to be adopted to later benefit from their disastrous outcomes. Such is the nature of the Israeli enemy—it seeks no good for anyone.

  • The third reality the Israeli enemy seeks to impose is one that involves its control over vast areas in Syria, stretching close to the capital, Damascus, under a scheme of security classifications. It keeps seizing one area after another, each assigned a specific security designation—this extends even to areas near Damascus.
  • The fourth reality the Israeli enemy is pursuing is one that ensures overarching control over all aspects of Syria’s affairs—its relations, positions, levels of armament. The goal is to guarantee that the Israeli enemy’s interests, its dominance, and Syria’s submission become what shapes all positions and relations in Syria. This is the same approach the Israeli enemy adopts with all countries in the region.

In recent months, the Israeli enemy has established more than eight military bases north of Quneitra, in addition to its military project known as 'Sufa 53'—a dirt corridor reinforced with trenches and dirt barriers. This project carves through vast areas and is designed to link together its military bases and posts that have spread across southern Syria.