Speech by Leader Al-Sayyid Abdul Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi (May Allah protect him) on the Latest Developments
Thursday, 20 Safar 1447 A.H. (14 August 2025 A.D.)
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the outcast.
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Praise is to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. I believe that there is no god but Allah, the Sovereign and the Manifest Truth, and that Muhammad, our master, is His servant, Messenger, and Last Prophet.
O Allah! Confer Your salat and blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad as You conferred Your salat and blessings upon Ibrahim and the Family of Ibrahim. You are Owner of Praise, Owner of Glory! And be pleased with Muhammad's good companions and all Your righteous servants and mujahidin.
Brothers and sisters, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
In the latest developments of the brutal and criminal Israeli assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, more than 3,500 Palestinians have been killed or wounded this week in the ongoing genocide carried out by the Israeli enemy, in partnership with America. The victims include children, women, displaced persons, and those desperately seeking food for themselves, their families, and their loved ones. Some were even killed by boxes and parcels dropped from aircraft to land on their heads under the guise of 'aid'. Several such incidents have been documented and reported in the media.
In reality, this is nothing more than a deadly trick—a case of throwing dust in people’s eyes, as the saying goes—staged in response to the global outcry and widespread anger over the crime of starvation. This crime is one of the gravest, most appalling, and most repugnant of all Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Given the immense wave of solidarity with the Palestinian cause across the world due to this crime of starvation, the Israeli enemy is trying to deceive everyone by claiming it is allowing aid to be dropped over the heads of Palestinians. In truth, this is done according to a specific plan, a set level, and a certain method, and we explained how it uses this to target the Palestinian people and dupe nations and peoples alike.
According to the figures, if this current pace of so-called 'aid' drops onto the heads of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip were to continue steadily, then over the course of eight months it would amount to no more than the equivalent of a single day’s supply of what could enter through the crossings by land and actually reach the people of Gaza. There is no obstacle to this other than the Israeli enemy’s refusal. In other words, airdropping aid is by no means necessary because there is no lack of alternatives—it is perfectly possible to deliver the aid by lorry, with plenty of them already loaded with large quantities of food supplies.
Amid the global outcry, the Israeli enemy decided to allow only a tiny fraction of aid to enter—much of it consisting of food that is already past its expiry date. In doing so, it spreads disease. Several illnesses have already emerged in the Gaza Strip as a result of consuming expired food, which had been kept by the Israeli enemy at the crossings for so long that it went off before being let in. This has had serious and harmful consequences for the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile, people are still dying every day from starvation itself. Each day brings the announcement of more martyrs, especially among children, who are the hardest hit, the least able to endure, and whose suffering is immense due to hunger and malnutrition.
Likewise, in the American–Israeli death traps, the killing goes on day after day. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has testified to the major crimes committed by the Israeli enemy, with American involvement, through these traps. They stated, 'Children shot in the chest while reaching for food.' Such is the reality when Palestinians approach these sites, which, by the admission of American individuals, are deliberately designed to kill Palestinians. Amid extreme hunger, many are forced to go to these places in search of food. Once they arrive and gather there, the Israeli enemy begins committing its atrocities, targeting them on the way, while they are assembled, and even after they leave—it keeps targeting them all the time.
Children were shot in the chest—in an act of sheer brutality and criminal intent, the Zionist soldiers deliberately target and snipe children, aiming for fatal wounds to the chest. This is done with the express purpose of wiping out Gaza’s children, eradicating them altogether. 'People crushed or suffocated in stampedes'—during the desperate rush to get food.
'Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points.' The Israeli enemy targets gatherings, deliberately opening fire on people as they assemble. This level of criminality reaches the point of massacring entire crowds of Palestinians, killing them en masse during these gatherings.
Such is the scale of this tragedy and the enormity of the crime committed by the Israeli enemy—starvation coupled with mass killings by gunfire, shelling, air strikes, and the use of devastating and incendiary American bombs—that even UNRWA has stated, 'Children in Gaza are dying from starvation and bombardments,' adding that entire families are being wiped out. Indeed, there are countless examples of Palestinian families that were wiped out. 'Entire families, neighbourhoods, and a generation are being wiped out.' In other words, the Israeli enemy is targeting an entire generation in the Gaza Strip.
Therefore, the global description—and indeed it has become a global description—of the crimes the Israeli enemy is committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is genocide. Although it is difficult for the West to acknowledge this reality in its media outlets and official institutions, which are under the control of global Zionism, it is a truth that has imposed itself, even within Western societies. Everyone is now speaking of the Israeli crimes as genocide. It is the crime of this century, and it is a major, terrible, appalling crime. When it comes to children, there is global consensus on the sheer brutality and criminality of deliberately targeting them. In fact, what the Israeli enemy is doing is a major crime: It kills children, adults, young people, and the elderly, men and women alike; it kills and targets all the Palestinian people, whether in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere, using every method possible. Nonetheless, what it is perpetrating in the Gaza Strip surpasses anywhere else: It is worse, more extensive, and more atrocious. It is a crime against the human being as a human being, whether a child, an adult, or a youth, a man or a woman—a crime against humanity itself. It is a desecration of human life and a violation of its sanctity.
In human society, children are meant to receive special care and protection, as recognised by custom, divine law, civil law, and social norms—all foundations rooted in human nature, ethical principles, and social reality. Thus, targeting them reflects cruelty, criminality, savagery, and tyranny; such an act is a violation of all sanctities and a transgression of every norm recognised in human society. The Israeli enemy is barbaric; it gives no consideration to anything. It has no human values—it has stripped itself of all human values—and possesses no human feelings. It has deviated from the natural disposition. The reality embodied in Israeli criminality stands as evidence that it has reached the point of complete detachment from all human feelings and the innate human values with which Allah has endowed mankind. It also proves that neither divine law nor human and moral values, nor established laws and treaties, nor rights and norms mean anything to this enemy. That is because its targeting of children in Gaza is an extremely grave act. It is one of its principal crimes, and it commits it deliberately, extensively, and daily. In other words, it is a main course of action in its criminal campaign against the Palestinian people.
The Israeli enemy in the Gaza Strip targets all members of the Palestinian people, in all their different categories. Among the groups it focuses on in its targeting are Media personnels. This week saw a deliberate massacre of six journalists in their tent—they were attacked deliberately by the Israeli enemy, which had made all necessary preparations for that purpose before and after the strike. It is an unmistakable crime. According to some statistics, the number of martyred journalists and media personnels in the Gaza Strip has reached 230 or more, as the Israeli enemy focuses on targeting journalists and media personnels. Why does it do so? It is because the Israeli enemy does not want the truth or the reality of its crimes against the Palestinian people to reach people in different parts of the world. It does not want the world to learn of the many facts that are proven and irrefutable. It is especially true at this stage when there has been a great global outcry and humanitarian outrage across many human societies and when people have come to see the Israeli enemy for what it truly is: a criminal, oppressive entity and a tyrannical, corrupt gang whose level of criminality has surpassed that of any other anywhere in the world. This has unsettled the Israeli enemy.
The Israeli enemy has left no form or type of crime—no matter how heinous—unused against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. It has employed every kind and form of crime. The Zionist enemies are criminals; moreover, they are also ingenious in carrying out crimes, even in the types of crimes they commit. And they also excel in devising methods of persecution, torture, oppression, and criminality. Thus, when we reflect on the types and varieties of crimes they commit against the Palestinian people, we are truly stunned by the depths of barbarity, aggression, and malevolence they have reached. This reveals their true nature, their psyche, their malevolence, and their intentions. It shows us what they are, what they want, and what they are striving for. In fact, their actions are driven by two fundamental issues. The first is their savage, criminal, and malevolent mentality, which harbours contempt, hatred, and extremely aggressive intentions against our Ummah and our peoples. Second, their crimes also have specific objectives: Indeed, they pursue genocide because they want to kill and annihilate as many members of the Ummah as possible, using all forms and means of extermination.
This is one of their main objectives: extermination by all means and methods, including epidemics, direct killings, and crimes carried out as part of genocide using bombs, shells, and every means of killing, as well as through starvation, thirst, and denying medical care to the wounded and the sick. Forced displacement, together with extermination, is also one of their goals. They have a specific objective towards this Ummah, which is to annihilate as many of its members as possible, to forcibly displace