News - Yemen: Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets for the Quds Day rally in the capital Sana’a to show solidarity with the Palestinians Under the slogan "Al-Quds is the hub", condemning Israeli atrocities against them.

The Mufti of Yemen and the head of the Yemeni Scholars Association, Sayyed Shams Al-Din Sharaf Al-Din, delivered a speech during the rally in which he said: “ we came out today expressing our position in solidarity with  the Palestinian cause.”

He stressed that the besiege and killing of our brothers in Palestine by the Israeli enemy makes the nation break its silence. He added that we must move with every effort to confront the plans and conspiracies of the Zionist enemy.

Criticizing the Saudi regime’s role in supporting the Israeli enemy, he said that the Saudi regime is still in its position, which grants the Jews the right to Palestine, confirming that it is a condition upon which the Saudi regime was established.

Using the opportunity to highlight Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine and the regime’s atrocities against the Palestinians, the participants in the rally chanted Ansarullah will not forget Al-Quds, Al-Quds is our main cause and Israel is our enemy.

Earlier, the Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi had called, Thursday evening, on Yemeni people to participate in the Quds Day

"Coming out en masse in the Quds Day rallies will express Yemenis faithful identity and will be an extension of the position of the supporters of the Messenger of Allah."

Every year on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, worldwide rallies are held to commemorate the Palestinian people’s resistance against Israel and their struggle to liberate their territories, which have been occupied by Israel for decades.

The annual event is seen as an opportunity for freedom-seeking people across the world, regardless of faith, to voice their support for the Palestinian cause and vent their anger against the apartheid regime in Tel Aviv, which has occupied Palestinian territories since 1967.

The International Quds Day is among the legacies of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, who is revered as a spiritual leader by Muslims across the world. Back in 1979, shortly after leading an Islamic Revolution which toppled the US-backed Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini named the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan the Quds Day.