News - Yemen: Yemen's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the Nicaraguan government's decision to sever diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity, in response to the genocide committed by the occupation in Palestine over the past year.

Ministry spokesperson Ambassador Waheed Al-Shami emphasized that the Nicaraguan government's statement reflects its strong condemnation of the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestine, which have also extended to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. He stressed that these attacks pose a significant threat to regional and global peace.

Al-Shami expressed deep appreciation for Nicaragua's courageous stance and its solidarity with the Palestinian people. He urged other countries, particularly Arab and Islamic states that have normalized relations with the Zionist entity, to follow suit and take similar actions to pressure Israel into complying with international law and ceasing its aggression against Palestine, Lebanon, and other nations in the region.

He further pointed out that normalization with Israel has neither advanced the Palestinian cause nor brought peace to the region. Al-Shami called on the international community to take a firm stance against the ongoing violations.

The government of Nicaragua has stated that it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel over the ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 42,000 people, more than half of them women and children.

Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media on Friday.

The Central American nation’s Congress had, earlier in the day, passed a resolution requesting Nicaragua take action to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Gaza war.

The conflict, the Nicaraguan government said, now also “extends against Lebanon and gravely threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran.”

Murillo, who is President Daniel Ortega’s wife, said her husband instructed the government to sever diplomatic relations with the “fascist” and “genocidal” Tel Aviv regime.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to intensified Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 42,227 Palestinians and injured another 98,464 individuals. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.