Houthi terrorists threaten attacks if US, Israel try to displace Gazans

Yemen's Houthi terrorists will immediately take military action if the US or Israel try to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza, the Iran-backed group's leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech on Thursday.

An Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza's 15-month-old war took effect on January 19 but has appeared close to collapse this week amid mutual accusations of violations.

US President Donald Trump has shaken the Arab world in presenting a plan to take over the enclave and rebuild it, though it is not clear which Gazan residents would be allowed to remain or return.

Houthi said his group would intervene with missiles and drones and attack vessels in the Red Sea if the United States and Israel tried to remove Palestinians from Gaza by force.

"I call on all the armed forces to be ready for military intervention if the criminal Trump carries out his threat," Houthi said.

The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships off the shores of Yemen since November 2023 in support of Gazan Palestinian militants fighting Israel, disrupting global shipping trade and causing route changes and losses.

The Iran-aligned movement, which controls northern Yemen, has also frequently fired missiles at Israel over the past year in what it says is solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, and has been hit with retaliatory strikes in return.

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari and Jana Choukeir; editing by Sharon Singleton and Mark Heinrich)