Press Release
The War Mongering Kuffar, Britain and America, are Rampaging in our Country and Launching Strikes on Yemen!
(Translated)

America and Britain, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands, launched a series of air strikes on several governorates in Yemen at dawn on Friday, January 12, 2024. Among the targets that were bombed were Hodeidah International Airport, Taiz International Airport, and Al-Dailami Air Base, north of Sana’a, in addition to sites in Hajjah Governorate and the camp east of Saada Governorate. The BBC reported that four Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft deployed from Akrotiri Air Base in Cyprus participated in the attack. US Air Forces Central also announced that US and coalition forces used more than 100 pieces of munitions to hit more than 60 targets in 16 locations.

Statements by US President Joe Biden confirmed that “today’s defensive action follows this extensive diplomatic campaign and Houthi rebels’ escalating attacks against commercial vessels.” He further stressed: "I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international trade as necessary." While British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated that the strikes stem from the principle of “self-defense.” He also confirmed that the UK received "non-practical" assistance and support from the Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain in the strikes. For its part, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for restraint and "avoiding escalation" in light of the air strikes launched by the United States and Britain on sites linked to the Houthi movement in Yemen. The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its "deep concern" about the escalation of military operations in the Red Sea and air strikes in Yemen, and also called for "unification" of international and regional efforts to reduce instability in the region. While Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the attack. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the strikes as “illegitimate” under international law, but also called on the Houthis to stop attacking commercial ships, which he described as “extremely wrong.”

The Kuffar are fighting Muslims day and night in all ways, in Yemen and other than Yemen, and they are rampaging through our lands and waters, so our country has become a covetous place for every greedy person, and a hotbed for every greedy person, whose diaspora cannot be gathered together... Our blood has been shed, and our goods have been plundered! This matter would not have happened if the Muslims had a state and a Khilafah (Caliphate), and the one who conspired against the Muslims and destroyed their state was the Kafir West, led by Britain at that time, and here it is today, returning with America and participating in the destruction of Muslim countries, so the West has become free and frolicking on our land and sea. They do whatever they want, and they carry out actions either with the intention of striking an agent or to establish an agent and raise his status so that he becomes their slave, and the rulers of the Muslims are humiliated and submissive and carry out what is dictated to them. “Evil is that which they do!”

O Muslims: We call on you to realize that our enemy, the Kafir West, has come with its ideas, its armies, and its agents to strike the Ummah. We also call on the armies to move to support Islam and to respond to Allah’s command to establish the Islamic state, implement the Shariah of Allah, reject the Kuffar, their ideas, and their method, and eliminate them. This is the radical solution and the earth-shattering response to the hegemony of the Kuffar, so the inhabitants of the earth and heavens will be satisfied with us. The people of Yemen, just as they supported the Messenger of Allah (saw) must today support those working to establish the state that was founded by the Messenger of Allah (saw). By this alone, the Ummah will rise from its fall, rise from its stumbling, and return to its previous legacy. A Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate) that implements Islam at home and carries it to the world through dawah and jihad, so Allah Almighty, Most Wise will grant it victory.

[إِنَّا لَنَنْصُرُ رُسُلَنَا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْأَشْهَادُ]

“Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe during the life of this world and on the Day when the witnesses will stand” [Ghafir:51] Then we will forget America and Britain and their agents and the whispers of Shaitan, and that is what Hizb ut Tahrir is calling you to.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Yemen