Mass demonstration in Sana'a in support of Palestine and against US-UK air strikes, March 17, 2025

Over the weekend of March 15-16, the Anglo-US coalition bombed Yemen cities striking the capital Sanaa repeatedly on Saturday and targeting the residential neighbourhood in the Sha'ub district, north of the capital killing, according to reports, at least 31 civilians and injuring 100 more. This follows the reinstatement of Yemen's ban on Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea as Israel continues its refusal to let in food and other life-saving aid to Gaza, breaching the ceasefire agreement and stepping up its bombing of Gaza, which killed 400 Palestinians on Tuesday, March 18. Such a barbaric military bombing of Gaza and Yemen continues to reveal the true nature of this Anglo-US-Israeli coalition in the Red Sea as a "genocide coalition" that continues to be condemned by the world's people.

US air strike in Al-Mina district in Hodeida province in Yemen, March 18, 2025

On March 16, The Guardian reported that US airstrikes against Sanaa "may continue for weeks", making no reference to British involvement at all. Simultaneously, the BBC claimed outright that London "did not participate" in the previous day's bombing, but then admitted that British planes supplied "routine refuelling support for the US". However, an article by investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg reports that "a mass media omertà on Britain's central - if not leading - role in the West's long-running collective effort to crush AnsarAllah [known as the Houthis - Ed.] has effectively been in place ever since the Yemeni civil war erupted in late 2014. This is despite ample open source evidence - including statements made in parliament by government ministers - testifying to London's outsized responsibility for the death and devastation that has been rained down on Sanaa almost without pause ever since." [1] The article goes on to expose Britain's covert war on Yemen and the rationale for Britain's interest in Yemen, which, it says, is to "stop one of the most potent regional threats to Israel" by the Anglo-US genocidal coalition. The article points out that Britain's support for "Saudi Arabia's preceding genocidal, eight-year-long aerial intervention in the civil war represented an almost unprecedented bonanza for London's arms industry". Moreover, "these interrelated conflicts provided a golden opportunity to fulfil the long-held fantasy of restoring a British military presence 'East of Suez', following their 1967 ouster by Yemeni liberation forces."

Since the present Israeli genocidal war started against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen have continued to hold regular massive rallies in Yemen's capital Sanaa, to express solidarity with Palestinians. Whilst Israel has also bombed Yemen with US and British logistical support, the Yemeni people are continuing to stand with people across the world against the Gaza genocide, and their actions are one of the most powerful statements that Israel must be stopped, and that the genocide must be stopped. They are an indispensable factor in bringing the genocide to an end and holding the US, Britain and other European powers to account, alongside the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people themselves.

The British working class and people must condemn and oppose Britain's warmongering government for its participation in the Anglo-US-Israeli genocidal coalition against Yemen and the Palestinians as well as all the peoples standing against Israeli genocide in West Asia.

Stop bombing Yemen!
Stand with Palestine - it is a matter of conscience, principle and heart!
Fight for an anti-war government in Britain!

Notes
1. "Exposing Britain's Covert War On Yemen", Kit Klarenberg, investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159371258

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