Houthi leader says group preparing for “next round,” warns of strike on Israeli military presence in Somaliland

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said the group has entered a new phase of preparation for what he described as an “inevitable” round of conflict with the United States and Israel, either directly or through what he called “proxies.”  In a speech on Thursday, al-Houthi said the conflict with Israel is “inevitable”, stressing that the United States is a direct partner in it. He accused Washington of adopting policies based on “tyranny, arrogance, generating crises and investing in them to control the peoples of the region”. He added that Ansar Allah is currently operating under the banner of “preparing for the next round”, clearly pointing to a new phase of escalation. […]