Raising pictures of the Grand Mosque in Mecca with protests called by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in response to the announcement of “targeting Mecca”

Pictures of the Grand Mosque in Mecca were raised in Al-Sabeen Square in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Friday, after the call made by the leader of the Iranian-backed Houthi group in Yemen, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, for a “million-man march” after his response to the announcement that his fighters targeted Mecca with a drone that was intercepted by Saudi air defenses before entering the atmosphere of the Holy City. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi had said in a video speech published by the Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah channel: “The great slander against our Yemeni people and their armed forces, by targeting Mecca, and although it is a big, ugly, and extremely heinous lie, and a great, exposed slander, he repeated it this time, and seeks to make it gain some currency among those who are accustomed to learning from him his lies by adopting them and condemning them.” "In exchange for gains, political ties, and economic and material interests."

Al-Houthi described what he claimed was a “great slander” as “a violation of the sanctity and sanctity of the Holy Mecca... and exploiting the sanctity of the Holy Mecca, which is sacred to all Muslims, and in the forefront is the Yemeni Muslim people, Yemen of faith and wisdom, which is one of the greatest Islamic peoples in reverence for the holy things, in reverence for the rituals of God, and in respect and reverence for the landmarks of Islam, and these are among the clear established facts, to which reality attests, from He compares our people with the rest of the peoples in the world and finds them at this level of prominence, in glorifying the landmarks of Islam, reverence for them, and reverence for the sanctities of Islam and jealousy over them.

The spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, said in a blog post on the He added, "This hostile and terrorist attempt is the second attempt to target Mecca after the first attempt by launching a ballistic missile on July 27, 2017. This can only be described as a disgraceful act in an attempt to target the place of revelation, the land of the message, and the cradle of the hearts of millions of Muslims from various countries, and an attempt to terrorize the safe guests of the Holy House of God and harm citizens and residents. Moreover, this hostile attempt will remain a black stain on the record of militia violations." "The extremist terrorist Houthi movement is considered a deliberate act to arouse the feelings of millions of Muslims."