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Saba Yemen
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Agriculture minister visits Bani Hasan front in Hajjah for Eid
Hajjah – Saba: Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources Dr. Radwan al-Rubai on Monday inspected the conditions of fighters on Bani Hasan Front in Hajjah governorate, exchanging Eid al-Adha greetings with them. The Minister conveyed congratulations from the Leader of the Revolution and the President of the Supreme Political Council, expressing pride in the armed forces' heroic stances. He described the Eid visit as a minimal duty towards those defending the homeland and supporting brothers in Palestine. Al-Rubai lauded the victories achieved by the fighters on the front lines, attributing Yemen's military success to divine grace and the steadfastness of these forces. He emphasized that the defenders' resilience during Eid signifies Yemen's continued steadfastness against challenges to national sovereignty. For their part, the fighters affirmed their readiness to implement all decisions from the revolutionary leadership in defense of the homeland and in support of Gaza. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
New York Times
01-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Free Gaza From Its Own Tyrants First
The world should remember the name of Odai Al-Rubai. The 22-year-old Palestinian man joined protests in Gaza last week to demand an end to 18 years of Hamas's violent misrule in the territory. Demonstrators could be heard shouting, 'Out, out, Hamas get out,' and 'Hamas are terrorists,' while displaying banners saying 'Hamas does not represent us.' In retaliation, Al-Rubai's family says, he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by members of Hamas's Qassam Brigades. Then his body was dumped in front of the family home. Did the 'Free Palestine' protesters of Columbia, U.C.L.A. and other campuses gather to pause for a moment of silence for Al-Rubai? And was there an additional prayer for the recovery of Hussam al-Majdalawi, another dissident whose views reportedly got him kidnapped by Hamas, shot in the legs and left in a square as an example to others? Last week's protests are not the first time Gazans have tried to rise against Hamas: There were also major protests in 2019 that were bloodily suppressed yet went almost unreported in Western media. Some of us have been writing about the plight of Palestinians under their own rulers for decades — the struggle of Palestinian journalists to write freely; the tragedy of gay Palestinians seeking to live freely — only to be met with a collective yawn. For too many, including those who call themselves 'pro-Palestinian,' Palestinian misery seems to matter only when the blame can be pinned on Israel. The difference now is that Hamas may no longer be able to deploy its full apparatus of repression, at least not while it must spend much of its time hiding underground from Israeli strikes. Those attacks are both the impetus and the means by which Gazans are demanding their freedom: impetus, because a growing number of Palestinians in the territory recognize that there will be no end to wars with Israel so long as Hamas continues to drag them into those wars; means, because it's only on account of Israeli attacks on Hamas that the protesters stand a chance of overthrowing that tyrannical regime. And what a tyranny it has been. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the Oct. 7 massacres and Hamas's leader in Gaza until he was killed last year, rose through the ranks by killing other Palestinians he suspected of disloyalty. Once in power, he set up a Stasi-like network of domestic surveillance and torture chambers. Sinwar also described the thousands of civilian Gazans killed in the conflict as 'necessary sacrifices' to his cause. Images of muscled Hamas fighters at hostage-handover ceremonies are further evidence that the group's leaders divert food aid to themselves at the expense of hungry Palestinians. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
