The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement said that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is too weak to fight in a battle against the residents of a village in Yemen.

“The Emirati regime is notoriously too weak to wage an armed assault on a Yemeni village. Therefore, there are serious questions about their capability to launch a war against the entire Yemeni people,” The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement Mohammed Abdul-Salam noted.

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement added, “The United States dragged the UAE into the Yemeni quagmire. The ongoing military aggression on Yemen fully exposed the type of relationship between a colonial power and one of its pawns. This war plainly showed that the Emirati regime is nothing without the support of the US.”

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement Mohammed Abdul-Salam also condemned the recent belligerent remarks by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammed Gargash.

On Thursday, Gargash denounced Houthis after an attack on Saudi oil tankers, asserting that Yemen’s strategic western coastal city of Hudaydah must be taken from members of the Ansarullah movement.

“The attack on the two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea reinforces the need to free Hudaydah from the Houthi … forces. The systematic attack on maritime traffic is a terrorist act which is an expression of the uncontrollable, aggressive nature of Houthis,” Abdul-Salam  wrote on his official Twitter page.

Recently, Yemeni army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, launched an airstrike against a strategic economic target in the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for Riyadh’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished homeland.

The UAE is Saudi Arabia’s key ally in its deadly war against Yemen.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left some 600,000 civilians dead and injured since March 2015.

The United Nations says a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.