Ansarullah: If Italy joins Western strikes on Yemen, it will be a target

The Ansarullah resistance movement says if Italy takes part in attacks on Yemen, it will become a target.

Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, head of the supreme revolutionary committee of Ansarullah, made the statement in an interview on Monday with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

The Yemeni official encouraged Italy to pressure Israel into ending its hostilities in the besieged Gaza Strip, which have left more than 27,000 people dead since early October. That would be the only way toward peace in the region, Houthi said.

On Friday, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said Rome would provide the admiral-in-command of a US-led maritime task force in the Red Sea aimed at protecting the passage of commercial ships bound for Israel.

Yemen has targeted ships either owned by the regime or sailing toward Israeli ports in a strong gesture sympathetic to the oppressed Palestinians of Gaza over the past few months.