Sana'a -Saba :
The Revolution Leader, Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, emphasized that the Yemeni people have always sought to build and develop their military capabilities, and have achieved amazing successes that are witnessed by reality and enemies.
In a speech this afternoon on the latest developments of the Israeli aggression on Gaza , Lebanon , regional and international developments, the Leader reiterated that the Yemenis will continue to support Gaza , support the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance.
"The battle continues, and the presence in it expresses this faith, giving, jihad and practical response to God Almighty, and it is hoped that the dear people with their faith affiliation will continue with all attention, diligence, determination, steadfastness, loyalty, sincerity and seeking God's pleasure," he said.
The Revolution Leader called on the dear Yemenis to come out tomorrow, Friday, in the squares of Sabeen Square in the capital Sana'a and the rest of the provinces and districts, in response to God Almighty and in support of the Palestinian , Lebanese peoples and in support of their valiant resistance.
"Our people's operations and popular activities continue, and the weekly exit is integrated with all these actions, movements, activities and weekly exit within all activities and actions, life, pride, strength, construction, education, psychological readiness in response to God within the framework of an integrated official and popular position," he added.
Sayyed Al-Qaida spoke about the Yemen Front of Faith, Wisdom and Jihad, which has provided tens of thousands of martyrs within the framework of the Qur'anic Jihadist orientation from the elite of the Yemenis from various Yemeni provinces.
He pointed out that the Yemeni people have provided righteous leaders, including the martyr Saleh al-Sammad, who moved in the position of responsibility as president of Yemen and moved as a soldier for the sake of God, adding, "Our dear people in various stages since 2004 until today are providing martyrs with a spirit of faith and making victories."
He pointed out that Yemen, with its great giving, stands today in the battle of "the promised conquest and holy jihad", a great , distinguished official , popular position, challenged America with its battleships and war fleets in the seas after it declared aggression against it, and stood firm and never retreated from its position.
According to the Revolution Leader , Yemen targeted America's aircraft carriers, which terrorize many countries, regimes , governments and used to intimidate those who compete with it from international powers, starting with the Eisenhower, which fled the Red Sea defeated, humiliated, expelled , targeted, and ending with the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln", which the US Navy announced its flight from the Arabian Sea after the announcement of its targeting.
He emphasized that the Yemenis continue their operations in the seas and prevent Zionist navigation from Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, Arabian Sea , target them to the Indian Ocean, and continued this week with missile shell and marches to occupied Palestine to target the Israeli enemy, and operations continue.
He explained that our dear country, in which the people go out on a weekly basis in the form of millions of people chanting for the support of Gaza and Palestine, as well as the support of Lebanon, and hundreds of thousands of Yemeni men go to training, qualification , mobilization and provide spending in the way of God despite the difficult conditions and confront the conspiracies of the enemies with the help of God Almighty in all fields.
Sayyed Abdulmalik Badreddin Al-Houthi also stressed that the mujahideen of the nation in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen are the ones who chose the right and wise choice, and the nation should strengthen this direction, which protects it from being lost and drained by the enemies.
"The alternatives to the jihadist direction are surrender, exploitation by the enemy, attrition and fighting with the American as some do," he said.
The leader began his speech by talking about the martyrs. "The issue of the martyrs of our march and our people from the first day is the issue of the nation according to the Qur'anic orientation," he added.
He considered the martyr's anniversary as one of the important occasions that the Yemenis commemorate, which is sacred in its content , objectives , has its blessings and effects.
He explained that the annual martyr anniversary aims to consolidate the values, culture and gains of jihad and sacrifice for the sake of God Almighty, mobilize the nation towards its responsibilities, and glorify the gift of martyrs through which God has achieved important results for the nation.
The Revolution Leader pointed out that nations glorify those who sacrifice themselves to save themselves from the enemies' domination and repel their evil, the status of martyrs for the sake of God Almighty and the value of martyrdom is a high status and rank that surpasses every gift and sacrifice.
"Martyrdom for the sake of Allah is a great victory as long as it is necessary to leave this life and a conscious investment in what is necessary for man," he said, noting that the great moral , material honor and high status of martyrdom indicates the importance and virtue of jihad for the sake of Allah.
He stated that jihad in the way of Allah is an inevitable necessity for the values of truth, goodness, justice , mercy to prevail and to push back the evildoers so that the arena is not left free for them, stressing that the dominance of the evildoers poses a real danger to human society in everything, its security, stability, life and humanity.
The Leader touched on the values and instructions provided by God for His servants and the interest and stability of people, and if those values and instructions are absent, the alternative is the evil ones, considering that the model that represents evil, criminality , the dark and corrupt model is a model that uses attractive titles just to deceive.
"The category of evil and criminality is represented in our time by the Western model, headed by America and Israel, and those who revolve around them from the followers of Zionism and others, and many of our nation's elites, intellectuals, academics and politicians admire what the West, America and Zionism say," he said.
"What the followers of brutal and criminal Zionism say about freedom, human rights and civilization are flashy , deceptive titles, and the followers of Zionism promote deceptive titles at the theoretical level and present them in intellectual, educational and media aspects, and some learn from them," he said.
"Some forget that the historical balance of the Americans, British, French and Germans is a huge, tragic, catastrophic and very terrible criminal balance," he said, adding that the West is more brutal than the United States, Britain, France and Germany, which is a huge, tragic, disastrous and very terrible criminal balance.
He stated that the West is more savage than the monsters in the forests, and its criminal balance is the killing of millions of people in the worst ways, stressing that the American since its first day built its entity on criminality by exterminating the Red Indians, the original inhabitants of that region called America.
He went on to say, "The tyrannical colonizers, the European invaders, exterminated millions of Amerindian children, women, adults and children, and moved to occupy what is known as America by exterminating its inhabitants from existence, and whoever reads the criminal practices of exterminating the Amerindians is surprised and amazed how a human being with an ounce of humanity left in him can behave with such brutality, tyranny and aggression."
The leader pointed out that no one in the world talks about peace as much as the American, who in a matter of minutes annihilated hundreds of thousands of people in Japan with nuclear bombs, and burned hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam with fire, bombs and murder, stressing that the American has annihilated hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people unjustly and aggressively in Iraq, and did so with hundreds of thousands of Afghan Muslim people.
The criminal record of the American is very extensive and no one else like it, and the American is a key partner with the Jewish Zionist criminal in all his crimes committed over decades in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
"Britain and France joined the Americans in bringing the Jewish Zionist gangs to Palestine, recruiting, arming and empowering them, and the current French president and his predecessor made themselves the scapegoat for the Jewish Zionists, and Germany provides many weapons shells , political and media support," he said.
He added, "The forces of evil under the banner of Zionism have their criminal direction against our Islamic nation based on ideology, vision and orientation, and it is surprising that some Arab politicians and media professionals talk about the mujahideen in Palestine and Lebanon as if they were the ones who provoked the Israeli and American enemy."
The Revolution Leader reiterated that the Americans, British and Europeans have tended to support Zionism as a project they believe in to destroy the Islamic nation, pointing out that the repeated Zionist talk about Palestine, the Levant, Egypt and parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq with the aim of control and direct occupation.
"What the Americans and Israelis are expressing by changing the face of the Middle East means controlling everyone to serve American , Israeli interests, and the aggression of America and Israel is not a reaction to a provocation, but they are the ones who started the aggression against our nation by occupying homelands and targeting peoples," he said.
He explained that the enemy has a criminal and corrupt orientation, targeting people to corrupt their lives on the moral level, and to corrupt political, economic and social life, stressing that the enemy has a criminal and corrupt orientation, targeting people to corrupt their lives on the moral level, to corrupt political, economic and social life.
He pointed out that the enemy does not heed any statements from the United Nations or international organizations, but rather increases its intransigence , persistence in criminality, and the Security Council was established in a way that serves aggression, tyranny, occupation, control and plundering the wealth of peoples, stressing that the US veto yesterday in the Security Council against the draft resolution on the ceasefire in Gaza reflects Washington's aggressive and criminal approach.
According to Sayyed Abdulmalik Badreddin al-Houthi, resolutions that aim to stop the genocide against the Palestinians are unacceptable to the US, which has an aggressive approach, especially towards Arabs and Muslims. He pointed out that appeals, statements and empty summits in which Arab and Muslim leaders gather are useless.
"The Israeli enemy focuses on hospitals as primary targets, as if they were military bases, because it wants to exterminate as many Palestinians as possible, and seeks to exterminate the Palestinians by all means, including starvation, targeting medical services, preventing the entry of medicines and destroying the elements of life," he added.
He emphasized that the genocide in the Gaza Strip is not only Israeli, but also American, supported by France, Germany, Britain and Western countries, adding, "The Israeli enemy not only targeted the Palestinians during the entry of small amounts of aid, but formed gangs to loot it."
"The Israeli enemy targets the government apparatus in Gaza so that it does not organize the very little aid that arrives, because it wants chaos to spread, and the reality of the people is the importance and necessity of working to provide what represents protection for them from the criminal Israeli enemy," he said.
"We see the Qur'anic verses about the enemy in its criminal approach and its endeavors to destroy crops and offspring, if the Arabs took the Qur'anic approach in jihad, Palestine and the region in general would be protected," he added, stressing that the enemy is a real danger to the people and the evidence is clear, and what constitutes a guarantee and protection for the nation is the great example of the mujahideen, the Revolution Leader said.
The revolutionary leader pointed out that the Arabs' movement in previous stages was not at the level of responsibility, nor at the level of the challenge and risks, nor according to a correct vision, and the Arabs' previous movement in the face of the enemy was a momentary reaction, they failed , the matter ended, and then they moved in another stage in a momentary, unstudied and unsupported manner.
In our reality, the importance of a jihadist faith-based approach is evident because it provides great motivation, reverence for responsibility, insight and a high readiness for sacrifice," he said, explaining that the Holy Qur'an has provided a model that represents hope , salvation for the nation and an impenetrable dam in the face of criminal forces.
He pointed out that the holy faith movement is aimed at pleasing God, not a materialistic, political or opportunistic goal to exploit people, and that the faith movement makes the community the center of God's care and support, moving according to His instructions and with high faith values and great morals.
"The jihadist faith movement frees people from restrictions , fears and elevates the nation to the level of facing risks and challenges whatever their size," he said, pointing out that the nation has retreated from many of its principles, values and morals until it reached its current reality, so it needs the Qur'anic jihadist faith model.
The leader pointed out that the other options pursued by the Arabs have failed, including initiatives, concessions , agreements, and did not represent any protection for the nation, stressing that the Israeli speaks today with confidence that the American will give him the West Bank and Gaza.
He considered the jihadist trend, which is successful in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, and its effectiveness, despite the limited capabilities, surpassed the regular Arab armies that were crushingly defeated within days, praising the continued steadfastness of the mujahideen in Palestine in Gaza from Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades and other mujahideen factions in harassing the Zionist enemy.
He explained that Al-Qassam Brigades carried out 24 operations this week, which are heroic, great and honorable operations, including jihadist Fedayeen operations.
The Revolution Leader described the great steadfastness of Hezbollah and the resistance in Lebanon as an honorable model since the beginning of Hezbollah's jihadist march, and what Hezbollah is presenting today is a great achievement in the face of unprecedented aggression against Lebanon, stressing that Hezbollah's mujahideen are humiliating the Israeli enemy, which suffers daily losses and continuous defeats.
"Before Hezbollah, the Israeli enemy invaded Lebanon in 7 days and reached Beirut, and after Hezbollah at this stage, the enemy has more than two months and is still going through great difficulties in the front villages on the border with occupied Palestine," he said, stressing that Hezbollah moves effectively, and its mujahideen engage the Israeli enemy from zero distance and expel it and humiliate it.
He explained that Hezbollah's resistance rains on the usurpations, and missile bombardments reach even occupied Jaffa, and the Israeli enemy is in a state of great terror, and millions of Israelis are fleeing day and night to shelters, and sirens hardly stop, stressing that the effectiveness of Hezbollah mujahideen is due to the faith connection and the jihadist spirit.
He discussed the Iraqi front and its role in carrying out operations against the Zionist enemy, noting that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out 18 operations this week and is escalating and gaining momentum.
The Revolution Leader, Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, emphasized that the Yemeni people have always sought to build and develop their military capabilities, and have achieved amazing successes that are witnessed by reality and enemies.
In a speech this afternoon on the latest developments of the Israeli aggression on Gaza , Lebanon , regional and international developments, the Leader reiterated that the Yemenis will continue to support Gaza , support the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance.
"The battle continues, and the presence in it expresses this faith, giving, jihad and practical response to God Almighty, and it is hoped that the dear people with their faith affiliation will continue with all attention, diligence, determination, steadfastness, loyalty, sincerity and seeking God's pleasure," he said.
The Revolution Leader called on the dear Yemenis to come out tomorrow, Friday, in the squares of Sabeen Square in the capital Sana'a and the rest of the provinces and districts, in response to God Almighty and in support of the Palestinian , Lebanese peoples and in support of their valiant resistance.
"Our people's operations and popular activities continue, and the weekly exit is integrated with all these actions, movements, activities and weekly exit within all activities and actions, life, pride, strength, construction, education, psychological readiness in response to God within the framework of an integrated official and popular position," he added.
Sayyed Al-Qaida spoke about the Yemen Front of Faith, Wisdom and Jihad, which has provided tens of thousands of martyrs within the framework of the Qur'anic Jihadist orientation from the elite of the Yemenis from various Yemeni provinces.
He pointed out that the Yemeni people have provided righteous leaders, including the martyr Saleh al-Sammad, who moved in the position of responsibility as president of Yemen and moved as a soldier for the sake of God, adding, "Our dear people in various stages since 2004 until today are providing martyrs with a spirit of faith and making victories."
He pointed out that Yemen, with its great giving, stands today in the battle of "the promised conquest and holy jihad", a great , distinguished official , popular position, challenged America with its battleships and war fleets in the seas after it declared aggression against it, and stood firm and never retreated from its position.
According to the Revolution Leader , Yemen targeted America's aircraft carriers, which terrorize many countries, regimes , governments and used to intimidate those who compete with it from international powers, starting with the Eisenhower, which fled the Red Sea defeated, humiliated, expelled , targeted, and ending with the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln", which the US Navy announced its flight from the Arabian Sea after the announcement of its targeting.
He emphasized that the Yemenis continue their operations in the seas and prevent Zionist navigation from Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, Arabian Sea , target them to the Indian Ocean, and continued this week with missile shell and marches to occupied Palestine to target the Israeli enemy, and operations continue.
He explained that our dear country, in which the people go out on a weekly basis in the form of millions of people chanting for the support of Gaza and Palestine, as well as the support of Lebanon, and hundreds of thousands of Yemeni men go to training, qualification , mobilization and provide spending in the way of God despite the difficult conditions and confront the conspiracies of the enemies with the help of God Almighty in all fields.
Sayyed Abdulmalik Badreddin Al-Houthi also stressed that the mujahideen of the nation in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen are the ones who chose the right and wise choice, and the nation should strengthen this direction, which protects it from being lost and drained by the enemies.
"The alternatives to the jihadist direction are surrender, exploitation by the enemy, attrition and fighting with the American as some do," he said.
The leader began his speech by talking about the martyrs. "The issue of the martyrs of our march and our people from the first day is the issue of the nation according to the Qur'anic orientation," he added.
He considered the martyr's anniversary as one of the important occasions that the Yemenis commemorate, which is sacred in its content , objectives , has its blessings and effects.
He explained that the annual martyr anniversary aims to consolidate the values, culture and gains of jihad and sacrifice for the sake of God Almighty, mobilize the nation towards its responsibilities, and glorify the gift of martyrs through which God has achieved important results for the nation.
The Revolution Leader pointed out that nations glorify those who sacrifice themselves to save themselves from the enemies' domination and repel their evil, the status of martyrs for the sake of God Almighty and the value of martyrdom is a high status and rank that surpasses every gift and sacrifice.
"Martyrdom for the sake of Allah is a great victory as long as it is necessary to leave this life and a conscious investment in what is necessary for man," he said, noting that the great moral , material honor and high status of martyrdom indicates the importance and virtue of jihad for the sake of Allah.
He stated that jihad in the way of Allah is an inevitable necessity for the values of truth, goodness, justice , mercy to prevail and to push back the evildoers so that the arena is not left free for them, stressing that the dominance of the evildoers poses a real danger to human society in everything, its security, stability, life and humanity.
The Leader touched on the values and instructions provided by God for His servants and the interest and stability of people, and if those values and instructions are absent, the alternative is the evil ones, considering that the model that represents evil, criminality , the dark and corrupt model is a model that uses attractive titles just to deceive.
"The category of evil and criminality is represented in our time by the Western model, headed by America and Israel, and those who revolve around them from the followers of Zionism and others, and many of our nation's elites, intellectuals, academics and politicians admire what the West, America and Zionism say," he said.
"What the followers of brutal and criminal Zionism say about freedom, human rights and civilization are flashy , deceptive titles, and the followers of Zionism promote deceptive titles at the theoretical level and present them in intellectual, educational and media aspects, and some learn from them," he said.
"Some forget that the historical balance of the Americans, British, French and Germans is a huge, tragic, catastrophic and very terrible criminal balance," he said, adding that the West is more brutal than the United States, Britain, France and Germany, which is a huge, tragic, disastrous and very terrible criminal balance.
He stated that the West is more savage than the monsters in the forests, and its criminal balance is the killing of millions of people in the worst ways, stressing that the American since its first day built its entity on criminality by exterminating the Red Indians, the original inhabitants of that region called America.
He went on to say, "The tyrannical colonizers, the European invaders, exterminated millions of Amerindian children, women, adults and children, and moved to occupy what is known as America by exterminating its inhabitants from existence, and whoever reads the criminal practices of exterminating the Amerindians is surprised and amazed how a human being with an ounce of humanity left in him can behave with such brutality, tyranny and aggression."
The leader pointed out that no one in the world talks about peace as much as the American, who in a matter of minutes annihilated hundreds of thousands of people in Japan with nuclear bombs, and burned hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam with fire, bombs and murder, stressing that the American has annihilated hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people unjustly and aggressively in Iraq, and did so with hundreds of thousands of Afghan Muslim people.
The criminal record of the American is very extensive and no one else like it, and the American is a key partner with the Jewish Zionist criminal in all his crimes committed over decades in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
"Britain and France joined the Americans in bringing the Jewish Zionist gangs to Palestine, recruiting, arming and empowering them, and the current French president and his predecessor made themselves the scapegoat for the Jewish Zionists, and Germany provides many weapons shells , political and media support," he said.
He added, "The forces of evil under the banner of Zionism have their criminal direction against our Islamic nation based on ideology, vision and orientation, and it is surprising that some Arab politicians and media professionals talk about the mujahideen in Palestine and Lebanon as if they were the ones who provoked the Israeli and American enemy."
The Revolution Leader reiterated that the Americans, British and Europeans have tended to support Zionism as a project they believe in to destroy the Islamic nation, pointing out that the repeated Zionist talk about Palestine, the Levant, Egypt and parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq with the aim of control and direct occupation.
"What the Americans and Israelis are expressing by changing the face of the Middle East means controlling everyone to serve American , Israeli interests, and the aggression of America and Israel is not a reaction to a provocation, but they are the ones who started the aggression against our nation by occupying homelands and targeting peoples," he said.
He explained that the enemy has a criminal and corrupt orientation, targeting people to corrupt their lives on the moral level, and to corrupt political, economic and social life, stressing that the enemy has a criminal and corrupt orientation, targeting people to corrupt their lives on the moral level, to corrupt political, economic and social life.
He pointed out that the enemy does not heed any statements from the United Nations or international organizations, but rather increases its intransigence , persistence in criminality, and the Security Council was established in a way that serves aggression, tyranny, occupation, control and plundering the wealth of peoples, stressing that the US veto yesterday in the Security Council against the draft resolution on the ceasefire in Gaza reflects Washington's aggressive and criminal approach.
According to Sayyed Abdulmalik Badreddin al-Houthi, resolutions that aim to stop the genocide against the Palestinians are unacceptable to the US, which has an aggressive approach, especially towards Arabs and Muslims. He pointed out that appeals, statements and empty summits in which Arab and Muslim leaders gather are useless.
"The Israeli enemy focuses on hospitals as primary targets, as if they were military bases, because it wants to exterminate as many Palestinians as possible, and seeks to exterminate the Palestinians by all means, including starvation, targeting medical services, preventing the entry of medicines and destroying the elements of life," he added.
He emphasized that the genocide in the Gaza Strip is not only Israeli, but also American, supported by France, Germany, Britain and Western countries, adding, "The Israeli enemy not only targeted the Palestinians during the entry of small amounts of aid, but formed gangs to loot it."
"The Israeli enemy targets the government apparatus in Gaza so that it does not organize the very little aid that arrives, because it wants chaos to spread, and the reality of the people is the importance and necessity of working to provide what represents protection for them from the criminal Israeli enemy," he said.
"We see the Qur'anic verses about the enemy in its criminal approach and its endeavors to destroy crops and offspring, if the Arabs took the Qur'anic approach in jihad, Palestine and the region in general would be protected," he added, stressing that the enemy is a real danger to the people and the evidence is clear, and what constitutes a guarantee and protection for the nation is the great example of the mujahideen, the Revolution Leader said.
The revolutionary leader pointed out that the Arabs' movement in previous stages was not at the level of responsibility, nor at the level of the challenge and risks, nor according to a correct vision, and the Arabs' previous movement in the face of the enemy was a momentary reaction, they failed , the matter ended, and then they moved in another stage in a momentary, unstudied and unsupported manner.
In our reality, the importance of a jihadist faith-based approach is evident because it provides great motivation, reverence for responsibility, insight and a high readiness for sacrifice," he said, explaining that the Holy Qur'an has provided a model that represents hope , salvation for the nation and an impenetrable dam in the face of criminal forces.
He pointed out that the holy faith movement is aimed at pleasing God, not a materialistic, political or opportunistic goal to exploit people, and that the faith movement makes the community the center of God's care and support, moving according to His instructions and with high faith values and great morals.
"The jihadist faith movement frees people from restrictions , fears and elevates the nation to the level of facing risks and challenges whatever their size," he said, pointing out that the nation has retreated from many of its principles, values and morals until it reached its current reality, so it needs the Qur'anic jihadist faith model.
The leader pointed out that the other options pursued by the Arabs have failed, including initiatives, concessions , agreements, and did not represent any protection for the nation, stressing that the Israeli speaks today with confidence that the American will give him the West Bank and Gaza.
He considered the jihadist trend, which is successful in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, and its effectiveness, despite the limited capabilities, surpassed the regular Arab armies that were crushingly defeated within days, praising the continued steadfastness of the mujahideen in Palestine in Gaza from Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades and other mujahideen factions in harassing the Zionist enemy.
He explained that Al-Qassam Brigades carried out 24 operations this week, which are heroic, great and honorable operations, including jihadist Fedayeen operations.
The Revolution Leader described the great steadfastness of Hezbollah and the resistance in Lebanon as an honorable model since the beginning of Hezbollah's jihadist march, and what Hezbollah is presenting today is a great achievement in the face of unprecedented aggression against Lebanon, stressing that Hezbollah's mujahideen are humiliating the Israeli enemy, which suffers daily losses and continuous defeats.
"Before Hezbollah, the Israeli enemy invaded Lebanon in 7 days and reached Beirut, and after Hezbollah at this stage, the enemy has more than two months and is still going through great difficulties in the front villages on the border with occupied Palestine," he said, stressing that Hezbollah moves effectively, and its mujahideen engage the Israeli enemy from zero distance and expel it and humiliate it.
He explained that Hezbollah's resistance rains on the usurpations, and missile bombardments reach even occupied Jaffa, and the Israeli enemy is in a state of great terror, and millions of Israelis are fleeing day and night to shelters, and sirens hardly stop, stressing that the effectiveness of Hezbollah mujahideen is due to the faith connection and the jihadist spirit.
He discussed the Iraqi front and its role in carrying out operations against the Zionist enemy, noting that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out 18 operations this week and is escalating and gaining momentum.