A sea of green-and-white-clad Houthi supporters have held a rally in Yemen's war-torn capital city, Sana'a, on the day of Prophet Mohammad's birth. Thousands showed up, celebrating the holy day while rejecting the Saudi-Arabian, Western-backed war and blockade on the Arab Gulf's poorest country.

Mawlid is celebrated by Muslims around the world on November 30 to mark the day, although the official Wahhabi school of Islam of Saudi Arabia's royal family refuses to acknowledge the occasion.

Yemen has been reduced to what the U.N. has called a "humanitarian crisis" by three years of heavy bombing and an ongoing blockade by Saudi forces after the Houthi movement ousted Saudi-allied president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.