Witnesses said Saleh opponents packed Sixty Street to listen to a Muslim preacher urge acting President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to do more to end a standoff over demands that Saleh quit to allow Yemenis to chose a new leader.

“We have sacrificed all what we own, you should sacrifice what you can,” the preacher said, addressing Hadi.

Hadi told CNN that Saleh was so severely injured in the assassination attempt that it is uncertain when he will return to the country after his treatment in Saudi Arabia.

Yemen has been rocked by months of protests by tens of thousands demanding Saleh end his 33 years in power.

“We will continue to pay the price until we liberate our country from a tyrannical family-run regime,” the preacher said.

At Seventy Street, a smaller number of Saleh supporters marched out of Friday prayers holding placards and posters of the president.

“You are our president, leader and commander until 2013,” one placard read, referring to when Saleh’s term ends.