Saudi mufti decree allows troops on Yemen border to break fast

Rasa - Amid Saudi Arabia’s continued aggression on Yemen, the kingdom’s Grand Mufti exempts Saudi soldiers, stationed on the border with the southern neighbor, from observing regular fasting.

News ID: 2784

Date: 19 June 2015 - 18:41

RNA - Citing the Saudi daily, Okaz, Lebanese broadcaster Al-Manar reported on its website on Friday Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh sanctioned that the soldiers break their fast during their “Jihad” against the “enemy.”

The top religious figure said in remarks addressed to the troopers “I felicitate you on the blessed month of Ramadan as you are stationed on the battlefield.”

Saudi Arabia started the military campaign against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – in an attempt to weaken the Ansarullah movement and bring the fugitive former President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Al Saud regime, back to power.

UN Human Rights spokesman Rupert Colville said on June 16 that at least 1,412 Yemeni civilians, including 210 women, had been martyred and a further 3,423 injured since that date.

According to the Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news network, in their latest attacks, Saudi fighter jets have used cluster bombs against Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah.

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