Ansarullah:

S. Arabia Committing Crimes in Yemen with US Backup

Rasa - Yemen's Ansarullah Spokesman Mohammad Abdol Salam blasted the US for its biased support for Saudi Arabia in committing crimes against the Yemeni people.

News ID: 435369

Date: 16 December 2017 - 21:05

RNA - "The US is playing the role of a attorney for Saudi Arabia by raising baseless allegations (against Iran)," Abdol Salam wrote on his twitter page on Saturday.

He condemned the Saudi fighter jets' bombing of Ta'iz, Sa'ada and al-Hadid cities in Yemen on Friday, and said, "Riyadh is confident of the US support for intensifying aggressions against Yemen."

His remarks came after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley appeared on Thursday standing before what she claimed was debris of a missile from an Iranian-origin dispatched to Yemen and then fired to Saudi Arabia. Tehran immediately and categorically rejected all those charges.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed Washington's "baseless" allegations that Tehran has provided Yemen with missiles on Saturday, stressing that such claims are raised to divert public attention from the US assistance to the Saudi bombing of Yemen, and the ISIL terrorists in the region.

The Saudi-led coalition has long imposed a blockade of Yemen's air and sea ports and borders and has intensified the siege after the missile was fired at Riyadh, citing concerns that weapons were being smuggled into Yemen.

The siege has pushed the impoverished country into a humanitarian catastrophe.

A recent survey showed that almost one third of families have gaps in their diets, and hardly ever consume foods like pulses, vegetables, fruit, dairy products or meat.

More than 3 million pregnant and nursing women and children under 5 need support to prevent or cure malnutrition.

The United Nations has also warned that 8.4 million people in war-torn Yemen are “a step away from famine”, as Saudi Arabia and its allies are ceaselessly pounding the impoverished country.

"The lives of millions of people, including 8.4 million Yemenis who are a step away from famine, hinge on our ability to continue our operations and to provide health, safe water, shelter and nutrition support," Jamie McGoldrick, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said in a statement on Monday.

"The continuing blockade of ports is limiting supplies of fuel, food and medicines, dramatically increasing the number of vulnerable people who need help," he added.

The United Nations had warned that millions of people will die in Yemen, in what will be the world's worst famine crisis in decades, unless the Saudi-led military coalition ends its devastating blockade and allows aid into the country.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,200 Yemenis, mostly civilians.

Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia's deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

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