Arab Daily:

S. Arabia Using Israeli Weapons against Yemen

Rasa - A leading Arab newspaper reported on Saturday that the Saudi-led coalition fighter jets are using Israeli weapons and ammunition in war on the neighboring Muslim nation, Yemen.

News ID: 438573

Date: 08 July 2018 - 20:45

RNA - The Arabic-language al-Khalij online quoted informed sources close to the US Congress as saying that the Saudi-led coalition has been using Israeli weapons against Yemen, the latest case in airstrikes against al-Hudaydah city.

"Israel has equipped the Saudi air force with internationally-banned weapons to be used against Ansarullah in the Yemeni provinces. The move is made to test these missiles and their destruction power," they added.

According to the report, the Saudi air force has been supplied with these weapons within the framework of its arms agreements with the US as it has felt concerns over the repercussions of purchasing Israeli weapons in the media.

Media reports earlier this year also said that Saudi Arabia was mulling purchase of iron dome, a missile system owned and operated by the Israel, amid increasing hints of the normalization of relations between the kingdom and the regime.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 17,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

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.

Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million people in need and is seeing a spike in needs, fuelled by ongoing conflict, a collapsing economy and diminished social services and livelihoods.

According to Fars News Agancy, the United Nations aid chief has recently expressed concern over the decline of food imports to Yemen amid restrictions put in place by the Saudi Arabia, warning that a further 10 million Yemenis could face starvation by year-end.

Humanitarian agencies have also warned that halting operations at the crucial Hudaydah port would have an enormous impact on people all across Yemen, urging the warring parties to spare innocent lives in their battle for the Red Sea city.

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