Ansarullah:

Military Aggression to Seize Yemen’s Hudaydah Failed

Rasa - Spokesman for Ansarullah movement Mohammad Abdul-Salam stated that the Saudi-led military alliance has dismally failed in its campaign to overrun the strategic Western Yemeni port city of Hudaydah.

News ID: 438803

Date: 24 July 2018 - 21:24

RNA - “The enemies’ scenario to march into Hudaydah has resulted in failure, because they heavily relied on psychological warfare and media propaganda, concealing the real facts on the ground,” Al-Masirah television network quoted Abdul-Salam as saying.

He added that Saudi Arabia and its regional allies have not derived any benefit from over three-year Yemen war and are losers.

“They lack any military and political vision and have no understanding of the nature of the Yemeni nation,” Abdul-Salam pointed out.

He also lamented the deteriorating situation in areas under the control of the United Arab Emirates, stating that locals in districts not occupied by Emirati military forces live in a state of security, stability and social cohesion.

“The occupied territories are witnessing lack of security, law violation, numerous cases of rape, growing chaos and spread of al-Qaeda terror group in addition to violations of human rights and torture in detention centers,” the Ansarullah Spokesman highlighted.

Abdul-Salam underlined that Saudi Arabia and its allies have not allowed any peace negotiations to bear fruit ever since the Yemeni conflict broke out in March 2015.

Hudaydah is a major lifeline to more than 20 million Yemenis, most of whom are in need of humanitarian assistance due to a deadly Saudi-led war on the country launched in March 2015.

Backed by Saudi-led airstrikes, Emirati forces and militants loyal to Yemen’s former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, launched the Hudaydah offensive on June 13 despite international warnings that it would compound the impoverished nation’s humanitarian crisis.

The UN reported that Saudi Arabia's ground and air attacks on Yemen's Hudaydah have displaced some 35,000 families so far.

“As of 13 July, approximately 35,000 displaced households have been verified, and 20,000 of them have received RRM assistance,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

It added that the Saudi coalition's continued airstrikes and artillery attacks in the Tuhayata and Zabid districts are still displacing families and disrupting basic services.

The UN health agency has also warned over the “critical” conditions of civilians in Hudaydah, stressing that military operations in the key port city threaten over 70 percent of the population who are in need of relief aid.

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 16,000 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.

According to Fars News Agancy, 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.

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.

Besides France, the US and the UK have also been providing Saudi Arabia with military equipment during the military campaign, drawing strong criticisms from the international community and prominent human rights groups.

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