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The head of Yemen’s national negotiating delegation and spokesman of the Houthi Ansaruallah, Mohammed Abdulsalam, on Thursday said the Saudi-led coalition is preparing for a new round of attacks on Hodeida city.
“In every round of aggression on Yemen, the escalation starts then eases or fades away – most of them without a declaration of calm. … The coalition is trying to present the subject as is based on international or humanitarian pressure. This is a fabrication.
The truth is it is a preparation for a new round that needs more time as usual,” Abdulsalam said in a Twitter post on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power.
The aggression initially consisted of a bombing campaign, but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces to Yemen.
The Houthi spokesperson added, “We do not sense serious political communication regarding real political solutions or real calm, but statements in the media and agreements between the countries of aggression itself or the so-called Quartet, which are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Britain and America, which are the same sides that are directly and notably launching the aggression.”
According to a new report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi war has claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis so far.
The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
The UN has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. According to the world body, Yemen is suffering from the most severe famine in more than 100 years.
More than three and a half years into that war, Saudi Arabia has achieved neither of its objectives. This is while it had declared at the start of the invasion that the war would take no more than a couple of weeks.
Since the onset of that war, Riyadh has been accused of using banned chemical weapons against the Yemeni soldiers defending their country against the Saudi-led aggression, with reports of using US-supplied white phosphorus munitions that can maim and kill by burning to the bone.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
