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A senior official of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, Ahmad Hamed, censured the Saudi regime for its continued aggression against the impoverished country, saying that Riyadh does not want the Yemeni crisis to be resolved politically.

"We should emphasize that Saudi Arabia is not after a political solution", Hamed said in interview with Tasnim News Agency.

"This country, provoked by the US, has made reaching a political solution to the Yemeni conflict] difficult, because it does not brook Yemen’s security and independence", he further said.

Pointing to the future of talks among the warring parties, he said that the Saudi regime will not allow them to yield results as it did not in the past. 

Yemen has been under massive attacks by a coalition led by the Saudi regime for months.

On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies backed by the United States began to launch deadly airstrikes in Yemen in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

Over 2,615 civilians have been killed in the conflict in the last six months, according to the UN. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.

According to the Yemeni health ministry, the death toll from the Saudi-led aggression is more than 6,000 so far, adding that 1,277 of those killed were children.