Local Editor
A number of activists on Monday staged a protest in front of the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels to condemn the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen.
Protesters expressed their condemnation of the coalition’s crimes committed against the Yemeni people and the blockade imposed by the Saudi- led coalition.
They also raised slogans, banners, and pictures showing some of the US-Saudi-led coalition’s crimes in Yemen and the dire humanitarian situation the Yemenis are suffering from.
The protest is the first to be held in front of the EU headquarters in the Belgian capital since the beginning of the Yemen war.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The Legal Center for Rights and Developments in Yemen, in a statement released on October 15, announced that the ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against the impoverished and conflict-plagued Arab country has resulted in the death of 15,185 civilians, including 3,527 children and 2,277 women.
A total of 23,822 civilians, among them 3,526 children and 2,587 women, have also sustained injuries, and are currently suffering from the lack of medicine, medical supplies and poor treatment due to the crippling Saudi siege.
The center further noted that the Saudi military aggression has also caused the death of nearly 2,200 Yemenis from cholera.
It highlighted that aerial assaults being conducted by the Saudi-led alliance have resulted in the destruction of 15 airports and 14 ports, and damaged 2,559 roads and bridges in addition to 781 water storage facilities, 191 power stations and 426 telecommunications towers.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
