Local Editor
The Chairman of the High Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, met with Head of the Coordination and Response Division in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA], John Ging, in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on Monday.
The senior Ansarullah leader welcomed the UN official and spoke about the Saudi aggression, expressing the disappointment of the Yemeni people with the UN, especially with regards to the report of UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien. He pointed out that the aggression targets civilians and vital service and health facilities, voicing hope that the UN will receive complete reports about the real situations in Yemen.
For his part, the UN official pointed out that there are many problems around the world but there is no bigger crisis than that of Yemen.
Ging said, "I did not come here to give excuses for any failure but I came here for a purely important humanitarian mission".
He called for overcoming what is taking place in Yemen because the Yemeni people need to get rid of these disputes and deserve freedom, peace, safety and security in order to live a life free from violence without all that they are suffering from.
"We affirm to the Yemeni people that the United Nations is present here in order to help you and we’ll not stop trying to do more and more of work, and we have to convey to the world that whatever we do is not sufficient when looking at the needs of the Yemeni people", Ging said.
Yemen has been under relentless airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition since late March.
On March 26, a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began to carry out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
Over 2,615 civilians have been killed in the conflict in the last six months, according to the UN. Yet, other organization put the death toll at much higher. According to the Yemeni health ministry, the death toll from the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen so far is more than 6,000, adding that 1,277 of those killed were children.
