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A Yemeni Foreign Ministry official mocked the Saudi allegations that the Yemeni navy spread mines in the Red Sea waters near Bab al-Mandab strait, in a statement to the official state-news agency Saba on Monday.
The official said that the facts point out that Riyadh and its allies are already threatening the safety of maritime navigation in Bab al-Mandab and along the Red Sea coast with their military aggression adventures against the Yemeni people.
"The most recent attacks on Bab al-Mandab and the coast city of Mokha were committed by the Saudi-led coalition.. and Riyadh’s latest threats to transfer port of Hodeidah to a military area," the official said.
"Furthermore, Saudi Arabia and its allies exceed escalation to bring foreign mercenaries and supply heavy weapons to the Yemeni coasts that pose threats to the international navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Striate," the official added.
Saudi Arabia began its deadly campaign against Yemen in late March 2015. The strikes were meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The war has drawn widespread international condemnation.
More than half of Yemen’s 22 million people are currently living at emergency levels of food insecurity and need urgent relief – especially in remote rural areas that are often overlooked by humanitarian schemes.
An estimated 12,000 have been killed and nearly 20,000 others injured since Riyadh launched the airstrikes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
