SANA’A (Dispatches) – The advisor to the prime minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government has warned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of greater strikes if it continues its involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
Hamid Abdel Qader Antar said Yemen has a legitimate right to respond to any aggression, stressing that the blood of the Saudis and Emiratis is not more valuable than that of the Yemenis.
“The UAE will receive greater strikes from the Yemenis if it does not withdraw from the [Saudi-led] aggression,” Abdel Qader said, adding, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and Yemeni blood is not cheap, and the blood of the Saudis and Emiratis is not more valuable than the Yemenis.”
The Yemeni advisor also said that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are implementing Washington’s project in the region.
According to Yemeni officials, since the beginning of January, attacks by the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen have claimed the lives of at least 150 people.
In response, the Yemeni army has conducted fresh rounds of retaliatory operations against Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Most recently, the Yemeni forces carried out two retaliatory operations codenamed the “Yemen Storm 1” and “Yemen Storm 2,” striking targets deep inside Dubai and Abu Dhabi over the past week for Abu Dhabi’s increasing participation in the protracted war on the impoverished Arab country.
The Yemeni armed forces’ spokesman warned that with the United Arab Emirates’ involvement in the devastating Saudi-led war going on, the Emirates’ popular Expo 2020 might be the next target amid the wave of Yemeni retaliatory attacks against the Persian Gulf country.
In a Tuesday Twitter post, which incorporated #expo as its only hashtag, Brigadier General Yahya Saree wrote, “With us, you might suffer damages...we advise you to change your destination.”
Observers have widely interpreted the post as a warning message addressed to both Abu Dhabi and the foreign participants in the UAE-based event.
In an earlier post, he had likewise cautioned foreign investors against setting up businesses in the UAE given the most recent “atrocities of the Saudi-American-Emirati” coalition, which has been waging a war on Yemen since 2015.
Enjoying complete arms, logistical, and political backing from the United States, Saudi Arabia led many of its allies, chief among them the UAE, in the years-long invasion. The war has been seeking to change Yemen’s ruling structure in favor of its former Riyadh-friendly officials.
The military campaign has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis and turned the entire Yemen into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The Yemeni forces that feature the country’s army and its allied fighters from the Popular Committees have, however, vowed not to lay down their arms until the country’s complete liberation from the scourge of the Saudi invasion.