Houthi Leader:

Massacres Won’t Weaken Yemeni Nation

Date: 18 May 2019 - 21:37

News ID: ۶۶۱۲۹

SANAA (Dispatches) – The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement has condemned the recent Saudi-led airstrikes on residential areas in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, saying the attacks won’t weaken the nation's determination.
"The enemy’s persistent crimes will never weaken the will of the Yemeni nation; they are in fact steadfast in the resistance against the enemy’s aggression,” said Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi on Saturday.
At least seven civilians, including children, were killed in the Saudi air raids on Thursday. Four of those died were from one family. Dozens more were also wounded in the attacks.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs later said that five children had died as a result of the airstrike.
Houthi said that killings served as yet another instance of Saudi crimes against the country, revealing the "true essence” of the enemy.
"The coalition proved its animosity towards the Muslim people of Yemen since the first days [of its campaign] and showed that the victims of the coalition’s crimes are children, women and civilians which are bombed while asleep,” he said.
The Ansarullah leader further noted that "the crimes of the coalition have developed into a well-known issue in the world.”
"Today, the transgressing coalition – with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at its forefront, along with all its backers – hosts the worst record in genocide in the world,” he said.
Meanwhile, Sudan has reportedly dispatched scores of militiamen, most of them under the age of 18, to fight alongside Saudi-led military forces against Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah fighters.
The Arabic-language Sout al-Hamish daily newspaper, citing an unnamed informed source, reported on Saturday that 600 Sudanese fighters had been flown late last month from Nyala Airport in southwestern Sudan to Yemen.
The source added that the Sudanese fighters had received training for only four months at the Dumaya camp in Nyala, the paratrooper training camp in the capital Khartoum as well as the al-Jili camp north of Khartoum before being sent to battle fronts in Yemen.
Even though Sudan's long-time President Omar al-Bashir was toppled in April after months of public protests, the military council that runs the country follows suit and continues to dispatch soldiers to fight at the front line of war in Yemen.
Almost all the Sudanese mercenaries appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were apparently killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies, including the United Arab Emirates, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of ex-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power.
According to a December 2018 report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi-led war has claimed the lives of over 60,000 Yemenis.
The U.S.-backed war effort has also led to a major surge of Western arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which depend greatly on foreign arms and military support in the war.
France, the United States, Britain and other Western countries have faced criticism over arms sales to the Saudi regime and its partners over the war.
Last week, popular protests prevented a Saudi cargo ship that had been expected to pick up a hugely controversial shipment of arms from receiving its arms cargo from France.