UAE Building Synagogue While Displacing Millions of Yemenis: Al-Houthi

Date: 10 August 2020 - 21:35

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SANA’A (Dispatches) – The chairman of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee has condemned the United Arab Emirates for building a synagogue for Jews while forcing millions of people in Yemen out of their homes.
By building a synagogue in the UAE, the Emirati officials are attempting to portray a humane image of themselves, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said.
"The UAE is failing to recall that with its participation in the aggressive Saudi-led coalition, it has caused displacement and diseases among millions of people in Yemen,” he added.
The United Arab Emirates is building its first official synagogue that authorities say will be finished by 2022.

‘Oman Open to All Yemenis’

In a totally different stance than that of the UAE’s, Oman’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has said that his country’s borders are open to all Yemenis leaving and returning home.
"Our borders are open to all Yemenis who go to other countries and come from abroad to Yemen, and this is an opening for a meeting between north and south Yemenis,” Yusuf Bin Alawi bin Abdullah said, reported the Yemen Press Agency.
Bin Alawi reiterated the Sultanate’s stance with the Yemeni people in a neutral way, seeking to find solutions to the conflict that has ravaged its neighbor for the past five years.
"The Yemenis are our brothers and neighbors and we are seeking with them and others to resolve the differences and we will be able to look at the past and look to the future,” bin Alawi said, while acknowledging that the Yemeni crisis is complex, but maintaining that if the Yemeni factions talk, they will overcome their problem.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies, including the UAE, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in order to bring former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past five years.
More than half of Yemen’s hospitals and clinics have been destroyed or closed during the war by the coalition, which is supported militarily by the UK, U.S. and other Western nations.
At least 80 percent of the 28 million-strong population is also reliant on aid to survive in what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.