Saudi Attacks on Yemen’s Hudaydah to Destroy UN Peace Efforts: Ansarullah
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah Movement Mohammad Abdulsalam said the increase of Saudi-led air strikes on the port city of Hudaydah will destroy peace efforts of the UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths.
In remarks released on Sunday, Abdulsalam said the Saudi-led fighter jets have bombarded Hudaydah 35 times over the last 12 hours, adding that concurrently, the Riyadh-backed mercenaries pounded the city with missiles and artilleries.
He further emphasized that the increase of the aggressors’ attacks on Hudaydah have revealed their hidden objectives and that the escalation will only destroy peace efforts of the UN special envoy to Yemen.
The Arabic language al-Masirah TV quoted Yemeni sources as saying that the forces of the Arabian Peninsula country, in retaliatory attacks, have managed to target and hit the positions of the mercenaries in Jizan, killing dozens of the Saudi-backed militants.
Griffiths left Yemen on Saturday after further talks with Houthi leaders in the capital, Sana’a and a visit to the Hudaydah where he called for UN supervision of its crucial port.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than three-and-a-half years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and the accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.
