This image grab from a handout video made available by the media bureau of Yemens Operations Command Center on January 21, 2022 shows destruction at a prison in Saada Province after it was hit in a Saudi airstrike. (Photo by AFP)
Yemens Supreme Political Council says the massacres committed by the Saudi-led coalition "will not go unpunished," condemning international silence on the atrocities against the Yemeni people.
According to Lebanons al-Mayadeen television network, the council said in a statement on Friday that "those who are silent on the massacres" should "swallow their tongues when the screams of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab of Emirates (UAE) and their users rise," in an apparent reference to the United States and the Israeli regime.
According to the statement, the targeting of telecommunication networks means the coalition aims to "commit more crimes away from the media." Referring to the coalition members as "dirty tools of the Zionists and the Americans," the council stated, "Despite your crimes, you will fail as before." The statement emphasized that the Yemeni army and allied fighters from popular committees will "respond forcefully to all aggressors."
Also on Friday, crowds of Yemenis took to the streets of the capital Sanaa and other cities to condemn coalition bombardment of Saada and Hudaydah. Seventy people were killed and nearly 140 others injured in one attack that targeted a detention center in Saada earlier in the day. And on Thursday, the telecommunications building in Hudaydah was hit.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies - including the UAE - launched a brutal war on Yemen in March 2015. The war was launched to eliminate Yemens Ansarullah movement and reinstall former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh. But the campaign, accompanied by a tight siege, has failed to reach its goals, although it has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people.
The UN refers to the situation in Yemen as the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. The war has also taken a heavy toll on the countrys infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
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