US politicians call for halt to military aid to Saudi Arabia
“The United States is a partner in this attack, as it is in any air strike by Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates in this horrific war that was once promised to end by Joe Biden and senior government officials,” Newsweek reported. have been.
In early 2021, US President Joe Biden said he would not support Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen. However, a year later, the United States continued its military assistance to Saudi Arabia. The Biden government recently sold $ 650 million worth of weapons to the Saudis, claiming that they were for “defense purposes.”
“This is terrible news that will lead to more destruction in Yemen,” the progressive spectrum of the US Congress said in response to the recent attacks on Twitter. The attacks are also a predictable consequence of Saudi Arabia’s continued armaments.
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The Biden government recently hinted that it might put Ansarullah Yemen on the list of terrorist groups again.
“We need to help end the war in Yemen, not intensify it by putting the Houthis (Ansar al-Islam) back on the terrorist list and continuing Trump’s policy,” said California Democratic Sen. Ro Khana. Humanitarian organizations have warned that the move would mean rising food and fuel prices for millions of Yemeni civilians.
In his first press conference in 2022, in response to a question about the UAE’s request to include the Ansarullah group in the terrorist list, the US President also said that this issue is being investigated.
Regarding the end of the Yemeni war, he added that the participation of both sides is needed in this issue and it will be difficult.
Yemeni media reported on Friday that dozens of people had been killed and wounded in an attack by Saudi fighter jets on a detention center in Saada province.
Al-Mayadin news network quoted Doctors Without Borders as saying that at least 70 people were killed and 138 wounded in a Saudi coalition attack on a prison in the northern Yemeni province of Saada.
The head of the Yemeni Ministry of Health in Saada also told Al-Mayadin: “More than 50 people are still under the rubble.”
Fighters from Saudi and UAE aggressors have bombed Yemen more than 70 times in recent hours, continuing to commit atrocities in various provinces, killing and injuring dozens of civilians and damaging private and public property.
The attacks come as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken promised to equip Washington’s partners in the Persian Gulf region in a conversation with the Saudi foreign minister on Friday.
The Secretary of State reiterated Washington’s commitment to assisting Gulf Partners to improve their defense capabilities against threats in the region, as well as the importance of reducing harm to civilians.
On April 26, 1994, Saudi Arabia, in the form of a coalition of several Arab countries and with the help and green light of the United States, launched large-scale attacks against Yemen, the poorest Arab country, under the pretext of returning the ousted and fugitive President Abd al-Mansour Hadi to Power to achieve its political goals and ambitions.
UN agencies, including World Health Organization and UNICEF, have repeatedly warned that the Yemeni people continue to face famine and a humanitarian catastrophe that is unprecedented in the past century.
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