Yemeni army’s advance to stop Saudi aggression: Commentator

Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussain al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator in Sana’a, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military aggression against Yemen.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: We have now passed the six-month mark and of course the humanitarian catastrophe only continues. What are your feelings now at this point?

Bukhaiti: Just the Yemeni people, I feel that they are let down by the entire international community despite many reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemning the Saudi attack on civilians and as well condemning the Saudis’ mass use of cluster bombs and white phosphoric bombs across Yemen, especially in the north.

There are entire areas and villages and tribal areas and farms in north of Sa’ada and as well north of Hajjah that will be impossible to inhabit those areas again because of the cluster bombs [that] are scattered across that region and the Saudis keep bombing areas across Yemen. Yesterday they have targeted a petrol station in Hudaydah and an hour ago they targeted a house in 50 Street in Sana’a and it seems they will just keep doing and killing Yemenis without any attention from the international community.

Press TV: It has been interesting; from day one Yemenis have stood very strong in the face of the Saudi aggression and now we are seeing of course retaliation from the Yemeni side growing stronger as well, going deeper into Saudi territory, taking over military bases, etc. Do you think the Saudis will enter into a ground war? What do you think will happen in the future?

Bukhaiti: I think the Saudis would not dare to have a ground war north of Yemen because we know that the terrain and the landscape in north of Yemen is mountains and hill area, so it is difficult for the Saudis to move in those areas. They might have a ground invasion through Ma’rib because they have established a base in Ma’rib now, which is east of Sana’a but still I think they will lose and they will be losing the same they are doing now in some areas in south of Yemen.

But I think the Saudis are going to stop their war campaign in Yemen only if the Yemeni army and Ansarullah, the Houthi Popular Committee will advance deeper inside Saudi [Arabia] and they are doing so because we have seen now they destroy several tanks and Saudi armed vehicles every day.

I think dozens of Saudi soldiers are killed every week and so the deeper they go inside Saudi [Arabia], then the Saudi regime and the Saudi royal family will feel that they are a danger and this is the thing that going to stop them and I have heard just two days ago that Yemeni army and Ansarullah, the Houthis and Popular Committees have set in some areas inside Saudi Arabia service to air missiles just to stop Saudi Apache from attacking their positions inside Saudi [Arabia] and I think in the coming days we will see a major advance and it could escalate in taking major cities south of Saudi [Arabia].

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