Saudi Arabia only understands language of force: Ansarullah official
Saudi Arabia will not end its bloody war on Yemen unless Yemeni forces intensify their retaliatory attacks, a senior member of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says.
“The only solution [for Yemenis] is to have the upper hand in the battlefield. Saudi Arabia only understands the language of force,” Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Political Council of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
“Riyadh has suffered great losses; therefore it's looking for a decent way out of the war. But the kingdom has high expectations in its aggression which are not feasible in dialog. That’s why the war is still raging on,” Bukhaiti further added.
He also cited the Saudi mentality of revenge and sectarian beliefs as yet another reason for the continuation of the devastating offensive against Yemeni people, and criticized the United Nations for the lack of serious efforts in forcing Riyadh to stop its unabated airstrikes.
Bukhaiti further condemned the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as two main regional accomplices in the Saudi war.
Speaking about the recent UN-brokered peace talks held in Switzerland, he described as superficial what the UN envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, saw as a success. He noted that truce in Yemen was non-existent because Saudi Arabia has not observed it since the beginning.
Earlier in the day, the UN Security Council voiced deep concern over the breach of ceasefire by warring sides in Yemen.
It also described the aggression on Yemeni people, particularly children, as “devastating” and expressed its deep concern about “the dire humanitarian situation” in the war-torn country.
According to the body, over 80 percent of the population in Yemen—some 21 million people—needs some form of humanitarian assistance.
Saudi Arabia started military attacks against Yemen in late March in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, back to power.
Saudi Arabia’s military attacks against Yemen have so far claimed the lives of more than 7,500 people and injured over 14,000 others.
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