Yemenis alone in fight against Saudi Arabia: Activist

Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussain al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator from Sana’a, concerning the retaliatory attacks carried out by the Yemeni army against Saudi Arabia as well as the latest Yemeni achievements in Saudi Najran Province.

Press TV: I’d like to get your opinion on the retaliatory attacks carried out against the Saudis with the latest achievement being the capture of the Najran Dam.

Al-Bukhaiti: We’ve seen lately that Saudi couldn’t even protect their country as they keep saying that they want to liberate Yemen from the so-called Houthi forces. We’ve seen the last 3-4 days that the Yemeni army and Houthi fighters have seized many strategic areas in Najran.

I think they’re going to completely surround Najran in the coming weeks, because they have seized almost all Saudi army bases west of Najran and as well east of Najran, in the last 48 hours they have advanced to near Najran Dam, one of the largest dams in Saudi Arabia and I think this is the only solution and the only way to bring peace in Yemen, because most of the casualties and destruction in Yemen are caused not by Yemenis fighting each other, but by the Saudi airstrikes, and to stop this [they have] to continue those attacks inside Saudi Arabia.

To show you the panic that the Saudi army has these days, a video which was released yesterday shows a Saudi American-made tank crushed into another American-made armored vehicle while it was retreating from a handful of barefooted Houthi fighters. This shows you that Saudi army, that King Salman said he will pay them twice as they usually do because they are fighting and defending the country but they have no goal, they know that they are wrong, they know that they have attacked Yemen, they know that Yemen has never attacked Saudi Arabia and I think all the Saudi soldiers know that, they know that the Yemeni fighters are really strong and nothing can defeat them, not F16, not all Saudi armored vehicles, and that’s why as soon as they see a Houthi fighter, they run away as we saw in all these videos released, specially the one released yesterday.  

Press TV: As Saudi Arabia is continuing its airstrikes on Yemen, at the same time we’ve seen schools, hospitals being bombarded by the Saudis; however, at the same time it seems that the Yemenis are not giving into the pressure, be it through those retaliatory attacks, or be it through Yemen’s own political process that is underway within the country?

Al-Bukhaiti: Because Yemenis have realized, after 500 days of war in Yemen, they have realized that almost the entire international communities are supporting Saudi Arabia, the UN envoy Mr. Weld al-Sheikh has become like a political wing of Saudi Arabia, he keeps changing all the agreements that they have reached, either in Kuwait or in Geneva or anywhere, and that’s why they have realized that they have to take matters into their hands and as well because of this blockade and this war Yemenis have got used to manage the destructions in Yemen.

As an example, most Yemenis have solar panel, they do not depend on electricity, because we haven’t seen electricity during all this war. So, there will be a big battle and a big war with Saudi Arabia and this is kind of a training camp for Yemenis what is happening now.

Yemenis have taken the decision as well when they formed the political organization to run the country, they want to say to the world, especially to the UN, that if you are not going to help us or mediate for us to reach a peaceful solution, all parties are going to form a government, we are going to do it ourselves, and I think in the coming days we will see a new government will be formed.

We have seen all these protester, millions of them, have come into Sana’a giving full support to this new governing body and to the Yemeni army and Ansarullah the Houthis to keep fighting Saudi Arabia and I think this is the only way that will bring Saudi Arabia to talk to Yemenis directly without having pressure on Hadi or any other parties in Yemen to obstruct any peaceful solution.

I want to mention that the Saudis have actually succeeded in one thing that they have forces MSF (Doctors Without Borders) to withdraw from Hajjah and Sa’ada. Hajjah and Sa’ada are among the most badly hit in Yemen.

The hospital that they were running was the only operating hospital in the entire province of about 3 million people. Six hospitals were helping 3 million people and now MSF (Doctors Without Borders) have withdrawn from this hospital and I think that Saudi is going to bomb those hospitals again and they are going to flatten them as they did with all other health sectors and public hospitals.

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