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Saudi Arabia: Sincere in Yemeni port's opening?

Sunday, 26 November 2017 2:43 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 26 November 2017 2:43 PM ]

Displaced Yemeni children sit outside their makeshift shelter in an empty lot in the Yemeni coastal city of Hudaydah on November 16, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

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Yemen is dealing with one of the worst crises in its modern history. The whole country is nearing a total disaster. The hospitals are in needed of desperate aid to cope with an increasing number of sick and injured people. And all of that is because of a Saudi-imposed blockade on the country. The Saudi regime tightened the siege on its southern Arab neighbor following a retaliatory missile fire by Yemen’s Houthi fighters and their allied forces on November 4th. Since then, UN agencies and aid groups have warned of a looming humanitarian crisis, saying “untold thousands” would die if the siege is not lifted. Under international pressure, Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow aid workers into the capital Sana’a but is refusing to let aid ships to dock on the Houthi-controlled port of Hudaydah. The port is a crucial route for delivering aid to the people of Yemen.

Israel’s annexation plans

No end to Israel’s violations of international law. Human rights groups are warning that Tel Aviv is putting in place the final pieces of what has been described as a quote-Greater Jewish Jerusalem that will require “ethnically cleansing” tens of thousands of Palestinians from the city. The rights groups have condemned Israel’s plan. According to the rights groups, Israel aim to annex settlements to al-Quds and turn Palestinian areas into a no man’s land. The Israeli regime’s plans have put thousands of Palestinians in danger of being removed from their land. Jerusalem al-Quds is where Palestinian families have lived and worked for generations.

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