Calamitous shortages of basic goods have fueled a crisis across much of Yemen, particularly the capital city of Sanaa, where Saudi airstrikes are already putting pressure on hospitals. The Saudis have also harshly limited aid shipments into Sanaa.
Today, they assured that there will be no future air shipments to Sanaa, destroying the runway at the Sanaa International Airport in a bombing run.
Saudi officials insist that the bombings prevented an Iranian cargo plane, that might conceivably have weapons on board, from landing in Sanaa. It did that, surely, but also eliminated any hope for humanitarian relief to the city of two million.
Iran said the plane was carrying humanitarian aid, and considered the Saudi order to not deliver it illegal. Yemeni television reported the plane was also to carry some seriously wounded civilians back to Iran for medical treatment. With both takeoff and landing runways now destroyed, there’s no getting out for those civilians.
Aid groups reported they were going to try to route their shipments, which are being seriously limited by the Saudis at any rate, to the airport in Hodeidah, though that airport too was bombed today, and its status is unclear.
The UN are useless and worthless. If Saudi Arabia was lets say Libya doing this to Egypt, oh the UN and every phony human rights champ in the u.s. would be calling for war crimes.
Utterly inhuman. What is there to expect from UN when majority of UN Security Council is controlled by NATO. Let us not expect Russia or China to save the world alone. At present, they can allow Saudi Arabia to self-destruct following the display of its inhumanity. But Saudi Arabia has no population for armed forces, as majority of Saudi population has no Saudi citizenship. The Saudi paid army cannot withstand ground offensive on Yemen, that is a natural fortress. They want to starve the population and force capitulation. Unfortunately for them, the economy of Shia population is rural, and produces every sort of agricultural produce known to men. They can feed themselves for quite a while. Sana'a will empty as people run to villages — or those without relatives in the country, try to get out via still operating ports and ships. Those are mostly Sunni population that is relative newcomer to Yemeni highlands. But Sunnis of the Yemeni south are not any friendlier. They wanted to reclaim their independence for a long time, as the forced marriage between the Shia north, and Sunni south was never desired by the population and was forced on them by Saudi Arabia and its neocon western friends. For over 1000 years highlands of Yemen were ruled by Shia dynasties that came all from the original aristocratic stock when it was first established as the land ruled by the descendant of Prophet Mohammed and their offspring. It is not too complicated history as many would like it to be. Following the revolution in fifties and the toppling of king, Shia have been marginalized, territorially limited, and periodically killed in numerous rebellions. Saudi supported central government oversaw many public executions of rebels, many of them young teens. In early to mid-seventies I was unfortunate enough to be a witness of f those now forgotten days Saudi cruelty in Sana'a. May be it is time to call these people by their REAL name, not the name of their current leader. They are Zaidi tribes of Yemen. If one wants to lie about their thousand year rule of Yemen, of course one would called them something else. Just to confuse already easy to manipulate western public.
Sick bastards.