Faced with growing reports from humanitarian groups and media outlets about their naval blockade of Yemen, and the Trump Administration’s repeated calls to open up access, the Saudi-led coalition feels the need to actually comment on the matter.
The coalition, incredibly, claims that no blockade at all exists, despite the large number of ships they continue to prevent from docking at the port of Hodeidah to drop off food, water, medicine, and fuel. The Saudis insist there is “no evidence” that the aid is blocked.
This argument appears to be based on the fact that the Saudis are allowing aid into “loyal” ports that support their invasion of the country, while Hodeidah, the lone port responsible for some 15 million people in North Yemen, remains virtually entirely closed.
The denial isn’t going to convince most, though the Trump Administration has often praised the Saudis for promising to end the blockade, without actually doing so, and the Saudis may believe his will work just as well.
” and the Trump Administration’s repeated calls to open up access”
Yeah right. AWC still banging the Trump drum.
If Saudi Arabia isn’t blocking humanitarian aid to Yemen, then exactly who is?
Because ~ given the casualty rate for preventable and treatable diseases [beyond that from drones, suicide bombers, routine combat operations, etc] ~ SOMEBODY surely is.
But, this whole article is a waste of band-width. How many Americans even know what “Yemen” is; let alone where it is; or what’s happening there; or why? And among those who know, how many really care?
And even if they do care, so what? What can the People of the United States of America do on behalf of, and for, the People of Yemen?
Since there is no ‘Nikki Haley’ to bring resolutions against the KSA at the UN, the KSA feels that they can lie through their teeth and get away with it.
Sure, they let food and ships get to ‘loyal ports’ because that is their plan for genocide, to starve Houthi areas. All one has to do is to observe that prior to 2015 there were no cases of cholera and diptheria, now there are over 1 million. Why doesn’t food get into rebel areas, because the Saudis say that the Houthis charge a transport fee. That’s an admission that they are starving Yemenis.