Accusations to UAE of financing damaging the social and tribal fabric in Yemen
The Supreme Council for the Revolutionary Movement in southern Yemen said that the UAE finances damaging the country’s social and tribal fabric.
In a statement issued after the conclusion of its leaders ’meetings in Hadramawt Governorate, east of Yemen, the Council affirmed that the Emirates had made Al Rayyan International Airport a secret detention center for the sons of Hadramawt and the south, and had closed the seas, roads, and ports.
In the statement, the Movement Council called on human rights organizations to pressure the coalition, led by the Emirates, to find out the fate of the detainees and the places of their detention. He also rejected any military forces from outside Hadhramaut.
In a recent context, Yemeni Minister of Transport, Saleh al-Jabwani, affirmed that the Riyadh agreement for a peaceful solution in Yemen came in the interest of the UAE-backed “Southern Transitional Council”, explaining that it “equals the militias and the national army.” He stressed that the legitimate government reluctantly accepted the Riyadh agreement, and the Sharia is committed to implementing it.
Al-Jabwani added, in TV statements, that the “Transitional Council” is instructing the UAE, and does not take any step without its approval.
The Yemeni minister indicated that the UAE had formed militias in southern Yemen, indicating that it focused on ports and islands, and had a plan to control it and considered its share of the war.
Al-Jabwani pointed out that “the UAE has exceptional special relations with Iran, as they have commercial interests, and Iran has tremendous influence in the Emirates.”
This comes, the Yemenis denounced a new massacre committed by the Saudi-Emirati coalition against civilians after 31 people were killed and dozens wounded in a raid in Al-Jawf Governorate.
Thousands of Yemenis tweeted under the name of “Alliance Aviation” bombing civilians condemning the coalition massacre that came after the announcement of the Ansar Allah group “Houthis” to drop a coalition military plane.
“Initial field reports indicate that on February 15, up to 31 civilians were killed and 12 wounded in raids,” in the Al-Jawf governorate, in a statement.
According to the statement, “the humanitarian partners deployed rapid response teams to provide first aid to the victims,” noting that many of them were transferred to hospitals in Al-Jouf and Sana’a for treatment.
On the other hand, the Saudi-Emirati coalition forces in Yemen said that they hold the Houthi group responsible for the life and safety of the two officers of the Saudi “Tornado” fighter that “fell” in the Al-Jawf governorate in northern Yemen.
The Saudi official news agency quoted the coalition spokesman, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, as saying that the air crew, consisting of (two officers), used lifeboats to get out of the plane before it crashed.
The coalition added that “a combat search and rescue operation was carried out at the crash site, and wounded were taken for treatment inside Saudi Arabia.”
The Saudi-Emirati coalition in Yemen announced yesterday that one of its planes had fallen in Al-Jawf Governorate in Yemen, after a previous announcement by the fighters of the “Ansar Allah Group” (Houthis) about the downing of the plane, while the Houthis did not issue an immediate comment on the condition of the two Saudi officers or their families.
For their part, the Houthis published a video, which they said was “documenting” the moment the Saudi “Tornado” fighter was shot down over Al-Jawf governorate, which the kingdom had previously admitted of falling, without accusing anyone of that.
The video, broadcast on the group’s Al-Masirah satellite channel, shows what appears to be a surface-to-air missile launched at night towards a target in the sky. Then a sound is heard saying that the plane was hit.
The Houthis also announced that dozens of civilians were killed and wounded, with raids launched by Arab coalition aircraft in the Al-Jawf Governorate.
The Al-Masirah satellite channel, which is affiliated to the Houthis, stated that “the aggression (the coalition) aircraft targeted the citizens during their gathering at the wreckage of the plane that was shot down by the group’s militants, yesterday evening (Friday), in the Al-Masloub District in Al-Jawf Governorate.”
For his part, the group’s spokesman, Mohamed Abdel Salam, said in a Tweet on Twitter, “As is his custom when the Saudi-American aggression fails, and he receives painful strikes in the fields of military confrontation, he aggressively and foolishly targets civilians.”
