Alwaght- Friday, May 8, Saudi Regime’s foreign minister declared May 12 as the date when a five-day ceasefire in its brutal aggression against neighboring Yemen will start. But since then the Saudi airstrikes were augmented, causing massive destruction specifically in Saada.
Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, broke the news at a press conference in the French capital Paris on Friday, stressing that the temporary truce will start May 12 at 11 p.m. local time (2000 GMT).
Jubeir announced the decision initially at a press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Riyadh on Thursday. However, he did not comment on the exact date of the start of the so-called “humanitarian pause.”
Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine Ansarullah movement and to restore power to fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who was the puppet president of Riyadh.
The Saudi military campaign has reportedly claimed the lives of over 2,000 people so far and injured thousands of others. Hundreds of women and children are among the victims, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
But according to a report by the Freedom House Institution in Yemen, the death toll from the Saud-led war on the Arabian Peninsula country has topped 5,000 people.
The report said 6,271 people have also been injured since the beginning of the Saudi regime’s attacks on the country.
The Al Saud regime has imposed a blockade on the delivery of relief supplies to the war-stricken people of Yemen in defiance of calls by international aid groups.
Earlier this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the medical charity group, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), known in English as Doctors Without Borders, expressed “extreme" concern about the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen’s lifelines and its obstruction of aid deliveries to the impoverished nation.
Saudi strikes on the airports in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, and the strategic Red Sea city of Hudeida caused severe damage, “obstructing delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance and movement of humanitarian personnel,” read a joint statement by the two international groups.
The attacks “are having alarming consequences on the civilian population, and the humanitarian situation has now become catastrophic,” the statement added.
Saudi Arabia intensified its air strikes against Saada with warplanes carrying out more than 100 raids overnight and early on Friday.
Saudi fighter jets also bombed some districts in the northern province of al-Jawf, which led to the killing and injuring a number of people.
Saudi regime also carried out air raids on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. The strikes targeted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh's house. It has been reported that Saleh and his family were safe after the air strikes
Analysts say that Al Saud is amplifying its strikes ahead of the ceasefire in order to gain an upper hand in the following negotiations with Ansarullah.
This movement reminds us of the Israeli regime’s actions just before any ceasefire. Also, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, “Saudi aggression crimes similar to those of Israel”. This similarity between Al Saud and Israeli regime is also seen the in the tactics and strategy adopted in their brutal war, where both used internationally banned bombs, and both cut off humanitarian aid and air, naval, and ground entrances.
But the Saudis still do not understand the equation that the entire world has reached to, where any goal not obtained by power will never be obtained by politics.
Once again the Al Saudi regime commits another idiocy by revenging from the Yemeni civilians for not achieving any of their goals.
