Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has blasted the ongoing Saudi
military aggression against Yemen, comparing the move to the Israeli
atrocities in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“What Saudi Arabia is committing [in Yemen] is identical to what
Israel commits in Gaza,” Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem
said in a Thursday interview with France 24.
Israel has blockaded the Gaza Strip for over seven years, causing a
humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli regime has
also launched three wars on Gaza, the latest of which came in summer
2014, when nearly 2,200 Palestinians were killed and over 11,100 others
injured. The 50-day war ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce.
Qassem said the Saudi war “is about attacking infrastructure and shelling civilians.”
Referring to a recent UN Security Council resolution adopted against
Yemen’s Houthi movement, the Hezbollah official said, “The Security
Council decision in Yemen is unjust, because it looks at one part of the
problem, and not at the whole [picture].”
“The Security Council should have stopped the Saudi aggression
against Yemen and treated the issues related to the civilians and the
wounded and the destruction of infrastructure,” he said.
Political solution
Qassem also called for a political solution to the crisis in Yemen.
“It (the UN) was supposed to set the steps for a dialogue to reach a
political solution. This, the Security Council has not done,” the
Hezbollah official said.
During an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, Qassem
slammed Saudi Arabia’s indiscriminate bombardment of Yemen as genocide.
Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen started on March 26 –
without a UN mandate – in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former
President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. It has drawn
widespread condemnation from international rights groups.
Civilians and Yemeni infrastructure have been the target of the Saudi aggression against Yemen.
According to Yemeni sources, around 2,600 people have been killed in the Saudi military campaign over the past three weeks.
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating. Many
international aid organizations have sought clearances to dispatch
medical and other humanitarian supplies by air and sea to civilians in
need.
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Jumat, 17 April 2015
Hezbollah likens Saudi aggression on Yemen to israeli atrocities in Gaza
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