Saudi regime seeking to worsen crisis in Yemen: Analyst
Saudi-led troops are trying to push deep into Yemeni areas near the capital city of Sana’a to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the impoverished Arab country, a Yemeni political analyst says.
“I think they (Saudi-led troops) want to control Ma’rib because it is [located] east of Sana’a. They want to control that province because most of Yemen’s oil refineries and gas fields are situated in Ma’rib. By controlling that, they will control one of the main supplies left for Yemen. As you know, we have a fuel blockade; so many people in Yemen depend on gas supplies,” Hussein al-Bukhaiti from Sana’a told Press TV in an interview on Thursday.
He added that Riyadh has launched its heaviest ever airstrikes against Sana’a and its adjacent neighborhoods in the past few days, leaving large groups of civilians buried under the rubble of their flattened homes.
Elsewhere in the interview, Bukhiati said it seems that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirate are pushing hard to take revenge for their defeat in Yemen last time when scores of their troops were killed in a missile attack by Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters inside the kingdom.
He also said that the Saudi regime is after punishing the Yemenis for their uprising against Yemen's fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Bukhiati said, “The Saudis do control all of the south, but the Yemeni people are suffering from al-Qaeda, from assassination and from terrorist groups like ISIS (Daesh). So Yemeni [people] have not seen a solution from the Saudi neither in the south nor in the north.”
On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country's fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The conflict has so far left about 4,500 people dead and thousands of others wounded, the UN says. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.
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