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Sondoss Al Asaad: Can you brief the political situation in Yemen before the imposed war?

Dr. Yusuf al-Hathery: Before the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen, the political situation in Yemen was not stable due to the escalating unrest because of two important things:

Firstly; the revolution of the 21st of September 2014, which was an accumulation of inaccurate, unjust and corrupt policies during the previous decades. In addition that this revolution was not led by the previous leaders of the 2011 revolution, who disturbed and worsened the situation. Also, the revolution was purely Yemeni, without the interference of regional and foreign powers, which had the first decision during the 2011 revolution. Through the “Peace and Partnership Agreement,” after the 2014 revolution, the revolutionaries insisted on the involvement of all the political forces and not to exclude any component whatever its previous policies were.

Secondly, The National Dialogue Conference (NDC), which is a transitional dialogue process, held at the Movenpick Hotel in Sanaa, from 18 March 2013 to 24 January 2014, as part of the Yemeni crisis reconciliation efforts, was an extension of the 2011 revolution. All the political forces were involved without exception. The talks were close to their success as emphasised by the former UN envoy to Yemen Gamal Ben Omar. However, the talks failed due to the intervention of the Saudi-led coalition’s so-called 'Operation Decisive Storm', on 26 March 2015. The aggression was the final measure after decades of seeking to prevent any political stability in Yemen after all its previous measures, including the resignation of the In addition to and of the President of consensus; Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi on 15 January 2015. In addition to the 21st September revolution, when the revolutionaries assumed responsibility, giving the rest of the Yemeni party the opportunity to rule through the government of Bahah. That government had no single minister from the revolutionaries to show their genuine intentions for reforms and improvements only. They did not aim at autocracy and excluding others. The evidence are all crystal clear, and the Supreme Revolutionary Committee declared its famous constitutional on 7 February 2015 and ran the affairs of Yemen; its presidency and government.

Here, the conspiring countries found that this consensus in Yemen is a decisive blow to their previous objectives and projects.

In short, the political situation was gloomy and there were attempts to maintain stability that Yemen has not witnessed before. Certainly, the observers of the Revolutionary Committee’s ruling period (February 2015 - August 2016) notice the obtained stability despite the Saudi-led coalition’s aggression and siege.

Why did the coalition launch its war, and what was the main objective of the aggression?

I have already mentioned that among the Saudi-led coalition’s objectives was to return Yemen to its custody, as before the 21st of September 2015. On more than one occasion, many Saudi and Emirati politicians had emphasised that if Yemen’s human and geographical resources get independent from the American and Gulf custody, as between 1978 and 2014, this would reflect negatively on many things.

Beyond a doubt, they are concerned about the national security of the Zionist entity, which occupies Palestine and its religious and historical sites, since 1948. They are particularly concerned about the Ansarullah national resistance, which within a short time has significantly expanded and spread. This resistance’s slogan “Death to Israel, Curse upon the Jews” is an apparent objection to Zionists. Besides, they threat their interests in The Red Sea, in particular, and among the Arab and Muslim elites and culture in general.

The Red Sea has come under the Zionists’ control, except for the Yemeni part, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti outskirts.

In addition, they fear the Ansarullah resistance’s ideology and concepts which regards Zionism and Wahhabism a great danger to their culture. A culture of backwardness that they spent billions of dollars and tremendous efforts to spread misleading information through their platforms, mosques and books. The aimed at brainwashing the Arabs and Muslims in ways that serve the benefit of the Zionist national security.

These are the most important and main reasons for which the aggression against Yemen is being carried out. Trillions of dollars have been spent so far. The world’s armies, mercenaries, hypocrites, mainstream media, the United Nations and its bodies, international organisations, have all been mobilised to back the coalition war.

What has coalition obtained after its four years of the imposed war, and has it achieved its objectives?

After four years of the aggression and its siege, more than 200 thousand victims were murdered as a result of the continuous bombardment. Yemen has been entirely sieged, the central bank has been transferred and Sanaa’s airport has been closed. Therefore, many patients have died as their medicines were cut off and were unable to travel abroad for treatment.

Besides, tens of thousands have been wounded and disabled as a result of aggression and bombing. A lot of children and women who suffer from diseases linked to the fear because of the US-Saudi heavy shelling and explosions, including psychological, diabetes, liver, pressure and others diseases.

More than 400 thousands children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition due to lack of nutrition. In addition to the lack of money to buy medicines and food because the central bank has been transferred from Sanaa to Aden, in August 2016. The United Nations has also failed to fulfil its promises to pay the employees’ salaries when it sponsored the transfer of the bank.

Further, Yemen’s infrastructure has been completely demolished as a result of the direct and destructive bombardment. Both, public and private infrastructures have not been excluded during the aggression. Various schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, factories, places of worship, museums, historic cities, markets, etc., have been targeted during the past 42 months and continues to this day.

The chief achievement of the aggression is targeting the Yemenis in various methods of punishment, the interruption of their lives and the destruction of their civil facilities in those areas that the coalition have allegedly liberated since 3 years ago. Yemen’s southern and eastern territories are no less tragic than in the rest of the areas.

One of the achievements of the aggression is that it extended its occupation of the strategic islands of Yemen, especially Socotra, which lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In this area, there is no presence of neither the revolutionaries nor the army or the popular committees. Hence, it has not witnessed any military clashes, and the Saudi-led coalition occupiers are currently changing its Yemeni identity. The same is taking place in the governorates of Hadramout and Mahara.

Moreover, the coalition has tested a large number of Israeli weapons, including biological, chemical, Neruro, phosphorus and other unannounced weapons. This had happened more than once in the capital Sanaa, for example, Atan bomb on 21 April 2015 and Naqem bomb on 11 May 2015, as reported by a number of American and British newspapers as well as a centre for Zionist studies.

Trillions of dollars spent during the last 42 months and the murders and wounds of hundreds of thousands of the Saudi-led coalition’s soldiers, mercenaries and terrorists belonging to al-Qaeda and Da'ash. On the onset of the aggression, the coalition has claimed that it will take only 7 days to achieve its objectives.

Despite this, Yemen is yet developing its land, sea and air military powers. The resistance operations are conducted in the depths of the Saudi area; such as Najran, Jizan and Asir. Today, all the Saudi and Emirati lands are under the range of Ballistic missiles; manufactured by the Yemenis in response to the American Patriot missiles.

The Yemeni social cohesion is increasing day after day in contrary to the coalition’s objectives, which has intended to hit Yemen’s security, and stability, as the case in the areas ruled by the army and the popular committees. The biggest proof of this is the UN envoy’s last three visits to Yemen, within a month and his stay in Sanaa for many days. Unlike his visit to the so-called legitimate government in Aden, which is occupied by 17 Arab states, and which he visited once for a few hours.

Who is Dr. Yusuf al-Hathery?

Dr. Yusuf al-Hathery is Yemen’s Ministry of Health and Population Spokesman, as well a writer and researcher in religious and political affairs.