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Yemeni missile attacks to stop Saudi war: Activist

Monday, 17 October 2016 4:48 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 18 October 2016 6:28 AM ]

This file photo shows Yemeni forces launching rocket attacks on Saudi positions.

Yemeni forces' retaliatory missile attacks deep inside Saudi territory are the only way to stop the war on Yemen, says an activist and political commentator.

“We have seen that Yemeni ballistic missiles and modified Scud missiles are reaching every time deeper inside Saudi Arabia and I would not be surprised if I see at one point they will reach Riyadh, Dubai or Abu Dhabi because those two countries must be hit really hard to stop the war on Yemen,” Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Press TV.

He is also of the opinion that the international community will not stop Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen because the UN Security Council is mainly controlled by the United States, Britain and France who are directly involved in this war.

He stated these Western countries are fueling the Yemen conflict in order to continue selling billions of dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia.

“The only way to stop this [Yemen war] is not to be dependent on international community, just to keep fighting and to target Saudi border, to target Saudi oil field if we have missiles to reach there because this is the thing that will hit the international economy otherwise people who are killed in Yemen are just becoming numbers in UN reports,” the activist added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Bukhaiti said the Houthi Ansarullah fighters and the Yemeni army should not accept the implementation of an immediate ceasefire which was demanded in a draft resolution presented by Britain.

He also argued the British want the Yemeni forces to accept a total ceasefire in order to make them withdraw from Saudi border and if they do that, it means they have lost their final strength to attack the Saudis.

More than 10,100 people have died since the kingdom launched a campaign of blood and destruction against its impoverished neighbor to crush the Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah movement and their allies and bring back to power the resigned Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close Riyadh ally.

The Yemeni army and allied popular fighters have been retaliating against the offensives by targeting gatherings of Saudi mercenaries inside Yemen and firing projectiles at military positions in the kingdom’s extreme southwestern regions of Asir, Jizan and Najran.

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