Saudi moves against Yemen evil: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussein al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator in Sana’a, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s obstruction of the flow of humanitarian aid into war-wracked Yemen.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Talk to us about Saudi Arabia’s harsh import restrictions that is exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in Yemen as a result of the aerial bombardments and onslaught carried out by the Saudis.
Bukhaiti: After over 50 days of bombardment, the Saudis as well have a land and air and sea blockade against Yemen preventing fuels, medicine and food and wheat to come into the country; and they want everything to be inspected by them and they wanted them to come through Saudi Arabia and to reach Saudi airports and Saudi ports and this might take months.
I mean if you have a huge cargo ship that all of it needs to be inspected, it will take and delay the aid from coming to Yemen for weeks if not for months. And the Saudis are using this strategy, they just want to punish all the Yemeni people who have revolted in 21st of September 2014 and they have kicked all the people that they used to work for Saudis who used to destroy Yemen.
And we have seen hospitals at this moment are running out of fuel and maybe in the coming days if not weeks we will hear a few hospitals will close. We have as well the only factory in Yemen that produced O2 for hospital… it keeps shutting down every now and then because it ran out of diesel.
And this is affecting even the life of the Yemeni farmers, people in the village, because we are dependent on water from the ground for drinking, so when there is no fuel, no diesel, the people cannot get this water out. And this will cause as well a problem within the Yemeni community so I think this is what the Saudis really want, it wants to see Yemen destroyed. It attacked all infrastructure and bridges and even now if we get some food and some aid, in some areas it would be harder to transport it there because they have destroyed all the roads, all the bridges.
So this is an evil act on the Yemeni people but we are still hoping that aid will come out and as well we now and me as a Yemeni, we see the difference between the Saudis and the Iranian people. While the Saudis are blockading Yemen, while they are targeting Yemen, attacking Yemen, destroying everything, the Iranians have been trying really hard to send aid to Yemen.
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