UN
Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen
O'Brien told the Security Council on Monday that some 21.2 million
Yemeni people needed some form of humanitarian aid. O’Brien warned
that more than two million people, including 370,000 children, were
suffering from malnutrition across the war-torn country, adding that
the confirmation of 61 cases of cholera and 1,700 more suspected
cases by health sources could complicate matters.
Hussein
al-Bukhaiti told Press TV’s Top 5 that the figures about outbreak
of cholera and the number of people who have died as a result of
Saudi blockade on Yemen are much more than what the UN reports.
There are
“over 3,000 of new cases of cholera” in Yemen, Bukhaiti said,
adding that “according to the UNICEF in Yemen, 7.5 million Yemenis
are living in areas that could be affected by this new illness that
has reached Yemen because of the Saudi-led coalition blockade"
on the country.
He went on
to say that some “10,000 children have been killed because of the
blockade” imposed on Yemen by Saudi Arabia, noting that Saudi
airstrikes have killed “over 30,000 Yemeni people” since March
2015.
The United
Nations and many other organizations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International and European agencies such as Oxfam have acknowledged
the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, but the main problem is that
countries like the US and the UK are the backbone of the Saudi
aggression, he added.
Elsewhere in
his remarks, the analyst criticized Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN
special envoy for Yemen, for what Bukhaiti called Cheikh’s biased
stance toward the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Ould Cheikh
is playing the role of “a spokesperson for the Saudi-led
coalition,” because he described an airstrike on a funeral ceremony
in the capital Sana’a as an “incident.”
According to
the commentator, Ansarullah Houthi movement's spokesman, Mohammed
Abdulsalam, has criticized Ould Cheikh for siding with the Saudi
aggressors.
Saudi Arabia
is conducting airstrikes against the Yemeni people and infrastructure
in a bid to return the resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, to
power, but the resistance of the Yemeni armed forces and the Houthi
Ansarullah Movement has caused Saudi campaign to bitterly fail.
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