"The
U.S. should be doing everything we can to support the ceasefire, not
undermining it. Disgusting!"
That was
how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) responded to news on Thursday that
the Trump administration teamed up with Saudi Arabia to delay a
United Nations Security Council resolution endorsing the Hodeidah
ceasefire agreement reached last week.
Arguing
that the beseiged people of Yemen can't afford any more delays,
Sanders noted that "85,000 children have already starved to
death" and "millions more face the prospect of
famine and death" due to the years-long U.S.-backed Saudi
assault.
As the
Guardian reported, Yemeni government officials warned that the
Hodeidah ceasefire could quickly collapse if a Security Council
resolution endorsing the agreement is not adopted soon.
"A
retired Dutch general, Patrick Cammaert, is on his way to Hodeidah to
oversee a two-stage withdrawal of all troops from Hodeidah, but
without the legal mandate of a U.N. resolution, [he] is largely
powerless," the Guardian noted.
While
the U.S. is reportedly objecting to the resolution because it doesn't
contain reference to Iran's role in arming of the Houthi rebels—a
role that critics say is often exaggerated by the American press and
foreign policy establishment—the Saudis are insisting that the
resolution cannot contain any mention of U.N. war crimes
investigations into the kingdom's bombardment of Yemen.
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