Yemen: Ansarullah Leader Threatens To Hit Back Over Saudi Blockade
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The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah revolutionary movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badreddine al-Houthi, promised retaliatory attacks in response to a land, aerial and naval blockade imposed on his impoverished country by a Saudi-led military alliance.
Addressing his supporters via a televised speech from the Yemeni capital Sana'a on Thursday, Sayyed al-Houthi warned against "tightening the blockade."
Riyadh imposed a tight blockade on nearly all Yemen's air, land and sea ports after Yemeni forces on November 5 launched a solid propellant and Scud-type Borkan-2 [Volcano-2] missile against King Khalid International Airport, located 35 kilometers north of the Saudi capital Riyadh, in retaliation for Saudi's devastating aerial bombardment campaign against Yemen.
"Should the blockade continue, we know what [targets] would cause great pain and how to reach them," he said.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of the Ansarullah movement supporters gathered in the Sabaeen Square of Sana'a on Thursday afternoon to commemorate the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad [PBUH], heeding a call to attend the event.
More than 12,000 people have been killed since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.
The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.
According to the World Health Organization's latest count, the cholera outbreak has killed 2,167 people since the end of April and is suspected to have infected 841,906.
On Sunday, the United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF] said that more than 11 million Yemeni children in Yemen are in acute need of aid, stressing that it is estimated that every 10 minutes a child dies of a preventable disease there.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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