Head of Ansarullah’s Rights, Legal Department: Saudi-led Military Attacks Declining, Blockade Persists
Interviewed by Yehya Salaheddine
As the Saudi-led war on Yemen entered its seventh year, al-Ahed News had an exclusive interview with the head of Ansarullah’s Rights and Legal Department, Judge Abdul Wahab al-Mehbashi, who elaborated on the recent humanitarian report that was published under the title “Yemen’s Hiroshima.”
In response to a question regarding the main points unveiled in this report, al-Mehbashi said “The report included two main parts. The first comprised the required information and background to describe the state of aggression against Yemen, and its place under recognized international law. It was made professionally and objectively, and with a logical order. The other part included a studied and accurate description as per human rights reports standards, exposing the deadliest massacres committed by the aggression, which were documented with all their related details.”
Regarding the question about the report’s impacts on the international arena, and whether it exposed the American involvement in the war on Yemen, al-Mehbashi lamented that the impact of the report was limited to the audience of interested Arabic readers, but also noted that it is being translated into other languages.
“The report tackled the main US role in the war on Yemen via documents and testimonies, events and facts, although the political observer knows this very well and the US doesn’t deny its involvement.”
Commenting on the publication of the second report, the Yemeni official mentioned that it is being prepared although there is no specific date for its publication. He also expected that a partial agreement on some issues would happen, but ruled out that this is due to the silence towards the Yemeni issue, but rather referred it to the Yemenis’ steadfastness and braveness in the military field.
In response to a question about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s latest interview, in which he said that the Yemenis are Arabs and urged sitting for dialogue with them, al-Mahbashi said “The Saudi must sit to the table of negotiations, it is the one that rejects negotiations. The Saudi must be the party that negotiates as it is the one waging the war, not its collaborators.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Yemeni official pointed to the decline in the Saudi military crimes thanks to the balance of deterrence set by the Yemeni resistance. However, he noted that other crimes related to the siege are tightening more than ever before.
As per the international organizations’ reports that equate the coalition’s crimes to the Yemeni resistance, claiming that the resistance recruits children and torture women, al-Mahbashi said: “We need not to respond to the organizations that demonize us because they don’t see the Saudi and American crimes. They have a broken memory when it comes to us, and its mood is decided according to the western consent and the Gulf cash. Hence, there is no wonder that accuse us of things we didn’t do, they would also accuse us of being behind the dismembering of Jamal Khashoggin inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul!”
At the end of the interview, al-Mehbashi greeted all the free people in the world who supported the oppressed Yemeni people, naming in particular Hezbollah in Lebanon in its Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. He also hailed the media outlets that shoulder the responsibility in exposing the aggression and revealing the truth to the entire world.
