The Most Prominent Saudi Achievements in Yemen Over three Years of War
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By: Shefa’a Abdullah
While the Yemenis were slept on March 26, 2015, at 2 am, the storm began to blow from the north, carrying the name “Decisive Storm” In fact, it was a devastating and blind storm but it was not and would not be “resolute”.
After three years Of the continued aggression against the Yemeni, Saudi Arabia, which led the storm dont achieve any goal but to kill thousands of lives and create chaos in Yemen has responded negatively and unexpectedly on the inside of Saudi Arabia.
Today, all Yemenis witnessing the third anniversary of the Saudi aggression against Yemen, but with a special flavor that will not be felt except by those who suffer the horrors of this fierce war that did not remain stone and was not handed over to anyone.
What did Saudi Arabia achieve in Yemen ?!
First: Saudi Arabia announced that it wants to restore legitimacy, disarmament and the restructuring of power in Yemen. This speech came from the first day by the military spokesman of aggression, Ahmed Asiri ,at the time, but what was the result? The Yemeni defense of their freedom was greater than the walls of Saudi Arabia and its armies and airjets and naval fleets that besieged the Yemeni airports and ports, to close the aggression later and specifically on 4 November all the land, sea and air ports of Yemen totally,but also, what did Saudi Arabia achieve from all this ?! “nothing”.
It is very surprising to talk about the restoration of legitimacy, because legitimacy in terms of logic does not come from abroad and no state can grant it to another state despite the will of its people!!
Second: The fact that Saudi Arabia is in a great predicament within the borders of Yemen and beyond, because the volume of pressure on them is very large and expensive also because of several reasons:
1. Whatever Riyadh and Abu Dhabi tried to escape from pursuing human rights organizations and other international organizations, as a result of its continued aggression against Yemen, it will eventually fall and will have to give up and spend huge sums to cover up its crimes in Yemen. This is what it does in one way or another for the American who provokes from time to time, but the American can not believe him, especially in the era of President Trump,in a moment this man relinquishes those who support them without an eyelid and the list is long on this subject.
Currently Saudi Crown Prince Ibn Salman attacked with a fierce media campaign by major World newspapers due to his war on Yemen, but continued to buy arms, which cost millions of dollars in London and Washington.
2 – The steadfastness of Yemenis surprised Saudi Arabia and increased its predicament, and what made matters worse for her and the UAE that the Yemenis took the battle several times into the country of aggressors,when Ansarullah launched dozens of missiles that targeted vital areas and sensitive in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which embarrassed Saudi Arabia in front of its people, Especially as the people know that they have spent billions of dollars to buy weapons.
3 – America has become the main engine of the game on Yemen by the Arab alliance,and may have been the main engine from the first moment ,therefore, Saudi Arabia with UAE are more than tools in this war, as confirmed by the vote of the US Senate, the majority of the continuation of the waroin Yemen , Because they know very well that Saudi Arabia is a rich country and must therefore “suck its blood” by selling as much weapons as possible, and only through continued war in Yemen .
Third: Here are the most prominent Saudi achievements in Yemen over the last three years:
1. The number of civilian casualties was 36,828, of whom 1,4291 were martyrs and 22537 were wounded. The number of killed citizens was 9148 and the number of women killed was 2,086 while 33057 were killed by brutal raids using internationally prohibited weapons, according to statistics published by the Legal Center for Rights and Development.
2-415 health facilities completely or partially destroyed as a result of direct attacks on aggression, more than 55% of health facilities are not operating due to aggression, and the remaining 45% operate with minimum capacity
3 – More than 21 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance, and more than 9 million Yemenis are supervising the entry into the famine according to the classification of the World Food Program.
4 million Yemeni children suffer from various forms of malnutrition, of which half a million are dying of severe malnutrition, and 52,000 children died in 2016 for preventable causes.
Saudi Arabia’s failure to achieve any goal reflected on the Saudi-backed Hadi government led to the exit of three ministers from this government, which created a major rift in the relationship with Saudi Arabia and turned the relationship to the beginning of a crisis of confidence, all Yemenis should invest in uniting their internal ranks to confront and end the aggression, because Saudi Arabia is incapable of doing so.