Evidence reveals the relation between UAE , Hodeidah

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Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed met Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and forced him to adopt the military operation launched by the US-Saudi coalition on the Yemeni West Coast, especially in Hodeidah province ,” the British Middle East Eye website said.

The Middle East Eye added that the UAE forced Hadi to agree to attack Hodeidah, despite his opposition.

The website quoted sources as saying that Saudi Arabia had organized the meeting between Hadi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince in the UAE, “where Hadi acquiesced to the UAE demands”.

Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi(Ansarallah)  movement, which is the main force that faces the coallition, said on a TV speech ,” The decision of invading the Yemeni ,western coast, has been taken and adopted by the United States of America,noting that the Saudis are trying to abolish Yemen’s freedom,” stressing that it was the people of Yemen’s right to defend their country.

Hodeidah is a strategic port city which should be supporting more than 20 million Yemenis. It should be the source of at least 70 percent of all imports to Yemen,” Suze van Meegen, a protection and advocacy adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council, told AFP. The US-Saudi-led coalition has been eager to retake from Yemeni joint forces control, according to Yemeni officials.. But the former UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheik, warned against attacking the port city over potential catastrophic consequences to Yemen last year. Martin Griffiths, the new special envoy to Yemen, echoed the same concern over attacking Hudaydah at the UN Security Council this week.

The Guardian British newspaper revealed the green light given by the US to the Arab alliance in the war on Yemen.

The newspaper said in a report about the attack on Hodeidah “it appears that pressure on the UAE to agree a ceasefire is not having much effect, and the US government is unwilling to go as far as damaging ties with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over an issue that is so important to Riyadh.”