UAE armored vehicles roam the city of Hodeidah ,the people welcome

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On Thursday, the pioneers of social communication posted pictures of military armor belonging to the coalition, which were taken over by the Yemeni army during the recent fighting in the coastal front.

The pictures show a number of citizens, taking pictures of the memorial near the mechanisms of the UAE in the center of the city of Hodeidah, expressing their happiness with the practices achieved by the Yemeni army.

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.