Al-Masirah TV Network Exposes Saudi-UAE Media of Overtaking Areas in the West Coast of al-Hodeida

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Al-Masirah television network broadcasted a video clip, showing the areas within the district of Durahmi, southern of the province of Hodeida that are claimed to be under the control of Saudi-led coalition is still in the hands of the Yemeni army and Ansarullah, also known as ”Houthis”,

In an interview with the Al-Durahmi’s citizens by Al-Masirah channel, they ridiculed the claims of the media of the coalition, stressing their stand alongside the Yemeni joint forces, all the tribes and the honorable people of Yemen and preparing to participate in confronting the coalition and its paid fighters.

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the United Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years past by and the war only resulted in killing and wounding more than 600,000 oppressed Yemeni people.

Hodeida is a strategic port city which the Saudi-led coalition has been eager to retake from Yemeni joint forces control; nevertheless,  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 Hodeida at the UN Security Council this week.

“Hodeida 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.