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Arabia
Relief bodies evacuate staff following Houthi militia criminality
2017-12-17
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
announced that relief organizations have decided to evacuate their employees from Yemen.

In a statement, it accused the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militias of putting obstacles on aid work.

It said that the militias were in violation of the international law by not protecting the aid workers.

The statement emphasized that the decision made by the relief organizations was a result of the criminality of the militias.

On Friday, the coalition said that 42 permits were issued for ships and relief aircraft.

The Arab Coalition renewed its call for the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
to take over the port of Hudaydah, which is under the control of the coup militia.
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