Ansarullah calls UN aid supplies as absolute right of entire Yemenis

Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the movement’s spokesman, made the remarks in a tweet in Arabic on Tuesday, saying the entry of medicine, food and oil derivatives to Yemen is an inalienable right, and therefore making Yemenis feel indebted was quite absurd.

"The entry of an oil ship from time to time, making the Yemeni people feel beholden and describing this as an achievement is an unrivaled absurdity,” Abdul-Salam said in his tweet.

"The arrival of medicine, food and oil derivatives to the Yemeni people is an unconditionally absolute right in all circumstances, and no bargain or blackmail is accepted for human rights that are guaranteed to all humanity," he added.

إدخال سفينة نفطية بين فترة وأخرى والتمنن بها على الشعب اليمني ووصف ذلك بالإنجاز رغم الخروقات!!سخافة منقطعة النظير .
إن وصول الدواء والغذاء والمشتقات النفطية إلى الشعب اليمني حق مكفول دون قيد او شرط وفي كل الظروف ولا قبول لأي مقايضة او ابتزاز في حقوق انسانية مكفولة لكل البشرية .
— محمد عبدالسلام (@abdusalamsalah) June 1, 2021

The UN food agency, the World Food Program (WFP), warned last week that it was ramping up support to people in Yemen’s worst hunger hotspots in an effort to prevent famine but sustaining response through the rest of the year was uncertain due to reduced funding.

The agency said it would require at least $1.9 million billion to prevent famine in Yemen while international donors have contributed nearly $947 million this year.

“WFP’s ability to maintain this level of response until the end of the year hangs in the balance. Sustained, predictable and flexible funding is required immediately, otherwise we will see any progress undone and needs rapidly rise in what is an unpredictable and challenging operational environment,” the agency said in a statement.

WFP said nearly 50,000 people in Yemen are already living in famine-like conditions, and five million are in immediate danger due to the years-long conflict in the impoverished Arab country. Every 10 minutes a child dies from preventable diseases such as diarrhea, malnutrition and respiratory infections.

Meanwhile, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement decried on Monday the United Nations’ “weak” response to the Saudi-led blockade imposed on Yemen, which is grappling with the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi referred to the UN’s reaction to the Saudi siege, which blocks the entry of food, medicine and petroleum products, criticizing the UN for turning a bling eye to the blackmailing of the Yemenis.

Houthi emphasized the Yemeni people's right to have access to oil derivatives, medical supplies and foodstuffs, “whatever the circumstances might be."

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and regional allies, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah movement.

Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees have, however, gone from strength to strength against the Saudi-led invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

The Saudi-led military aggression has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. The Saudi war has also destroyed Yemen's infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases across the country.

In another development on Tuesday, Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah televsion network reported that at least two civilians were killed in Saudi artillery shelling in the country’s northwestern Sa'ada Province.

The fatalities took place when Saudi artillery units shelled targets in al-Raqo area in the border district of Manbeh.

The incident came hours after an African migrant was killed and two citizens were injured as a result of Saudi artillery shelling in the same district in Sa'ada Province.