A Bilateral deal signed to ensure aid delivery to Yemen
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates signed
Friday a number of agreements to ease the delivery of humanitarian aid to the
different provinces in Yemen, including those still under the control of the
Iran-backed Houthi militia.
Efforts made by both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to offer
humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people are coming under the spotlight, amid
praise by the legitimate government of Yemen and the Yemeni people.
The terrorist Houthi militia did, meanwhile,
everything possible to shirk its humanitarian responsibilities toward people in
the areas under its control.
Apart from giving residents in these areas a hard
time, the Houthis try to generate money in them by imposing taxes, ransacking
banks and confiscating public funds and properties.
The Houthis are actively recruiting children and
using them as human shields, a gross violation of international and human laws.
The militiamen use humanitarian aid arriving in the
areas they occupy to strengthen their grip in these areas, according to Abdel
Raqib Fatah, the local administration minister in the legitimate Yemeni
government and the head of Yemen's Higher Humanitarian Committee.
The militia also, he added, turned ports in the
cities it occupies, including the port of the city of al-Hodeidah, into
military ones.
It uses deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the
same cities to prevent their liberation, Fatah said.
The United Arab Emirates has already started
implementing a comprehensive humanitarian and development plan throughout the
whole of Yemen.
