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The Yemen war, launched by Saudi Arabia from Washington D.C. with the blessing of Noble Peace of Crap Prize Champ Barack Obama seven years ago, showed no signs of easing after several oil depots in Saudi Arabia suffered damage last week after an apparent attack by drones and rockets launched by Houthi fighters in Yemen.
Al Jazeera reported that Saudi Arabia did not confirm the attack, but dense, black smoke was seen billowing from a fuel depot on Friday. The depot was already targeted by Houthis in a previous attack. The facilities that came under attack were reportedly located in Jeddah and Riyadh.
Yahya Sarea, a Houthi military spokesperson, said in a tweet that the attacks targeted Aramco facilities and the Ras Tanura and Rabigh refineries. Reuters pointed out that crude oil prices jumped more than 1 percent to over $120 a barrel after the attacks.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken—who, as undersecretary under Barack Obama went to Saudi Arabia when they launched the war in March of 2015 to provide “intelligence”—blamed the Houthis for continuing “their destructive behavior and reckless terrorist attacks striking civilian infrastructure.”
As we have long reported, Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of the country for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president put in control by the Saudis.
The Houthis eventually took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
The Saudi-backed coalition grew concerned that Houthi rule in Yemen would mean rival Iran would gain a foothold at the border with Saudi Arabia. So the U.S. decided to provide weapons to the Saudi- and U.A.E.-led coalition.
The war, the worst humanitarian crisis on earth, has entered its eighth year and has been blamed for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and displacing millions.
President Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama, has strongly supported the Saudi-led war that is now heading into its eighth year. (See “SAUDI-LED YEMEN SLAUGHTER ESCALATES” and “U.S. FIGHTING YEMEN WAR.”)
Despite Biden vowing in February to end arms sales to the Saudis, he approved a $650 million arms deal with the Saudis last November.
Truce Between Houthis and Coalition Does Not Last Long
Yemen’s Houthis said Saturday that it will not launch any attacks against Saudi Arabia for three days as long as airstrikes and coalition fighting stops in Yemen, Reuters reported.
France 24 reported that the Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemen hours after the truce was announced. Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said eight civilians, including five children and two women, were killed in retaliatory strikes on Sana’a.
Israel Condemns Attack
Naftali Bennett, the Israeli prime minister, took to Twitter on Saturday to condemn the attack that he said was further proof that Iran’s regional aggression “knows no bounds.”
“The State of Israel expresses its sorrow to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after the horrific attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis,” he said.
Israel has lobbied the U.S. to list the Houthis as a terror group after Biden removed the group earlier in his presidency.
TREND FORECAST: The ongoing war in Yemen does not receive a fraction of the media coverage that the Ukraine War commands in the West.
We have been reporting on the Saudi led war in Yemen since it began and have pointed out that the United Nations estimates 377,000 deaths in seven years—including 10,200 children. Besides the war casualties, 17 million citizens in the country could starve to death.
We maintain our forecast that the Saudi/U.S. alliance will not defeat the Houthis, and the war will rage on, killing tens of thousands of innocent people while inflicting devastating and deadly hardship across the nation.
The war will continue to be ignored by the mainstream media and the vast majority of the world will be ignorant to the human suffering the United States and Saudi Arabia have inflicted upon the nation.
TRENDPOST: And, while the mainstream media is mocking Russia for not defeating Ukraine military forces in a war they launched a month ago, the Saudi Prince, adored by D.C. and the Presstitutes, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who launched the war against the Houthis, in 2015 told the then the guy playing Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan that the Saudi’s would beat the Houthis in a few weeks.