Press TV - Yemens Houthi Ansarullah movementhas mocked Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir's recent condemnation of Myanmars deadly crackdown onRohingya Muslims while the Riyadh regime is itself killing Yemenis.
Jubeir voiced alarm over the Myanmar crisis during his address to the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday.
My country is gravely concerned and condemns the policy of repression and forced displacement carried out by the government of Myanmar against the Rohingya minority, he said.
Ansarullah spokesman Mohammad Abdulsalamreacted to Jubeirs remarks, saying the top Saudi diplomat disregarded his own countrys crackdown, Arabic-languageal-Masirah television networkreported on Sunday.
The Saudi-led coalition deserves the Nobel Peace Prize due to its crimes in Yemen, Abdulsalam added, in an apparent dig atMyanmars de facto leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate whose silence on the ongoing atrocities has drawn international outcry.
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People hold banners showing victims of Saudi airstrikes during a demonstration outside the United Nations offices in Sana'a, Yemen, August 29, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)[/caption]On Sunday,five civilians werekilled when Saudi warplanes bombed Shada'a District of Yemens northwestern province of Saada, reports said.
The Yemeni army fired a medium-range QaherM-2 ballistic missileat a Saudi airbase in the kingdoms southwestern Asir Region on Saturday.
Reports said that the missile had precisely hitthe target butSaudi mediaquoted ColonelTurkial-Malki, theSaudi-led coalitionspokesman, as saying that the Saudi forces had intercepted the missile.
Additionally, the Yemeni army destroyed two military vehicles used by mercenaries supporting former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadiin the northern and southwestern provinces of Jawf and Lahij.
The Yemeni army also launched a mortar attack against a gathering place for pro-Hadi forces in Lahij Province, inflicting heavy losses on the militants.
An armored vehicle, which belonged to pro-Hadi mercenaries, was destroyed in the Sirwah District of Yemens central Marib Province.
Yemen has witnessed a deadly Saudi-led war since March 2015 to eliminate the Houthis and reinstall a Riyadh-friendly Hadi.
Saudi Arabia has achieved neither of the objectives despite spending billions of dollars on the war and enlisting the cooperation of dozens of its allies as well as Western countries.
The protracted Saudi offensive, which has been accompanied by a naval and aerial blockade on Yemen, has so far killed over 12,000 people and led to a humanitarian crisis and a cholera outbreak.
