“End Yemen Siege” Campaign Starts

An online campaign to demand an end to the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen and open Sanaa international airport started.

Organizers of the campaign said it started on Saturday, using the hashtag “End_Yemen_Siege”.

Yemen activists said they want people around the world to join their campaign to help end Yemen’s blockade.

Yemen has been since March 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led Coalition, in a bid to restore control to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is Riyadh’s ally.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed and injured in the strikes launched by the coalition, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

The coalition, which includes in addition to Saudi Arabia and UAE: Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait, has been imposing a harsh blockade against Yemenis.

International organizations, including the United Nations (UN) and the Red Cross, have repeatedly warned that the Saudi-led war on and embargo against Yemen are behind famine and cholera epidemic outbreak in the Arab impoverished country.

Yemen’s two warring parties, namely Houthi Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed government, reached an agreement on a ceasefire in the Houthi-held port of Hudeidah in Sweden on December 13.

UN envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, who arrived in Sana’a on Saturday, is scheduled to discuss the truce with Houthi leaders and will later travel to the Saudi capital Riyadh to meet with former Yemeni government officials.