{"id":601,"date":"2017-08-24T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:51:03","slug":"yemenis-hold-large-rallies-in-sanaa-against-deadly-saudi-air-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/yemenis-hold-large-rallies-in-sanaa-against-deadly-saudi-air-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemenis hold large rallies in Sana\u2019a against deadly Saudi air raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\">\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06af\u0632\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u06cc<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets of Sana\u2019a to voice their outrage at a recent Saudi air raid, which hit a hotel north of the capital and claimed nearly 50 civilian lives.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"96\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tOn Thursday, demonstrators gathered on the capital\u2019s Sabaeen Square in support of ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has joined forces with the Houthi Ansarullah movement in defending the country against Saudi aggression, presstv.ir reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe demonstrators came from different provinces across the country to the capital city to mark the 35th anniversary of the founding of National People Congress Party of Saleh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tA parallel demonstration was also held in the capital by a large group of Ansarullah supporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe rallies\u00a0were\u00a0held a day after Riyadh\u2019s warplanes targeted a hotel in the Arhab district of Sana\u2019a Province, leaving dozens of civilians dead and injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tAccording to the figures released on Wednesday night by local Red Crescent Societies, rescuers had pulled 48 identifiable bodies from what is left of the hotel. The death toll is feared to rise as the search is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe demonstrators condemned the brutal Saudi aggression against their country. They also slammed Saudi Arabia\u2019s blockade of Yemen that has caused severe food and medicine shortages and led to fast-spreading epidemics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tTo ensure security during the Monday events, fighters of the Ansarullah movement had set up checkpoints at the main entrances to the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tOn Monday, Saleh stressed his resolve to continue cooperation with the Houthi Ansarullah movement in the country to counter the Saudi-led war on Yemen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tSaleh also said that Saudi Arabia had been targeting Yemen\u2019s sovereignty and independence with the military campaign, stressing that the Yemeni nation would not surrender or accept any parties\u2019 dictates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tSaleh and the Houthis have been in alliance almost since the Saudi-led war began on their country in March 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe war was launched in an attempt to eliminate the Houthis and reinstall Saleh\u2019s Riyadh-friendly successor, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who resigned in 2014 and fled to Riyadh before returning to Aden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe Houthi Ansarullah fighters, allied Yemeni army factions, and forces loyal to Saleh have been jointly fighting back the Saudi-led invaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tAnd Saudi Arabia has attained neither of its objectives despite spending billions of dollars on the war and enlisting the cooperation of dozens of its vassal states as well as some Western countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe Saudi-led war, which has been accompanied by a naval and aerial blockade on Yemen, has so far killed over 12,000 people in the impoverished state, left 70 percent of the country\u2019s 27 million population in desperate need of humanitarian aid, and caused the worst cholera outbreak in the world there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06af\u0632\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u06cc Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets of Sana\u2019a to voice their outrage at a recent Saudi air raid, which hit a hotel north of the capital and claimed nearly 50 civilian lives. On Thursday, demonstrators gathered on the capital\u2019s Sabaeen Square in support of ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[638],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yemenis hold large rallies in Sana\u2019a against deadly Saudi air raid - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/yemenis-hold-large-rallies-in-sanaa-against-deadly-saudi-air-raid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yemenis hold large rallies in Sana\u2019a against deadly Saudi air raid - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06af\u0632\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u06cc Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets of Sana\u2019a to voice their outrage at a recent Saudi air raid, which hit a hotel north of the capital and claimed nearly 50 civilian lives. 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