Yemeni Community to Held Protest Friday in New York, Demanding to End War on Yemen

The Yemeni community in the US, New York State, will held, Friday, with the participation of a number of civil society organizations, a protest stand in front of Schumers’s office, under the slogan “Lifting the siege and stopping the aggression is the demand of all Yemenis”.

The head of the external team of the International Campaign to End the Siege on Sana’a Airport, Mohammed Al-Zabidi, said in a statement: “The protest is part of legitimate defense and rejecting the continued aggression and the suffocating siege on the Yemeni people for the sixth year in a row.”

During the protest event, a march would be held in front of the Saudi embassy to condemn the brutal crimes and massacres that its aircraft commit against civilians in Yemen, Al-Zabidi indicated.

The event coincides with the second anniversary of the Saudi-led aggression coalition’s crime against Dhahian students in Sa’adah province, which left 131 dead and wounded on August 9, 2018, he referred.

“These protests aimed at exposing the coalition’s crimes against the Yemenis in front of the American opinion because the US is the official partner of the coalition of aggression and one of the biggest countries that sell weapons to Saudi Arabia,” al-Zabidi said.

“We have seen great sympathy on the American street,” he added, noting to the emergence of some American voices calling for an end to the war and lifting the siege that has contributed to create the greatest humanitarian disaster currently.