Sana'a: On this day, 26 March 2015, the United States of America, along with seventeen other countries, launched an unjust military aggression against Yemen under flimsy and baseless pretexts, attempting to cover up the true aim of the aggression: to return Yemen to the stage of US-Saudi tutelage and to abort its liberation revolution of 21 September.
According to Yemen News Agency, the aggression, announced from Washington 11 years ago and led on the ground by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, was in fact a US-Israeli operation par excellence. It was part of the global Zionist effort, represented by the U.S., Israel, and their regional proxies, to suppress the Yemeni people's jihadist liberation path, which supports the Palestinian cause, the major issues of the Arab and Islamic nation.
The coalition did not spare any weapon or means in its campaign against the Yemeni people, foremost among them banned bombs and missiles dropped from warplanes on residential areas, facilities, and civilian structures in Sana'a and other Yemeni governorates. This caused the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, and injured hundreds of thousands more.
The coalition respected no house, hospital, or civilian facility, drawing no distinction between schools and military barracks. It deliberately targeted citizens' houses, densely populated neighborhoods, and all civilian service facilities, including hospitals, schools, institutes, markets, funeral halls, wedding venues, transportation, and other infrastructure, all of which international law criminalizes targeting during war.
Frightening and shocking figures released by organizations and concerned authorities reveal the massive human, material, and economic losses Yemen has suffered over eleven years of the U.S.-Saudi-Emirati aggression and siege, which continues both through the economic, geographic blockade by land, sea, air, through the mobilization and direction of local tools inside Yemen, as well as the control over several Yemeni governorates and the plundering of Yemen's wealth and resources by the aggressor states and their mercenaries.
According to the latest official statistics on human losses caused by the aggression over 11 years, the number of civilian martyrs and wounded has reached around 60,000, with more than 1.4 million civilians dying directly due to the siege, the spread of chronic diseases, and malnutrition.
Reports confirm that the number of victims continues to rise due to near-daily artillery and missile bombardments on border areas, as well as the remnants of the aggression, including cluster bombs dropped by coalition forces.
The aggressor states have used and continue to use military, security, economic, media, and other forms of warfare against the Yemeni people. They bombed the country's infrastructure, including government and private facilities, destroying airports, ports, ministries, institutions, schools, hospitals, institutes, factories, commercial establishments, fuel stations, roads, bridges, transportation systems, telecommunications, electricity networks, water stations and wells, farms, food stores, livestock, fishing boats, other public and private property. Media outlets, mosques, archaeological sites, prisons, cemeteries, and shrines were also deliberately targeted.
As a result of the siege and blockade on airports and entry points, Yemen has effectively become a large prison for over 30 million people, who have been denied the right to travel abroad for treatment, especially after the health sector's performance deteriorated following the destruction of many hospitals and health facilities, and the prohibition on importing medicines, solutions, medical supplies, and devices-including those for chronic diseases-resulting in the deaths of thousands of patients who required treatment abroad.
Economically, the coalition sought to impoverish and starve the Yemeni people by destroying infrastructure, industrial facilities, and productive sectors. They targeted the central bank and the national currency, printing massive amounts that lost over 500% of their purchasing power, while the currency fell proportionally against other currencies. This followed the coalition's transfer of the central bank's functions to Aden, cutting public sector salaries, seizing oil, gas, ports, and border revenues, looting Yemen's maritime wealth, taking control of grants, foreign aid, cash reserves, and other aspects of direct and indirect economic warfare, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in losses to Yemen's economy.
The ongoing criminal aggression has created the largest humanitarian crisis in modern history, according to the United Nations, which has repeatedly described the humanitarian situation in Yemen as catastrophic, given the suffering inflicted on millions of Yemenis-both those whose property, livelihoods were targeted and those whose salaries have been cut since 2015 following the central bank's relocation.
Despite the pain, immense suffering, and the scale of the disaster, the free Yemeni people refused to submit or surrender to the criminal coalition. They stood firmly behind their wise leadership, represented by the leader Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, confronting the aggression by all means and achieving great victories across military, security, economic, and social fronts.
Thanks to their steadfastness and the wisdom of their leadership, the Yemeni people have written one of the greatest legendary epics in the face of the largest global coalition led by the U.S., Israel, Britain, and all forces of evil and oil monarchies. This proud nation has managed to heal its wounds, stand on its feet again, and enter a new phase of freedom, independence, self-reliance, and the pursuit of self-sufficiency in military and food industries, agricultural products, and other major achievements over the past 11 years, culminating in Yemen's heroic positions in directly supporting the Palestinian people and teaching the American-Zionist enemy the harshest lessons.