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Saudi-led forces airdropping virus-infected masks in Yemen: Minister


A Yemeni woman puts on a protective face mask as she walks in a street in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on March 30, 2020. (Photo by AFP)

Yemens information minister has raised the possibility of the facemasks airdropped by Saudi-led warplanes in Sanaa and other cities being infected with the new coronavirus, urging media outlets and activists to spread awareness of the danger.

Dhaifullah al-Shami said given the fact that the Saudi-led coalition has turned Yemen into the scene of the worlds worst humanitarian crisis through years of lethal military aggression, it is a big surprise to see coalition forces distributing masks across the capital and several other Yemeni provinces, the Middle East Monitor press observatory organization reported on Tuesday.

Shami urged media and activists to warn citizens against touching or wearing the masks.

The official added Yemen had not yet identified any cases of the infection in the war-torn country amid the pandemic, which has affected almost all world states and has claimed more than 42,000 lives worldwide.

Therefore, he concluded, the Saudi aggressors would be responsible for any emergence of the outbreak in Yemen. They have already displayed their intention to afflict Yemen with the virus by targeting a quarantine center in al-Salif District of the western province of Hudaydah Province, the minister added.

The head of the local council in Sanaa has also warned citizens against touching the masks.

‘Criminal intentions

Also on Sunday, Yemens official Saba Net news agency cited the countrys Supreme Council for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs as confirming the coalitions new tactic of airdropping "various supplies" across the country.

It warned that the aggressors were trying to use the outbreak "as a means of war on our people and the targeting of Yemen, which is by far one of the three countries in the world completely free of the coronavirus outbreak."

"Carrying out such suspicious operations, reflect their criminal intentions," the Council said.

Yemens al-Masirah news network, meanwhile, ran an article comparing the tactic to historical allegations that the British forces contributed to the genocide of Native Americans in 1763 by distributing infected blankets among them.

Tens of thousands of Yemenis have died since the beginning of the war that Saudi Arabia and its allies launched in 2015 to restore power to Yemens former Riyadh-allied officials. The aggression has also brought entire Yemen to the edge of famine.

The United States and many of its allies have been providing political, military, logistical, and advisory support for the war.

Last Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for "an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world" amid the pandemic. Guterres warned that health systems in war-torn states had collapsed and the small number of health professionals left on the ground were often targeted.

Yemens popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the nation in the face of the war, has welcomed the proposal.

 

SOURCE: PRESS TV

 

LINK: https://www.ansarpress.com/english/15280


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