Iran Press/Middle East: Social media users and activists in Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt and several other Arab countries have mobilized on online social media platforms such as Twitter to prompt a global movement against the Saudi-led war on Yemen, Iran Press reported.
They are poised to set off a Twitter storm in protest to the Riyadh regime’s atrocities committed during the military offensive.
The activists have also circulated a video on social media websites, urging the public to avoid purchasing Saudi-made goods in a show of support for war-stricken Yemenis.
The anti-Saudi campaign is said to be similar to the one known as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which was initiated in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian organizations against the Israeli regime.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the former government back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
So far some 16,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression; however, according to a new report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi-led war has so far claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis.
The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
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The UN has already said that 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. According to the world body, Yemen is suffering from the most severe famine in more than 100 years.
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The assaults of the Saudi-led coalition forces have failed to stop the Yemenis from resisting the aggression. A number of Western countries, the US and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical and intelligence assistance. 105/208
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