Balance of Power Changing in Favor of Yemen: Official

Speaking to Tasnim, Bakhiti, who is also the spokesman for the Ansarullah movement, said the balance of power is changing in favor of Yemen thanks to the country’s increased missile and air force capabilities.

“If the Saudis do not reconsider their calculations, they will suffer extensive damage that would be beyond their endurance,” he stated.

“If they (the Saudis) insist on continuing the war, the result will be the collapse of the Al Saud regime,” the official went on to say.

Saudi Arabia has become militarily weak and is trying to kill civilians in markets, weddings, and mourning ceremonies, Bakhiti said.

However, he said, these crimes cannot have military benefits because Yemen then dispatches more military forces to the battlefields.  

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than four years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Official UN figures say that more than 15,000 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led bombing campaign began.

The Saudi war has impacted over seven million children in Yemen who now face a serious threat of famine, according to UNICEF figures. Over 6,000 children have either been killed or sustained serious injuries since 2015, UN children’s agency said. The humanitarian situation in the country has also been exacerbated by outbreaks of cholera, polio, and measles.