- May 21, 2019
Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Tuesday they launched another armed drone attack on an airport on the Saudi-Yemeni border.
The attack comes a week after the Houthis claimed responsibility for a coordinated drone attack on a Saudi oil pipeline.
The UN threatened to suspend aid to hungry people in Yemen if thefts or “diversion” of food by Houthi rebels continues. A CNN investigation exposed the thefts. David Beasley, head of the UN’s World Food Programme, said as much as $15 million worth of food a month was not making it to the desperate people for whom it was intended and was instead going to rebel fighters or backers. Children are dying as a result, Beasley said. The UN’s goal was to feed 12 million people, about half of Yemen’s population. But CNN’s investigation featured entire villages where no supplies had made it for weeks because of theft by the Houthi rebels who control much of the country. A deputy foreign minister for the rebels rejected claims aid was being diverted.


