The United Nations Committed To Helping Yemen Although The US Calls Ansarullah A Terrorist

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JAKARTA - The United States Declaration that the Ansarullah Yemen Movement is a terrorist movement provokes the response of the United Nations (UN), which states the institution is committed to continuing to help Yemeni citizens.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the US decision to include the Yemeni Ansarullah Movement on the list of terrorist groups was a decision made by a single country without involving the United Nations.

"The Yemen is very dependent on the import of goods and humanitarian aid. The UN is committed to continuing to help Yemeni citizens based on the principle of neutrality," Dujarric said as quoted by ANTARA from IRNA, Thursday, January 18.

The United Nations also warns that unilateral sanctions from one country could affect people in sanctioned countries.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced Washington's decision to include the Yemeni Ansarullah Movement on the list of terrorist groups will take effect after 30 days.

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan also claimed that the decision was a response to repeated threats and attacks in the Red Sea.

"If Ansarullah stops carrying out attacks on the Red Sea and Aden Bay, the US will re-evaluate this decision," Sullivan said.

Earlier, US President Joe Biden called the Ansarullah Yemen Movement a terrorist' when he spoke with reporters in Pennsylvania.

With the start of Israeli genocide attacks on Gaza and repeated bombings in settlements, schools and hospitals in Palestine, resistance groups in the region began to retaliate against Israel and its main US supporters.

Yemeni troops responded to Israeli massacres against Palestinians targeting Israeli posts, ships belonging to the country, and ships bound for Israeli ports in the occupied Palestinian territories.

This is not the first time the US has taken a unilateral decisive step against the Yemeni resistance movement.

The previous US administration, led by President Donald Trump, had put Ansarullah on two lists and designated the movement terrorism a day before his term ended.

The decision saw the United Nations, aid groups, and some US lawmakers express their fear that the sanctions could disrupt the entry of food, fuel, and other commodities into Yemen which were then hit by war.

In February 2021, the Biden Administration withdrew the decision in recognition of the precarious humanitarian situation in Yemen, after the United Nations declared that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen was "very severe", where more than 21 million people needed help.

Based on UN estimates, more than 80 percent of Yemen's population still has difficulty accessing adequate food, drinking water, and health services.