The Arab coalition said on Thursday that weapons sent to Houthi rebels in Yemen are smuggled from Lebanon’s southern suburb of Beirut — a stronghold of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.
“The smuggling of the weapons did not start in Iran. It started in the suburbs of Beirut and goes all the way to Syria, it goes to Iran and through the sea it comes to … Yemen,” Col Al Malki told CNN.
“We are talking about Al Hodeidah port, it became the main point for smuggling missiles and other [weapons].
“The American navy, the Australian navy and the French have seized shipments on international waters … headed to the Houthi rebels.”
Col Al Malki reiterated that Iran was violating international law and UN resolutions by sending weapons to the rebels, adding that the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on behalf of the internationally recognised government has repeatedly presented evidence of Tehran’s involvement in war.
“We’re not talks about an allegation here, we’re talking about physical evidence we are showing the world,” he said.
Meanwhile, the French foreign minister said on Thursday that Iran was in fact sending weapons to the rebels in Yemen.
“There is a problem in Yemen, it is that the political process has not begun, that Saudi Arabia feels regularly attacked by the Houthis, who are themselves supplied with arms by Iran,” Jean-Yves Le Drian told RTL radio.
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Saudi Arabia is leading the Arab coalition — which includes the UAE — that is fighting the rebels at the request of Yemeni President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi.
The coalition threatened on Monday to retaliate against Iran, accusing it of being behind dozens of missiles — all of which have been intercepted — aimed at Saudi Arabia since last year.
Iran continues to deny that it arms the Yemeni rebels, despite evidence presented by the US and Saudi Arabia.
On Wednesday, the UN Security Council condemned the missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, expressing concern at reports of violations of a UN arms embargo on Houthi leaders.
Saudi forces on Sunday night intercepted seven missiles towards different cities, including the capital of Riyadh. One Egyptian man died when burning shrapnel struck his room in the capital.
The Yemen war was triggered when the Houthis seized the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 and later advanced south, taking large swathes of the country.
After entering the war at the request of Mr Hadi on March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has helped pro-government forces to retake much of the territory captured by the rebels. However, Sanaa remains under rebel control.
The UN says living conditions in the war-scarred country have reached catastrophic levels and that 8.4 million people face imminent famine.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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Fines for littering
In Dubai:
Dh200 for littering or spitting in the Dubai Metro
Dh500 for throwing cigarette butts or chewing gum on the floor, or littering from a vehicle.
Dh1,000 for littering on a beach, spitting in public places, throwing a cigarette butt from a vehicle
In Sharjah and other emirates
Dh500 for littering - including cigarette butts and chewing gum - in public places and beaches in Sharjah
Dh2,000 for littering in Sharjah deserts
Dh500 for littering from a vehicle in Ras Al Khaimah
Dh1,000 for littering from a car in Abu Dhabi
Dh1,000 to Dh100,000 for dumping waste in residential or public areas in Al Ain
Dh10,000 for littering at Ajman's beaches
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David Haye record
Total fights: 32
Wins: 28
Wins by KO: 26
Losses: 4
MATCH INFO
New Zealand 176-8 (20 ovs)
England 155 (19.5 ovs)
New Zealand win by 21 runs
