US expresses condemnation to Houthi terrorist militia’s attack against UAE
In a phone call with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken condemned the Houthi attack on civilian facilities in the UAE.
On Monday, the US pledged to “hold” the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels accountable, after they targeted civilian facilities in the UAE with drones, killing 3 people and wounding 6 others.
In turn, the Chinese ambassador to the Security Council said that Beijing condemns the attacks on civilian facilities in the UAE, including Abu Dhabi International Airport.
France condemned the attack on the United Arab Emirates, calling it a “threat to regional stability.”
French President Emmanuel Macron sharply criticized the Houthi terrorist militia’s bombing of civilian areas and facilities in Yemen, which resulted in innocent civilian fatalities, and reiterated his support for the UAE.
In London, British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss denounced in the clearest terms the Houthi terrorist attack on the UAE.
Yesterday, Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Sharia Council condemned “continued terrorist strikes by the Houthi militia against the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
The Council reiterated its firm stance against these terrorist practices, which will only receive rejection, denunciation, and condemnation because they target Arab countries that have always been a supporter of Lebanon and supportive of its people in all the difficult circumstances.
The council pledged that Lebanon “will not be hostile to its Arab brothers, will remain a supporter of Arab causes, and will be loyal to everyone who stood by it. The Lebanese people did not forget that the Arab countries helped much to strengthen the unity of Lebanon and to rebuild and revive its institutions and support its economy, in all the dangerous circumstances and events that have passed on Lebanon especially the Arab Gulf states, led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”.
He pointed out that when the Israeli army attacked Lebanese cities and villages and destroyed homes, schools, bridges, and installations with its planes in the 2006 war, “Lebanon only found the Arab countries on its side that worked to rebuild what the war had destroyed.”
The Sharia Council affirmed that “holding parliamentary, and then-presidential, elections on their constitutional dates is one of the basic and essential components of our parliamentary democratic system that Lebanon adopts in its constitution,” and added: “We are keen on the Lebanese government’s commitment to holding these elections on time without delay.”
