US To Revoke Yemen’s Houthis Terrorist Designation Due to Famine:
US to Revoke Yemen’s Houthis Terrorist Designation due to Famine in reaction to the country’s humanitarian crisis. The United States plans to lift the terrorist label for Yemen’s Houthi movement. Reversing one of the Trump administration’s most criticized last-minute decisions. The reversal, reported on Friday by a State Department official, comes one day. President Joe Biden announced a halt to US support for Yemen’s Saudi Arabia-led military operation widely saw as a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, welcomed the decision in a statement. He said the designation halted the distribution of food and other essential assistance within Yemen. And would have prevented successful political negotiation.
On Friday, the United Nations also welcomed Washington’s plan. To revoke the US terrorist designation as a Houthi group in Yemen. This will provide deep relief to millions of Yemeni. Who rely on humanitarian assistance and trade imports to meet their basic needs for survival, said UN Speaker Stephane Dujarric.
Donald Trump Appointed the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization:
Days before his term in office ended on 20th January. Then he appointed the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization. That effectively prohibited the financial contact of US citizens and entities with the group. Yemen, with 80 percent of its 24 million citizens in need. Identified by the United Nations as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, and it warned the Trump administration that the label would drive millions in Yemen into a large-scale famine. The official of the State Department also stressed that. The latest action has “nothing to do” with the US view of the Houthis and their “reprehensible behavior” and reiterated Washington’s commitment to helping Saudi Arabia protect its territory from further attacks of this nature.
Help organizations, the United Nations, the Red Cross, and the export of agricultural goods, medicines, and medical devices were exempted from their listing by the Trump administration. But UN officials and aid groups said the carve-outs were not appropriate and called for the reversal of the decision.
The increasing death toll of civilians and the growing humanitarian crisis have fueled bipartisan demands for an end to US funding for Riyadh. In its World Report 2021 released in January. Human Rights Watch reported that the parties to the armed conflict in Yemen continue to violate the laws of war in 2020. Including the commission of new war crimes.
