SANAA – The deputy prime minister of Yemen’s national salvation government says the military option is still on the table if the Saudi-led coalition continues to categorically refuse to lift the restrictions it has imposed on Yemeni airspace and not allow the country’s main airport to reopen and humanitarian flights to resume.

“In light of a U.N.-brokered ceasefire agreement that expired on Oct. 2 and the current situation, which is neither peace nor war, the Saudi-led coalition of aggression is carrying out an atrocious campaign to pursue its goals,” Jalal al -Rowaishan told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Thursday. He stressed that Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees fighters will not hesitate to use military force against the Riyadh-led alliance, saying that all available options stem from the fact that the Yemeni nation is in a state of self-defense.

Since March 2015, Yemen has been the victim of a brutal military aggression led by the Saudi- and UAE-led coalition, strategically supported by the United States. Saudi air raids have destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, and it is difficult for humanitarian groups to deliver aid.

The conflict has plunged Yemen into what the United Nations considers the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But beyond the lip service, the UN’s cowardly complicity remains. The photo shows units of the Yemeni armed forces taking part in a massive military parade in the capital Sana’a on Sept. 21, 2022, to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 21 Revolution.