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by Mohamad Abd ElAti CAIRO (Islam Online) - As more flights are heading to Iraq, Yemen, on Friday, will join the foray and send medical aid and food supplies aboard its first flight since the Gulf War.
A delegation of Yemeni officials is expected to accompany party members and social activists in the second Arab flight heading to Iraq this week. Ahmad Nasser Al-Hamati, aYemeni media official, said that sanctions on Iraq have lost their justification now, and Arabs should be the first to rescue the women, children and elderly of the Iraqi people, Yemeni Television reported. Al-Thawra newspaper mentioned in its Thursday editorial that the sufferings of the Iraqi people is a human rights crisis affecting more than 22 million people. The editorial commented that Arabs cannot simply sit back and watch an entire population destroyed, and that they should expect from their governments nothing less than what other Western governments do for Iraq - a reference to France and Russia, the first countries to initiate flights to Iraq.During the Gulf War, the Yemeni government was highly criticized by neighboring Gulf Arab countries for not fully supporting the attack on Iraq, a stance that resulted in cutting Kuwaiti-Yemeni diplomatic relations, Gulf monetary aid to Yemen, and the expulsion of more than half a million workers employed in Gulf countries. |
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