
"Poisonous gases were spread in the sky after the US, Saudi and Israeli fighter
jets' direct airstrikes and they came down to the ground with the rain and
penetrated and contaminated our underground waters," Luqman said on Saturday.
He added that after the latest airstrike using the banned gases, symptoms of
cholera were seen in the Yemeni children.
"Therefore, it was a biological war as Saudi Arabia has already used all types
of banned weapons against us," Luqman said.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to
fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led
aggression has so far killed at least 15,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of
women and children.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah
fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian
infrastructures.
According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has drove
the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia's deadly
campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked
the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.
The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has also claimed 2,100 lives
and has infected 700,000, as the nation has been suffering from what the World
Health Organization (WHO) describes as the "largest epidemic in the world” amid
a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia. Also Riyadh's deadly campaign
prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry
of medicine into the war-torn country.
According to reports, the cholera epidemic in Yemen, which is the subject of a
Saudi Arabian war and total embargo, is the largest recorded in modern history.
Source:FNA