With Saudi military support .. What is Britain's responsibility for violations against civilians in Yemen?

Andrew Smith - Director of the Campaign Against Arms Trade in Britain added to the episode (4/7/2020) of the "Beyond the News" program - that the Yemen war is not only destructive, but rather illegal, indicating that a British court ruled that year the past.

On the eve of news reported by Al Houthi Al Massira TV that the Saudi-Emirati coalition aircraft launched a series of raids on a number of directorates in the governorates of Marib and Al Bayda, data obtained by the site "Declassified UK" from the British Ministry of Defense revealed that the British Royal Air Force trained hundreds of Saudis in 2019 On combat aircraft that are used to bomb civilians in Yemen.

The site added that some of these trainees are still continuing their training in Britain despite the Supreme Court's decision to ban the export of arms to Saudi Arabia, due to concerns related to human rights violations.

For her part, Lucy Fisher said that the British government claims that training Saudi pilots is not a military operation, but that it comes in relations with an important ally, but Fischer indicated at the same time that many members of the House of Commons are rejecting The position of their government.

The "Declassified UK" website indicated that the British Ministry of Defense - which refused to reveal the nature of the training the Saudis received in its bases - trained 90 Saudis to command Typhoon fighters, from which the site says that the Saudi fleet played the central role in the air strikes in Yemen, which It included frequent attacks on food supplies.

But Yemeni human rights activist Tawfiq Al-Hamidi indicated that the report of the UN Committee of Experts on Yemen said that the United States, Britain and France may be contributing to human rights violations in Yemen by providing logistical and arms support to Saudi Arabia.

Al-Hamidi pointed to a previous report that indicated the presence of French tanks on the battlefields in Yemen, which means that these countries participate directly in the war in Yemen through information, training and weapons, which gives the Yemenis the right to initiate legal cases against these countries.

The journalist Lucy Fischer returned to confirm that the nature of the British relationship with Saudi Arabia was raised after the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but the British government defended the continued sale of spare parts for weapons as part of the contracts they signed.

But Andrew Smith stressed that arms deals are still continuing, indicating that this has a very bad impact on the Saudi people as support for one of the largest dictatorships in the world, and that this relationship has devastating effects on the Yemeni people by providing military support for this war, in addition to the impact The negative for the British government that talks about democracy on the one hand, while dictatorship arm on the other hand.