The Belgian State Council announced the suspension of four licenses to export arms to Saudi Arabia after three human rights organizations filed an urgent case against the council last July, amid an American warning about an arms race in the Gulf region.

This council - which is the highest administrative court - said that it must be extremely careful in the matter of granting export licenses to countries that have a clear balance in human rights violations.

However, at the same time, he refused to completely stop the export of weapons that reach the Saudi National Guard, as he allowed licenses for automatic weapons to continue.

And the League of Human Rights and the National Coordination for Peace and Democracy and the peace organization "Forum for Fridaysacty" have previously submitted an urgent appeal to the Belgian Administrative Court to cancel the Saudi arms sales permits.

Those organizations indicated that all licenses must be stopped, regardless of the final recipient of them in Saudi Arabia, given the role they play in the Yemen war, with the possibility of weapons eventually moving there through the National Guard.

Wallonia Province announced in February that it would stop selling arms or military equipment to the Saudi Air Force, due to the ongoing conflict in Yemen, as well as to the Saudi Ministry of Defense.

However, this Francophone boycott decided at the time to continue the supply to the Saudi Royal and National Guard, considering that these weapons “are intended exclusively to protect members of the royal family (the royal guard) and symbolic religious sites or to protect the country (the National Guard) within the Saudi borders.” The final will not be for use in Yemen. "

In the United States, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy warned - in an interview with Business Insider - against fueling an arms race in the Gulf region, referring to a bill in the Senate that prohibits the sale of drone technology to countries he described as not allies of Washington, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Murphy said that nearly 10,000 civilians in Yemen have been killed by bombs launched by Saudi planes on hospitals and schools.

The Democratic senator asked whether his country really wanted a Middle East in which Iranian and Saudi drones fly across the region.

It is reported that the bill was submitted by senators from both parties, in response to President Donald Trump's announcement last month that it intends to bypass the missile technology control system agreement, with the aim of selling more drones to countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Since March 2015, an Arab military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been supporting the Yemeni government forces to confront the Houthis, while the UAE has spent huge sums of money to train and equip forces parallel to the legitimate government forces.

The conflict has pushed millions of Yemenis to the brink of famine, with 80% of Yemenis in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.