Yemeni community in New York to hold protest march on Friday

NEW YORK, Sep. 17 (YPA) – The Yemeni community in the US state of New York is to hold a protest march calling for lifting the blockade imposed by Saudi-led coalition countries on Sanaa International Airport.

A number of politicians and human rights activists of various nationalities will participate in the march which will start from the front of Senator Schumer’s office to reach the United Nations headquarters, according to the Yemeni activist Mohammed al-Zubaidi, head of the external team for the international campaign to end the blockade on Sanaa Airport Blockade.

Al-Zubaidi added that a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations will have an active presence in the protest march to inform the world of the food and health disaster that millions of civilians are suffering in Yemen.

He indicated that the implementation of the protest in front of the United Nations headquarters comes to denounce its complicity and shameful silence on the massacres and brutal crimes committed by the coalition countries against thousands of children and women over 2,000 days of the war on Yemen since March 26, 2015.

YPA