CAIRO — The
Arab League on Sunday said Yemen's
Iran-backed Huthi rebels should be labeled as a "terrorist" group
after they attacked the UAE.
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On January 17 the Huthis claimed a drone and
missile attack that struck an oil facility and the airport in the
UAE capital
Abu Dhabi, killing three people and wounding six.
It was the first deadly assault acknowledged
by the UAE inside its borders and claimed by the Yemeni insurgents during
a seven-year Saudi-led coalition campaign against the rebels.
The pan-Arab bloc, based in the Egyptian
capital, said the Huthis should be designated "as a terrorist
organization" after the attack.
In a statement following an extraordinary
meeting, it called the strikes "a flagrant violation of international law ...
and a real threat to vital civilian installations, energy supplies, and global
economic stability," as well as a threat to regional peace and security.
Former US president
Donald Trump designated
the Huthis as a terrorist movement but the administration of President
Joe Biden removed the group in response to fears from aid groups responding to what
the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Biden's administration has, however,
sanctioned individual Huthi figures.
On Friday, the UN Security Council
unanimously condemned the Huthi strikes on the UAE, whose UN ambassador
denounced "these terrorist attacks."
The UAE is a non-permanent member of the
Council.
The Emirates have had a major role in the
Saudi-led coalition defending the internationally-recognized government of
Yemen against the Huthis. Although it announced a troop withdrawal from Yemen
in 2019, the UAE has remained involved by supporting and training forces there.
On Saturday the coalition denied carrying
out an air strike on a prison in Yemen's rebel-held north that aid groups said
killed at least 70 people, including migrants, women and children.
The UN has estimated Yemen's conflict would
have killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021, both directly and indirectly
through hunger and disease.
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