News - Yemen: The leader of the revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi affirmed that the Yemeni People kept education and cultural activities despite their suffering from the US-Saudi aggression, siege and widespread targeting.

In his speech delivered, Friday, at the inauguration of the summer courses, Sayyed Abdulmalik confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression targeted schools, universities, mosques, and the educational process with siege and propaganda campaigns to keep people away from them.

He pointed out that targeting education exposes the goals of the aggression, and the nature of its hostile tendencies against Yemeni People in all fields, explaining that the annoyance of the enemies of Islam about the summer course shows their importance.

The Leader pointed out that the new generation makes a very big change, because the reality of peoples changes with awareness, knowledge and hard work, stressing that  the continuation of these activities in light of the great targeting presents a message to the enemies that the Yemeni People are steadfast, strong and adhere to their march.

Recently the Ministry of Education held a press conference that showed the systematic and brutal aggression targeted the educational process in order to obstruct and stop it, which resulted in the martyrdom of hundreds of educational staff and our students, in addition to the destruction of thousands of schools and educational facilities.

The Undersecretary of the Projects and Equipment Sector, Sadiq Al-Rasha, reviewed a detailed statistic of the destroyed and damaged schools and educational facilities in all governorates of the Republic, and the effects of this on the workforce and students.

He pointed out that the total number of destroyed and damaged schools and educational facilities, by the aggression, amounted to 3768 schools and educational facilities, with a number of students of one million and 926 thousand and 239 students, of which 435 were completely destroyed. In addition, hundreds of students and educational staff were killed, and more than 196,197 teachers were affected by the interruption of their salaries.

He mentioned that the total number of educational facilities that have been rebuilt and restored has reached 384, including 19 completely destroyed facilities that have been rebuilt.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, claiming the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The US-Saudi aggression continues to target neighborhoods and populated areas and destroy the infrastructure and capabilities of the country, in light of a suspicious international silence.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.