‘Torpedoed’ – Royal Navy Help Saudi’s Vet Aid Shipments to Yemen
It’s been known for some time that Royal Air Force personnel have been assisting with US counterparts in Saudi command and control centres engaged in coordinating the bombing of Yemen. In addition the only thing keeping the Saudi Air Force in the Air are fortnightly flights of spare parts from Warton (Lancs) fitted by UK sourced ‘civilian’ contractors.
However it’s also now become known that Royal Navy personnel are assisting the Saudis in monitoring UN aid shipments into the country. Yemen is facing a devastating food crisis and medicines already in short supply in a country whose health centres and hospitals are targets for Saud warplanes are also subject to embargo. The RN personnel the UK say are providing support to help the UN’s Verification and Inspection Mechanism (UNVIM) to ‘facilitate’ commercial imports into Hodeidah and Saleef ports in Yemen. All shipping to these ports is checked at