He was forced to flee the country after Houthi rebels and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh took over the capital, Sanaa, and other parts of the country in September 2014.
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Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition led by the Saudi regime for almost 17 months but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
“Sanaa worldwide airport will be reopened to United Nations flights and those of other agencies from Monday”, a coalition statement said.
Huthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam wrote on Facebook on Saturday that Sanaa airport would remain shut for at least three more days after being closed since Tuesday, August 9.
It warned that “with the intensification in violence across the country in the past week, the number of children killed and injured by air strikes, street fighting and landmines has grown sharply”.
A Yemeni expatriate who killed a policeman in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by running him over with his auto and then stabbing him had pledged allegiance to the militant group Islamic State, the state news agency SPA reported.
“Before the end of July, the casualties were mostly attributable to the Houthis, whereas in the past week they have been mostly attributable to the coalition’s air strikes”.
They came a week after the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks between the internationally recognized government in exile and rebels.
Moreover, American and British military officials are physically in the command room with the Saudi military, and have access to a list of targets.
The coalition launched its bombing campaign against Yemen in March past year in a bid to reinstall ousted president Abbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and this soon escalated to a ground invasion.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has accused Saudi Arabia of threatening to cut off funding to United Nations aid programmes over the blacklist, although this is denied by the Saudis.
The spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani said in a news release more than 200 people had been killed in Yemen in four months.
Jets from the Saudi-led coalition backing Mr Hadi carried out strikes around Sanaa during the MPs’ meeting on Saturday, continuing a stepped-up air campaign following the suspension of the talks.
The coalition meanwhile announced that Saudi air defences on Saturday intercepted a Scud missile fired from Yemen towards the kingdom.
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Since March 2015, the coalition has battled Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and allied forces who occupy the capital.
