A Qatari journalist and writer disclosed that the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen are helping Al-Qaeda militants escape from prisons throughout the country.
"Our warplanes strike Yemen's prisons to help release the Al-Qaeda prisoners and we are spending billions of dollars for bombing Yemeni children and women," Qatari journalist Ahmad Abdelmalik Hamideddin wrote in an article on Wednesday.
He underlined that all the people killed in the Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen are civilians and no military force has been killed.
"What can we say when the Saudi news agencies confess that the Saudi-led airstrikes have only hit houses?," Hamideddin added.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for seven days now to restore power to fugitive Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi airstrikes have killed at least, 198, mostly women and children, and injured hundreds more.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
Five Persian Gulf States -- Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait -- and Egypt that are also assisted by Israel and backed by the US declared war on Yemen in a joint statement issued Thursday.
US President Barack Obama authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the military operations, National Security Council Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said late Wednesday night.
She added that while US forces were not taking direct military action in Yemen, Washington was establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate US military and intelligence support.
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