I-United Arab Emirates (UAE) ebivele isezingeni eliphakeme kakhulu lokusongelwa ohlwini lwaseMelika lwezindawo eziyingozi, ngenxa yobhubhane lwe-COVID-19, isanda kuba nosongo olusha olungezwe yizikhulu zaseMelika.
I-US isanda kuphakamisa izeluleko zokuhamba zamazwe amaningi emhlabeni jikelele, kubandakanya neCanada engumakhelwane, ukuthi "angahambi" ngenxa ye-COVID-19. Kunamazinga amane esixwayiso, eliphansi kunawo wonke elithi “sebenzisa izinyathelo ezivamile zokuphepha”.
Namuhla, uMnyango Wezwe Lase-United States wengeze “usongo olusha lwemicibisholo noma ukuhlaselwa ngama-drone” kuwo UAE iseluleko sokuthatha uhambo.
"Amathuba okuhlaselwa okuthinta izakhamizi zase-US kanye nezithakazelo e-Gulf and Arabian Peninsula kusalokhu kuwukukhathazeka okuqhubekayo," kuxwayisa uMnyango Wezwe LaseMelika.
“Amaqembu amavukelambuso asebenza eYemen aveze ukuthi ahlose ukuhlasela amazwe angomakhelwane, okuhlanganisa nawo UAE, usebenzisa imicibisholo nama-drones. Ukuhlaselwa kwakamuva kwemicibisholo nama-drone kubhekiswe ezindaweni ezinabantu abaningi nengqalasizinda yabantu. ”
Isibuyekezo sifike ezinsukwini eziyi-10 ngemuva kwe-a ukuhlasela kwe-drone-and-missile Amavukelambuso aseYemen aseHouthi abulala abantu abathathu e-Abu Dhabi.
Okunye ukuhlasela komcibisholo obekubhekise enhlokodolobha ye-UAE ngoMsombuluko kuphazamise okwesikhashana ukuhamba kwezindiza.
Amasosha aseMelika kubikwa ukuthi asize ukuvimba imicibisholo emibili yamaHouthi ngoMsombuluko ebiqondiswe esikhumulweni sezindiza i-Al Dhafra, esisingatha amalungu amasosha aseMelika angaba ngu-2,000.
Siphendula isexwayiso sokuhamba saseMelika, isikhulu sase-Emirati sathi UAE lihlala “elingelinye lamazwe aphephe kakhulu.”
"Lokhu ngeke kube yinto entsha evamile e-UAE," kusho lesi sikhulu. "Siyenqaba ukuvuma ukusongelwa kwamaphekula amaHouthi aqondise abantu bethu nendlela yokuphila."
Amasosha aseHouthi asanda kuqala ukukhomba ngqo UAE - umlingani obalulekile weSaudi Arabia, ohola umkhankaso wokuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu ngokumelene namaHouthis.
Umfelandawonye oholwa yiSaudi kanye nokusekelwa yi-US wangenelela eYemen ngo-2015 ukuze uhlehlise emuva amavukela-mbuso aseHouthi, ayethathe ingxenye enkulu yezwe, kuhlanganise nenhloko-dolobha, u-Sanaa, nokubuyisela uhulumeni osekelwe eGulf kaMongameli u-Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Ngenkathi i-UAE ithi isiwahoxisile amasosha ayo eYemen, amasosha aseHouthi asole izwe ngokusekela amasosha alwa namavukelambuso ezweni lonke. AbakwaHouthis bathi ukuhlasela kwe-UAE kuwukuziphindiselela kulokho abakubiza ngokuthi "ubudlova base-US-Saudi-Emirati."
"I-UAE izoba yizwe elingaphephile inqobo nje uma i-Yemen iqhubeka," kusho umkhulumeli wezempi waseHouthi ngemuva kokuhlasela. ukuhlasela okubulalayo e-Abu Dhabi ngoJanuwari 17.