The Yemeni Islah Party (Yemeni Brotherhood) expressed its strong objection to the sanctions imposed by the US Treasury Department on the party’s leader and businessman Sheikh Hamid bin Abdullah bin Hussein Al-Ahmar, along with nine companies he runs from Turkey.

In a statement to the party’s supreme body, Al-Islah expressed its dissatisfaction with the decision that came under the pretext of Sheikh Al-Ahmar’s advocacy for the Palestinian cause, considering it “arbitrary and unjust” and aimed at criminalizing sympathy with the Palestinian cause.

The party called on the presidency and parliament to defend Sheikh Al-Ahmar, stressing that the latter did not violate any Yemeni law.

It is noteworthy that the US sanctions came due to Al-Ahmar and a group of businessmen managing Hamas’ funds abroad.