REPORTS ON SECRET DEAL WITH UK FOR JEWS TRANSFER 'BASELESS'- OFFICIAL

SANA'A, April 15 (Saba) - Yemen said on Thursday that reports that a secret deal was due to be signed to transfer Jewish families to the United Kingdom were baseless.

The September website citied an official source as saying that all reports on the issue were a tempest in a teapot because the Jewish community in Yemen is living peacefully and in a good condition.

The Yemeni Jews enjoy their rights as other Yemeni people, and they love their country and refuse to leave it because they are already stable, the source said.

The community receives unlimited support from the Yemeni government and its members recognize this, the source added.

Two days ago reports surfaced that a deal was on the verge between Britain and Yemen to transfer a limited number of the Jewish families in the country of those who were, according to British sources, persecuted.

In the recent few years, many Jewish families left Yemen for the United States of America and Israel amid persecution allegations. Most of the families traveled secretly.

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