Parliament Condemns US-Saudi Aggression Media’s Disregard for Suffering of Yemeni People

The Parliament deplored the contradictions in the media of the Saudi-led aggression regarding the Saudi-backed government’s statement that it does not object to the entry of fuel ships, and at the same time agrees to the UN request to allow entry of fuel ships.

The members of Parliament pointed out that the Saudi-backed government was not satisfied with bringing aggression and plundering the wealth of the Yemeni people, but rather accepted to be a tool for the US-Saudi aggression and its dirty schemes to harm the interests and capabilities of the people.

They called on the national media to play their role in refuting the slanders, falsehoods and fallacies promoted by the media of the Saudi-led aggression to mislead public opinion and its continuous attempts to divert the path of truth.

The members of Parliament also demanded the neutralization of the economy and the non-use of fuel as a weapon and a form of collective punishment against the Yemeni people.

They urged the UN to stand against these violations and continuous piracy and to put an end to the detention of fuel ships, considering these practices a crime against humanity and a violation of the declared truce.

The members of Parliament also demanded the speedy release of all detained ships and not to be intercepted in the future, expressing their strong condemnation and denunciation of these inhuman and immoral practices and all those who carry out and support or justify them.

On Friday, the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) said in a statement that, “The total fines for delaying fuel ships seized by the US-Saudi aggression amounted to 11 million dollars during the truce period”. The company reiterated that the US-Saudi aggression continued to piracy on all fuel ships, without exception, and to seize them since the announcement of the temporary truce.

The company explained that the fuel ships are still being held by the US-Saudi aggression for varying periods, a total of 314 days since the announcement of the truce agreement, in addition to the delay in Djibouti for a total period of more than 152 days.

It stressed that during the truce period (April-September), only 33 fuel ships out of 54 ships reached Hodeidah ports, of which only four were released on August 2, at the end of the first extension period of the truce.

The statement stated that fuel shipments incurred delay fines during the truce period, amounting to 11 million dollars due to piracy, detention and delaying their entry to the ports of Hodeidah.

It pointed out that the number of currently detained fuel vessels has reached nine fuel vessels, all of which have UN entry permits.

The YPC confirmed that the complicity of the relevant UN formations with the US-Saudi aggression seriously contributes to the exacerbation of explicit violations of the truce agreement.

It pointed out that this complicity became an actual participation in the siege through the coordinates sent by the UNIVM to the ships authorized to go to the detention area and stay there, waiting for a permit to allow them to reach the ports of Hodeidah.

The YPC holds the US-Saudi aggression and the UN responsible for all the direct and indirect humanitarian and economic consequences and repercussions resulting from the continuation of the strict blockade on fuel ships.