Saudi-UAE aggressors violate the temporary UN armistice and continue to seize fuel ships

Yesterday, the coalition of aggression detained a diesel ship, which is the 10th ship that is prevented by the pirates of the aggressive coalition from entering the port of Hodeidah. Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC) confirmed yesterday that the aggression detained a diesel ship and prevented it from reaching the port of Hodeidah.

The official spokesman for the Oil Company, Issam Al-Mutawakel, confirmed in a statement to “Saba” that the coalition of aggression seized yesterday a new diesel ship, bringing the number of seized fuel ships to ten.

Essam Al-Mutawakil explained that the US-led aggression coalition, in partnership with the United Nations, continues to violate the truce and recently seized the diesel ship “Princess Halima”, despite its inspection and was granted an entry permit to enter Yemen, but it is now held in the detention area off the coast of Jizan, near Saudi Arabia.

He pointed out that the number of currently detained fuel ships has risen to ten, indicating that their continued detention causes delayed fines on these ships, “Demerg”, incurred by the Yemeni people and multiplying their suffering.

Al-Mutawakel held the forces of aggression and the United Nations fully responsible for the humanitarian and economic repercussions resulting from the continuation of the blockade and the detention of oil derivatives ships and preventing their entry to the port of Hodeidah.

It is noteworthy that one of the provisions of the temporary UN truce is to allow the entry of oil derivatives ships, but since the third renewal of the armistice, the coalition of aggression has detained all ships that tried to reach Yemen through the port of Hodeidah, which led to the return of the crisis in oil derivatives in the capital, Sana’a, and the governorates.

The manifestations of the fuel crisis have returned to the streets of the capital, Sanaa, for the first time since the beginning of April, to confirm the end of the only effect of the humanitarian truce, which stipulates the commitment of the aggression to stop besieging Yemen and allow 54 fuel ships to enter Hodeidah. However, only 34 ships have entered and ten are held by the Saudi-led aggression.

The aggression seeks, through its continued practice of piracy and the seizure of ships, to return matters to ground zero, coinciding with the failure of the United Nations and its special envoy to Yemen, Hans Brundberg, to make any breakthrough in the negotiations to expand the armistice that he committed to at the beginning of August, when he announced the renewal of the armistice for the third time.

The practices of the aggression coalition against the temporary UN armistice also violated the provision that stipulates the opening of new travel destinations for civil flights between Sana’a airport and the airports of a number of countries. This includes what was scheduled for the Sana’a-Cairo line, which has not been opened so far. Also, flights from Sana’a Airport to Djibouti failed after the latter approved it.

In addition to the aggression’s obstruction of the path of expanding the truce by lifting the entire blockade of the ports of Hodeidah, increasing the number of flights, and preparing the atmosphere for political and military negotiations, the aggression’s coup against the truce coincided with its continued looting of oil wealth, and the supply of its revenues to its private banks while Yemenis starve and are deprived of their salaries, which are spent from oil and gas revenues.

The oil company confirmed that the fines for the aggression’s piracy of ships during the armistice period has risen to $11 million, and indicated that the ships arriving at the port of Hodeidah during the period between April 2 and August 2 of this year amounted to 33 ships out of 54 ships agreed upon in accordance with the terms of the armistice.

The oil company reactivated the emergency system as a necessity to manage the remaining stock of fuel, as no fuel vessel was released during the second extension of the temporary truce, which is a violation by the coalition of aggression against the truce.

The spokesman for the YPC, Issam Al-Mutawakel, confirmed that the United Nations and its inspection mechanism in Djibouti are colluding with the aggression by communicating with the military ships of the aggression to move them to a detention area by the aggressive forces.

He pointed out that the UN envoy has not made any effort that would support the flow of incoming oil derivatives ships to the port of Hodeidah since the start of the last extension of the armistice, despite his pledge to do so.