15,000 violations and 300 raids kill and injure 400 civilians: A truce with crimes and violations

Yesterday, Monday, a press conference was held in Sana’a to issue a report on the “alleged truce.. the humanitarian truce in Yemen and its violations within 160 days.”

In the press conference organized by the Yemeni Center for Human Rights in cooperation with the Yemeni News Agency Saba, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yemeni News Agency Saba – Editor-in-Chief, Nasr Al-Din Amer, indicated that the conference coincides with the celebration of the eighth anniversary of the September 21 revolution and the Prophet’s birth.

He stressed that the countries of aggression did not abide by the terms of the UN armistice announced since it was declared on the second of April, pointing out that the armistice came after long aggression that has been going on for nearly eight years, and the retaliating strikes of the army and popular committees on the countries of aggression, emphasizing that it is a legitimate right of the Yemeni people.

Amer also stressed that the truce also came to prove the good intentions of the Supreme Political Council and the National Salvation Government, in alleviating the suffering of Yemenis.

He expressed the hope that all media outlets would shed light on the report and highlight any action that shows violations of the aggression under the armistice, stressing the keenness of the Yemeni News Agency, Saba, to monitor violations and link to real sources in this aspect and publish it to all media outlets.

He called on the media to play their role in paying attention and contributing to monitoring violations, pointing out the importance of publishing the report at this time to inform the world and correct the public opinion of those who violate the armistice and its provisions.

For his part, the head of the Yemeni Center for Human Rights, Ismail Al-Mutawakel, noted that the truce declared by the United Nations was humanitarian but actually wasn’t. He explained that the armistice provision stated the allowance of 18 ships to enter the port of Hodeidah during these two months, but only two were entered.

Al-Mutawakil said: “A truce in which they spread the big lie by besieging Taiz, demanding that the roads to it be loosened from the north, even though its roads are open to the south and west and from there to the world, unlike the provinces that the aggression has imposed a complete siege on it from every side and it does not have a single outlet open to the world.”

“An alleged truce, and at the Yemeni Center for Human Rights, we decided to reveal to the people and the world its falsehood and the ugliness of its use by the United Nations and the countries of the aggression coalition,” he added, noting that the truce was announced by the United Nations, although it approved the continuation of the Saudi-led crimes through the continuation of the siege and occupation.

Al-Mutawakil pointed out that the Yemeni people have been deprived of peace for nearly eight years, and the Security Council claims that it is concerned with peace and its protection in the world, but they and the United Nations have repudiated this in Yemen.

He said: “It is the peace that the Yemeni people, their leadership and government call for, and they accept, in good faith, every peace initiative and a request for a truce, even if it is on unfair conditions. The peace that the countries of aggression and with them the Security Council insist on wasting its last chance, because of their repudiation of the conditions of the current truce, and the killing of more than 70 innocent people with their missiles and bombs, including women and children.”

The head of the Yemeni Center for Human Rights stressed that the launch of the report comes as a sense of responsibility in clarifying and communicating the facts to local and international public opinion about the Yemeni issue, which is no longer the forgotten war as it was, but rather has become one of the important issues for various countries of the world.

While the Executive Director of the Center, Ismail Al-Khaseb, stated that the truce was marred by many violations and the non-compliance of the parties affiliated with the aggression with its terms, to be an alleged truce before the whole world, a witness to the inability of the United Nations to implement the obligations it sponsors.

He explained that the total military violations of the truce amounted to 14,421 breaches, causing the deaths of 70 civilians, including eight of which had African nationalities, seven children and two women. In addition, the wounded civilans amounted to 95, including 34 children and 18 women.

Al-Khasib stated that the casualties were caused by 278 air raids, more than a thousand artillery shells and thousands of bullets, and 498 espionage reconnaissance flights.

The Director of the Center indicated that the countries of aggression allowed the entry of 37 out of 54 ships during the first period of the truce, and only six ships were allowed to enter during the second extension of the truce after a delay of more than 30 days, which created a fuel crisis that affected all sectors.

He pointed out that the number of flights to and from Sanaa International Airport amounted to 42 out of 48 scheduled flights during the period, with many flights delayed and flights canceled, to and from Cairo Airport.

Al-Khaseb considered the file of opening the roads one of the most difficult files from which nothing was implemented throughout the truce period in its stages, citing the reason for the inability of the United Nations to obligate the countries of the coalition of aggression and its mercenaries to implement and abide by it, referring to a unilateral initiative presented by the Salvation Government last June, to open road ’60’ in the province of Taiz.

He explained that the United Nations did not take any positive steps to mitigate and end the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, and did not obligate the parties to the aggression to fulfill their pledges, especially in the second extension of the expanded armistice agreement announced by the UN representative, in which he confirmed work on the suspended salary payment mechanism.