News - Yemen: The continued detention of fuel ships portends an imminent interruption of telecommunications and Internet services for millions of civilians, which will affect the basic service sectors, said the telecommunications and postal sector and companies.

The telecommunications and postal companies’ remarks came during a protest sit-in in the capital, Sana’a, in front of the United Nations office on Sunday, regarding the ban and preventing the entry of fuel ships.

The telecommunications and postal companies confirmed in a statement that they are facing a severe shortage of oil due to the intransigence of the US-Saudi-Emirati coalition.

The statement stressed that the continued detention of fuel ships portends an imminent interruption of telecommunications and Internet services for millions of civilians and the impact on the basic service sectors.

The telecommunications and postal sector and companies strongly condemned the continued aggression, perpetrating all forms of crimes and its repeated aggression against civil telecommunications facilities and towers. It stressed that the blockade is a war crime against all the Yemeni people and a flagrant violation of all international laws and human rights charters.

It held the Saudi-led aggression fully responsible for all the infrastructure bombing and destruction of networks, towers, centrals, stations and service offices.

It also held the countries involved in aggression responsible for the piracy of fuel ships and preventing the arrival of their supplies necessary for the operation and continuation of communications services.

The telecommunications and postal sector and companies called on organizations, the international community, unions, and human rights bodies, to assume their legal, humanitarian and moral responsibility.

It called on the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and relevant international organizations to intervene immediately in order to lift the ban on communications equipment and systems for civil use.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.

A fuel crisis afflicts all Yemeni governorates, as a result of the practices and procedures of the Saudi-Emirati coalition and the pro-aggression government.The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.

Since June 2020, the aggression and its allied government have continued to prevent fuel ships from entering the port of Hodeidah, except for a few ships that entered the port with a large time difference between each ship. Most of the ships left the place where they were being held by the forces of aggression, with their full cargo, after accumulating delay fines, exceeding the price of the cargo.

The coalition’s detention of dozens of fuel ships during more than a year and a half, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite being subject to inspection in accordance with the approved UN inspection and verification mechanism, and having obtained all the necessary permits from the UN inspection mission, caused a suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates. under the authority of Sana’a. Most of the important vital sectors, especially the health sector, are threatened with suspension, while work has been disrupted in many productive and service sectors, which caused economic losses of millions of dollars.

The fuel stations announced that their stocks of oil had run out. Hundreds of vehicles stood in long queues in front of these stations, hoping that shipments of oil would arrive in the coming days. Meanwhile, representatives of commercial power stations told subscribers in several neighborhoods of the capital, Sana'a, that these stations will have to cut off the power for hours during the day and night, as a result of the lack of diesel running these stations.

 

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