Almasirah:Minister of Health: US-Saudi Aggression Delaying Opening of Sana'a Int. Airport, Voiding of Truce

Minister of Health: US-Saudi Aggression Delaying Opening of Sana'a Int. Airport, Voiding of Truce

News - Yemen: The Minister of Public Health, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakel, confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression's delay in opening Sana'a Int. airport voids the most important provisions of the truce in its humanitarian aspect.

Al-Mutawakel said that the US-Saudi aggression's cancellation of the first flight to Sana'a int. Airport "at the last moments aims to increase the suffering of patients who had hope."

He pointed out that only 30,000 patients have been registered with the Higher Medical Committee for three years, stressing the coalition's rejection of all humanitarian initiatives to address this humanitarian issue. He said that "the ministry sought to provide a large space in the limited flights, according to truce, for patients who were registered within the international air bridge, which was not completed."

He stated that the US-Saudi aggression continues to aggravate the health situation in Yemen by continuing to detain diesel ships necessary to operate hospitals and health centers.

The Chairman of the Medical Committee, Dr. Mutahar Al-Darwish, said that "300 patients who were scheduled to travel died, and this number is what we were informed of, and the deaths were in large numbers that we could not count and exceed 3,000."

He pointed out that the failure of the aggression countries to implement the humanitarian part of truce led to a very bad psychological situation for patients and exacerbated their health condition.

He called on the international community to realize that the countries of aggression are using the humanitarian issue as a pressure card on the Yemeni people, and that immediate intervention is required to neutralize this issue.

In early April, the UN envoy to Yemen announced a UN-sponsored humanitarian truce for a period of two months. The truce, meant to halt all military operations in the country and bring the foreign military invasion to an end, came into effect on April 2.

The deal stipulates halting offensive military operations, including cross-border attacks, and allowing fuel-laden ships to enter Yemen’s lifeline al-Hudaydah port and commercial flights in and out of the airport in the capital Sana’a "to predetermined destinations in the region."

Two weeks has passed for the entry into effect of the humanitarian and military truce brokered by the UN, but without significant progress.

The airport is still deserted and has not received any flights, in light of the obstacles created by the coalition of aggression. The past weeks was supposed to witness at least two commercial flights to and from Sana'a International Airport.

Well-informed sources in Sana'a say that there are complications by the aggression side, in light of its insistence on taking over the issuance of passports and visas.

The matter also applies to the port of Hodeidah. While the countries of aggression were supposed to facilitate the smooth flow of ships to the port, under the truce, the inspecting ships are still subject to inspection, and are detained off the coast of Jizan despite obtaining UN permits and licenses.

On the ground, the fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside. Shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl, including a failed advance carried out by mercenaries towards Army and Popular Committee sites south of Marib.

All indicators do not serve the steadfastness of the humanitarian and military truce, and provide evidence that Sana’a continues to exercise restraint, in the face of heterogeneous parties that do not abide or respect their commitments to a truce sponsored by the UN.

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