News - Yemen: The spokesman for the Ministry of Health confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression is deliberately doubling the suffering of the Yemeni people amid UN’s silence.

In his statement to Almasirah, Dr. Anis Al-Asbahi said that the aggression’s repudiation of the implementation of the UN-sponsored truce is a crime that has humanitarian repercussions.

He pointed to the recent death of 12 patients who were registered to travel for treatment abroad, stressing that two flights per week, as stipulated in the truce agreement, are not enough to save patients' lives.

Dr. Al-Asbahi confirmed that 30,000 patients urgently need to travel abroad to receive treatment.

The health spokesman pointed out that the health sector needs to modernize medical equipment and needs some materials and supplies to be entered through Sana’a International airport.

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 Hodeidah port and commercial flights in and out of the airport in the capital Sana’a "to predetermined destinations in the region."

Nearly a month has passed since the truce went into effect but without significant progress. The airport is still blockaded and has not received any flights, in light of the obstacles created by the coalition of aggression. The past few weeks were supposed to witness at least two commercial flights a week 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.