News - Yemen: Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) announced, Thursday, that the US-Saudi aggression has seized a new diesel ship, in continuous violation of the UN-sponsored truce.

"In a new violation of the declared truce, the US-Saudi aggression seized the diesel ship (Seadoor), raising the number of seized ships to five ships of gasoline and diesel,” Issam Al-Mutawakil, the spokesman for the company said in a brief statement.

The company indicated that the detention of fuel ships despite their inspection and obtaining UN entry permits aims to exacerbate the suffering of the Yemeni people.

Yesterday, the President Mahdi Al-Mashat stressed that the US-Saudi aggression' detention of fuel ships puts truce in a sensitive situation, pointing out that they are trying through this to exploit the humanitarian side to achieve political gains that it could not achieve in the military battle.

Earlier, Al-Mutawakel confirmed that the piracy of fuel tankers during the truce period cost Yemen $5 million, and 5 ships are still being detained off Jizan.

He pointed out that due to fluctuations in global stock exchange prices, fines for impounded fuel ships increased from $20,000 per day to $35,000.

In early April, after Yemen’s Supreme Political Council declared a voluntary and unilateral three-day pause in retaliatory strikes against targets in Saudi Arabia, the UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced the nationwide ceasefire, for the first time since 2015.

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."

However, in light of UN silence, the Saudi-led aggression was still obstructing flights to the Sana'a International Airport in Yemen’s capital and detaining fuel ships that were headed to the country. The fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside, including shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl.

In early June, the United Nations announced that Yemen’s National Salvation Government and the US-Saudi coalition have agreed to renew the two-month truce after days of negotiations and promises to fulfill the terms of the agreement.

The UN envoy noted that the truce was extended under the same terms as the previous one.

The United Nations continues to condone the crimes committed by the Saudi-led aggression. It only holds the coalition responsible for crimes when it seeks to blackmail the Kingdom and oblige it to pay millions of dollars. The UN is not concerned with the souls of the victims, as it provided cover for this aggression for years, and kept silent in the face of many of its criminal practices, whether through raids or sieges.