News - Yemen: The Ministry of Electricity and Energy announced Monday that the damages resulting from the crimes of the US-Saudi aggression that affected the electricity sector in Yemen amounted to 24 billion dollars, according to preliminary statistics.

During a press conference to reveal the effects and repercussions of the aggression and the siege on the electricity sector in Yemen, the Ministry of Electricity confirmed in a statement that the US-Saudi aggression launched 278 air raids, targeting the electricity sector in its various facilities, and more than 800 raids targeted near the electrical installations, causing severe damage.

The statement indicated that 83 employees of the electricity sector were killed by US-Saudi airstrikes, while over 300 others were injured.

For his part, Minister of Electricity and Energy Muhammad al-Bakhiti explained that the electricity sector was subjected to systematic destruction by the aggression and has become out of service. He stressed that electricity and energy are the backbone of life in its humanitarian or industrial service fields, and the destruction of this sector is considered an integrated war crime.

In turn, the Director of the General Electricity Corporation, Hashem Al-Shami, indicated that the blockade and the scarcity of capabilities prevented the ability to find alternative and quick solutions to restore the electricity, and we are currently working with what is available.

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 US-Saudi aggression continues to target neighborhoods and populated areas and destroy the infrastructure and capabilities of the country, in light of a suspicious international silence.

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.