News - Yemen: The US-Saudi aggression seized a new diesel ship and prevented it from reaching the port of Hodeidah despite obtaining a United Nations permit, which raises the number of fuel tankers hijacked by the coalition to four ships.

The spokesman for the Yemen Petroleum Company, Issam Al-Mutawakel, said in a brief statement: The US-led aggression detained the diesel ship (Oscar) and prevented it from reaching the port of Hodeidah despite its inspection in Djibouti.

Al-Mutawakel explained that by this, "the number of ships seized by the aggression increases to four oil ships, holding the United Nations and the forces of aggression responsible for the direct and indirect damages resulting from their detention of fuel ships.

Earlier on Friday, the Yemen petroleum Company announced that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression coalition is still holding three fuel vessels, one of the ships has been held for 15 days.

Last month, the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) said in a statement that, "The total fines for delaying fuel ships seized by the US-Saudi aggression amounted to 11 million dollars during the truce period". The company reiterated that the US-Saudi aggression continued to piracy on all fuel ships, without exception, and to seize them since the announcement of the temporary truce.

It stressed that during the truce period (April-September), only 33 fuel ships out of 54 ships reached Hodeidah ports, of which only four were released on August 2, at the end of the first extension period of the truce.

The YPC confirmed that the complicity of the relevant UN formations with the US-Saudi aggression seriously contributes to the exacerbation of explicit violations of the truce agreement.

A UN-brokered truce lasted for six months in the seven-year-old war waged by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies supported by US and western countries against Yemen.

The truce, however, expired on Sunday amid the Saudi-led coalition’s constant violations of the agreement and its refusal to properly lift a siege that it has been enforcing against Yemen since the beginning of the war.

Although the US-Saudi aggression seeks to extend thetruce, it with UN complicity, is still evading the implementation of humanitarian and legal entitlements, foremost of which is the paying employee salaries and entering fuel ships to the port of Hodeidah, which made Sana’a refuse to extend the temporary truce.

The head of the National Delegation Mohammed Abdulsalam censured the aggressor coalition for failing to renew the truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the country as a result of its intransigence and disavowal of measures that alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.