Saudi coalition threatens Sanaa about targeting Yemeni ports.
The official spokesman for the Saudi aggression coalition, in response to the seizure of the Emirati military ship in Yemeni waters, threatened to target Yemeni ports if the ship was not released.
Following the success of the Yemeni armed forces in seizing an UAE cargo ship carrying military equipment, an official spokesman for the Saudi aggression coalition in Sanaa crossed the line in an unprecedented operation off the west coast.
Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki, the official spokesman for the Saudi aggression coalition, claimed that Yemeni Ansarullah had hijacked the Rawabi ship, in clear violation of international law, and threatened to use the port as a “piracy” and hijacking site. Legitimate military targets are targeted.
According to the UAE Al-Bayan news website, he described the Yemeni armed forces’ attack on the merchant ship Rawabi as “piracy, kidnapping and armed attack” and considered it a criminal act planned by Ansarullah forces. They were.
He added: “The militias attacked the ship in international waters and forcibly transferred it to the port of Al-Salif.” The piracy and abduction operations began from the port of Al-Hudaidah to intercept a merchant ship on the international sea route, which is in clear violation of the principles of international human rights law and relevant maritime law. “The Rawabi is a merchant ship carrying field equipment and supplies to operate a Saudi field hospital on the island of Socotra, which was hijacked after completing its humanitarian mission to provide health care to thousands of Yemenis on the island.”
Al-Maliki stated that the texts and provisions of international humanitarian law and the San Remo Agreement on armed conflicts at sea and the UN agreements guarantee freedom of navigation and world trade in sea and water crossings and do not support pirates and provide a safe haven for them. does not. But such measures undermine the security of waterways and pose a direct threat to maritime and global trade.
