The Yemeni Minister of Transport of the National Salvation Government called the ban on fuel-carrying ships entering the port of Al-Hudaidah a form of mass genocide and warned that millions of Yemeni children were at risk of mass murder as a result of the siege.
The Yemeni Minister of Transport of the Yemeni National Salvation Government today (Sunday) at a press conference explained the damage done to the Yemeni transportation sector due to the attacks of the Saudi coalition.
According to the ministry, direct and indirect damage to the aviation, meteorological and related sectors from the beginning of the Saudi coalition attacks in 2015 to March 2021 is estimated at about six billion dollars.
The direct and indirect damage to the land sector was about $ 208 million, and 1,802 vehicles and bridges were damaged by Saudi coalition attacks, the news conference said.
The Ministry of Transport of the Yemeni National Salvation Government announced that the direct and indirect damages to the Red Sea Ports Authority have reached about 2 billion and 160 million dollars. The closure of Sanaa airport has resulted in the deaths of 80 people and more than 450,000 people need urgent travel abroad for treatment.
“The siege of Yemen has led to an unprecedented increase in shipping, land, and air transport costs,” said Amer al-Marani, the Yemeni Minister of National Salvation Transport Minister.
He stated that preventing ships carrying fuel from entering the port of Al-Hudaidah, despite having a permit, is a mass genocide. Millions of sick children are at risk of mass death as a result of the ongoing siege of Yemen and the denial of medicine.
Al-Marani, while announcing that Sanaa Airport is ready to welcome all flights, called on the United Nations and all free people in the world to work for the reopening of this airport.
The military invasion of Yemen has entered its seventh year. An unequal war that, according to UN officials, is the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world today. A tragedy with political, social, military, regional and global dimensions and consequences, for which there is no clear horizon to stop it.
