7th anniversary Commemoration of agression massacre of fishermen on Aqban island

The local authority in Hodeida governorate, the Navy, Coastal Defence, the Coast Guard and the Red Sea Fisheries Authority revived on Saturday, the seventh anniversary of the first massacre committed by aggression fighter jet against fishermen on the island of Aqban, killing 42 and injuring 12.

At the event, the Governor of Hodeidah, Mohamed Ayyash Qahim, and the First Governor of the Province, Ahmed Al-Bishri, the importance of commemorating this massacre and other massacres committed against the Yemeni people.

They explained that this crime exposed the aggression coalition’s criminality by shelling directly and deliberately pursuing survivors and injured to the island’s coast, targeted and prevented from being ambulance, as well as preventing the Red Cross from recovering bodies.

Qahim and Al Bishri called for promote cohesion to confront the aggression forces and mercenaries.

Over the course of eight years, the aggression States had targeted 53 fishermen’s sites along the Red Sea coast, killing 273 fishermen, 211 were wounded and two were killed under torture in prisons of aggression States, 295 fishing boats and 150 fishing vehicles were destroyed, a thousand and 389 fishermen were abducted and 132 fishing boats were pirated.

The material losses suffered by the Red Sea fish sector as a result of the aggression over seven years were 12 billion and 649 million, 882,000 and $870.

Al-Dhanei’ stated that the aggression States did not merely commit such crimes, but still practised piracy against fishermen by abducting them, confiscating their boats and imprisoned and the practice of torture, in the silence of the international community, the United Nations and human rights organizations.