UN Must Meet Responsibility for US-Saudi Targeting of Telecommunication Facilities

The National Defense of Telecommunications and Postal Services condemned the US-Saudi continued crimes against the communications and postal infrastructure.

In a statement coinciding with the National Day of Steadfastness, the organization holds the US-Saudi aggression responsible for all the bombing and destruction of the infrastructure, including the bombing and destruction of communications and postal facilities, and their service offices.

The statement called on the international community, organizations, unions, and humanitarian and human rights bodies to shoulder their legal, humanitarian and moral responsibilities, and to pressure the countries leading the aggression to stop targeting the telecommunications and postal sector. The statement called on the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and relevant international organizations to immediately intervene in order to lift the siege on telecommunications equipment and systems, considering telecommunications services and the Internet as a human right guaranteed by international laws.

The statement warned of the consequences of continuing to target telecommunications companies and institutions, through attempts to establish suspicious entities aimed at splitting the national network, isolating the eastern and southern governorates, damaging the Yemen International Internet Gateway, as well as attempts to disconnect the network in some governorates and impede the access of services in various governorates.

The organization called on the relevant official and international bodies to support, adopt and implement the restarting of telecommunications and post services in areas that have been deprived and isolated from the world, in order to alleviate the suffering of Yemeni People.