US-Saudi Aggression Seizes Two Fuel Tankers: YPC

The US-Saudi aggression seized Thursday two fuel tankers belonging to private sector factories, carrying more than 51,000 tons of fuel.

The spokesman of the Yemen Petroleum Company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated that the aggression prevented the two tankers from reaching the port of Hodeidah, despite they were inspected and have obtained entry permits from the UN verification and inspection mechanism.

Last Week, Yemen Petroleum Company confirmed that the forces of US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries have looted four million and 400 thousand barrels of crude oil since mid-November.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its other regional allies, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015. The seven years and half of war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. Yemeni people are facing malnutrition, hunger, and famine, which have increased risks of disease and starvation.

As part of its economic war, the US-Saudi aggression worked to drain about 97% of the Yemeni state’s resources, either by controlling them militarily such as oil and gas sources, freezing Yemeni foreign assets and transferring them to mercenaries and financing coalition operations, or imposing siege on the vital port of Hodeidah and the most important port after Aden, which is still in the grip of Sana’a and out of control of the aggression.

The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.