US-Saudi Targeting of Sana’a Airport New Attempt to Put Pressure on Yemenis
Number of politicians and human rights defenders commented, Tuesday, on the targeting of the Sana’a International Airport by the US-Saudi aggression and making it out of readiness.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hisham Sharaf, considered the targeting of the airport as a new attempt to put pressure on Yemenis. He noted that there are devices and equipment for the safety of civil aviation seized by the aggression in Djibouti with the aim of obstructing services at the airport.
Sharaf explained that the navigational devices and equipment held in Djibouti are very important for the safety of international organizations’ flights.
He stressed that the countries of aggression will be prosecuted before the international community for the damage and suffering they caused to patients who died as a result of the siege of Sana’a airport.
For his part, the advisor of the Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Muftah, drew attention to the Saudi regime crowning its heinous crimes and its comprehensive war with the crime of taking Sana’a Airport out of readiness.
Muftah stated that the aggression’s threat to humanitarian organizations from being present at the airport is for the purpose of narrowing the siege on the Yemeni people.
He stressed that targeting Sana’a Airport comes to narrow all means of hope for sick and injured Yemenis to receive treatment abroad.
He pointed out that the Saudi regime with this crime defies all international norms and laws and announces the death of the so-called international law and the UN.
“Sana’a Airport was supposed to be opened after pressures from the international community, but we are surprised that it is out of readiness,” the Acting Minister of Human Rights, Ali Al-Dailami, said.
Al-Dailami added that despite the aggression’s record of humanitarian crimes, it insists on committing more by targeting Sana’a Airport, declaring not to respect international humanitarian law.
He held the United Nations fully responsible for fabricating many excuses for the countries of aggression and for its continued silence about their crimes.
The US-Saudi aggression launched, Monday, a series of raids on Sana’a International Airport, causing great damage to the airport facilities, which made it out of readiness.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and other key Western powers, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing Hadi’s government back to power and crushing Ansarullah.
Having failed to reach its professed goals, the war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.