YPC: US-Saudi Aggression Seizes New Fuel Tanker Despite UN-Sponsored Truce
Yemen Petroleum Company announced that the US-Saudi aggression seized a new fuel tanker and prevented it from reaching the port of Hodeidah.
The official spokesman for the company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated that the US-led aggression seized the “Voss Power” ship, which carries 22 thousand tons of diesel and 7 thousand tons of diesel, explaining that the aggression is still practicing piracy on fuel tankers despite the UN-sponsored truce. He added that “the aggression prevented the ship from reaching the port of Hodeidah despite its inspection and obtaining entry permits from the United Nations.”
The company’s official spokesman called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to put pressure on the US-Saudi aggression to abide by the declared truce and to stop detaining fuel tankers.
Earlier on Thursday, the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) announced that the US-Saudi aggression continues to detain two new fuel ships.
“The US-Saudi aggression released today the ship “Cornet”, loaded with 20 thousand tons of gasoline and 9 thousand tons of diesel, in conjunction with its detention of two gasoline ships (Caesar and Sea Door) despite their inspection and obtaining entry permits from the UN,” official spokesman for the company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, said.
It is noteworthy that the US-Saudi aggression seized the released ship “Cornet” on the twelfth of this month. The coalition of aggression continues its 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.
In early April, the UN envoy to Yemen announced a UN-sponsored humanitarian truce for a period of two months. The truce, meant to halt all military operations in the country and bring the foreign military invasion to an end, came into effect on April 2.
The deal stipulates halting offensive military operations, including cross-border attacks, and allowing fuel-laden ships to enter Yemen’s lifeline Hodeidah port and commercial flights in and out of the airport in the capital Sana’a “to predetermined destinations in the region.”
Over a month has passed for the entry into effect of the humanitarian and military truce brokered by the UN, but without significant progress.
The airport is still deserted and has not received any flights, in light of the obstacles created by the coalition of aggression. The past few weeks was supposed to witness at least two commercial flights a week to and from Sana’a International Airport.
Well-informed sources in Sana’a say that there are complications by the aggression side, in light of its insistence on taking over the issuance of passports and visas.
The matter also applies to the port of Hodeidah. While the countries of aggression were supposed to facilitate the smooth flow of ships to the port, under the truce, the inspecting ships are still subject to inspection, and are detained off the coast of Jizan despite obtaining UN permits and licenses.
On the ground, the fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside. Shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl, including a failed advance carried out by mercenaries towards Army and Popular Committee sites south of Marib.
All indicators do not serve the steadfastness of the humanitarian and military truce, and provide evidence that Sana’a continues to exercise restraint, in the face of heterogeneous parties that do not abide or respect their commitments to a truce sponsored by the UN.