Yemeni protesters censure Saudi aggression, blockade

Yemenis have demonstrated against the Saudi all-out blockade and atrocities committed by the Riyadh regime and a number of its regional allies in the impoverished Arab country.

The employees and workers of Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) gathered outside the United Nations office in the capital Sana’a on Friday, decrying deadly Saudi airstrikes and the Saudi-led blockade that has left thousands struggling to survive.

“The suffocating blockade and continued detention of vessels loaded with oil derivatives endanger the lives of more than 26 million Yemeni citizens and threaten the collapse of vital sectors. Such actions are in contravention of the international law and humanitarian principles,” the YPC said in a final communiqué.

The statement pointed out that the Saudi-led coalition is currently holding up 19 oil tankers, of which nine have been impounded for more than half a year.

It added that the total fines resulting from the seizure of the vessels amounts to nearly 121 million dollars, noting that some 90 million dollars have been levied since the beginning of the current year alone.

The YPC finally held the Saudi-led military coalition and the UN responsible for the dire consequences of the seizure of oil tankers on Yemen’s vital sectors, namely healthcare, communications, transportation, electricity and agriculture.

Elsewhere in Yemen’s western coastal city of Hudaydah, people took to streets following Friday noon prayers in protest at closure of Yemen’s ports by the Saudi-led military coalition and the continuing acts of aggression by the alliance.

The protesters condemned the dangerous escalation in the number of crimes being perpetrated by Saudi-led forces and their mercenaries in the cities of Hudaydah and al-Durayhimi, which has left many people, mostly women and children, dead and injured.

The demonstrators called upon the UN and international human rights organizations to intervene and stop the Saudi acts of aggression.

They also categorically rejected normalization with Israel and US President Donald Trump's so-called deal of the century on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, arguing that the purported "peace" plan is being promoted by treacherous Arab rulers and “preachers of disbelief and delusion” who wish to serve Washington and the Tel Aviv regime.

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The so-called deal of century enshrines Jerusalem al-Quds as “Israel’s undivided capital” and allows the regime to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley. The plan also denies the right of return for Palestinian refugees to their homeland, among other controversial terms.

All Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected Trump’s highly controversial plan. The initiative has triggered waves of protest rallies both across the occupied Palestinian territories and around the globe as well.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power.

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‘Last year, we referred to the situation in Yemen as having reached a ‘surreal’ dimension. Nothing has changed.’

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives for more than the past five years.

The popular Houthi movement, backed by the armed forces, has been defending Yemen against the Saudi-led alliance, preventing the aggressors from fulfilling their objectives.

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