US-engineered blockade, piracy create most severe fuel crisis in Yemen

Last updated Mar 7, 2022 12:06 AM

SANAA, Mar. 06 (YPA) – A crisis of the lack of oil derivatives caused by the US-backed Saudi-led coalion has exacerbated in the capital, Sanaa, and the Sanaa government-held other provinces, in light of the continued crimes of the coalition represented in piracy against oil ships coming to Yemen in the Red Sea.

The fuel shortage crisis has had catastrophic effects on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, in light of international silence to put an end to the suffering affecting Yemenis as a result of preventing oil ships from entering Hodeida port.

The siege imposed on the people of Yemen is outside the standards of international law, and it does appear that the United Nations committee tasked with inspecting ships entering the port of Hodeida is unable to save the people of Yemen from the most heinous piracy operation aimed at killing an entire people.
As the siege measures and preventing ships from entering fuel confirm that the coalition’s desires are stronger than international law and United Nations institutions.

Long queues from citizens’ cars on roadsides are waiting in front of gas stations to came their role, extending in some places to tens of kilometers in the capital, Sanaa and other provinces. The crisis has left almost complete paralysis of the movement of cars, transport vehicles, food carriers and others, while exacerbating a catastrophe threats stopping services in hospitals and all life affairs.

A suffocating oil crisis has been the most severe since the beginning of the war on Yemen, according to the Yemeni Oil Company in Sanaa, which has reached unprecedented levels as a result of the coalition’s continued detention of oil derivatives ships, and its complete prevention of any fuel vessel from entering the port.

Meanwhile, Sanaa Oil Company launched a humanitarian distress call about the lack of fuel needed to supply the vital sectors, especially the health sector, after seven oil ships are detained so far.

American engineering to besiege the Yemeni people under the auspices of the United Nations

Recently, the fuel shortage crisis has taken a severe situation, more than earlier times, and some believe that the accumulation of successive crises has contributed to complicating the situation more exceptionally than previous times, and people usually hear painful stories about people who were unable to help their loved ones because of the lack of gasoline.

Students stopped reaching universities and schools, hospitals announced that they are on the verge of collapse, newborns in nurseries threatening with death, patients with kidney failure, it can be said that the lack of fuel in the besieged areas of Yemen has created the largest sad drama that a person can experience anywhere in the world.

On the other hand, The oil company revealed, through its spokesperson, Issam Al-Mutawakel, the continuation of the international role supporting piracy operations and tightening on Yemenis.

“When we meet with United Nations officials, they do not give us an explicit answer about the reason for the piracy of oil ships despite obtaining UN permits,” he said, referring to the international, American, Saudi, and Emirati harmony to use the blockade as a pressure card on the Yemenis.

He said the United Nations’ moves and its talks about the tragic situation in Yemen aimed to to blackmail donor countries and the sake of money,” calling on the UN to be neutral regarding the humanitarian situation that all the people suffer from, and not to stand with the executioner against the victim.

A series of successive oil crises during the war years

Yemen has been witnessing a series of intertwined crises due to the interruption of oil derivatives since the start of the war on Yemen, the oil crises have been reflected in the form of strong shocks that have severely affected the economic and social conditions and the food and living security conditions of the population, which have led to widening rates of poverty and unemployment, as well as high prices and difficulty in accessing basic services.

For the seventh year in a row, the coalition deliberately prolongs the detention period of ships so that the delay fines for each ship are equal to the value of its cargo of derivatives.

Sometimes the delay fines exceed twice the value of the cargo, not to mention the damage to the cargo of food and medicine ships, as well as many cases of damage were recorded in the past years, and the result is an increase the burdens on the Yemenis, increasing their suffering and torment towards a slow death.

The coalition also seeks to systematically destroy the Yemeni national economy, by targeting the activity of the private sector, and bringing importers of oil derivatives in Sanaa specifically to a state of bankruptcy, and thus handing over the northern markets to the oil trader, Ahmed Al-Essa, loyal to the coalition, and handing over the southern markets to the Abu Dhabi Oil Services Company.

The coalition continues to restrict Yemeni imports with ease and international unprecedented blessing, preventing the oil ships from entering Yemen, without humanitarian or religious controls, in addition the global conscience continues on its open vacation as long as the coalition cow, Saudis, continues to produce its milk mixed with the blood of Yemenis.