First commercial flight from Sanaa to Cairo takes off

SANAA, Jun. 01 (YPA) – The first commercial flight from Sanaa International Airport departed for Egypt, after a hiatus of more than six years, due to the Saudi-led coalition’s blockade on the  airport.

The flight took off from Sanaa Airport on Wednesday, bound for Cairo, the capital of Egypt, carrying 78 passengers on board.

This flight is the seventh out of 16 planned ones included in the humanitarian truce announced by the United Nations in early April, which ends tomorrow, June 2.

In recent days, six commercial flights have left Sanaa airport to Amman, Jordan.

The truce in Yemen came into force in early April. The  UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, explained that “the terms of the Armistice Agreement include facilitating the entry of 18 fuel-carrying vessels into Hodeidah ports and allowing two flights through Sana’a airport every week.”

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