Health Minister: The postponement of flights at Sana’a airport by Saudi-led coalition is a blatant violation of the most important part of UN-brokered truce

SANAA, April 26 (YPA) – Yemeni minister of health in the National Salvation Government said on Monday  that the postponement of the resumption of operation at the Sana’a Airport by the Saudi-led coalition was a blatant violation of the most important part of the United Nation-brokered ceasefire agreement.

Criticizing the refusal of the Saudi-led coalition to permit the resumption of flights through Sana’a International Airport on Sunday, Taha al-Mutawakel told  Almasirah TV channel that postponing permission for the first flight to Sana’a by the [Saudi-led] coalition at the last seconds aimed at worsening the pain and suffering of the Yemeni patients.

Al-Mutawakel added over 30,000 Yemeni patients have been on a waiting list to receive medical treatment since three years ago but the Saudi-led coalition has rejected all proposed plans to help them.

He further rejected the Saudi media propaganda that Yemen has picked a “selected” number of individuals to leave the country, noting this will only reveal the moral collapse of the aggressive countries and cross off any reasoning to continue the closure of Sana’a airport.

According to the Yemeni minister, the Saudi-led collation is also responsible for worsening the critical health condition of the Yemeni people since it has seized vessels shipping fuel for the hospitals in Yemen.

Following a two-month UN-brokered truce, which went into effect on April 2, the first flight was scheduled to arrive at Sanaa on Sunday and transport individuals in need of medical treatment to Amman, Jordan’s capital city.

However, Saudi Arabia refused to issue the permit in violation of the terms of the ongoing truce.

E.M