Yemen: Closing Sana’a airport to non-Jordanian destinations is a war crime

According to the report of the International Economic Group of Fars News Agency, “Raed Jabal”, the Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Organization of Yemen, emphasized today that the continued work of the aggressor coalition in limiting flights from Sana’a International Airport to one destination and vice versa will intensify the pain and suffering of Yemenis.

In an interview with the Yemeni news agency Saba, he said that the reopening of Sana’a International Airport to international flights is a human right for Yemenis that must be answered.

This official of the Yemen Aviation Organization emphasized: the action of the aggressor coalition in granting permission for three more flights to Jordan does not meet the minimum current need for flights to different destinations.

He said: “Continuing flights to only one destination, which is Amman, the capital of Jordan, multiplies the costs and trouble of citizens who wish to travel to destinations other than this country. Therefore, the complete lifting of the blockade of Sana’a airport is the right of the Yemeni people.” .

Mazen Ghanem al-Sufi, Director General of the Yemen Air Transport Organization, also emphasized in an interview with Al-Masira that Sana’a airport is still under siege and the siege of the airport has not been broken until it is fully opened to various destinations.

Stating that only 6 flights are made from Sana’a airport during the week, he said: These flights are insufficient and we want the airport to be fully opened.

Ghanem al-Sufi called the closure of Sana’a airport a war crime and said that it is the Yemeni citizens who suffer from the closure of the airport.

“Abd al-Wahhab al-Dara,” the Minister of Transportation in the National Salvation Government of Yemen in Sana’a, announced two days ago that new flights from Sana’a to Amman, the capital of Jordan, and vice versa, will begin next week.

At the same time, he said that new and special flights for the transfer of pilgrims to Baitullah Haram will be carried out directly from Sana’a airport to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

Within the framework of Yemen’s two-month ceasefire plan, which was implemented last April (May this year), flights from Sana’a airport to Jordan resumed twice a week after 6 years.

During the 6-year siege of Sana’a airport, dozens of Yemeni citizens died, especially children who needed to be transferred abroad for treatment.

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