SANA'A January 18. 2023 (Saba) - The Ministry of Human Rights held a press conference under the slogan "In light of the international complicity, Yemen is under siege" to review the violations and effects of the aggression and blockade during the year 2022 AD.
During the conference, Minister of Human Rights Ali Al-Dailami confirmed that the blockade imposed on Yemen has caused the largest humanitarian catastrophe in the world, affecting more than 30 million Yemenis.
He pointed out that the aggression prevented the entry of more than 750 types of medicines and medical supplies, including cancer drugs and foodstuffs, prevented and obstructed the arrival of humanitarian relief aid, although the aids and commercial materials are of a humanitarian nature and intended for civilians.
He pointed out that more than 95 percent of the ships loaded with commercial materials such as food, medicine, medical supplies, oil derivatives, gas and other basic needs that citizens need have been seized.
Al-Dailami stated that the American-Saudi-Emirati aggression disrupted all service sectors that provide basic and necessary services for the life and livelihood of citizens, and prevented the delivery of diesel fuel to operate cooling generators and drain the gas emitted from oil in Safer ship, the "floating oil reservoir", while the United Nations shirked its obligations in implementing the agreement wheezy.
He also reviewed the economic effects of the blockade and aggression, the most important of which is the increase of the customs tariff from 500 to 750 riyals per dollar by the aggression mercenaries , and the suspension of the salaries payment of more than 1.25 million government employees in all provinces of the Republic, at an amount of approximately 74 billion riyals per month, and the increase in the cost of living more than 90 percent of what it was before the aggression as a result of the income level deterioration after the interruption of work resources and the salaries of civil servants, which were a basic financial resource for the maintenance of 35 percent of the population.
Al-Dailami stated that among the effects of the blockade and aggression was the freezing of the Central Bank of Yemen in Sana'a operations, its foreign reserves and the assets of commercial banks, which led to depriving the national economy of its foreign exchange resources needed to finance basic commodities, and made it impossible to market agricultural and animal products internally and externally.
He indicated that the aggression prevented and deprived more than 40,000 traditional fishermen from practicing the fishing profession on the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea coasts, and targeted them in Yemeni territorial waters, which led to the killing more than 500 fishermen and the detention of more than 2,54 others by the coalition countries and their placement in prisons belonging to it, and practicing all kinds of torture against them, in addition to occupying strategic Yemeni islands such as Socotra, Mayon, Hanish, and other islands where fishermen practice their activities.
Furthermore, Al-Dailami pointed to the aggression and the blockade's consequences of depriving the Yemeni economy of many transfers due to government agencies, such as loans, aid, donations, the value of exports of some goods and services, local banks or the private business sector, and the deterioration of the banking financial sector, in addition to the deficit in the balance of payments.
He touched on the effects of the blockade and aggression on the health, education and transportation sectors, as well as the aggression violations against the media, pointing out that 61.4 percent of the population suffers from acute food insecurity at the end of last year and is classified in the fifth stage (the famine stage), especially children and women.
Moreover, he stressed that the health sector is the sector most affected by the closure of Sana'a International Airport since the beginning of the aggression, pointing out that the flights that took place during the armistice period did not provide the actual needs of the Yemeni citizen, especially the patients.
Al-Dailami stated that the ministry documented the total number of bombs and missiles used by the aggression coalition countries in 2022, which until November amounted to 256,872 bombs and missiles, distributed between 19,898 attacks and air raids, more than 2,702 attacks by drones and more than 148,679 mortar shells.
In addition, more than 85 thousand and 357 missiles killed and injured many civilians and African Ethiopians, including children and women, in addition to 236 explosions of cluster bomb remnants, most of whose victims were children and women, and documenting the explosion of approximately 470 individual mines, which resulted in 643 dead and wounded people, most of whom were children and women.
Al-Dailami pointed out that Human Rights Ministry documented during 2022 year AD no less than 150 incidents of obstruction by the aggression countries to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid and basic materials to civilians, and it also documented no less than 30 incidents of violation against African and Yemeni immigrants at the borders of the Republic of Yemen with Saudi Arabia.
Especially in Sa'ada province, it was committed by the Saudi Border Guard forces, which claimed the lives of no less than 189 immigrants and injured no less than 687 others, including 13 children and ten women.
In addition to arresting thousands of Yemenis and African immigrants, placing them in prisons and practicing the most heinous types of torture against them, such as the use of electric shock, which claimed the lives of most of them.
Moreover, to the murders committed by the Saudi regime against dozens of immigrants and their mass burial in the border areas of Saudi Arabia.
Al-Dailami also reviewed the attacks of the Saudi regime, the countries of the aggression coalition and their mercenaries against Yemeni expatriates, the implementation of extrajudicial executions, the practice of kidnappings, enforced disappearances, torture and rape.
He explained that the numbers and statistics that were discussed in the press conference are what were officially documented by the Ministry of Human Rights, and that the outcome far exceeds these numbers.
He indicated that the ministry is in the process of following up, monitoring and enumerating the expanded direct and indirect damages that befell the Yemenis and their way of life in all fields.
He called on the United Nations and its humanitarian bodies and organizations to stop the aggression, lift the siege on the Yemeni people, and not to prioritize politics and the interests of major countries over the humanitarian principles that have been absent from the Yemeni reality for eight years.
Al-Dimali, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, called for a review of the decisions taken by international organizations to reduce their humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people, and to provide the most basic humanitarian needs by pressuring the aggression countries not to attack commercial ships loaded with the most basic and indispensable needs.
He also called on the United Nations and its Secretary-General to initiate criminal cases against officials of the aggression coalition countries who committed the most heinous crimes and violations, and to ensure that they do not escape punishment and accountability.
Al-Dimali called on the United Nations and the Security Council to form an international, impartial and independent commission to investigate the violations of the aggression coalition countries in Yemen, on land and people.
During the press conference, a documentary film on the violations and effects of the aggression and siege during the year 2022 was reviewed, as the weapons used by the aggression countries during the past year in various provinces amounted to 234,036 between a ground attack, missiles and mortar shells, 50,084 shells and explosive ordnance remnants, and 2,000.
And 702 drone missiles, 1,540 small cluster bombs, 19,948 military warplane missiles, and 1,584 individual mines.
The number of killings reached 844, including 153 women and children, and 2,704 injured, including 561 children and women.
The film also documented the damage to citizens' houses, service facilities, infrastructure and economic facilities.
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resource : SABA
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