Original link: http://middleeastobserver.net/saudi-led-blockade-keeps-lifeblood-yemeni-port-at-standstill-news-report/
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szlry1As6jQ
Description:
News report on the deteriorating situation at Yemen’s lifeblood port of Al Hudaydah caused by the Saudi-led blockade.
Source: RT Arabic
Date: October 24, 2020
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Transcript:
RT reporter:
A complete standstill and empty berths with no commercial ships nor humanitarian aid… This is the situation at the Yemeni port of “Al Hudaydah” that is waiting for cargo-laden ships to bring it back to life.
Al Hudaydah Port is the second biggest Yemeni port. It is the lifeblood of two-thirds of Yemen’s population. The overpopulated provinces receive imports, and medical and food aid via this port. The restrictions and measures imposed by the (Saudi-led) Arab coalition on the entry of ships (to the port) increase the suffering of civilians, as asserted by those in charge of the facility who have called on (the Saudi-led coalition) to keep the port out of the conflict.
Yahya Sharaf (Al-Deen), Vice Chairman of Red Sea Ports Corporation in Hudaydah:
The blockade and restrictions on foodstuff and oil products are one of the most significant factors that have led to this humanitarian crisis. However, unfortunately, the United Nations (UN) does not mention the (Yemeni) crisis except when it is looking for donors. It talks about the suffering and humanitarian crisis in Yemen only to scrounge help from (other) states. However, it turns a deaf ear to the actions of the (Saudi- led) coalition that are preventing the Red Sea Ports Corporation from receiving oil products and food supplies.
RT reporter:
The dockers at the (Al Hudaydah) Port are living in terrible conditions due to the decline in the number of ships arriving. Their suffering worsens because their source of income has been cut off.
Yasser Makbouli, a worker at Al Hudaydah Port:
The Al Hudaydah Port is suffering because of the (Saudi-led) Coalition. More than 30 or 40 tankers carrying diesel, fuel and petrol (have been detained by the Coalition). We are suffering greatly. The poor workers at the Al Hudaydah Port don’t earn enough to live on for even one day. We have been just sitting around (doing nothing) for four months.
Muhammad Al-Rimi, a worker at Al Hudaydah Port:
The situation (at the port) is miserable for everyone, present or absent. There is nothing to do. We are just sitting around.
RT reporter:
Yemen is facing a humanitarian crisis described by the UN as the worst globally because of the ongoing war and blockade. This (crisis) has caused food shortages, an increase in malnutrition rates, and even famine in some remote areas, in addition to a spread of diseases and epidemics as medicine stocks dwindle.
Jamal Al Ashwal, RT, at the Al Hudaydah Port.
There is a lesson here.
If you are not completely independent and self-sufficient, you are at the mercy of global Zionism.
Jamshyd
I think what the Resistance led by Ansarullah are doing in Yemen is the surest path towards self-sufficiency in this poorest Arab nation; Resisting the AngloZionist design in the Yemeni arena. Though the path is full of trial and tribulation victory is assured in the end.
It was said that the Rouhani clique advised Ansarullah not to seize the government preferring they wheel and deal with the West, as if their own wheeling and dealing have brought them anything to be proud of, but Ansarullah have decided to choose death with dignity and honor instead of choosing the lesser of two evils.
And these desert warriors have been teaching the world what bravery and dignity really mean, unlike the Syrian leadership, they have reduced the burden of Iran by staking their lots with Allah and those who struggle in His way. They have refused to allow any superpower to turn their cause into a bargain chip relying solely on Allah, their just cause and internal capabilities to resist the combine forces of Western war machine.
Fortunately, Ansarullah only take advice from Sepah, not the Rouhani/Zarif gang who have no business advising anyone on anything.
The faithful will still go to Mecca and do the pilgramage as they are told to do as their host exterminate their brothers.
Exactly Marcus. I had the same thoughts.
Not many willing to stand on principles, not even the “faithful”, as you call them.
The way I see it;
The command is to do pilgrimage.
The sin is to assist (financially) the Saudis in any way to do what they are doing. Because this just invalidates the pilgrimage.
The faithful can do one minus one equals zero, or do one minus zero equals one.
Yemeni, your beautiful name and suffering people in unimaginable humanitarian crisis, the world is consumed by falsity, distracted by self idolatry, led by the self loathing of the elites, and has forgotten you.
Judging by the facts on the ground, the world and its actions and inactions have been totally irrelevant. Iranian support is all the Yemenis needed to beat the KSA backed by the whole world.
Do not be sad for the Yemenis, they have already achieved glorious victort. Be sad for the oppressors, because they don’t have a chance in hell. They are cursed and damned.
I believe the Saudi blockade is supposedly enforcing an UN arms embargo. If the Yemenis had access to the same weapons as the Saudis the war would have been over a long time ago. Interestingly Russia allowed the original UN embargo and its subsequent renewal to pass. More than one party is guilty for the blockade.