Iran Press/ Middle East: In a press conference held on Friday at a port of Hodeidah in the presence of acting governor of Hodeidah, the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith said that "I will work with the world to spare the city of Hodeidah of any military confrontations or casualties in its infrastructure and service."
"The world is interested in the parties sitting at the negotiating table and achieving peace in Yemen quickly in order to end the suffering of the Yemeni people caused by this war," the UN Special Envoy to Yemen noted, Iran Press reported.
Griffith also said that his visit to the Hodeidah governorate comes as a clear message, expressing the UN and the world interest in Hodeidah and the importance of its port.
The UN envoy to Yemen, saw the amount of damage suffered by the port of Hodeidah and its infrastructure of cranes by the bombing of the US-Saudi aggression in 2015.
On 9 August 2018, the Saudi air raid hit the school bus as it drove through a market in the town of Dhahyan, killing a total of 51 people, among them 40 children, and injuring 79 others, mostly kids. The kids reportedly had been on a much-anticipated field trip marking their graduation from summer school.
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The officials briefed Martin Griffith on the damage as a result of the airstrikes that targeted the cranes and port berths and the direct economic effects of the siege imposed on the port by the coalition countries, and the suspension of maritime and commercial activity.
Officials pointed out that the port's activity is currently limited to receiving humanitarian aid vessels of international organizations and vessels for oil derivatives, but it is subjected to a thorough inspection before entering the port of Hodeidah.
For his part, the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith discussed the solutions to neutralize the port of Hodeidah and keep it away from political and military conflict.
The Saudi-led coalition attacks against the war-torn country’s most vital port was launched despite numerous warnings by the international community and prominent aid groups. The renewed attack on Hodeidah again risks cutting off the supply of aid to Yemen.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 14,000 Yemenis, including 5,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
According to the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) report, 683 children were killed or injured by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition in 2016. 101/201
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