Hodeidah: The Yemeni Popular Forces Union condemned the criminal Saudi aggression that targeted civilian objects and vital projects in Al-Hodeidah Governorate and Kamaran Island. In a statement issued today, the Popular Forces Union considered the Saudi aggression a continuation of the series of crimes committed by the Saudi regime since its aggression began on March 26, 2015.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Union affirmed that targeting civilian objects and vital projects in Al-Hodeidah and Kamaran Island is not surprising for this criminal regime, which over the past years has targeted funeral and wedding halls, hospitals, roads, markets, and various vital and developmental facilities and infrastructure. The Union explained that the Saudi aggression did not stop at all that, nor at the siege and starvation of the Yemeni people, but extended to preventing rapprochement between Yemeni parties, and rejecting various solutions and understandings reached by the United Nations through its UN envoy and with mediation by brotherly Oman.
The Popular Forces Union renewed its support for the various measures taken by the revolutionary and political leadership to stop the aggression and break the siege, and its endorsement of the various qualitative operations of the Yemeni Armed Forces to defend the Yemeni people and their capabilities, and to preserve Yemen's sovereignty and independence. It endorsed the qualitative operation carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces against the enemy's vital facilities "Aramco" in Jizan and Yanbu, emphasizing the pivotal importance of the response in restoring the balance of deterrence and establishing the equation of "escalation for escalation."
The statement stressed that the hands of the valiant Yemeni Armed Forces will continue to carry out qualitative operations until the Saudi enemy retreats from its arrogance and haughtiness and withdraws its hand from Yemen. It stated that striking the nerve of the Saudi oil economy in depth and at alternative ports on the Red Sea practically proves that the security of regional economic facilities is entirely contingent on lifting the siege on Yemeni ports and airports, and that the policy of "impunity in violating Yemen" has ended irrevocably.
The Popular Forces Union pointed out that the Yemeni people cannot retreat from their goals, foremost among them achieving national sovereignty and removing guardianship over Yemen, and that the swift and precise response confirms that Yemen possesses the decision, will, and capability to protect its capabilities and its people, and to impose a "practical ban" preventing the enemy from exploiting the cautious truce to tighten the economic squeeze on citizens.
The Union called on various countries sympathetic to the Saudi enemy to review their positions and statements and look at the suffering of the Yemeni people due to the ongoing Saudi aggression and siege over the past 12 years, asking: "Would you accept for yourselves that the Saudi regime should act as a guardian over you, besiege your peoples, and plunder your wealth?" It commended Oman's efforts to bring viewpoints closer, but noted that the Saudi enemy has foiled those efforts and reneged on the de-escalation through its aggression on Sana'a Airport and now on Al-Hodeidah Governorate. The Union reiterated that the only safe way out for all lies in completely and comprehensively ending the aggression and siege, implementing the roadmap-foremost among which is opening airports to various destinations, fully lifting the siege on Yemeni ports, delivering Yemeni oil revenues to the Central Bank in Sana'a, paying compensation for what the aggression destroyed over 12 years, and removing guardianship over Yemen.