The Ministry of Transportation and its affiliated bodies held on Tuesday a press conference on the ruins of the Institute of Civil Aviation and Meteorology at Sana’a International Airport.
During the conference, the director of Sana’a Airport, Khaled Al-Shayef, announced that the airport became out of readiness, after its facilities were bombed by the US-Saudi aggression on Monday evening.
The Undersecretary of the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Raed Talib, indicated that the US-Saudi aggression warplanes targeted the Civil Aviation Institute of Meteorology, the quarantine building, freight hangers, and aircraft fuel supply dispensers.
He announced the suspension of flights of the United Nations organizations until further notice to ensure the safety of the flights of the UN and its staff.
Raed Talib explained that during the past month, the UN had given guarantees that Sana’a International Airport would not be targeted during the coming period, and what happened was completely different.
For his part, the Director General of the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC), Ammar Al-Adrai, said that the damage costs of the aggression raids on the oil company’s facilities and equipment at Sana’a International Airport yesterday exceeded $3 million.
He added that the damages of the raids were concentrated in the aircraft refueling tanks and their security and safety equipment, as well as severe damage to the aircraft catering department building.
The US-Saudi aggression launched, Monday, a series of raids on Sana’a International Airport, causing great damage to the airport facilities, which made it out of readiness.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and other key Western powers, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing Hadi’s government back to power and crushing Ansarullah.
Having failed to reach its professed goals, the war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.
