Yemen’s Executive High Relief Committee said in a statement on Tuesday that Houthi militias, between May 2015 and December 2018, have banned access to 88 ships with humanitarian aid and other products to the ports of Hodeidah and Saleef in Hodeidah governorate.
It explained that 34 of these ships were held for six months, so the bulk of the load went bad.
It also noted that seven vessels were directly attacked by the insurgents during the same period while sailing in the Red Sea off the Yemeni coast.
Four of the vessels were from Saudi Arabia, two were from UAE and one was from Turkey.
In its statement, the committee said that during the same period, the militias had looted and detained 697 relief trucks on the roads linking the governorates of Hodeidah, Sanaa, Ibb, Taiz, Hajja and Dhamar and the entrances to the governorates that fall under their control.
The latest was the detention of a 32-ton truck at the port of Hodeidah on December 29, it explained, noting that some of these looted trucks were carrying medicines for cholera epidemic and child vaccines.
It said that the militias also detained last October 51,000 tons of wheat provided by the World Food Program (WFP) that would have benefited more than 3.7 thousand people for more than four months.
The committee also pointed out that the last four relief and oil vessels held by the coup militias were DISTYA PUSHTI, RINA, SINCERO and CARPE DIEM-2 in September.
The vessels were carrying 25,050 tons of food, flour and sugar, 25,980 tons of diesel and 9,025 tons of gasoline.
The militias bombed four relief trucks in Marib that were provided by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) and were on their way to the beneficiaries in al-Baidah province, the statement said.
It added that they also burnt WFP warehouses and destroyed more than 4,000 tons of wheat from the warehouse in Hodeidah.
In addition, they broke into the warehouses of the WFP four times in more than one location in the province and used some buildings adjacent to the stores as military barracks.
