The Ministry of Transport & Public Works holds the Israeli enemy responsible for the attack on Sana’a Airport
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works condemned the Israeli aggression that targeted Sana’a International Airport this morning, resulting in the destruction of a Yemenia Airlines plane that was scheduled to transport pilgrims to the Holy House of God.
The Ministry affirmed in a statement, a copy of which was received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), that the Israeli aggression constitutes a deliberate crime aimed at putting the airport out of service, in a dangerous escalation of the targeting of infrastructure and civilian objects.
The statement explained that directly targeting a civilian aircraft while it was ready for operation and takeoff constitutes a dangerous precedent for civil aviation. It called on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to carry out its duties and send international investigation teams to inform the international community of the truth about the crimes committed by the Israeli enemy in Yemen.
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works indicated that the targeted aircraft was performing a vital humanitarian role, most notably transporting Yemeni pilgrims to the Holy Land and operating humanitarian flights to the sole destination, the Jordanian capital, Amman.
It considered the Zionist targeting of Sana’a Airport a flagrant violation of international law, particularly the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, which guarantees the right of peoples to safe air transport. It emphasized that the aggression aims to paralyze the movement of Yemeni citizens and deprive them of their most basic human rights.
It held the Zionist entity fully responsible for all the consequences and results resulting from its foolish and aggressive actions against civil aviation and civilian facilities.
It also held the international community, primarily the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization, responsible for the suspicious silence regarding the repeated Zionist attacks.
The Ministry called on all regional and international parties and organizations, especially human rights and civil aviation organizations, to condemn this crime and intervene urgently to stop the serious violations against the Yemeni people.
It emphasized that the Zionist enemy’s attempts to impose air isolation “will fail, just as other tools of aggression have failed.”
