Civil Aviation Authority spokesman: The closure of Sana’a airport is in violation of international laws

Dr. Mazen  Ghanem, spokesman for the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Meteorology, considered the continued closure of Sana’a International Airport a war crime in contravention of international norms, laws and agreements.

“The airport was stopped for four years without a legal justification for a flagrant violation of all norms and humanitarian laws and in the context of an complicated international silence,” Ghanem told the Yemeni news agency (Saba).

He pointed to the suffering of the patients while they were waiting for a ray of hope to travel abroad to receive treatment and save their lives from certain death, not to mention the inability of thousands of citizens stranded in the airports of the world to return to their families and families.

He affirmed that the world is witnessing this tragedy that the Yemeni people are exposed to without regard for the condition of the sick and their right to treatment abroad, because they cannot obtain the necessary treatment at home .. Noting the positions of some organizations in solidarity with the human tragedy that the people of Yemen are exposed to.

Ghanem renewed the call for human rights and humanitarian organizations to interact with the injustice of the Yemeni people and move this forgotten file in international forums, considering the closure of Sanaa International Airport is a crime of genocide against patients.

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority called on the United Nations, the Security Council and human rights organizations to press the countries of the Saudi-led aggression coalition to open Sana’a International Airport to save what could be saved from the sick and the return of stranded stranded people, especially after the deterioration of the security situation in the southern regions and the insecurity that occurred there.