At least 58 dead and 126 injured left the bombing made by the United States on Thursday night against the Petrolero de Ras Issa port, in the Red Seaaccording to information from media linked to the hutis of the Yemen.
The television channel to Masirah, spokesman for the Hutíes, elevated this Friday to 58 the dead of the dead and placed in 126 the number of injured in this attack, citing data from the Health Office of Al Hudeida.
The United States Central Command (Centcom) said, in a statement, that it destroyed the Fuel Issa port, controlled by the insurgents, whom they accuse of economic and militarily benefiting from these facilities to sell fuel and finance their operations.
That port receives about 70% of all humanitarian aid
That port, together with those of Al Hudeida and Salif, receives about 70 % of all imports and 80 % of humanitarian aid that enters the Yemen, According to the UN, while the US and other countries denounce that it is used by hutis to import and export illegal oil.
“The profits of these illegal sales finance and maintain directly the terrorist activities of the hutis,” said the Centcom, who said that “US forces took measures to eliminate this source of fuel” for insurgents “and deprive them of illegal income that has financed their efforts to terrorize the entire region for more than ten years.”
The Hutis accused the US of incurring a “war crime” for bombing the port of Ras Issa.
“This completely unjustified aggression represents a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and independence of the Yemen and a direct attack on the entire Yemeni people,” said the rebels in a statement.
“The attack aims at a vital civil installation that has served the Yemeni people for decades, in order to prevent him from receiving essential supplies and punishing him for his fair and equitable position in support of the oppressed Palestinian people,” the insurgents added.
The hutis reiterated that the attack against this infrastructure is “a full -fledged war crime, since the port is a civil, non -military installation, which serves all Yemenis and is not the exclusive domain of a specific group.”
For his part, the Minister of Information of the Government of the internationally recognized Yemen, Muamar al Eryani, responsible for the hutis of the attack for “having transformed this vital installation of an economic exit at the service of the Yemenis to a Center for Iranian weapons and fuel contraband and a source of financing of their terrorist activities” for ten years.
Intensive bombing campaign
United States, by order of President Donald Trump, began an intensive campaign of bombings against hutíes positions in the Yemen on March 15, with the aim of undermining the military capabilities of the rebels and preventing more attacks against commercial navigation in the Red Sea.
However, insurgents have responded with attacks against US warships and Israel, while they have denounced that around a hundred people have died from the new US bombings.
