Sana’a Marches to Provide Bread for Hodeidah Threatened by Famine

YemenExtra

M.A.

A march for bread was launched today morning in front of the UN in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a aiming to reach coastal Hodeidah province, western Yemen, the popular march took place under the slogan “No to the closure and targeting of Hodeidah port, no to starving Yemeni and no to genocide.”

During the event, the head of the media committee, Ezzedine Al-Sharabi, said that the march is popular and civil, in which all segments of the society are participating in, including children, women and men.

“Today’s march expresses the humanitarian demands of the besieged Yemeni people, whom are now being starved by the blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition”, Al-Sharabi said.

“The march asks for nothing political nor partisan, but humanitarian”, he continued.

“We call on the UN, Security Council and and European Union to stop the genocide on Yemeni people, as well as the targeting and closing of Hodeidah Port by the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US and Britain, immediately and for an emergency response to the demands of the bread march”

Al-Sharabi pointed that the march line will start in front of the UN headquarters until reaching Hodeidah port, which would take up to five to six days. It will include several activities, events and press conferences in various districts on its way to Hodeidah.

For his part, the Executive Director of the Fund for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled, Engineer Mohammed Al-Daylami, said that the march of bread is a message to the people of the free world to give up its silence about the war crimes committed against the Yemeni people and the air, sea and land blockade on all of Yemen.

“The march of bread represents the Yemeni steadfastness confronting the enormous hardships confronted”, Al-Daylami said.

A statement issued by the march read that this is a way to address the world, explaining that the US and Britain are also taking part in the crimes against Yemenis by supplying the Saudi regime varying types of weapons, including international banned ones.

Moreover, the Saudi reigme and its allies are starving the people of Yemen by stopping salary payments and transferring the Central Bank in the capital Sana’a to Aden, which is under the rule of the Saudi-backed ousted Yemeni president, as well as targeting and closing the port of Hodeidah, the only outlet left to provide citizens with food and medicine.

The statement called for the declaration of the port of Hodeidah as a humanitarian zone, the disbursement of salaries for state employees, the relief of displaced persons, the lifting of the economic blockade and the opening of air traffic to and from Sana’a airport and other airports, as well as the establishment of an impartial international commission of inquiry to investigate war crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition.