“We’re in desperate need of diesel to run our water pump. If I leave my place, we won’t only stay in darkness, but our women & children won’t be able to drink”
In many of Yemen’s northern cities, obtaining fuel can be the difference between life & death.
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In many of Yemen’s northern cities, obtaining fuel can be the difference between life & death.
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In the past two weeks alone, hundreds of Yemenis, many of them hospital patients relying on life-saving medical devices, have died as a direct result of the lack of fuel needed to power generators, according to the government in Sana’a.
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In the past two weeks alone, hundreds of Yemenis, many of them hospital patients relying on life-saving medical devices, have died as a direct result of the lack of fuel needed to power generators, according to the government in Sana’a.
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Starving Yemen of petroleum products has been a tactic employed by Saudi since the onset of its now seven-year-long war on the country. However, its most recent blockade is significantly more extensive than previous ones, largely thanks to US policies.
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Since November 2020, US Navy ships in the Red & Arabian seas have not allowed oil tankers to enter Yemen unless approved by the US Treasury, even if those oil tankers are checked & issued permits by both Saudi-led Coalition & United Nations.
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The blockade has been carried out under the pretext of “preventing Iranian oil from reaching Houthis,” with oil imports limited to the Saudi-controlled Port of Aden.
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Since February 24...Saudi Arabia has been preventing fuel trucks from entering northern Yemen under the same pretext. In the rare case when a tanker is allowed to enter, the price per liter of petrol is nearly double.
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Dozens of hospitals, water pumping stations, bakeries, power stations, gas stations, even cleaning trucks, have already stopped operating owing to fuel shortages. In the north, the lack of fuel has reached a critical point.
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Dozens of hospitals, water pumping stations, bakeries, power stations, gas stations, even cleaning trucks, have already stopped operating owing to fuel shortages. In the north, the lack of fuel has reached a critical point.
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Panic has spread and essential services responsible for the care of over 15 million Yemenis – such as the Water and Sanitation Corporation, Ministry of Transportation, and the General Electricity Corporation – are barely functioning.
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Panic has spread and essential services responsible for the care of over 15 million Yemenis – such as the Water and Sanitation Corporation, Ministry of Transportation, and the General Electricity Corporation – are barely functioning.
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"Today, more than 17.4 million Yemenis are food insecure; an additional 1.6 million are expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger in coming months, taking the total of those with emergency needs to 7.3 million by the end of the year."
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Yemen’s fuel crisis has no doubt contributed greatly to the famine.
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