Sanaa and Yemeni cities under the control of the Houthis are witnessing a suffocating fuel crisis due to the American bombing of Ras Issa oil port. The Yemeni oil company affiliated with the Houthis announced, on Monday, that it had to activate the emergency plan in all its stations and stations, with the aim of managing the inventory currently available. 
The company said that the procedure is temporary, until the ships were able to block the sidewalks and resume unloading operations in the port of Ras Issa in Al -Hodeidah Governorate, in the west of the country, which is exposed to a continuous aggression.

The company explained that this measure was caused by "the continuation of the brutal American aggression that targeted the vital facilities of the company," as the Ras Issa oil port was targeted on April 17, and all packing platforms and ship emptying pipes were destroyed. The company added that the targeting was renewed on the 25th of last April, which led to the outputs of the establishments again, and the gasoline transport ship "Pergish Ships" was damaged and three of its crew were wounded with Russian citizenship.

This crisis led to complete paralysis of the movement, the Yemeni cities prevail under the control of the Houthis, as the streets of Sana'a seemed almost free from the movement of cars and vehicles, amid great concern among the citizens of the validity of a suffocating fuel crisis that brings them back to the situation that was prevalent about six years ago.

Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed monitored a complete closure of all fuel filling stations in Sana'a suddenly since Monday morning, May 5, after a statement issued last Sunday evening by the public oil company in the Yemeni capital, in which it confirmed the absence of a fuel crisis as cars and vehicles had begun to line up in queues in front of the packing stations, which made it declined to work, which was noticed the next morning.

In the context, citizens confirmed that the black market began to exploit this situation after the closure of packing stations. Citizen Imad Al -Qubati, a car driver, told Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed, that after the gasoline was run out in his vehicle to resort to the black market that sells one liter for 2000 riyals (the dollar = about 535 riyals), where he was satisfied with mobilizing 20 liters of gasoline, while Salah Al -Airi did not venture, as Al -Qubati did forced, indicating that he pillaged his car at home and preferred to wait until the return of the packing stations as the oil company promised as the oil company promised as the oil company promised. Provides oil derivatives.

According to experts, the focus of the American aggression at the head of Issa in the city of Hodeidah overlooking the Red Sea in the western coast of Yemen, the aim of which was to disrupt the port that receives ships loaded with imported fuel through the port of Hodeidah.

Al -Mallah expert Youssef Al -Ramah, explained to Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that the port of Ras Issa witnessed the development and expansion of the Sanaa Authority, through which oil derivatives are imported, as imported fuels cover the needs of the largest percentage of Yemen's population.