Warning strike staged by Yemen to block Saudi oil theft

A Yemeni military official said Yemen’s Armed Forces have carried out a warning strike against a Saudi oil tanker attempting to steal direly-needed crude supplies from an oil terminal which lies in south of the impoverished country.
Army Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced the strike on Friday after the Saudi ship attempted to loot oil through the Dabba port in Yemen’s Hadhramout Province.

Saree elaborated on the aim to carry out the basic warning strike, saying the effort was made to prevent the continuation of plundering Yemen’s oil wealth.

He stressed the wealth must be used for paying Yemeni People’s salaries, the country’s al-Masirah television network reported.

Saree emphasized that the Armed Forces will not hesitate to prevent any ship from trying to plunder the wealth of the Yemeni people.

“We are capable of launching more warning operations to defend Yemeni people,” he said, adding, “We renew [our] warning to all companies to fully comply with the decisions of the authorities in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a” and avoid contributing to the oil theft.”

The despotic Saudi regime launched a devastating war of aggression against Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with a number of its allies while receiving weapons and logistical support from the US and several other Western countries.

Throughout the invasion, the coalition has also been enforcing a crippling siege on the Arab world’s already poorest nation, preventing it from exporting its oil reserves and also stopping fuel-laden vessels from berthing at Yemen’s lifeline al-Hudaydah port.