Reported Saudi Airstrikes Cut Taiz Road, Stranding Supply Trucks

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Buy from people, seek God. He hits schools and the road.

In a new crime added to the record of the systematic targeting of the necessities of life in Yemen, Saudi aggression warplanes launched airstrikes on Naqil al-Suha in Al-Shamaytayn District in southern Taiz Governorate.

This road is the vital artery and the only route linking Taiz with Lahij and Aden governorates, and food and medicine supplies flow along it to millions of citizens.

In an escalatory move whose clear aim is to choke the governorate and tighten the siege on the Yemeni people, denying their children the most basic living and public services.

What happened yesterday was, we were heading out from the Karb road at around twelve or eleven-thirty, something like that.

We came out on this road, one by one. Bombing began here. First missile overhead.

Rocks came down on us from this whole mountain.

All the buses were punctured, and the pickups, trucks, and refrigerator truck were burned up above.

We fought above the buses. The valley… We went up the whole valley. Later, another strike behind us.

Then we went up and found a motorbike. We went up onto the dirt.

By morning, there had been three or four strikes.

Strike after strike after strike on this tanker above us.

It was hit three times. It caught fire completely, and the driver got out.

Who hit you? We were just hit by aircraft.

Well, I’m saying that… We set out from Aden in a convoy.

What cargo? Inspection goods. I’m Mohammed Zabadi. Zabadi belongs to our company.

We set out from Aden loaded with inspection goods, traveling in a convoy.

Our route toward Taiz was known. I had all my paperwork in order. There were no violations or anything.

The tanker’s manifest was complete. We never expected aircraft. I mean, I never expected an airstrike.

They'd hit civilians.

The drone camera captured horrific scenes of hundreds of tankers and trucks, commercial vehicles, piled up and stranded along the Sahwa road, after three treacherous Saudi airstrikes cut off this vital road.

One of them directly hit a tanker loaded with cement, While the other two airstrikes destroyed large sections of the road.

At dawn, the scene sparked a wave of anger among residents and truck drivers who stressed that the crimes of the aggression and its suffocating siege would only make them more resolute and determined to continue the fight for freedom and independence.

So it struck here, in this spot. Right? The Saudi plane, last night...

It damaged this excavator, which belongs to a merchant, right?

And it’s still under the same strike. This is a systematic Saudi aggression against Yemen and its citizens. Got it?

They strike the roads and places that are, uh, connected, you know…

Roads that… I mean, any access route. Yes, they say here that Taiz is under siege.

These are the ones besieging Taiz. These are the ones besieging—besieging the people of Taiz.

The Saudi aggression or anyone else. It’s the air force that is besieging more than a thousand stranded trucks here in the valley because Saudi Arabia struck the road.

This Saudi aggression is sinful, honestly.

The aggression is besieging Taiz. The aggression, or anyone else.

All the patients and wounded are upset here.

Food and medicine? Everything is here. All here.

Food, medicine, all here. We have no other line open besides this one.

Is it closed now? It's closed. And I haven't been since yesterday either.

Day after day, the Saudi enemy persists in destroying civilian targets and blocking public roads, blatantly disregarding all human laws and norms, amid shameful international silence and blatant UN complicity.

But the will to persevere here on the ground is proving stronger than the machinery of destruction and more unyielding than every attempt to subjugate and besiege us.

As the aggression and siege continue, the Yemeni people have no choice but to confront them and take every necessary measure, along a path whose outcome is certain: victory comes from God, and with God’s help, all constraints will be shattered and locked doors opened.

From Taiz Governorate, Jamil Al-Maqrami, Al-Masirah. translate.moe.