Arab Coalition Allows Fuel Ship to Enter Yemen’s Hodeidah Port

Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)
Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)
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Arab Coalition Allows Fuel Ship to Enter Yemen’s Hodeidah Port

Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)
Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)

The Arab Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen allowed on Saturday a fuel ship to enter the port city of Hodeidah.

An official source said that the Coalition permitted the Bahia Danas ship, which was carrying 13,808 metric tons of fuel, to enter the port.

The source stressed that the Coalition will continue to support humanitarian and relief efforts in Yemen,

Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki had declared that the Iranian-backed Houthi militias were preventing the distribution of vaccines in the war-torn country. They were also looting medical and food aid.

Such acts are a violation of all humanitarian laws, he stressed.

The Coalition had on Wednesday announced that it will continue to keep Houthi-held Hodeidah open to receiving relief aid.

It will remain open for 30 days, at the recommendation of United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.



Syria and Neighbors Urge Israel to Stop Bombings

Israeli Merkava tanks in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 08 May 2025. (EPA)
Israeli Merkava tanks in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 08 May 2025. (EPA)
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Syria and Neighbors Urge Israel to Stop Bombings

Israeli Merkava tanks in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 08 May 2025. (EPA)
Israeli Merkava tanks in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 08 May 2025. (EPA)

The foreign ministers of Syria, Türkiye and Jordan, meeting Monday in Ankara, called on Israel to cease attacks on Syria and to withdraw troops from the country.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on Syria since longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December, often targeting military sites and killing dozens of people.

Israeli officials have also described Syria's new authorities as extremists and claimed to defend the country's Druze minority with a recent spate of attacks.

Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a press conference with his Jordanian and Syrian counterparts that "Israel's expansionism poses a significant threat to the security, stability and future of Syria."

"This must come to an end. And we are on the same page about this. Syria needs to be supported to prevent terrorist organizations from settling in this region," Fidan added, noting that Syria shares a 900-kilometer (560-mile) border with Türkiye.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told the joint press conference that "our borders are constantly violated by Israeli attacks".

The Israeli strikes are "calculated escalations aimed at destabilizing Syria and dragging the region into a new cycle of conflict", Shaibani said, decrying "systematic violations of international law and explicit provocations".

He called on the international community to put Israel under "increased pressure" to halt the bombings.

Jordan's top diplomat, Ayman Safadi, said attacks on Syrian soil "will not bring security to Israel and will bring nothing to Syria except ruin and destruction".