The United nation urged the Saudi-led coalition to stop targeting airports, and sea ports including Sana’a International Airport in order to facilitate access of aid into the country. “Without access to the airports, aid agencies are unable to bring in staff, vital supplies of medicines and other critical life-saving assistance,” said UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Johannes van der.

Sana’a International Airport has been a target of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes since the beginning of the operation on the 26^th of March. Currently, all runways in the airport cannot be used, and all humanitarian flights which were planned to land during the week were cancelled.

The continuous strikes caused severe damages in the airport,  but last week’s airstrikes have completely destroyed the runways, and hit a commercial parked Yemeni plane, and a cargo plane.

An official working in the airport said that after every attack they would try to fix what they can in order to ensure that the runways were safe for takeoff and landing, “Since the operation started, we were able to make minor fixes, we will try our best but the runways are completely destroyed, it’s very unfortunate that the runway is no longer functional, and help can’t be brought in for the people who are suffering.”  

Yemenis across the country live in very difficult circumstances, “try living without electricity for continuous weeks, try going from one shop to another to find bread under fire, try living without gas or petrol, try sleeping when all you can hear is bombs, try living in a place full of dead people on the streets, and try living without a roof on your head,” said a school teacher in Taiz.

Air strikes targeted the capital’s airport last week in order to stop an Iranian plane from landing. According to the Saudi-led coalition, the pilots did not cooperate with them and ignored their orders to turn the plane back. The Iranian state news agency IRNA, confirmed this and said that the plane was carrying humanitarian aid while Al Masirah TV said the plane was going to carry injured victims to Iran for treatment.

Since the operation started  the Saudi and Omani borders have been closed, and  The Saudi-led coalition imposed air and sea blockade. With no commercial planes or ships, people inside and outside Yemen are stuck. “We need planes to land in Yemen in order to transport Yemenis stuck abroad into the country, allow people to flee Yemen if they wish, and deliver humanitarian aid for those in need,” said Rehab Mohammed a Yemeni student in India.

Rescue mission planes from India, Pakistan, and Russia were able to evacuate foreign citizens through Sana’a International Airport during the past 5 weeks,  and all missions went smoothly according to airport officials. A foreign citizen still in Yemen fears that even if his country decides to evacuate citizens they will not be able to, “ We are still waiting to flee Yemen, the borders are closed and it’s very dangerous for a foreigner to travel by car, my only option is flying out,  every time they hit the airport I get scared, we really need an exit option always to be