The director of Sana'a International Airport appointed to the authorities of the Houthi coup militia, Khaled Al -Shaif, said that the exposure of the only civilian plane operating at the airport was fully destroyed as a result of Israeli air strikes, which targeted the airport directly, and led to the disruption of air navigation and the travel of hundreds of Yemeni pilgrims.

Al -Shayef said, in a press conference, that Israel has destroyed eight Yemeni civilian planes, including the plane that was bombed last Wednesday at Sanaa airport, describing this targeting as "deliberate and systematic" with the aim of "isolating Yemen from the world."

He explained that the first raid targeted the perimeter of the runway and landing, then followed by three raids targeting the airline and the back of the plane belonging to the Yemeni Airlines, before being targeted directly with several raids that led to its complete destruction, although it had arrived from the Jordanian capital, Amman, with 150 passengers, and was scheduled to take two flights to transport 300 Yemeni pilgrims to the land Holy.

He pointed out that the airport administration implemented what he described as an emergency plan immediately after the first raid, he said that it was able to evacuate the airport and save about 50 employees of the ground service crews, in addition to taking out more than 300 passengers from pilgrims and arrivals.

Al -Shayef said that the destruction of the only civil plane will double the suffering of the Yemenis, especially patients with chronic diseases and are entirely dependent on these trips to receive treatment abroad, indicating that the targeted plane represented the "artery of hope" for patients and travelers.

He stated that the plane that was destroyed is the eighth plane that is bombed as part of a series of previous Israeli targeting, which included five Yemeni Airlines planes, a presidential plane, and a government shipping plane affiliated with the government, and another affiliated with Al -Saeeda.

With regard to the Hajj season, Al -Shayef explained that 1,200 Yemeni pilgrims managed to travel through Sanaa airport, but about 800 other pilgrims stumbled their travel due to the last shelling.

And recently, the internationally recognized Yemeni government began the procedures for transporting pilgrims from Sana'a to the Holy Land, by land, through the port of the deposit, after the last plane was destroyed.