... Der US-Kongress und Jemen – Politik des Wiederaufbaus nach einem Konflikt – Hodeidah: Kämpfe, Luftangriffe, dazwuschen Zivilisten – und mehr
September 17, 2018: Film: Victims of Aug. 9 School bus air raid – Starving Yemenis in remote area – Joint UAE-US Special Operations Base in Mukalla – US Congress and Yemen – Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction – Hodeidah: Fighting, air raids, civilians inbetween – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Klassifizierung / Classification
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Seuchen / Most important: Epidemics
cp1b1 Am wichtigsten: Kampf um Hodeidah: Deutsch/ Most important: Hodeidah battle: German
cp1b2 Am wichtigsten: Kampf um Hodeidah: Englisch / Most important: Hodeidah battle: English
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp2a Allgemein: Saudische Blockade / General: Saudi blockade
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp7a Saudi-Arabien und Iran / Saudi Arabia and Iran
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp12a Katar-Krise / Qatar crisis
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms Trade
cp13b Mercenaries / Söldner
cp13c Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
cp13d Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Sonstiges / Other
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A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik / Politics
pH = Pro-Houthi
pS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
Für wen das Thema ganz neu ist / Who is new to the subject
Einführende Artikel u. Überblicke für alle, die mit den Ereignissen im Jemen noch nicht vertraut sind, hier:
Yemen War: Introductory articles, overviews, for those who are still unfamiliar with the Yemen war here:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-einfuehrende-artikel-u-ueberblicke
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Film: "Ich konnte nicht mal mehr weinen"
Osama war zwölf und Ali sieben Jahre alt - im August traf eine Bombe den Schulbus, in dem sie saßen. Im Jemen tobt ein gnadenloser Krieg - die Leidtragenden sind Zivilisten - vor allem Kinder.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel-jemen-101.html
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In a Remote District, Starving Yemenis Live Off Leaves
In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. International aid agencies have been caught off guard by the extent of the suffering there as parents and children waste away.
The main health center in Aslam district was flooded with dozens of emaciated children during a recent visit by The Associated Press. Excruciatingly thin toddlers, eyes bulging, sat in a plastic washtub used in a make-shift scale as nurses weighed them one by one. Their papery skin was stretched tight over pencil-like limbs and knobby knees. Nurses measured their forearms, just a few centimeters in diameter, marking the worst stages of malnutrition.
At least 20 children are known to have died of starvation already this year, more than three years into the country's ruinous civil war, in the province that includes the district. The real number is likely far higher, since few families report their children's deaths when they die at home, officials say.
The worsening hunger in Aslam is a sign of the gaps in an international aid system that is already overwhelmed and under pressure from local authorities. Yet outside aid is the only thing standing between Yemen's people and widespread death from starvation. The conditions in the district may also be an indication that the warnings humanitarian officials have sounded for months are coming true: In the face of unending war, hunger's spread is outstripping efforts to keep people alive.
In first six months of this year, Hajjah province, where Aslam is located, recorded 17,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition, higher than in any full year on record, said Walid al-Shamshan, head of the Health Ministry's nutrition section in the province.
Malnourished children who were previously treated return to clinics in even worse condition — if they make it back at all.
"Deaths happen in remote villages where people can't reach the health units," al-Shamshan said. "It's a steady deterioration and it's scary," he said.
Aslam is one of the poorest districts in the country, with hundreds of small villages, some isolated in the high mountains in the Houthi heartland. Its population of 75,000 to 106,000 includes both local residents and accelerating numbers of displaced people who fled fighting elsewhere.
In terms of hunger, Aslam isn't alone. Health officials say that other districts closer to war zones may not be getting food aid at all. But Aslam did see one of the province's highest jumps in the number of reported children suffering from severe acute malnutrition: From 384 cases being treated in January, an additional 1,319 more came in over the next six months, according to local health records. That comes to around 15 percent of the district's children.
Aslam's main health center has no pediatricians, no electricity, no oxygen cylinders. At night, medics use flash lights because there is no fuel for generators. Fathers beg in the nearby market for 300 riyals — around 50 U.S. cents — to buy a diaper for their child going into the center.
Under heavy pressure from Houthi authorities, international agencies like WFP and UNICEF and their Yemeni partners are required to use lists of needy provided by local officials.
Critics accuse those officials of favoritism. That especially works against the local population in Aslam, where many belong to the "Muhammasheen," Arabic for the "Marginalized," a community of darker-skinned Yemenis shunned by the rest of society and left to work as garbage collectors, menial laborers or beggars.
One humanitarian coordinator in Hajjah said local Houthi authorities distribute aid unfairly.
"The powerful hinder the work of the humanitarian agencies and deprive of aid those people who are in most need," he said – by AP
https://www.apnews.com/5a4645766b414fe59b5f00ca3e543bd9 = https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/09/14/world/middleeast/ap-ml-yemen-pocket-of-famine.html = https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12125455
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Hunting AQAP in Yemen: Joint UAE-US Special Operations Base in Mukalla (IMINT)
AQAP’s power in Southern and Central Yemen has increased considerably during the Yemeni Civil War. The central government’s collapse allowed AQAP to establish large urban strongholds. AQAP dominates the Hadramawt, Mahrah and Shabwa provinces, and exerts significant control in Abyan and Bayda. AQAP cells have conducted attacks in major cities such as Aden, Hudayah and Sana’a. AQAP is currently estimated to have between 6,000 and 7,000 active fighters in Yemen.
In 2017, the new U.S. Presidential administration authorized the Department of Defense (DoD) and the CIA’s Special Activities Division (SAD) to accelerate and expand operations against AQAP. Mukalla, now under UAE/STC control, has become America’s largest covert forward operating base (FOB) in Yemen.
The SOFs deployed in Mukalla are drawn from all JSOC special mission units, but mostly the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (known as DEVGRU or Navy SEAL Team Six). The SOFs get airlifted from the U.S. Naval Expeditionary Base “Camp Lemonnier” in Djibouti to Riyan Airport in Mukalla. Camp Lemonnier is a hub for special operations in the Horn of Africa area and the most important launching pad for drone/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strikes outside of Afghanistan.
Flight traffic monitors show undesignated Dornier 328-110 turboprop commuter aircrafts departing Camp Lemonnier and “disappearing” over Mukalla after descending for landing. The Dornier 328 is the civilian version of the C-146A Wolfhound – the primary SOF air asset used to airlift fireteams or small cargo loads into semi-prepared airfields. JSOC is known to use the civilian version of the Wolfhound for SOF deployment in order to maintain operations security (OPSEC) standards.
Image Intelligence (IMINT) based on commercial satellite imagery furthermore reveals a significant military expansion of Riyan Airport since it was liberated from AQAP. UAE/STC forces have built or considerably expanded at least 10 sites in vicinity to the runway, including observation posts, warehouses, fortified sites, patrol routes, a small seashore construction, and a number of unidentified buildings. A militarized checkpoint replaces the civilian airport entrance, which was closed in mid 2016. The main apron hosts military attack and transport helicopters, which can be used to forward deploy SOFs into combat areas.
Reports also suggest that a covert detention and interrogation center – run by local authorities and exploited by the UAE and U.S. for intelligence collection – has been established on the grounds of Riyan Airport. We assess that all of the airport enhancements serve military purposes. In 2018, enlargement and enhancement efforts continue.
The mission profile of JSOC SOFs deployed in Yemen is to conduct reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and HVT-execution, including support for kinetic UAV strikes. They frequently liaise and coordinate with Emirati commandos and enlist the help of local STC-aligned tribesmen and militias.
At the moment, the primary target of U.S. SOF/UAV operations in Yemen is AQAP emir Qasim al-Raymi, who is closely associated with Ayman al-Zawahiri, AQ’s top commander
It is highly likely that U.S. SOF/UAV operations in Yemen will intensify in the next years. The U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is currently looking to contract private operators for airborne casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) in Yemen and the Horn of Africa area. According to the draft performance work statement published online, the Special Operations Command Center will be the beneficiary of these services (with a lot of satellite images)
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How Congress Can End the War in Yemen
On July 3, PBS News Hour reporter Jane Ferguson was in Yemen covering the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. She spoke with Dr. Ali Al Motaa, a Yemeni professor, who told her: “The missiles that kill us, American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks, Abrams, American-made. You are saying to me, where is America? America is the whole thing.” He wasn’t exaggerating.
It is true that, from 2013 to 2017, Washington supplied more than 60 percent of Saudi arms.
But the US is doing much more than selling weapons. The American military is actively participating in the war and bears a direct responsibility for the atrocities that result.
None of this military participation is permitted under the US Constitution. Article I, section 8 clearly reserves for Congress the power to declare war and to decide on US military action abroad. No court decision (including by the Supreme Court) has altered that original meaning.
The 1973 War Powers Resolution has a very important provision that legislates for when the president has introduced armed forces into unauthorized hostilities: in such circumstances, a single member of Congress can force a debate and a vote on the military action. This debate and vote cannot be blocked by the leadership of either house.
The Saudis are clearly watching what is happening in Congress with alarm. In August, they waited until Congress went into recess before they began bombing Hodeidah,
But it is the US support for and participation in the war that will be decisive. Bruce Riedel, who directs the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution, said in April 2016 that if the US and UK “tonight told King Salman that this war has to end, it would end tomorrow.” Apart from anything else, the US has hundreds of refueling planes that have, reportedly, participated in 7,564 refueling “events” during the war; no other country has comparable capacity.
This war, like most American military ventures, has nothing to do with the national security of the United States. The Houthis that Washington is trying to defeat, because they are supported by Iran, the Saudis’ regional rival, are also fierce opponents of al-Qaeda
The war in Yemen is primarily an internal civil war driven by local interests; this includes a regional conflict between the North and the South, which were separate countries before 1990.
Iran has backed the Houthis, although it is not clear to what extent, and Tehran certainly does not control the Houthis. Yet the Iranian support is the pretext for US intervention, especially for avowed Iran foes such as Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis, President Trump himself, as well as neoconservatives generally, including National Security Adviser John Bolton. Behind the Iran pretext, the motive for US participation in this war is the usual one: maintaining American power and influence in the region.
It is unfortunate that the major media have given so little attention to the battle in Congress, because that is how this war will be ended and potentially millions of lives saved. The omission is not because US journalists are particularly sympathetic to this war.
But most journalists seem to accept the imperial presidency as a political reality, and do not seem to realize that Congress has constitutional authority over decisions of war and peace and is in the process of reclaiming that authority. The implications of this historic shift would be enormous, as big as the destruction, mass slaughter, and chaos that has been caused by the endless series of wars and US military interventions unleashed since the 9/11 attacks seventeen years ago. – by Mark Weisbrot
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/14/how-congress-can-end-the-war-in-yemen/
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The Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Reconstruction following the devastating wars and state failure which followed the Arab uprisings of 2011 has become an increasingly pressing issue.
Yemen has endured the near complete destruction of its infrastructure and economy, leaving much of the population at risk of starvation and disease.
It is difficult to exaggerate the extent of the destruction which these wars have left behind. These wars have unfolded across multiple levels. Millions of people have been dispossessed from their homes, driven into exile at home or abroad. Infrastructure has been devastated, with many cities and towns utterly destroyed. National economies have evolved into local war economies. State and local institutions have been fundamentally reshaped. Communal polarization around sectarian or political identities has progressed to extreme levels. Entire communities have been severely impoverished as health and educational attainments plummet. And the individual trauma suffered by tens of millions of people afflicted by conflict and violence will have enduring psychological and developmental effects.
The reconstruction now being discussed is not just about physical or economic rebuilding. Reconstruction can never be separated from politics, and the looming choices will rarely be driven only by humanitarian or economic needs. Reconstruction will take place across a range of political contexts, from the brutally fiercerestoration of the Syrian regime to the corrupt, and the sectarian and inefficient Iraqi system to the nearly nonexistent states of Libya and Yemen. External and local actors alike will get rich or be frozen out, accumulate social power or face marginalization. Amnesties could restore war criminals to positions of power, or transitional justice institutions could lead to their political exclusion. Across the region, the forms and modalities of reconstruction will shape a new political status quo with long lasting implications.
In January 2018, POMEPS and the Carnegie Middle East Center convened a workshop in Beirut to discuss original research from a wide range of cases on the politics of post-conflict reconstruction. Workshop participants made no assumptions either that conflict had ended or that reconstruction would imminently begin. Rather they aimed to explore the interlinkages between reconstruction, reconciliation and repatriation focusing on regional examples. Some of the cases presented involved ongoing conflicts, the winding down of which could be seen flickering on the horizon. Others involved conflicts which ended decades ago, such as Algeria’s and Lebanon’s civil wars, allowing for a historical perspective. The research featured in this collection focuses on very different dimensions of post-conflict situations, from the contestation of memory to the physical rebuilding of cities in rubble.
Several key themes and questions emerged from the discussions:
THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
WHAT NEEDS TO BE RECONSTRUCTED?
The physical reconstruction needs are staggering. The United Nations Special Envoy has estimated the cost of rebuilding Syria at $250 billion but some estimates go as high as $1 trillion. In Yemen, the ongoing war has brought more than a third of the population to the brink of starvation while the World Bank has assessed the cost of physical rebuilding at some $40 billion.
WHO WILL PAY FOR RECONSTRUCTION?
The Trump Administration has indicated little support for large-scale American economic assistance to rebuilding Middle Eastern states. Only the Gulf states have the financial resources to fund large scale reconstruction, but they are parties to the wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya and cannot offer non-political reconstruction assistance.
REFUGEE RETURN AND REPATRIATION
Refugee repatriation and the return of the internally displaced to their homes of origin will be a central challenge for any post conflict reconstruction plan. Guarantees for safety and security aside, the nature of the conflicts in the region mean that any sustainable peace needs to take into account the needs of displaced populations and refugees in any post conflict scenario.
CAN THERE BE JUSTICE, OR EVEN MEMORY?
What is also troubling for Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans and Yemenis among others is the absence of any mechanisms for transitional justice or political accountability. The question of whether justice or rebuilding should come first is important in all countries moving out of conflict. Should rebuilding states be encouraged to defer historical reckoning or transitional justice in the name of preserving fragile new stability? Or should they insist on some basic justice measures and if so at what level of the command chain? The lack of accountability and justice mechanisms played a key trigger in the uprisings to begin with, and in a post conflict situation this absence is particularly worrying.
http://carnegie-mec.org/2018/09/13/politics-of-post-conflict-reconstruction-pub-77243
My comment: The external powers which are responsible for morphing civil conflicts and civil wars into international destruction wars should pay the greatest part of reconstruction.– This article puts a lot of blame on Syria’s Assad and none on the US. This is quite absurd.
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Seuchen / Most important: Epidemics
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Cholera Outbreak in Yemen Claims At Least 9 - Health Ministry
As many as nine people, including seven children, died from cholera in Yemen, Youssef Hadiri, the spokesman for the Health Ministry in the Houthi-controlled Sanaa, said on Sunday.
"The number of deaths caused by cholera totaled nine, five of [the dead] are female and four are male, with seven victims being children," Hadiri wrote in a tweet.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809171068086242-yemen-cholera-edath-toll-health-ministry/
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Saudi Arabia reports cholera infection in southern province
Saudi Arabia confirmed one cholera infection and three other suspected cases in an area bordering Yemen, where an epidemic has killed more than 2,000 people, state TV reported on Sunday, citing a health ministry official.
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The death of a 50 years old woman with dengue fever today in Taiz City
A 50 years old woman died of dengue fever on Thursday after her bitter struggle with kidney failure in the western city of Taiz.
cp1b Am wichtigsten: Kampf um Hodeidah Most important: Hodeidah battle
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INGO statement on the renewed and rapidly advancing offensive on Hodeidah
INGOs working in Yemen are extremely worried about the new escalation of fighting in Hodeidah and the closure of key routes between Hodeidah city and the north and east of the country. The humanitarian catastrophe that has been unfolding in al-Durayhimi and the south of Hodeidah governorate will likely spread to the rest of the governorate and trigger another wave of internally displaced persons. Nearly 470,000 people have already fled Hodeidah since June, fearing for their lives amidst airstrikes and fighting on the ground.
Audrey Crawford, DRC’s Country Director in Yemen says: “We are equally worried about the likely closure of the port of Hodeidah, through which 70% of supplies are shipped. With rates of malnutrition and disease running high, the port is a vital lifeline for millions of Yemenis who are dependent on aid.” “Given the currency crisis and rapid increase of prices even for the most basic food supplies, the closure of the port, as well as transport routes from Hodeidah to other parts of the country, would have a devastating impact on the 17.8 million people in Yemen who are food insecure,” states Ephraim Palmero, Country Director of ADRA in Yemen. “This could lead to widespread famine.” We urge all parties to the conflict to immediately stop the fighting in and around Hodeidah, and convene for consultations under the guidance of UNSE Martin Griffiths.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/ingo-statement-renewed-and-rapidly-advancing-offensive-hodeidah
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Houthis transfer money from Hodeida
The Houthis started on Friday transferring money from Hodeida’s banks to the capital Sana’a, informed sources told Alsahwa Net.
The sources said that the money was transferred amid tight security measures.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-23695
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UN's Yemen envoy in Sanaa, as 32 rebels killed
Fresh clashes and air strikes around the Yemeni city of Hodeida have killed 32 rebels, hospital and medical sources said Sunday, as the UN envoy kept up peace efforts in Sanaa.
A military source told AFP the Saudi-led coalition fighting alongside the Yemeni government against Shiite Huthi rebels carried out an air raid on a radio station tower in the port city of Hodeida.
Three people died in Sunday's raid, he said, while Huthi-run Al-Masirah television said four people were killed, three security guards and a station employee.
According to medical sources in Hodeida province, which is controlled by the Huthis, at least 32 insurgents have been killed and 14 others wounded in clashes and air strikes since Saturday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6173451/UNs-Yemen-envoy-Sanaa-32-rebels-killed.html
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Film: Yemen: Saudi-led coalition forces make advances on Hodeidah highway
Saudi-led coalition forces have reportedly taken control of strategic parts of the Kilo 16 highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpSiN1ldF4
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Anschlag arabischer Koalition auf Radiosender in Jemen – Todesopfer
Bei einem Luftangriff der von Saudi-Arabien geführten Koalition auf einen Radiosender in der jemenitischen Hafenstadt Hodeidah sind vier Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Das meldet der Sender Al-Massira.
Bei den Opfern handelt es sich demnach um drei Sicherheitsleute und einen Mitarbeiter des Radiosenders.
https://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20180916322334605-jemen-radiosender-anschlag/
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4 Hodeidah radio employees killed in aggression airstrikes
Four Hodeidah radio employees were killed on Sunday, when the US-backed Saudi-led coalition fighter jets targeted station transmissions in al-Marawi'ah district, an official in the radio told Saba on Sunday.
A radio engineer and three others were killed in airstrikes targeted radio transmissions in al-marawi'ah district, said the official.
The paramedics could not pull out the victims because of constantly aggression fly overhead.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508394.htm
film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfCSJqi6ic
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Saudi jets wage three raids on Hodeidah
The Saudi war jets waged three air raids on Hodeidah province, an official told Saba on Sunday.
The air raids targeted al-Mrawah district.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508367.htm
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Emirati newspaper: preparations for a naval and ground military operation towards the port of Hodeidah
The UAE's al-Bayan newspaper quoted military officials as saying that government forces and the Saudi-led Arab coalition are preparing to start a naval and ground operation in the direction of the port of Hodeidah in the next two days, to complete the liberation of the city and the port.
The sources said Saturday that the Giants ' brigades reinforced their presence near Kilo 16, where they again thwarted attempts by the Houthis to infiltrate their positions in the strategic area.
She explained that the planned military operation would be crossed two axes towards the port of Hodeidah, land attack from the western side of the city, and marine by launching an attack and a massive landing of the coalition's naval pieces towards the port with air cover for coalition fighters.
"A single outlet, the north, remains in front of the Houthis to surrender. The coming hours will be crucial for the battle for the liberation of the port and the remainder of the areas south of Hodeidah, especially the Jarah, Zabeed and Bayt al-Faqih. "
My comment: A naval attack gainst Hodeidah hobour really would destry Northern Yemen’s lifeline… - Permanent Saudi / US propaganda of Houthis threatening international shipping in the Red Sea really is a bad joke. Such a naval assault would be the REAL threat to international shipping there.
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U.S-Saudi warplanes launch 4 raids on Hodeidah
U.S-Saudi aggression’s warplanes waged four air raids on Hodeidah province, an official said Saba on Saturday.
The strikes targeted al-Zahraa district in the province
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508246.htm
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Saudi-led airstrikes targets civilians' houses in Hodeidah
A citizen was killed on Friday when the US-Saudi aggression coalition warplanes hit citizens ' houses in Hodeidah province, a security official told Saba on Saturday.
The Saudi fighter jet launched two airstrikes citizens' house in Dir-kamws area in Zahra district killing a civilian and destroying the citizen' house.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508239.htm
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#Saudi led coalition warplanes destroyed this house in Bit Alfaqeh area #Hodeidah, #Yemen. They will continue to kill civilians, destroy houses and infrastructure. (photos)
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1041005470083952641
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Houthis bar civilians from Hodeidah hospitals to keep beds for fighters
Houthi rebels sent home hundreds of patients at clinics and hospitals across Yemen’s Hodeidah in recent days and ordered hospital managers to turn away civilians in order to keep beds free for wounded fighters, medical sources told The National.
Managers at clinics in recently liberated areas on the edges of the Red Sea port city, which is under rebel control, said that they had received a large influx of people seeking medical assistance who said they had been turned away from facilities in the city.
Dr Khaled Suhail, the director of Athwarah public hospital in the city of Hodeidah, confirmed that the hospital was receiving a large number of the injured Houthi fighters.
"We have been receiving the injured fighters from Ansar Allah [also known as the Houthis], the citizens couldn't approach the hospital because all the roads are cut," Dr Suhail said.
My comment: By Emirati media. This could be propaganda, of course it must not.
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'Waiting for death': Yemen's Hodeidah residents fear final Saudi-led assault
Hodeidah's strategic location and its food stocks provide humanitarian assistance for residents in city and country's northern provinces
Mohammed Hadi, a resident of the city’s Ghulail neighbourhood, told Middle East Eye that fierce battles continued on Friday along Kilo 16 Street, the main road that is in dispute.
Mohammed Hadi lives less than four kilometres from Kilo 16 Street, but he has not fled his house as he says it is more dangerous to leave.
"The main road was blocked and there are some bystreets, but they are not safe to go through because air strikes target any car in those streets,” Hadi said. "It is better to stay in my house waiting for death than to leave amid battles.”
The Saudi-led coalition has launched several air strikes against Houthi positions in Hodeidah in the past few days to help pro-government fighters advance.
During the past three days, Mohammed Hadi said that forces loyal to President Hadi have advanced towards Hodeidah, while Houthi reinforcements have arrived from the north and other parts of the city.
People are afraid
Tens of civilians are believed to have been killed and more wounded in the clashes since then. Hodeidah resident Mohammed Hadi said he believes there are more civilians still inside their homes, too afraid to leave.
"My children cannot sleep at all and even if they sleep, the battles frighten them, so they cannot sleep well,” Hadi said.
"They are talking about death all the time and they do not enjoy anything inside the house. I think they will suffer from psychological trauma in the future because of the war."
Hadi said he and his family rarely buy food from shops in the area. He fears that one day soon, they won’t be able to leave their home at all.
"I want to tell the international organisations and the warring sides to take children into consideration. No one can imagine their situation in this war,” he said.
"We need the international organisations to intervene in Hodeida, to take us to safe areas out of the city because we cannot leave our houses.”
Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, warned that the humanitarian situation is worsening.
Some civilians have fled Hodeidah to Sanaa as the fighting has drawn closer to the city.
Khaldoon al-Absi, a resident who fled the city on Thursday, said he travelled from Hodeidah to Hajja province and then to Sanaa, the safest route to the capital.
Taking control of Kilo 16 Street, he said, was only an “illusory victory” for the pro-government forces.
"The pro-Hadi forces are saying they will besiege the city, but in fact they can’t do that because there are several roads connecting Hodeidah to other provinces,” he told MEE.
Civilians taking buses from Hodeidah to other provinces have resorted to more expensive and circuitous routes to reach safety.
"I used to pay YR4,000 ($7) for the bus from Hodeidah to Sanaa and yesterday I paid YR6,00 because the road is far,” Absi said. "We need a solution to this war. We cannot bear more suffering.”
Many of Hodeidah’s residents have fled the city during the past three days. The markets are nearly empty and no one thinks of anything but the war, he said.
Hodeidah’s vital importance
Hodeidah is a lifeline for millions of Yemenis across the country.
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Scenes Of Defeating One Of The Biggest Attempts OF The Aggression Forces To Advance in Yemen’s Hodeida
One of The biggest Advance of aggression mercenaries is defeated in alhodidah. The biggest advance try of the aggression forces toward 16 kilo during this month was defeated by the heroes of the Yemeni army and popular committees , causing heavy losses for the enemy.
Despite The enemy’s attempt to advance was covered with F16 air-raids with more than 50 raid and Apache helicopters, they suffered dozens of deaths and injuries as well destruction of various war equipment.
According to a military source in the Yemeni defense ministry , the heroes of Yemeni popular committees destroyed 8 American armored vehicles of Ashkosh type with their crew, and 4 military cars destroyed with suitable weapon with their crew.
The source pointed that the failure advance we’re formed of 3 brigades proceeded by the brigade of the so-called Allahji, that suffered alone 15 dead and more than 30 wounded.
The source added that the army and popular committees destroyed 3 armored cars and killed their crew with a mercenary leader, so the number of destroyed vehicles reaches the 16 in Al-jah and Al-durihemi areas (photos)
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Film: Yemen fighting continues into third day
Fighting between Houthi militants and the government-supporting Saudi-led coalition has continued into its third day around the port city of Hodeida.
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News Analysis: Yemeni gov't forces seek to tighten noose on Houthis in Hodeidah
The Yemeni government forces backed by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition seek to tighten the noose on the Iranian-backed Houthis in the Red Sea coast city of Hodeidah after making significant advancement in the ongoing fighting.
Army units of pro-government Giants Brigades have taken control of several areas and expelled the Houthis following days of ferocious fighting.
Yemeni observers believe that the Saudi-led coalition and its local allies will continue to conduct clean-up operations and pursue fleeing Houthi militants, but they won't storm densely populated areas.
"Cutting off supply routes for Houthis in Hodeidah is considered as a wise plan that will force Houthis to surrender easily without causing harms for citizens," said Hussein Hanshy, head of Aden's Aden's Research and Strategic Studies center.
He added that "the Houthi militiamen are well-prepared for such street fighting that won't end easily, but the government forces have different plans that will lay a siege on Houthi-controlled areas with fewer losses."
Saleh Abu Odal, a political activist and observer, said that cutting off supply lines by government forces means that the Iranian-backed Houthi group is nearing the end of its control over one of the country's strategic ports.
He pointed out that "Houthis will face a very serious obstacle in the next days and can't continue longer in fighting well-trained army soldiers backed by modern armored vehicles because of lack of severe fighters."
Abdul-Raqeeb Hidyani, a political analyst and writer, said that the Yemeni warring rivals in Hodeidah must pay attention to the humanitarian situation and start in providing shelters and securing safe roads for families willing to flee war-torn areas in Hodeidah as soon as possible.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/15/c_137468471.htm
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Hodeidah: The US-Saudi aggression bombed the warehouse of the World Food Program in the Kilo 16 area, which is located near the Silos of the Red Sea Mills by local source in Hodeidah.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1923322887720732/?type=3
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At least 8 Yemeni civilians lost their lives in Fresh airstrike on Hodeida Province By the US-Saudi coalition warplanes .
Local source clarified that the aggression jets committed new crime against the citizens in Kilo-16 area of Alhali district, killing 8 civilians . (photos)
http://www.newnewss.net/new-us-ksa-airstrikes-killed-eight-civilians-in-yemens-provinces/
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508251.htm
film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkCwS0tL-k
Remark: Saudi/UAE/US Murder Inc lies don't add up. They say they took Km. 16, but they continue to bomb civilians there! Today 8 civilians were murdered by SLC airraids on Km. 16 Hodeida-Sana'a Road, which they will never capture. Please take all their propaganda with a grain of salt.
https://twitter.com/commonsense575/status/1040603590275072000
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Again today by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes At least 3 people have been killed and a woman wounded in raids by Saudi jets in Kello 16 area of #Hodeidah in western #Yemen this came hours after other raids that caused the death of 8 people and wounding 10 others in the city.
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1040648279204220928
Almasirah net correspondent stated that 3 civilians were killed and a woman was injured by airstrikes targeted kil-16 in Al-Hale district, hours after committing a similar crime, killing 8 civilians in the same district.
In a new crime of the US-Saudi aggression, two civilians were killed, one was injured and another one was lost by airstrikes targeted a fishermen's boat in Al-Sawabe' island.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2798&cat_id=1
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508255.htm
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Film: Air force aggression commits a crime against a family of the Al-Mughars area south of Tahita targeting them three Raids, leaving two martyrs and three wounded, as the raids destroyed many houses and the death of livestock.
https://twitter.com/A_mtrz/status/1039961334413180930
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[Houthi] Mural in #Hodeidah reads: "One hand builds, One hand protects" (photo)
https://twitter.com/agerhusmedia/status/1040568499419185152
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Hodeida fighting could threaten vital food shipment: WFP
Recent fighting between the Saudi- and Emirati-backed Yemen government forces and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels around the port city of Hodeida could jeopardise badly needed wheat shipments, the World Food Programme has warned.
Around 46,000 tons of wheat are expected to arrive at Hodeida's port within the next 10 days.
WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel said a mortar shell launched by an unidentified armed group also hit a WFP warehouse in Hodeida holding enough food to assist 19,200 people, wounding a guard at the warehouse.
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US-Saudi aggression coalition targets WFP's store in Hodeidah
The US- backed Saudi aggression artillery targeted on Friday World Food Program store in Hodeidah province, a local official told Saba on Saturday.
The artillery shelling targeted areas near Red Sea Mills in 16 kilo.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508232.htm
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Yemen: mortar attack on UN food silo ‘could affect vital aid deliveries to millions’
Fighting in the Yemen port city of Hudaydah which has damaged a World Food Programme (WFP) storage facility, threatens to hamper efforts to feed millions of people in the war-torn country, it said on Friday.
Briefing journalists in Geneva, WFP spokesperson Herve Verhoosel, said that on-going clashes taking place near the Red Sea Mill Silos, which is “a critical facility for WFP operations”, could impact the agency’s ability “to feed up to 3.5 million very hungry people in northern and central Yemen for one month.”
He added that a mortar shell launched by “an unidentified armed group” also hit a WFP warehouse in Hudaydah city, holding enough food to assist 19,200 in need.
According to WFP, the security situation in Hudaydah is “deteriorating rapidly” and threatens humanitarian assistance to the city and surrounding areas, where food supplies are critically low.
The continuing violence is part of an offensive launched on Hudaydah in June by coalition forces supporting the internationally recognized Government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/09/1019322 and film: https://twitter.com/UNGeneva/status/1040590871278837762
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Jemen: Saudi-Arabien beabsichtigt Zerstörung von Lebensmittellagern in Al-Hudaida
Die jemenitische Ansarollah-Bewegung warnte der Zerstörung von Lebensmittelagern in der Provinz Al-Hudaida sowie blinden Militärangriff der von Saud-Arabien angeführte Kriegsallianz auf Bevölkerungsdichte Gebiete in dieser Region.
Dazu schrieb heute "Mohammed-Ali Al-Houthi, der Leiter des Obersten Revolutionskomitees im Jemen und hohes Mitglied der Ansarollah-Bewegung, auf seinem Twitter: Die saudisch geführte Allianz plane Angriffe auf Lebensmittellager in Al-Hudaida.
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Sanaa government: Ministry of Health Warns of Targeting Organizations Stores in Hodeidah
The Ministry of Public Health and Population warned on Thursday of the US-Saudi aggression seeking to target UNICEF stores, World Food and grain silos in Hodeidah, which contains wheat, food and medicine.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2789&cat_id=1
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Norwegian Refugee Council: On-the-record media update on situation in Hodeidah, Yemen
Quote from Saleem Al-Shamiri, a Norwegian Refugee Council staff member based in Hodeidah:
"Stability within Hodeidah is becoming worse and fear about what might happen continuing to increase. Those remaining in Hodeidah know they could lose everything, including their lives, but for many, it is not a simple decision to leave. To leave is to abandon everything people know and have worked for, with no certainty about the future. If people leave, they don't know where they will go, how they will find shelter, what they will eat. Many fled here already and the war followed. They're tired of running."
Latest updates:
The weekend of 7-9 September marked one of the deadliest in Yemen's war so far, with more than 84 conflict-related fatalities reported within Hodeidah health facilities alone, according to reports received from Safer Yemen.
Fighting is now pressing in on Hodeidah city from several sides, including heavy ground clashes and sustained aerial bombardments. Civilians in Hodeidah reported airstrikes in close proximity to the city's southern and eastern borders, including up to fifty strikes on the city fringes on Wednesday alone.
Houses, farms, a flour mill and a soft drink factory were among civilian buildings hit by airstrikes across Hodeidah governorates over the last fortnight.
We are highly concerned about the security of the Hodeidah Port complex, including milling facilities housing enough to feed 3.5 million Yemeni people.
Aid agencies in Yemen have identified close to 500,000 people that had fled homes in Hodeidah between June and August. So far in September, 55,000 people have been displaced from across the governorate, leaving more than half a million at heightened risk of hunger and exposure to diseases, including cholera.
ECHO reports that the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has now increased for the 12thweek in a row, to 9,245 suspected cases. This number adds to more that 133,000 cases of suspected cholera through 2018 thus far.
By 13 September, seven vessels were berthed at Hodeidah port, carrying a 79,000 metric tons of food and over 30,000 metric tons of critically-needed gas oil. An additional three vessels are queued to deliver food and fuel in the coming days. Food and fuel deliveries through Yemen's Red Sea Ports have held steady since June but any disruption or threat to the safety of shipments could strangle the Yemeni economy and impact access to food for more than 20 million people.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/record-media-update-situation-hodeidah-yemen
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This is HOW Yemeni fighters are arming themselves from the Saudi-Emirtati invaders. Capture or burn, or destroy their advanced weapons in the western coast battles. (photos)
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/1040648780113235968
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Yemen: Historic Hodeidah site destroyed in clashes
Renewed clashes between Houthi militants and Saudi-led coalition-backed forces in the port city of Hodeidah have led to the destruction of a historic landmark, as seen in footage released Thursday by the Houthi controlled Ansar Allah media centre. Footage shows the Arc de Triomphe in ruins with remains of the structure scattered around the area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HppJaeYY5d4 https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1040590991919591424
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Film: This is Mohammed Bukhaiti, Houthi senior official and spokesman, speaking today Friday from Hodeida west Yemen. Refuting allegations of Saudi-UAE invaders about controlling main road to Sanaa. It was only bombing from the sky! Invaders killed.
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/1040501827177984000
https://www.facebook.com/1405747299720220/videos/2070092813305574/
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Yemeni Troops Advance, Enter Hodeidah University
The Yemeni Army on Thursday gained more control over the east of Hodeida, in Western Yemen, after confronting Houthi militias inside the Hodeidah University, south the city.
As Yemeni troops continue to advance in the western coastal front and the suburbs of the city, military sources confirmed that Houthis lost more than 60 fighters, including high-ranking officials, as a result of fighting that raged over the control of the strategic "Kilo16 road" in Hodeidah.
On Wednesday, Yemeni troops cut off the "Kilo16 road," the only supply route linking Houthi-controlled areas in northern provinces with the port city of Hodeidah.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1395396/yemeni-troops-advance-enter-hodeidah-university
My comment: The University at Hodeidah is divided on several places in the city (look at Google Maps: University, Hodeidah): where exactly?
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Anwar Gargash hails gains against Yemen's Houthi rebels in Hodeidah
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs says rebels are nearly surrounded in campaign to retake vital port city
Yemen's Houthi rebels are nearly surrounded in the city of Hodeidah and low on morale after recent heavy losses, Dr Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said on Friday.
"Ongoing operations in Hodeidah are achieving their goals. The Houthis' morale is at its lowest with huge losses in their ranks as the siege around them is drawing towards completion," Dr Gargash wrote on Twitter.
Dr Gargash said on Wednesday that the Houthi failure to show up in Geneva was proof that Hodeidah had to be liberated from rebel control.
My comment: Last quotation: These two matters really do not have anything to do with each other.
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New unmanned bomb boat found off Yemen
A new type of unmanned explosive-rigged boat has been discovered by pro-government forces off Yemen’s Red Sea coast.
The Fifth Military Region, a command that includes the coastal province of Hajjah that neighbours Saudi Arabia, reported on 8 September that one of its naval patrols had chanced upon what it described as a “booby-trapped boat belonging to the Houthi militia” near Al-Fasht Island the previous day. Al-Fasht is 45 km west of the Hajjah coast.
The Fifth Military Region said the craft was set up to be controlled by Global Positioning System (GPS) and carried explosives in wooden boxes that were distributed in various locations. It added that it was being dealt with by military engineers helped by experts from the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF).
It released photographs showing what appeared to be a purpose-built boat that was designed to lie low in the water, making it difficult to detect. It was powered by a 200 hp outboard engine and had a steering wheel.
https://www.janes.com/article/82987/new-unmanned-bomb-boat-found-off-yemen
Remark: This had already been reported earlier; here more details.
cp2 Allgemein / General
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Journalist Çelikkan and Yemeni Mwatana for Human Rights won Hrant Dink Award
Journalist Murat Çelikkan and the Yemeni organisation, Mwatana for Human Rights, won the 10th International Hrant Dink Award, Turkish news outlet Diken saidon Sunday.
The spokesperson of Mwatana for Human Rights, Radya el-Mutawakel, said the situation of Yemen differs from Turkey; however, the human rights organisations of both countries face the same difficulties.
"In spite of the very big differences on the situation between Yemen and Turkey, we still share many similar difficulties as civil society. Also, when we read more about Hrant himself and each person in the Jury, we even felt happier and prouder to be granted the award."
Comment: Mwatana has been a voice of reason in this dreadful war - the award is well deserved.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10157004930088641
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Film by Press TV Iran: US government complicit in Saudi crimes in Yemen: Analyst
The administration of US President Donald Trump’s unconditional support for Saudi Arabia despite the kingdom’s many crimes in Yemen makes Washington a complicit in the onslaught, says an American analyst.
Keith Preston, director of the Attackthesystem.org, made the remarks during an interview with Press TV about the White House’s continued backing of the Saudi-led military aggression against Yemen despite international outrage.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/16/574346/US-Trump-complicit-Yemen-war-saudi-Arabia
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Press TV Iran: Saudi war machine revs up as UN envoy visits Yemen
Saudi Arabia has intensified its invasion of Yemen as the United Nations special envoy for the violence-scarred country visits the capital Sana’a in an attempt to cobble together a conflict resolution mechanism.
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Why US-Backed War on Yemen Is Dirty
The US believes that it has strategic interests in Yemen and that calls for the US to dirty its hands, as lots of civilians are being killed by the US-backed, Saudi-led bombings and air strikes. The indirect benefit is to benefit Al-Qaeda and other terror outfits. Al-Qaeda is a more serious threat than Iran’s non-existent expansionism is. It is so foolish to argue that Iran controls five Arab capitals in the region. Iran doesn’t control any capital in the region and it has no military presence or support groups in Yemen. That’s fantasy.
The US should stop taking its eyes off the ball. Washington really needs to get its head straight about who it is trying to help and who it is trying to hurt. Right now, they don't have that straight at all. Simply put, they are empowering terrorist groups by allowing Saudis bomb that war-torn country in breach of international laws and UN Charter.
In the eyes of the international community, staying out of Yemen and other countries in the Middle East like Syria could be a better choice for the US and NATO. The War Party in Washington needs to end its dirty wars and let the people in the region work the conflicts out themselves.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970625001145
Remark: From Iran.
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Film: Stop the WAR in Yemen - Ayman al Mansour für Jemen 11.09.2018 in Genf
UNITED NATIONS - HUMAN RIGHTS IN YEMEN 11.09.2018 - Genf: Nebenveranstaltung HRC39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8xjlcrti-c
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The Starvation of Yemen and the Attack on Hodeidah
The Associated Press reports on the appalling starvation that is slowly killing millions of people in Yemen.
Millions of Yemenis are suffering from conditions like these every day, and the conditions are growing steadily worse. The coalition blockade impedes the delivery of basic necessities, and what does get through is prohibitively expensive for people in a country where the economy is in a state of collapse. Countless Yemenis are dying from preventable causes, and many of their deaths go uncounted and unseen. Hunger and disease have been claiming at least tens of thousands of Yemeni lives each year that this conflict has been raging, and those numbers are only going to increase if things keep going as they are. There will be many more preventable deaths if the coalition’s Hodeidah offensive continues, since that offensive threatens to disrupt supplies of food and fuel even more.
The Hodeidah offensive is already putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk, and unless it is stopped quickly it could endanger millions more.
If the coalition were making “every effort” to reduce harm to civilians, as Pompeo and other administration officials have dishonestly claimed, it would not be pressing ahead with the attack on Hodeidah, and it would not still be impeding the delivery of basic necessities. We can see that the Saudi coalition acts with callous disregard for the lives of Yemeni civilians and has done so since it attacked in 2015. The Saudis and their allies have been strangling Yemen’s population to death for years, and the U.S. gives them cover and aid while they do it. Congress needs to challenge the Trump administration over its lies about Yemen and they need to use all the leverage at their disposal to force an end to U.S. involvement in this atrocious war – by Daniel Larison
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-starvation-of-yemen-and-the-attack-on-hodeidah/
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"Au Yémen, les Houthis et l'Iran contre le reste du monde"
L'islamologue et politologue français François Burgat insiste dans Géopolitis sur la dimension internationale de la guerre qui ravage le Yéme
Jeu d'alliances
S'il y a des "raisons mercantiles" à ce soutien occidental, "il faut ajouter à cela une considération plus idéologique", note François Burgat, directeur de recherche à l'Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM) de l’Université d’Aix-en-Provence.
Ce conflit, c'est celui "des Houthis et de l'Iran contre le reste du monde", explique l'expert. Dès lors, "il plaît beaucoup à l'Etat hébreu", ennemi affiché de l'Iran, "à son allié inconditionnel qu'est l'administration américaine, et il ne peut pas complètement déplaire aux alliés de cette dernière". Pour François Burgat, il s'agit "d'une dimension très importante" pour comprendre l'engagement des Occidentaux dans cette guerre.
Même si tout cela n'est pas très explicite, on a des raisons de penser que les Américains et les Européens ont mis un bémol à leur soutien aveugle à la coalition dans cette bataille-là", analyse le politologue.
https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/9832327--au-yemen-les-houthis-et-l-iran-contre-le-reste-du-monde-.html
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Film: Elisabeth Kendall on BBC World Service (14 Sept 2018)
Where are we now in the Yemen war after the collapse of the Geneva peace talks earlier this month?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v47ld_IQ5_0 and extract https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/1040911022155030529
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As Yemen bleeds
The US State Department continues to insist that the Saudis are taking measures to protect civilian lives.
This is not an idea that can be held up to closer scrutiny – but such is the nature of the warzones in the Middle East. The dual aims of defeating Isis and defeating Iran have been muddled together with the UAE-Saudi-led effort to isolate Qatar. Yemen and Syria are the battlegrounds where the war is playing out.
While the objectives of the Saudi-led coalition are suspect, the failure of the Houthi representatives to show up in Geneva has created more space for the Saudi coalition to amplify its war effort. The shocking human cost of the war has been pushed aside. More than 11 million children in Yemen face food shortages, while almost 1.8 million of them are malnourished. The absence of serious peace efforts from the international community is adding to their misery. It looks like little will change in the short term.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/369144-as-yemen-bleeds
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Saudis Are Making War Crimes Respectable in Yemen
Having dodged a bullet in avoiding fresh United Nations attempts to face justice in The Hague, the Saudis clearly haven’t learned anything, as they continue to target civilians in Yemen.
It is precisely here that the international civil society should intervene and denounce this post-colonialist and imperialist arrangement of the region. It is being waged by wealthy and despotic regimes for regional domination at the expense of the Yemeni people. The warmongers make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. They dream of shock-and-awing the Middle East into the shape they want, settling into Yemen for the long haul, dominating the region in geopolitical and energy terms, and ensuring that no nation or bloc of nations would ever challenge their unholy agenda.
No surprise then that the mindset of invasion by the House of Saud has the blessing of certain submissive international organizations too. Rather than calling for a ceasefire and dialogue, the UN Security Council is supporting a chaotic state of affairs that will, beyond anything else, make sure that Yemen remains a failed state and a fertile ground for terrorist groups.
The unprovoked war by the Saudis, with full-hearted support of their deranged and blood-drenched allies, is a great test for the conscience of the world. Bombing a poor country’s infrastructure, murdering and starving its defenseless civilians, blockading its ports, and hobbling its struggling economy are hardly ways of ensuring security for the Arab rentier states.
The world community must stop this criminal campaign and its own political correctness. The world must recognize that the illegal war and the futile siege of the poorest nation in the Middle East is a form of collective punishment that violates Geneva Conventions.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970624001058
My comment: From Iran. In the case of Yemen, Iran does not need to tell any propaganda stories: They just must keep to the facts – they offer a through ball for Iranian propaganda.
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Das Leben in den Zeiten der Cholera
Der vergessene Krieg im Jemen ist im vierten Jahr, gerade sind wieder Friedensgespräche gescheitert. Wie ergeht es den Menschen im abgeriegelten Norden, wie ertragen sie den Hunger, die Herrschaft der Huthi-Milizen und die Bomben der Saudi-Araber?
Ein Vater führt in das karge Wohnzimmer. Er bittet, Platz zu nehmen auf dem Lehmboden, reicht Tee und süßes Sesambrot. Zieht ein Handy aus dem Wickelrock, klickt auf selbst gedrehte Filme. Zu den Klängen traditioneller Trommeln tanzen drei Jungen in bodenlangen, ockerfarbenen Gewändern. "Sie tanzten so gern", sagt der Vater. Er lächelt, sei es aus Scham oder angesichts der Erinnerungen, er lächelt, obwohl ihm die Trauer in das abgemagerte Gesicht geschrieben steht.
Er zieht die Gewänder aus einer Plastiktüte und atmet den Geruch seiner Söhne, in den Krägen stehen mit Kugelschreiber die Namen: Ali, 9, der Ehrgeizige mit den Segelohren und dem starken Willen. Ahmed, 11, der Klassenbeste, in sein Hausaufgabenheft schrieb er: "Ich liebe mein Land" und malte die Flagge des vereinten Jemen daneben. Jusef, 14, der Erstgeborene, des Vaters ganzer Stolz. (nur im Abo)
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The killing fields of Yemen and our supporting role
The ongoing mass slaughter and starvation of innocent children and civilians, and the destruction of Yemen’s infrastructure should scar our hearts and consciousness. Yet the world seems to be indifferent to the bloodshed.
Human Rights Watch warned Britain, France and the U.S. of being potentially complicit in Yemen by their continuing sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, exacerbating regional tensions, and increasing terrorist threats against the West.
Our bombs are killing and maiming innocent children and civilians. Three years of murder, starvation, torture and maiming of civilians supported by our own government is an act of shame and is unworthy of who we are as a nation.
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Film: Yémen, guerre en silence
Un conflit meurtrier ravage le Yémen depuis trois ans. Quels en sont les acteurs? Comment comprendre le silence des puissances occidentales?
Avec François Burgat, politologue et islamologue - Université d'Aix-en-Provence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRbMpkO4w9o
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‘Nothing Will End if the US Continues to Support Saudi Arabia’
CounterSpin interview with Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen reporting
Coverage is better than silence, of course, but as the war on Yemen is in its third year now, one would hope that US media would be in the business of regularly illustrating why the crisis matters, and specifically why it should matter to people in the US, whose government continues to play an active, central role in the war. That angle has not been corporate media’s approach
US citizens are poorly served by reporting that consigns our government’s role in conflict to the background, and Yemenis, certainly, even more so.
We’re joined now by Shireen Al-Adeimi. She’s been working to bring attention to the crisis in Yemen.
JJ: In terms of bringing the war on and in Yemen to an end, what would you say has changed since we spoke last winter? I want to say I see more opposition, more acknowledgement of the US responsibility, but maybe I’m just thinking wishfully.
SA: No, I think there’s definitely been more awareness, first and foremost, which has prompted, in return, more opposition to the US’s role specifically. I was surprised that I was turning on the channels and watched full coverage of the bus bombing on CNN, and that is not something that has been happening before, in any kind of consistency. And when we have had information about the war in Yemen, we have not really heard about the US’s role in the conflict, which of course is what’s keeping this conflict alive.
So I think there’s been some changes there, but unfortunately it took such a drastic turn for the worst.
JJ: Being portrayed in the media as a “humanitarian disaster,” I think can spur some people to think, “Oh, what we need to do is get in there, is intervene.” And I know I asked you this back in December; I just would like to underscore it; Yemenis aren’t saying, “Please intervene. Please come save us.” That’s not the message out of Yemen.
SA: It’s the complete opposite. It’s that we’ve only gotten to this point because of foreign intervention. This was a civil war back in 2015; it would have started as a civil war, ended as a civil war. Yemen has seen many civil wars, and we’ve gone through it, and we’ve continued to rebuild after that, and it’s never gotten to these levels of humanitarian crises. We’re talking about the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. If it remained in Yemen as a civil war, the ports wouldn’t have been blockaded. People wouldn’t be starving. Every ten minutes, a child diesin Yemen from starvation and disease. And so we’ve only gotten to this point because of foreign intervention. So I believe, and many Yemenis who are still fighting and resisting and waiting for all of this to be over in Yemen believe that, let Yemenis solve their own problems, and we’re not asking for any saviors. We’re asking for people to stop intervening in Yemen.
https://fair.org/home/nothing-will-end-if-the-us-continues-to-support-saudi-arabia/
Remark: Interview from Sept. 7, outdated in some points.
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While all eyes are on Syria’s Idlib, US continues to decimate Yemen
The US is ready to defend Syria from a brutish assault launched by Syria’s own government and its allies – or so Washington wants you to believe. In the backdrop, Yemen continues to burn in silence.
On September 3, US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley – eloquent diplomat that she is – retweeted a tweet from the warmonger in chief that is the US president, with the caption “All eyes on the actions of Assad, Russia and Iran in Idlib.”This is the same US administration who just facilitated the bombing of a school bus in Yemen, slaughtering at least 40 children in the process.
Maybe, just maybe, Nikki Haley should keep her eyes on herself.
If the world did direct its eyes to what is taking place in Yemen, they would know that the United Nations has just warned of an “incalculable human cost” in the works, as the US and its allies press forward with an offensive to retake the Yemeni port city of Hodeida from the Houthi rebels.
That’s right. The US, currently waving its arms in despair about human rights abuses and chemical weapons attacks that have not even taken place in Syria yet, is supporting a major offensive of its own that will lead to a humanitarian crisis of monumental proportions.
The small minority of people who are inclined to care about innocent Yemenis need not fret though. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has just this week certified that the Saudi-led coalition is taking sufficient steps to protect civilians. According to Pompeo, the Gulf nations involved are “undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians.”
“They are taking steps, in the view of the US government and this administration, in the right direction,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a briefing, according to Reuters. “We see them taking steps. Is it perfect? No absolutely not. Do we see them doing what they can to mitigate civilian casualties? Absolutely we do.”
Thank God – I was getting worried there for a second. The US-backed Saudi-led coalition may be killing children as if they were ants, but they are taking steps to mitigate the number of children they are killing at the same time.
A seven-page memo sent to Congress and obtained by the Intercept further confirmed Pompeo’s delusional thinking, as the memo called Saudi Arabia and the UAE “strong counterterrorism partners.” Never mind that just last month, the Associated Press reported the US and its allies were actually recruiting Al-Qaeda fighters to join the coalition.
Oops.
While the Trump administration is taking a horrifying and bloody war and taking it to new depths, the truth of the matter is that this war did not begin under Donald Trump. The war in Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest nation, fast becoming the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, was started by none other than peace-prize laureate Barack Obama himself.
If Donald Trump is so concerned with migrants and refugees, perhaps he should stop creating them. If he really cares about ‘America first’ and making America great again, perhaps racking up notches to America’s war crime belt is not the way to go. – by Darius Shahtahmasebi
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/438464-yemen-syria-saudi-arabia/
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Finniest Joke of the Year: Saudi Arabia, UAE Protecting Civilians in Yemen War
At a time when the international civil society warns that civilian casualties are mounting and Yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the US government still has the face to claim Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are doing enough to protect civilians in their military campaign against Yemen.
This funny joke, this silly claim is simply intended to justify Washington’s criminal complicity and military-diplomatic support for the Saudi-led coalition in their illegal and indiscriminate airstrikes against Yemen that have been denounced by the world community as war crimes and crimes against humanity. To substantiate:
All this and more serves as further proof that the US government and its NATO partners need to change track. They are on the wrong side of this historic human catastrophe. Instead of callously claiming that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are doing enough to protect civilians in their unlawful military campaign against Yemen, they can start by insisting that the illegal weapons sales, military support and blockade of all Yemen ports is ended, that there is the free flow of goods within the country, and that there is an immediate ceasefire and re-energised peace talks.
By callously trying to justify and maintain more sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the United States and its NATO business partners have become complicit in Saudi-UAE war crimes in Yemen
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970623000687
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
Siehe / Look at cp7
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High prices of diesel makes #farmers struggle. They spent so much #money on #diesel! It’s time for an efficient #solution! #Solar pumps have proved to do the job right. This #change is real, it increases farmers #income and saves them #time & #efforts. (photo)
https://twitter.com/SMEPSYEMEN/status/1041328718634012672
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A #Yemen-i teacher crying as he is selling his family's mattress to be able to feed his children. Teachers in #Yemen haven't received salaries from the government since October 2016.
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1041474822423932928 referring to https://twitter.com/CivicCoalition/status/1041453119287255040 (photo)
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Yemen conflict creates ‘lost generation’ of children
half a million Yemeni children who have been forced to abandon their education to support impoverished families since violence erupted in 2015. But they are the lucky ones: more than 5,000 children have been killed or wounded, according to UN agencies.
The suffering of children underscores how the conflict has shattered society in the Arab world’s poorest nation. “We are seeing the creation of a lost generation of children, uneducated and traumatised, and this will store up big problems for the future,” said Lise Grande, the top UN official on the ground in Yemen. “Nothing matters more to families than knowing their children have a future. Everything has to be done to get schools to open in time for the school year [this month].”
Schools have been bombed and taken over by armed groups and displaced people, with more than 2,500 out of use. Up to 40 children were killed last month when a coalition air strike hit a bus, prompting international outrage and a rare statement of regret by the Saudi-led alliance. But it is the collapse of the economy that is having the most widespread impact on the country’s youth. As families have been pushed deeper into poverty, with more than 8m people at risk of famine, parents are increasingly turning to their children for survival.
Jamal al-Shami, president of Democracy School, a Yemeni aid agency, said families face a stark choice — put their children to work or starve. “Needy people don’t consider education to be a priority, food is their priority,” Mr Shami said. “Children have become the breadwinners because they are willing to do anything.”
Aid workers say many families are marrying off their daughters before they turn 18 because they hope it will provide young girls some protection — and it means one less mouth to feed. The UN report said according to witnesses the Houthis “forcibly recruited children in schools, hospitals and door to door”. – by Nasser al-Sakkaf in Taiz and Andrew England i
https://www.ft.com/content/f5e3115c-b1d1-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
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“If it wasn’t for this, half of villagers could’ve left the village”
Embraced by the mountains of Sharess district, the village of Al-Qaranat, is a typical countryside that is beautiful, quiet and remote, but like most Yemeni villages, it lacked necessary basic services, until its people took matters into their own hands.
The people of Al-Qaranat had suffered a lot because of the difficult terrain of their home village and had waited for external assistance for some time “… until the Social Fund officers came in, met with the villagers, educated them, helped them form the Village Cooperative Council (VCC) and empowered them with the necessary skill and will” said Mohammed Al-Jawbi, the school headmaster.
“We were trained on how to logically identify and prioritize our needs as a community, make use of our local resources and motivate the community members to step in themselves and not wait for external assistance”, said Mujammal Al-Jawbi, a school teacher and member of the Village Cooperative Council.
Al-Qaranat village was targeted by “Tamkeen”, a capacity building program implemented by the Social Fund for Development (SFD) as part of the EU-funded Social Protection for Community Resilience (SPCRP) and in partnership with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to empower affected communities overcome their vulnerabilities.
As a mountainous village, the community’s first priority was access to clean drinking water, as they used to fetch drinking water once or twice a day on the donkeys from the spring at the bottom of the valley; a 5-hour journey. “We looked carefully at our needs and priorities and decided to launch a self-help initiative and improving access to drinking water. The issue was raised to the community along with an action plan, and everybody was excited to put an end to this suffering. They all participated; some with money, some with effort and some others with assets”, said Hizam Yahya, the VCC coordinator. “The community built three water tanks in three different locations, bought a water pump and installed a piping network to deliver water to every house in the village benefiting around 2000 people. Something we never believed we could do on our own”, he added. “If it wasn’t for this water project, half of villagers could’ve left to other locations because of the costs and efforts continuously required to fetch water in difficult conditions”, the school headmaster added.
“Another hurdle addressed by the VCC was the rough access roads to the village especially in the rainy season. People had to go back and rely on donkeys to deliver their goods as cars cannot make it to the village anymore. We used to wait for help to come, but no more! Now we all get out and work on it (the access road) as one and the problem is over in no time. Now we all realize the enormous difference between team effort and individual effort!”, said Ali Saleh.
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Zunjurab Abyan: An IDP from Taiz burnt himself to death because he couldn’t afford food for his starving children.
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1041231719440023552
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The Airport Was Closed, so She Died
In this painful story of death, Ubad Yehya Ahmed Abu Hatem describes what it means to close an airport. He experienced it firsthand with the unfortunate passing of his mother who needed to travel abroad in order to replace the valves in her heart. Her health had extremely deteriorated, which made it impossible for her to travel through the Aden airport. The grief-stricken son said: “The doctor told me that she can’t travel to Aden by land in her condition and he said she could die on the way.”
Ubad spoke of the moment he entered the ICU, not believing his mother had gone from this world. He covered his face, placed it next to her feet and wept. In a trembling voice, he said: “I did not dare look at her face or kiss her.” He couldn’t continue talking. He always feared of going through circumstances that push men to mourn and scream when their relatives died. Ubad added: “She was not just a mother. She did everything for me.”
In January 2017, her health deteriorated, and her only option was to be admitted to the intensive care unit at the military hospital in Sana’a. Her choices were very limited, which convinced her to have the surgery in Yemen. In the past, she had strongly rejected this option. With no heart valves available in Sana’a (many medical needs were lacking because of the war), he tried to provide them from abroad, but her weak heart was unable to wait. The only way to ensure her survival was through the Sana’a Airport.
Then, the cruelest day in the life of Ubad, February 11, 2017, came. The doctor came out of the operating room and asked him to follow him to another nearby room.
The doctor then asked him about his mother’s name, which provoked the son.
Ubad added: “I snapped at him and said: “You can’t be her doctor and not know her name”.” The doctor remained silent while Ubad was expressing his anger. His voice was higher and said: “Why are you asking me that question? If she died, tell me may she rest in peace.” Suddenly, the doctor replied: “May she rest in peace.”
They left him alone in her room. He knelt at the edge of the bed next to her feet and wept silently. He could not overcome the pain, and his voice faltered. After catching his breath, he commented: “At least they were going to allow specific flights for critical situations to leave from Sana’a.”
http://mwatana.org/en/so-she-died/
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Dialysis patients in Yemen struggle to obtain regular sessions amid war
Around 5200 patients with kidney failure across the country struggle to get dialysis sessions.
Living with kidney disease is never easy, with patients not only subjected to the pain of the disease, but also the constant worrying about the often overwhelming financial cost of treatment.
Unable to support his 9 children and elderly sick parents in his village, Abdulrahman Al Qudaimi from Haraz in Sana’a governorate explained with distress that he moved to Sana’a after he was diagnosed with renal failure almost 2 years ago, leaving his entire family behind.
“I have no one here to take care of me, I’m extremely sick and I cannot even walk because of the pain in my legs. But how can I afford to bring one of my sons here to help me, when I myself am staying with relatives because I can’t afford the cost of renting a place of my own?” he said wincing in pain.
Dialysis treatment is not only challenging for patients, but also for the dialysis centres that need regular funding to stay open. In Al Thawra hospital in Sana’a, over 200 dialysis sessions are provided per day, while Al Jumhoori hospital provides more than 70 sessions per day.
Dialysis centres have old machines that operate 24 hours a day and 7 days a week due to increasing number of patients across Yemen, the majority of whom have moved to the larger cities where treatment is available.
“One can’t imagine the suffering of renal failure patients having to settle with one or two dialysis sessions per week, when 3 times a week is what is needed for most cases,” said Dr Nevio Zagaria, WHO Representative in Yemen.
Already congested with kidney failure patients, the dialysis centre in Al-Thawra Hospital in Ibb has recently received new dialysis patients displaced from Al-Hudaydah. As the chairs in the centre are fully occupied, new patients are forced to receive dialysis sessions in the old building using obsolete equipment.
“Even before the war in Al-Hudaydah, we could barely get dialysis sessions. Now, we have special dialysis sessions at night,” said Hamdan Ali, who also injured his leg while fleeing the war in Al-Hudaydah.
“In Al-Hudaydah, I was at least able to work for a few hours to save money for transportation to the dialysis centre, but now I’ve no money even to buy food for my family,” Hamdan added.
An estimated 5200 renal failure patients are at risk of death due to shortages of dialysis supplies that are not enough to provide the 700 000 dialysis sessions required per year. As the ongoing conflict continues to ravage the health situation, 4 of the country’s 32 dialysis centres have shut down, leaving the remaining centres in severe shortages of equipment and supplies, with a lot of cases to treat.
http://www.emro.who.int/yem/yemen-news/dialysis-patients-in-yemen-struggle-to-obtain-regular-sessions-amid-war.html = https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/dialysis-patients-yemen-struggle-obtain-regular-sessions-amid-war
My comment: Lauding Saudi spending really in inadequate.
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Nothilfe für Kinder im Jemen
In Aden und Abyan mildert Caritas die Auswirkungen des Konflikts für die Bevölkerung. Unterernährte Kinder erhalten Zusatznahrung und medizinische Betreuung, an Familien werden Nahrungsmittelgutscheine verteilt und Schulungen in Ernährung schärfen das Bewusstsein für die Situation.
Gemeinsam mit CAFOD, dem englischen Pendant von Caritas international, unterstützen wir ein Projekt zur Versorgung unterernährter Kinder in den Bezirken Abyan und Aden. Das Projekt wird vor Ort von einer Partnerorganisation, die verdeckt arbeiten muss, implementiert. Teilweise schwer unterernährte Kinder werden in einer ersten Phase des Projekts betreut. Neben sogenannter "therapeutischer Fertignahrung", einer gebrauchsfertigen, sehr kalorienreichen Nahrung mit wichtigen Zusatzstoffen wie Vitaminen und Mineralien, die in speziellen medizinischen Zentren ausgegeben wird, werden die Kinder auch medizinisch behandelt und die Familien mit Nahrungsmittelgutscheinen versorgt. Zudem wird das medizinische Personal speziell im Fachgebiet Unterernährung ausgebildet.
https://www.caritas-international.de/hilfeweltweit/naherosten/jemen/nothilfe-jemen
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Film: Yemeni hospitals forced to shut down amid Saudi blockade
Yemen's healthcare sector continues to deteriorate due to Saudi Arabia’s bombardment of medical facilities and its crippling blockade. Press TV correspondent, Mohammed al-Attab, reports from Yemen's capital Sana'a.
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Only enough food to sustain the population of Yemen for 2-3 months, says CARE International
There is currently only enough food in Yemen to sustain the population for two to three months, says Johan Mooij, CARE International Country Director in Yemen, as fears rise that Hodeidah port could close.
An increase in airstrikes in Hodeidah is instilling fear and terror in residents, many of whom are being forced to flee and leave their homes behind.
As well as this widespread displacement, the airstrikes could have a disastrous impact on the port of Hodeidah, a vital life-line for supplies into Yemen for the 22 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
Transportation is already being affected: the main road linking Hodeidah and the capital Sana’a has been closed for several days, with trucks carrying food forced to take different routes across the country.
Johan Mooij, CARE International Country Director in Yemen, said:
We are horrified by the latest developments in Hodeidah. Besides more displacement, there is again a real danger that the port could be closed. There is currently only enough food in Yemen to sustain the population for two to three months, and it is the most vulnerable – especially women and children – who will be hit the hardest.
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Film: Bürgerkrieg in Jemen: Vielen Kindern droht der Hungertod
Im Norden des Landes droht vielen Kindern der Hungertod, internationale Hilfe kommt nicht an.
https://www.msn.com/de-de/finanzen/other/bürgerkrieg-in-jemen-vielen-kindern-droht-der-hungertod/vi-BBNjMB0 = https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/b%C3%BCrgerkrieg-jemen-vielen-kindern-droht-095517024.html
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Film: Jemen: Logistische Höchstleistungen sind gefragt | Ärzte ohne Grenzen
Um humanitäre Hilfe leisten zu können, müssen Ausrüstung, Medikamente und HelferInnen erst einmal selbst in das Einsatzgebiet. Die logistischen Höchstleistungen, die das erfordert, zeigt das Beispiel Jemen. 2017 haben wir mehr als 200 Flüge in den Jemen gechartert. 1.200 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter wurden in das Land geflogen sowie 500 Tonnen Fracht transportiert. Medizin, medizinische und logistische Ausrüstung - Alle Lieferungen, die wir im Jemen benötigen, kommen über Dschibuti. Dabei müssen alle Reisen unserer Teams von saudi-arabischen Behörden genehmigt werden. Nur durch diese logistischen und bürokratischen Vorarbeiten ist unsere Hilfe im Jemen überhaupt möglich. Insgesamt sind wir in zwölf jemenitischen Provinzen im Einsatz, arbeiten in dreizehn Krankenhäusern und Gesundheitszentren und unterstützen über zwanzig medizinische Einrichtungen. (Stand: August 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnBxKhddcQ
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Film: No Childhood for the Little Ones of #Yemen
If the 400.000 acutely malnourished children of #Yemen survive the war, they will have no memories of childhood.
Famine and war is all they will remember
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/videos/311634056228481/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-09-14/yemen-s-children-are-starving-video
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Film: Yemen’s children are starving
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-09-14/yemen-s-children-are-starving-video
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UN Children's Fund: Geneva Palais briefing note on education under attack in Yemen
This is a summary of what was said by Christophe Boulierac, UNICEF spokesperson in Gen
“Social services are barely functioning and the whole country is on the verge of collapse. Already weak civilian infrastructure – including water networks, schools and medical facilities –is under attack. Basic goods are in critically short supply.
"When services fail, children are the first to suffer.
“Children’s education is one of the greatest casualties of war.
“As with other sectors, the education sector in Yemen is on the brink of collapse because of the ongoing conflict, political divisions among parties to the conflict, and chronic underdevelopment
“For this school year, we estimate that 2 million children are out of school, compared to 1.6 million before the conflict, according to data from the Ministry of Education.
“We also estimate that another 4 other million primary school students are at risk of losing access to education - mainly in the northern provinces of Yemen - because about 67% of public school teachers – and this is across the country – have not been paid for nearly two years.
“Many have had to look for other work to survive or are only teaching a few subjects.
“The quality of education is at stake. Children are not getting their full lessons due to the absence of their teachers. Even when schools are functioning, the schools days, terms and years are shortened.
“More than 2,500 schools are out of use; 66 per cent of them damaged by airstrikes and ground fighting, 27 per cent closed and 7 per cent used by armed groups or as shelters by displaced populations.
“Children who are not able to go to school in a country like Yemen face a number of risks.
“Boys are early targets for military recruiters. There are over 2,635 children (all boys) who have been recruited and used by armed forces and armed groups.
“Girls are at greater risk of marriage. A 2016 survey in six governorates revealed that close to three-quarters of women had been married before the age of 18 and 44.5 per cent under the age of 15.
“Out-of-school children become illiterate and unskilled parents, transmitting poverty to the next generation.
“Peace and recovery are an absolute must if children in Yemen are to resume their schooling and get the quality education they urgently need and are entitled to.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/geneva-palais-briefing-note-education-under-attack-yemen
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World Food Programme, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster: Yemen Conflict - ETC Situation Report #26 (Reporting Period: 02/08/18 to 31/08/18)
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
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Korea: 23 Yemeni asylum seekers granted humanitarian stay permits
The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Friday to give 23 Yemeni asylum seekers humanitarian stay permits in South Korea, although it rejected their applications for official refugee status.
The 23 were among hundreds of Yemenis who arrived on Jeju earlier this year and applied for asylum. The immigration office has been reviewing 484 applications for months and announced the results for 440 cases.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/09/14/0200000000AEN20180914004400315.html?input=rss
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
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House of Representatives Calls UN to Stop US-Saudi Aggression’s Crimes and Siege
The House of Representatives sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, in which they renewed their request to stop the crimes committed by the US-Saudi Aggression Alliance. They called on the Secretary-General to put pressure on the countries involved in the aggression, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to stop the aggression on Yemen, lift the embargo on all land, sea and air ports, including Sana'a International Airport.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2835&cat_id=1
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Sanaa: Ministry of Interior in the government of rescue announced the fall of a network of espionage directly linked to the UAE intelligence and involved in the lifting of coordinates and information on housing gatherings, houses, service facilities and government institutions.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1925801354139552/?type=3
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2834&cat_id=1
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Houthis started on Saturday trial of Baha'i families, 24 persons including 9 women, on "false" charges of spying for Israel, the U.S. and Britain, spokesperson for the Baha'i community in #Yemen, Abdullah Al-Olofi, said today.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1041428492171309057
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Locals are talking about acute shortages of propane and fuel in Sanaa and a few Houthi-run cities.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1041232734327373825
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AMA: About 1000 abductees were tortured in Houthi prisons
Abductee’s Mothers Association has said that about 1000 abductees and enforcedly disappeared persons were tortured insides Houthi prisons during the past two years.
Chairwoman of AMA Amat al-Salam al-Haj presented a working paper in which she explained who abductees and forcibly disappeared persons are tortured inside Houthi prisons.
In her paper, she said that the case of abductees and forcibly disappeared persons must be a priority in any future negotiations, stressing that those who tortured them must be held accountable.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-23693
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Abductees' mothers association has revealed that 960 detainees & forcibly disappeared people were tortured inside 213 Houthi detention centers & jails in 2016 & 2017. Earlier, human rights organisations documented cases of deaths in Houthi custody saying torture was the cause.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/1041176671263576065
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Parliament resumes its session
The Parliament resumes on Saturday its sessions for the 2nd period of the 2nd mi-year of the 13th annual tour under the Parliament spokesman Yahia al-Raee.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508243.htm
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Seven civilians from one family were injured when a mine planted by Houthis in their car exploded in Hajjah
Seven civilians, including three children, were injured on Friday when a mine exploded in a car on board in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah.
A local source said a landmine planted by Houthi militia exploded in a car with a family on board, on the road between the southern city of Hayran and the Beni Hassan area of the district of Abbs Governorate.
According to the source, the explosion in the "Hilux " car resulted in the injury of Mohamed Ibrahim Kadim Zein, his wife, three children, his mother, and his brother.
the injured have been transported to Jizan Saudi city
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1040637003434549248
Remark: Planted “in a car”??? On the roador beside the road, probably.
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Shortage of fuels sharpens, black markets expand in Aden
Shortage of fuels has sharpened in the temporary capital of Yemen, Aden, the correspondent of Alsahwa Net in Aden affirmed.
Meanwhile, the black markets selling fuels with higher prices expanded in the city.
The shortage of fuel doubles the suffering of millions of Yemenis
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-23694
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Demonstration in Aden in support of Hadi and demand for reform of economic conditions
Dozens of residents of the city of Aden, the interim capital of the southern part of the country, demonstrated on Friday evening in the streets of Khormaksar in support of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, demanding a reform of the economic situation.
Eyewitnesses told the Al Masdar online that the demonstrators had raised the image of President Hadi and slogans supporting him while demanding a halt to the deterioration of the local currency and saving Yemen's economy from collapse.
They called on the government and the central bank to implement the directives of President Hadi and the Economic Commission, in terms of improving the value of the local currency that collapsed in front of the foreign exchange basket and the value of the riyal fell to record levels.
Today's demonstration comes after days of widespread demonstrations and protests against President Hadi and the government in Aden
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Video.. UAE official exploits children in Socotra to offend Islah party
A video circulated by activists on social media sites showed an official of the UAE Red Crescent who exploited his human work to offend the Islah party.
The section, the official in the UAE Red Crescent, while exploiting children from the province “Socotra Archipelago", is asked to say that they love the UAE, while saying that the Islah party wants to destroy Yemen.
the video here (in Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4qY_8NG_Y
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The anti-terror forces in Lahj raiding the media center of the terrorist Islamic state organization and control a number of devices, cameras, slogans and books of the organization (photos)
https://twitter.com/Mukalla_Now_EN/status/1040624827730669569
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
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UN envoy Martin Griffiths resumes Yemen peace efforts with visit to Sanaa
The UN special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths arrived in Sanaa on Sunday in a new attempt to revive peace negotiations between the government and the Houthis following the rebels' refusal to attend talks scheduled in Geneva earlier this month after imposing last-minute conditions.
Mr Griffiths made no comments to reporters at Sanaa airport, but local sources confirmed that the envoy's visit to the rebel-held capital was to pressure the Houthis to seriously engage in the UN peace efforts.
The pro-Houthi Saba news agency reported that Mr Griffiths met the rebels' foreign minister Hisham Sharaf and discussed his talks with the government delegation that travelled to Geneva.
The Houthi official reportedly told Mr Griffiths he supported the peace efforts and called for trust-building measures such as the complete reopening of Sanaa airport to passenger and commercial flights and for the government to pay the salaries of civil servants in all areas of Yemen.
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Humanitarian Medical Air Bridge in Yemen
The United Nations is working to open a humanitarian medical air bridge for Yemeni civilians who are suffering from conditions which cannot be treated inside Yemen.
“The aim is to help patients suffering from cancer, chronic diseases and congenital anomalies receive the treatment they need,” said Dr. Nevio Zagaria, the Representative of the World Health Organization in Yemen. “Twelve conditions have been agreed. It’s so important that people who have these conditions receive support and care.”
“The civilians who will benefit include patients suffering from leukemia, early stage tumors, cervical and thyroid cancer, and patients who need radiotherapy, and bone marrow and kidney transplants,” said Dr. Zagaria.
On Saturday 15 September, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Ms. Lise Grande initialed a note verbale with authorities in Sanaa to enable the medical transfer of critically ill patients, by chartered air flight, to a medical facility that is equipped to manage such cases.
The World Health Organization is working with all parties to confirm the operating procedures for the humanitarian air bridge. An independent international company has been contracted to review the medical records of the patients who are selected to ensure they are eligible for the service. The humanitarian air bridge will operate for an initial trial period of six months.
“We are truly grateful to everyone who is supporting this air bridge. We hope the first flight is ready as soon as possible,” said Dr. Zagaria. “Eighty per cent of patients for this flight are women and children. The air bridge is one of their last hopes.”
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/humanitarian-medical-air-bridge-yemen
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Houthis 'sign memorandum' with UN to transport wounded abroad
Rebel group claims the agreement will allow critically ill patients to be air-lifted abroad for treatment.
Yemen's Houthi rebels say they have signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations to airlift critically ill patients abroad for treatment.
The Houthi-run Saba news agency reported on Saturday that the memorandum, signed between Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, would include transporting critically ill Yemenis abroad from Tuesday 18 September, for a period of six months.
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Foreign Ministry Reaches Understanding to Transport Critical Patients Abroad
Foreign Minister, Hisham Sharaf, reiterated on Saturday that the reopening of Sana'a International Airport is a sovereign human right for Yemen and its people to lift the suffering of the Yemeni People, especially patients, students and businessmen.
The Minister signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry and the United Nations to establish a medical humanitarian air bridge. The agreement includes the provision of medical transport for critical patients to receive treatment abroad through scheduled flights of the United Nations for six months starting September 18th, 2018.
Sharaf explained that the memorandum of understanding comes as a first step to alleviate the suffering of patients that need treatment abroad, which US-Saudi aggression prevented them flying through Sana'a International Airport. He stressed that this step does not in any way mean delaying the demand to reopen Sana'a International Airport in front of commercial and civil flights, pointing out that this step is purely humanitarian. The air bridge covers only very limited cases, but it is necessary in light of the continued siege and aggression.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2820&cat_id=1
Remark: Houthi government at Sanaa FM.
My comment: Why it took three years for this???
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Yemeni FM to Meet UN Special Envoy in New York
Yemen’s Foreign Minister Khalid Al-Yamani has said that the government is expecting a detailed summary on UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths’ meetings with all Yemeni parties, confirming that Houthi militias will eventually accept the implementation of UN Resolution 2216.
He said that the Yemeni government is in full cooperation with Griffiths’ peace efforts, adding he will be meeting up with the UN envoy in New York next week.
“The Yemeni government will go ahead in extending its hand to peace and will save no effort to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people in areas under coup militia control,” Yamani told Asharq Al-Awsat on Friday.
He said Houthis will come around for talks and will accept the implementation of Resolution 2216, which stipulates that they withdraw from all areas seized during the latest conflict, relinquish arms seized from military and security institutions, cease all actions falling exclusively within the authority of the legitimate Government of Yemen and fully implement previous Council resolutions.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1396386/exclusive-yemeni-fm-meet-un-special-envoy-new-york
My comment: Hadi government FM. UN Security Council resolution 2216 had been an obstacle to peace since its first day in April 2216. It had been formulated by Saudi Arabia (!!), favored by the US and the UK and is totally biased in favour of the Hadi government against the Houthis. The Hadi government and the Saudi side take it as precondition for any negotiations. Following this resolution would actually mean that the Houthis must capitulate. “peace = capitulation”, this is the formula the Hadi government wants to push through.
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Ansarullah: Washington looking at Yemeni war as trade opportunity
Washington is considering war in Yemen as a trade opportunity for gaining money, Spokesman of Yemen's Ansarullah Movement Mohammad Abdul Salam said.
Due to the US supports of aggression and blockade in Yemen, the United Nations is not able to take any action, Yemeni TV Channel 'Al-Masirah' quoted Abdul Salam as saying in a Twitter message on Friday night.
According to Yemeni media, Abdul Salam made the remarks related to his meeting with UN special representative on Yemen Martin Griffiths.
During the meeting both sides discussed peace process, economic barriers, humanitarian crisis and releasing prisoners of war.
Political situation and comprehensive solution to humanitarian and economic crisis were also reviewed in the meeting.
http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83034009
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#Ansurallah Spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam: Summary Of The Muscat meeting with the international envoy
A failed peace process, economic constraints, an escalating humanitarian crisis, prisoners and detainees, and the #UnitedNations unable to do anything because of the American cover that supports the continuation of the aggression and siege, considering that the war of #Yemen in Washington's view a commercial commodity to save money and pass the deal of the Century.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1923483977704623/?type=3
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UN's Yemen envoy pushes for new peace talks as fighting continues
The UN's Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths has met the country's Huthi rebels in a push for new peace talks, as fighting continued Friday around the strategic port city of Hodeida.
Griffiths travelled to the Omani capital Muscat to meet the rebels after they refused to attend negotiations in Geneva last week.
Mohammed Abdulsalam, head of the Huthi delegation, and fellow rebel official Abdelmalak al-Ajri discussed the reasons for their absence from Geneva with the United Nations envoy, the rebel-run Saba news agency said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6168507/UNs-Yemen-envoy-meets-rebels-talks-track.html
cp7a Saudi-Arabien und Iran / Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Iran says Saudi Arabia and Russia have taken oil market 'hostage': SHANA
Iran’s OPEC governor said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia and Russia have taken the oil market “hostage” as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to impose fresh sanctions on Iranian oil sales. Washington wants to cut Iran’s oil exports to zero by November, and is encouraging producers such as Saudi Arabia, other OPEC members and Russia to pump more to meet the shortfall.
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
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THE SLOW, DANGEROUS IMPLOSION OF SAUDI CROWN PRINCE MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN | OPINION
Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) now stands alone at the top of the hierarchy, but he has lost many constituencies that allow him to rule without resorting to direct force. This situation is unsustainable and even dangerous. There's been a serious erosion of regime legitimacy, and this is leading to a slow implosion from within.
One of the first measures that MBS introduced when he became crown prince in 2016 was to undermine the state ideology, namely Wahhabism, that in the past provided the rationale for Al-Saud’s rule over diverse regions and populations across Arabia. He distanced himself from this religious tradition and cut its grip on the population by ignoring its most radical and unacceptable Fatwa. He then put its most critical advocates in prison.
Consequently, he precipitated a vacuum in the national narrative that only outright repression can fill.
Second, MBS wanted to gain a new legitimacy on the basis of groundbreaking new economic reforms. From Saudization programmes to privatization of government assets and services, he promised a new economic utopia in which young Saudis find jobs, develop as eclectic entrepreneurs, and amass wealth in the post-oil era.
He was initially successful in fueling the imagination of the Saudi youth cohort with the promise of prosperity and grandiose hypermodern projects. Alas, he faced real challenges and was forced to go back on most of his economic reforms.
With the sudden appointment of MBS as crown prince, and exclusion of more able cousins of his own generation, the old royal consensus was shattered—perhaps forever. MBS had to act quickly to consolidate his grip on power and the state’s policing agencies, lest a dormant threat was awakened to challenge his rule.
MBS created more enemies among his own kin that will haunt him for a long time. It is not clear how he can heal the deep rift without further repression.
Finally, as the domestic front is yet to be secured, MBS thought that an aggressive foreign policy and a promise to evict Iran from many Arab countries would crown him as the new desert warrior. Legitimacy on the basis of a swift military victory in Yemen promised great popularity, especially among the youth. The restoration of Saudi pride built on a newly imagined Saudi nationalism was good on television screens. But the reality on the ground was totally different as Houthi missiles began to reach the outskirts of Riyadh.
With repression, don’t expect a Saudi revolution soon. What we may see is a slow and gradual erosion of regime legitimacy that may last for a long time—before a serious implosion – by Madawi Al-Rasheed
https://www.newsweek.com/slow-implosion-saudi-crown-prince-muhammad-bin-salman-opinion-1120224
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Exclusive: Saudi Arabia to auction detained tycoon's real estate assets - sources
Saudi Arabia will auction real estate owned by indebted billionaire Maan al-Sanea and his company starting next month to help repay billions of riyals due to creditors, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Top personal income tax rate Sweden: 61% Japan: 56% Netherlands: 52% Israel: 50% Germany: 47% Australia: 45% China: 45% France: 45% UK: 45% Italy: 43% Norway: 38% US: 37% India: 35% Mexico 35% Turkey: 35% Canada: 33% Indonesia: 30% Brazil: 27% Pakistan: 20% Russia: 13% Saudi: 0%
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1040857175256530944
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Young Saudi pretender’s days are numbered
Hopes that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would be a reformer who could heal the region have come to nothing
First came the hype, with millions spread around like muck by western PR companies and lobbyists to trumpet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s world tour last March. He was the coming Saudi strongman, you will recall, all at the age of 32.
Six months on, the realities of his soaring ascent look more uncertain, with even his father, King Salman, beginning to show signs of doubt. Maybe the crown prince has as much substance as a firework?
The king’s brother, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, a former interior minister, was persuaded last week (in part by the Bahraini and Yemeni protesters outside his London home) to distance the Saud family from Salman and his ambitious heir. (subscribers only)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/young-saudi-pretender-s-days-are-numbered-hkhqs0239
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Saudi forces tear down Muharram mourning tents in Shia Qatif region
Reports coming out of Saudi Arabia say the regime’s troops have attacked tents set up in the kingdom’s Shia-populated Qatif region in preparation for the mourning rituals during the lunar month of Muharram.
Since the beginning of Muharram on Tuesday, Saudi forces have torn down at least 20 tents in Qatif, activists said on online social media networks.
They have also been removing Shia signs under the pretext of ridding the region of what they call “visual pollution.”
Social media users shared photos of the aftermath of the Saudi raids (film, photos)
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/13/574005/Saudi-Arabia-Qatif-Muharram
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Whitewashed Saudi ‘Reformer’ Prince Boosts Authoritarian Crackdown on Dissent
The regime of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is punishing satire on social media with 5 years in prison and sentencing women’s rights activists to death. CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin speaks about the Western whitewash of MBS.
BEN NORTON: New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a powerful journalist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes, wrote in November 2017, quote: “The most significant reform process underway anywhere in the Middle East today is in Saudi Arabia.” The Western corporate media has sung the praises of Saudi Arabia’s new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, portraying him as a reformer and even a revolutionary who will supposedly transform not just his kingdom, but potentially the Middle East and Islam as a whole.
In reality, however, Mohammed bin Salman, who is known as MBS, has shown himself to be an extremely authoritarian despot who has killed, imprisoned, and exiled his political rivals in order to maintain an iron grip on power. And the internal repression inside Saudi Arabia has, in fact, only increased under MBS. Earlier this month the Saudi regime announced that it would punish critics who post satire on social media with up to five years in prison. This new draconian law targets anyone who creates or posts content that ridicules or mocks, quote: “religious values and public morals” through social media. That’s the language of the new law. Of course, the politicians and journalists who praised MBS as a supposed reformer and hero have been silent about this internal crackdown inside Saudi Arabia.
MEDEA BENJAMIN: You know, you’d want to laugh at this if it were not for the fact that people’s lives are really in danger because of these laws. I’m so glad that you started out with the Thomas Friedman quote, because it was an example of how the U.S. media has been wowed by Mohamed bin Salman. Or maybe because of all the lobbyists that do the PR work for him. And then when things like this happen you barely hear a peep from the media to show how repressive the government is. I mean, imagine having this law that says you could go to prison for five years and an $800,000 fine, almost a million dollar fine, for satire. For putting something on social media that mocked the government.
It is reminiscent of the fact that such laws really already exist on the books. Look at Raif Badawi, who is in prison for ten years, and was sentenced to a thousand lashes for having a blog in which he talked about how the country should be more liberal. So this restriction on free speech has always been the case, but to actually specify that satire can get you five years in prison is taking it to a new step.
MEDEA BENJAMIN: Well, that’s right. The West was touting how wonderful it is that finally the last country on Earth that didn’t allow women to drive was, quote, “allowing” them to drive, as if this was some great wonderful reform that made the kingdom look like it was now a paradise of modernity at the same time that Mohammed bin Salman threw into prison the very women who had been fighting for their rights and engaging in civil disobedience by getting behind the wheel and driving. One of them, for example, had been doing this since the 1990s.
So it was a clear message that was sent to the women of Saudi Arabia that Mohammed bin Salman would be the one to take credit for any gains that women made, and they should watch it to not go further. And going further means what the women are fighting for, which is an end to this guardianship system and these ridiculous restrictions, like the one you mentioned about the video of a man and a woman having breakfast together. The, the country remains the most gender segregated country in the world, where if you went into a McDonald’s or a Starbucks in Saudi Arabia, women would have to go in one side and man in another side and sit separately. So to say that Mohammed bin Salman is bringing this country into a new liberal era is ignoring the fact that the most restrictive guardianship system is still in place, and that women are in prison right now for fighting for their rights.
Ever since oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, the United States has been very close to the Saudi regime
https://therealnews.com/stories/whitewashed-saudi-reformer-prince-boosts-authoritarian-crackdown-on-dissent and film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5FkqIeuro
cp9 USA
Siehe / Look at cp1
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The Trump administration vouches for its Saudi friends as civilians die in Yemen
LAST SUNDAY, forces backed by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia launched a new offensive around Yemen’s port of Hodeida, through which flows 70 percent of the supplies for 8 million people in danger of starvation. It was, therefore, remarkable that the Trump administration on Tuesday certified to Congress that the Saudis and their allies are “making every effort to reduce the risk of civilian casualties” and facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries in Yemen. Congress passed the Yemen aid restrictions last month in response to serial atrocities by the Saudi-UAE forces that a U.N. panel of experts said may amount to war crimes. After the legislation passed, and with this week’s deadline for certification looming, the Saudi-UAE coalition issued a statement Sept. 1 calling the bus attack — which it previously had strongly defended — unjustified.The Trump administration, in turn, seized on that token gesture to justify its certification.
Independent international observers disagree.
It became clear long ago that the only solution to the Yemen war is a U.N.-brokered peace settlement, which the Trump administration claims to support. But a recent attempt to start the process in Geneva failed when Houthi leaders did not arrive; they said they had not been given safe travel guarantees by the Saudis, who control Yemen’s airspace. The new Saudi-UAE offensive began days later, raising the obvious question of whether the Gulf allies were ever serious about the peace process.
The same could be said of the Trump administration. In certifying the coalition’s behavior even as the assault on Hodeida went forward, the administration flouted Congress’s restrictions. Legislators should not let that stand.
My comment: The WaPo is right here, but keep in mind that they had supported the Saudis and there war in Yemen a lot by flattering pro-Saudi articles, by just non-reporting on Yemen, by neglecting the US involvement. For the WaPo, Yemen is more an anti-Trump objective than a question of US imperialism, of humanity and peace. The Yemen War is Obama’s war.
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Sen. Chris Murphy: The Trump Administration formally endorsed the U.S. backed bombing of civilians inside Yemen today. You need to start raising your voice on this - now. If you need a quick primer why, read this THREAD
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1040052525733474305?s=01
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
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Senior Tory Andrew Mitchell says Government policy in Yemen encourages terrorism against the UK
Former International Development Secretary condemns UK support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen conflict
The UK’s support for Saudi-led military action in Yemen will encourage terrorism against us, former Cabinet Minister Andrew Mitchell said.
Mr Mitchell, the former International Development Secretary, said the British Government’s policy towards Yemen was a “recruiting sergeant” for terrorism.
The Conservative MP condemned the Government’s approach in an outspoken speech in the House of Commons.
He said Yemen was in “complete and total chaos”, adding: “The people of Yemen know that the UK and the US are involved.”
Mr Mitchell said: “All that means that a younger generation of Yemenis see what is happening and hundreds and thousands of them are prey to the immoral advances of terrorists.
"They are prey to those who tell them who is causing the situation and then radicalise them.”
He added: “It would be hard to find a more eloquent and effective recruiting sergeant for those who wish to do us ill than the policy that is being pursued by our Government.”
Mr Mitchell, MP for Sutton Coldfield, urged the Government to end its policy of supporting Saudi Arabia in the conflict.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/senior-tory-andrew-mitchell-says-15151772
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"we are providing information, advice and assistance" ** #UKGov conveniently and shamefully forgets to mention the bombs, planes, training, support, maintenance, etc, etc, also being provided to #Saudi. (text in image9
https://twitter.com/julie_maxon/status/1040588763339153413
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
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Film: Frieden, Stabilität u Menschenrechte befördern unsere Munitions- u Waffenexporte nach Saudi Arabien?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGtfsNzfEt8
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
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The Canadian government should listen to Yemeni protesters and end its support for Saudi Arabia
Canada’s sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and the subsequent use of these arms to perpetrate war crimes within Yemen raises a moral dilemma for Canadians. Our international role is that of a peacekeeper, intervening to prevent conflict.
While supplying these arms may appear to be in the best interest of Canadians, it has deep social and political implications both nationally and internationally. As tensions rise between Saudi Arabia and Canada following a Twitter exchange requesting the release of human rights activists, Canada should make the right choice to end the deal and its support for the Saudi Arabian government in this conflict.
Canada must strive to use its place on the world stage to help advance human rights in all corners of the world, regardless of the potential economic or political gain ensured by turning a blind eye.
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Yemen and Spain: Destruction and Death versus Spanish Unemployment
So, to save jobs, Sanchez decided to sell the bombs after all, the very bombs that will further decimate the Yemeni population – kill masses of children and increase the untold, unfathomable misery for this poor country, strategically located on the Gulf of Aden.
The war ships Spain is producing for the Saudis are certainly not going to bring peace to the world either; they bring perhaps work to Spanish shipyard workers, but, Dear Mr. Sanchez, where are your ethics? Where is your sense of Human Rights?
Would it not be more ethical to help Spanish workers find alternative jobs, or while they are looking, pay them unemployment at a decent level? Perhaps exceptional unemployment, because the reason for the unemployment in this case is ‘exceptional’ and ethical to the point that the workers would probably understand — a sense of integrity and conscience they may proudly pass on to their children.
To top it all off, Spain’s Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, pretends that the Saudis have to guarantee that the missiles will not be used against Yemenis. Whom does she think she is fooling? Would the Spanish people be so blind to reality to believe this lie? I don’t think so.
The delivery of these missiles would be a tacit recognition and acceptance that the Saudis, supported by the US, the UK and France, block vital food and medical supplies from entering Yemen, thereby starving literally millions to death. And most likely the Spanish warships are creating in Yemen or elsewhere even worse human suffering. Since the onset of the war which typically and conveniently is called by the west a ‘civil war’ which it is, of course, not – the US has supported the confrontation with over US$ 200 billion of war planes and weapons, and the UK with missiles and bombs.
But there may be more at stake than meets the eye. Despite some fierce opposition, the US Congress has again voted for unquestioned support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. Foreign Secretary Pompeo has made it clear that he expects allied nations, especially NATO nations, of which Spain is one, to follow the US lead in supporting the Saudi-led hostility against a nation already eviscerated, for all practical purposes – by Peter Koenig.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/09/yemen-and-spain-destruction-and-death-versus-spanish-unemployment/ = https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/09/15/yemen-and-spain-destruction-and-death-versus-spanish-unemployment-an-appeal-to-spains-president-pedro-sanchez/
My comment: For the Spanish workers versus Yemeni life scheme the author is definitely right. This is the “Brave new World” of neoliberalism. The one’s (better) life is the other’s misery and death. And governments do not care at all: no neoliberal states’ government ever will look for alternative work opportunities and support the workers in the meantime. This is not just the case of Spain, it is the same thing all over the world. The governments are interested in keeping the military industry working (they also want to arm their own armies), thus export and deliveries for wars abroad are “necessary”.
As long as ordinary people rather turn against each other (here: Spanish workers against Yemeni civilians) and vote for politicians who keep up this system even if the call themselves “socialist”, nothing will change.
Sanchez is prime minister, he is not “president”. The author really should have known this.
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Spain tries to limit arms sales to Saudi Arabia – but following international law is expensive
The Spanish government recently found itself confronting a deeply unpleasant dilemma: whether to help prevent violations of the law of armed conflicts or protect thousands of jobs at home. On September 3, the radio station Cadena SER reported that the minister of defence, Margarita Robles, intended to stop the delivery of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia, whose bombing campaign in Yemen has claimed numerous civilian lives.
While Robles’s choice is consistent with the law on international arms transfers, it could seriously affect her government’s commercial relationship with the Saudis while undermining the jobs of thousands of Spanish workers involved in the defence sector.
Immediately after her intentions became public, Spanish media reported on the Saudis’ alarmed reaction and the future of other Saudi-Spanish deals. Top of the list was a contract for five warships to be built by Navantia, a Spanish state-owned company. Cancelling that order would have cost €1.8 billion and left 6,000 workers unemployed. While there was no official statement by Saudi Arabia, Robles’s idea concerned other Spanish politicians. Susana Díaz, governor of Andalusia, demanded the government defend the jobs that might have been affected.
This disquiet triggered the involvement of the entire Spanish government – and before long, Robles made a statement before the Defence Commission of the Spanish Senate on September 10. In it, she denied that the shipment of bombs had been suspended, claiming that the transfer was solely under examination by her ministry.
In just a week, then, forced to consider the consequence on Spanish economy of the decision to cancel the transfer of armaments to Saudi Arabia, Robles withdrew her plan.
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Remark: Earlier reporting Yemen War Mosaic 457, cp12.
Armi italiane in Yemen ma non solo. Io sto con Di Maio, basta avere le mani sporche di sangue
Eppure all’Arabia Saudita nel 2016 abbiamo venduto armi per 427,5 milioni. Sempre nel 2016 almeno 21.822 bombe prodotte dalla Rwm sita in Sardegna, a Domusnovas, sono state consegnate all’esercito saudita. Coincidenza nello stesso anno, nel mese di ottobre, l’ex ministro Pinotti si era recato a Riad dove aveva incontrato gli allora re saudita Salman e vice principe ereditario e ministro della Difesa, Muhammad Bin Salman. Tale vendita di armi viola la legge n. 185 del 9 luglio del 1990 che espressamente vieta di esportare armamenti a Paesi in stato di conflitto.
Noi non abbiamo più intenzione di continuare a sporcarci le mani di sangue e interverremo legislativamente per rafforzare tali divieti in rispetto dell’articolo 11 della Carta costituzionale e dei valori in essa contenuti.
cp12a Katar-Krise / Qatar crisis
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Qatar to sue Saudi Arabia and UAE for ‘piracy’
Qatar’s Attorney General has confirmed that independent investigations have proven that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were involved in hacking into the official Qatar News Agency last year
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180915-qatar-to-sue-saudi-arabia-and-uae-for-piracy/
cp13 Wirtschaft / Economy
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Yemen: Exchange Rates and Inflation Trends (as of 5 September 2018)
The depreciation of the currency has affected the average market price of basic food commodities which have increased by up to 10 per cent in recent weeks. The cost of the minimum food basket has increased by 35 per cent since November 2017. The price of fuel commodities - cooking gas, diesel and petrol - have also increased by more than 25 per cent between November 2017 and September 2018. In the short term the result of the depreciation is likely to be that an additional 3.5 million people will become food insecure, adding to the existing caseload of 8.4 million people who need emergency food assistance, and over 2 million people are likely to be at heightened risk of famine. (infographic)
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-exchange-rates-and-inflation-trends-5-september-2018
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
Siehe / Look at cp1
cp15 Propaganda
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Saudi investigators: Saudi air strikes do not kill Yemeni civilians.
U.S. Sec of State: U.S.-aided Saudi coalition undertake demonstrable actions to reduce risk of civilian harm.
U.S. Sec of Defense: Yeah. Like Pompeo said.
The UN: Yemen war crimes.
Saudi Arabia: The UN is Houthi
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1041377432475971584
My comment: In a nutshell: How propaganda works.
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KSRelief Distributes 400 Cartons of Dates in Marib, Yemen
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1814154
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Hezbollah is flaunting its support for Yemen’s Houthis
Public backing for the Yemeni insurgency is a no-brainer for the Lebanese movement, analysts say
My comment: Nothing new at all, just for keeping in mind the propaganda anthem: Houthis and Hezbollah.
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UAE committed to UN-led political process in Yemen
Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, has reiterated and reinforced her country's commitment to a UN-led political process, notwithstanding the Houthis’ decision to disregard the Geneva talks organised by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths.
In a letter addressed to President of the UN Security Council Nikki R. Haley with a copy to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Ambassador Nusseibeh said the Houthis’ "no-show" rebuke to the United Nations and to a meaningful political process is a serious setback and a significant disappointment for the Yemeni people and the Coalition, who are eager to find an end to the conflict.
"Unfortunately, this is only the latest Houthi broken promise to re-engage in a political process since they derailed the political transition process in 2014, turned to force, and triggered the humanitarian and political crisis Yemen faces today," she added.
Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh further stated, "The Coalition remains committed to supporting the efforts of the Special Envoy, and to a UN-led political solution, in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions, the Initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council and its implementation mechanism, and the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference. The Coalition is ready to support new talks whenever the Special Envoy can ensure the Houthis’ meaningful participation. We hope he can achieve this soon.
http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302708238 = http://gulftoday.ae/portal/580e3bef-dd61-45ea-a7fd-908f812e69ad.aspx
My comment: Fort he Saudi coalition, a “political solution” must imply that the Houthis capitulate. This hardly is a “political solution” but just achieving victory by political means. In anything else, the Saudi coalition is not interested at all.
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Arab Coalition detects evidence of Houthis' burning of petrol station, relief warehouse in 'Kilo 16' area
The Saudi-led Arab Coalition has detected evidence of the burning by the Houthi militia of a petrol station and warehouse for the storage of relief supplies in the 'Kilo 16' area of Hodeidah province, following the successive defeats inflicted upon the militia.
The Coalition forces continue to monitor carefully Houthi movements, making it possible to ensure that their military operations are unsuccessful. The Coalition forces also continue to destroy Houthi military positions and defences, damaging their morale and leading the militia forces to flee from the battlefield, leaving behind their weapons, equipment and dead.
These moves have led to cause a major crisis in the ranks of the militia, who are now short of men on the ground, especially after the success of the Yemeni Resistance Forces in cutting off the most important supply lines, surrounding the Houthis in the city of Hodeidah.
http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302708236
My comment: And again, blaming the Houthis for the air strike at the bus/taxi station killing 15 at Kilo 16. – And we are not told what “evidence” this should be. Well, I tell you I have evidence the earth is flat. – It still is unknown which side had damaged the WFP warehouse.
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Yemen PM: Victory imminent over Al Houthis
Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmad Bin Dagher has said that his government’s military campaign, supported by an Arab coalition, will achieve an imminent victory over Iran-allied Al Houthi militants.
Bin Dagher was briefed on Saturday by military commanders on the course of fight in the West Coast against Al Houthis, Yemen’s official news agency Saba reported.
“The sacrifices in which the Yemeni blood is mixed with blood of his brothers from the Arab coalition paint features of the victory, which looms in sight,” the agency quoted the prime minister as saying.
He also praised the “generous” support from the coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
https://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemen-pm-victory-imminent-over-al-houthis-1.2278711
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Saudi Arabia’s boost for education in needy countries with projects worth $5bn
Saudi Arabia is giving special attention to the education sector, the general supervisor of King Salman Humanitarian Aid And Relief Center (KSRelief), Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, has said.
This sector plays a vital role in sustainable development, the advancement of societies, the improvement in living conditions in needy countries and in taking vulnerable people from need to self-reliance.
“The Kingdom supported the educational process with various programs and projects that profited more than 2.3 million students in 32 countries.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1372581/saudi-arabia
Comment: SaudiArabia's special attention to the education sector: 2200 #Yemen-i schools destroyed, 107 Yemeni children dead at school because of Saudis' war on Yemen.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1924547660931588
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175 projects to define UAE, Saudi future
The Executive Committee of the Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council met in Jeddah on Saturday to review progress in the implementation of strategic projects and identified 175 initiatives which will define the future.
Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future said that the UAE and Saudi Arabia constitute a model for full integration and harmony as they share common visions on a host of issues of mutual interest. "The two countries are taking deeper, stronger and strategic steps to bring about happiness and prosperity to their peoples."
"The first meeting of the chairmen of the council's executive committee complements efforts being made under the umbrella of the longstanding, strong bilateral ties," he stated.
"We are determined through this committee to achieve the maximum benefit from opportunities for cooperation and set a general framework to integrate efforts between work teams in implementing projects. Now, we have more than 175 initiatives and projects which will define a new reality and era of constructive work in the region," he added.
The council was established according to a cooperation agreement signed between the two countries in May 2016 to serve as a platform for coordination and consultation on vital issues of common interest.
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/government/175-projects-to-define-uae-saudi-future-
My comment: Project No. 176: To bomb Yemen to ruins.
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#Houthis are obviously trying to link #Yemen to a regional & International agenda that would transform #Yemen's dynamics into a #Syria-like political quagmire, where every other actor is involved, and the US role is criticized, contested & constrained
Note that #Houthis sing #Syria's Bashar al-Assad praises, and seek to replicate the model that empowered him all these years through rolling back US presence & bringing #Iran, #Russia, and like-minded allies to the mix.
Many US-based media outlets & others are blindly repeating #Houthi talking points, which nearly absolves #Iran and #Houthis of their crimes. The media neglects to report on #landmines, mortar & ballistic shelling on Yemen cities, childsoldiers, prisoner's torture by #Houthis.
The echo-chamber of the #Houthi & #Iran regime has used #Yemen to galvanize public opinion against the U.S in order to distract from #Iran's influence in hindering peace in #Yemen & its continuous arming of #Houthis in defiance of UN resolutions.
https://twitter.com/YemeniFatima/status/1040643906520723459
My comment: This is really putting upside down. US media are blamed for being pro-Houthi! – And for the author it generally seems to be a criminal act “to roll back US presence in the region”, and who tries to do so places himself on a certain place in the author’s propaganda framing.
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
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Saudi coalition air raids day by day
Sept. 12: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/1138732986277065/?type=3
Sept. 11: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/1138732639610433/?type=3
Sept. 10: https://www.facebook.com/lcrdye/photos/a.551858951631141/1138732092943821/?type=3
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Film: the aggression intensifies the targeting of farms and cars citizens in the province of Saada 16-09-2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uihp3OYtrGo
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AlBayda Province: 5 citizens, including women and children, were killed and 8 injured in an air raid by the US-Saudi Aggression on the home of a citizen in Horan area of Radman district,
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1925900987462922/?type=3
7 Civilians were Killed and 8 injured including women and children by #Saudi led coalition air strikes on their Home in Ganya area #Albayda Governorate.
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1041444830428184581
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What this woman did wrong to be killed without mercy by Saudi jets? Does she deserve to be killed in this barbarian way? This woman was herding sheep today in Marran area of Saada when the Saudi jet hit the area (photos)
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1041424273057964034
Film: flight targeting a young girl who was working on collecting fodder for livestock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyuXAisMWxc
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Anschlag arabischer Koalition auf Radiosender in Jemen – Todesopfer
Bei einem Luftangriff der von Saudi-Arabien geführten Koalition auf einen Radiosender in der jemenitischen Hafenstadt Hodeidah sind vier Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Das meldet der Sender Al-Massira.
Bei den Opfern handelt es sich demnach um drei Sicherheitsleute und einen Mitarbeiter des Radiosenders.
https://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20180916322334605-jemen-radiosender-anschlag/
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4 Hodeidah radio employees killed in aggression airstrikes
Four Hodeidah radio employees were killed on Sunday, when the US-backed Saudi-led coalition fighter jets targeted station transmissions in al-Marawi'ah district, an official in the radio told Saba on Sunday.
A radio engineer and three others were killed in airstrikes targeted radio transmissions in al-marawi'ah district, said the official.
The paramedics could not pull out the victims because of constantly aggression fly overhead.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508394.htm
film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfCSJqi6ic
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Aggression warplanes continues against children and women
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508380.htm
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Aggression’s Daily Update for Saturday, September 15th, 2018
US-Saudi aggression launched 6 raids on a civilian's car and farm in Baqim and Majz districts, a raid on Shida border district and a raid on the main road in Adhdhaher district.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2818&cat_id=1
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Citizens Killed by US-Saudi Aggression Airstrikes in Sa’ada
According to Al-Masirah Net correspondent, 2 citizens died from sustained wounds bythe US-Saudi airstrikes that targeted Shada border district.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2837&cat_id=1
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A man and a woman killed by nine coalition raids targeting a small village north of Hodeidah
Local residents of the al-Zahra district in the northern province of Hodeidah said Saturday that the Saudi Arabian-led coalition fighters have launched nine raids on the village of Deir al-Qa’amos in the directorate since Friday morning.
Al-Masdar Online quoted the residents as saying that the shelling killed a man and a woman and injured others after the raid targeted a house where family members were present.
He explained that the inhabitants of the small village in the rural areas of the Directorate were completely displaced from their homes to the distant desert of the village, which reduced the casualties among them.
He noted that the village was far from any area of military confrontations, or even areas where the confrontations were present, and the nearest site of the Houthis, 10 kilometers away.
According to the residents, the raids caused panic among women and children, in addition to the destruction of some small houses, as well as the killing of civilians and the wounding of others.
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U.S-Saudi warplanes launch 4 raids on Hodeidah
U.S-Saudi aggression’s warplanes waged four air raids on Hodeidah province, an official said Saba on Saturday.
The strikes targeted al-Zahraa district in the province
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508246.htm
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Saudi-led airstrikes targets civilians' houses in Hodeidah
A citizen was killed on Friday when the US-Saudi aggression coalition warplanes hit citizens ' houses in Hodeidah province, a security official told Saba on Saturday.
The Saudi fighter jet launched two airstrikes citizens' house in Dir-kamws area in Zahra district killing a civilian and destroying the citizen' house.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508239.htm
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#Saudi led coalition warplanes destroyed this house in Bit Alfaqeh area #Hodeidah, #Yemen. They will continue to kill civilians, destroy houses and infrastructure. (photos)
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1041005470083952641
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Hodeidah: The US-Saudi aggression bombed the warehouse of the World Food Program in the Kilo 16 area, which is located near the Silos of the Red Sea Mills by local source in Hodeidah.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.963391330380564/1923322887720732/?type=3
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At least 8 Yemeni civilians lost their lives in Fresh airstrike on Hodeida Province By the US-Saudi coalition warplanes .
Local source clarified that the aggression jets committed new crime against the citizens in Kilo-16 area of Alhali district , killing 8 civilians . (photos)
http://www.newnewss.net/new-us-ksa-airstrikes-killed-eight-civilians-in-yemens-provinces/
film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkCwS0tL-k
Remark: Saudi/UAE/US Murder Inc lies don't add up. They say they took Km. 16, but they continue to bomb civilians there! Today 8 civilians were murdered by SLC airraids on Km. 16 Hodeida-Sana'a Road, which they will never capture. Please take all their propaganda with a grain of salt.
https://twitter.com/commonsense575/status/1040603590275072000
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Again today by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes At least 3 people have been killed and a woman wounded in raids by Saudi jets in Kello 16 area of #Hodeidah in western #Yemen this came hours after other raids that caused the death of 8 people and wounding 10 others in the city.
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1040648279204220928
Almasirah net correspondent stated that 3 civilians were killed and a woman was injured by airstrikes targeted kil-16 in Al-Hale district, hours after committing a similar crime, killing 8 civilians in the same district.
In a new crime of the US-Saudi aggression, two civilians were killed, one was injured and another one was lost by airstrikes targeted a fishermen's boat in Al-Sawabe' island.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2798&cat_id=1
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Film: Air force aggression commits a crime against a family of the Al-Mughars area south of Tahita targeting them three Raids, leaving two martyrs and three wounded, as the raids destroyed many houses and the death of livestock.
https://twitter.com/A_mtrz/status/1039961334413180930
Remark: Earlier reporting, photos, another film (Yemen War Mosaic 457): https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1039974453382397952 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vpw19UV-gw
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Film: Saudi coal. Air raid at Beid al Faqih, Hodeidah prov. (Between Hodeidah and Taiz), Sep. 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRUtEU0_Zh8
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Reports: 5 civilians killed, wounded by US-Saudi aggression fighter jets over 24 past hours
The US-Saudi aggression fighter jets waged air raids over the past day, which left five citizens were killed and injured, a security official told Saba on Friday.
In Saada, two children were killed when the aggression waged a citizen’ house in Maran area in Hidan district.
While , a woman was killed and a man in the same area.
Meanwhile, the source added a child was killed when the coalition targeted his house in Ghafrah area in al-Taher district, also the enemy waged two airstrikes in Alazqwal area in Sahar district, the other three air raids in a school in Mahdidah area.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508177.htm
and
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Sept. 13: Father Hassan, sadly sits next to his son Nabil, 3,daughter Semood (months) after they were killed by US-Saudi airstrikes on their house yesterday in Marran Saada north Yemen
Hassan&his family had displaced earlier this year from west Saada where his first house was also bombed!
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRUtEU0_Zh8 = https://twitter.com/shrffee/status/1040689941779566592
Photos: https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/1040701818353922048 = https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/1040802672931155968
https://www.facebook.com/SaudiArabia.war.crimes.against.Yemen/posts/1901694716793180
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More Saudi coalition air raids recorded on:
Sept. 16:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508367.htm Hodeidah p.
Sept. 15:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508238.htm Nehm, Sanaa p.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508235.htm Hajjah p.
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
Siehe / Look at cp1b
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Yemeni army downed Houthi-operated drone
An Iranian-made Houthi-militia-operated drone was downed eastern of capital Sanaa, the Yemeni army announced today.
https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1814403
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For the 126th time in the last 1 year alone, anti-Houthi #Yemen media announce yet again the death of Houthi military leader Abu Ali Al-Hakim. Very tiring.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/1041299543613165570
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Aggression’s Daily Update for Saturday, September 15th, 2018
In Saada, a civilian was injured by missiles and artillery shells on populated villages in Razih border district. Also Saudi missiles and artillery shells targeted different areas of Adhdhaher, Shida, Razih and Baqim border districts, damaging civilians' houses and farms.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2818&cat_id=1
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Saudi says it destroyed missile Houthis fired at Jizan province
Houthi forces fighting a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen fired a missile over the border targeting the Jizan Industrial City in southern Saudi Arabia on Saturday, but Saudi air defense forces said they had intercepted and destroyed the projectile.
“The rocket force fired a Badr ballistic missile at the Industrial City of Jizan,” the Houthis’ al-Masirah TV said.
by Saudi media: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1372726/saudi-arabia
My comment: Houthi missiles target military targets, industry and air ports. The Saudi C+P claim “of deliberately targeting civilian and populated areas in the Kingdom, in willful violation of international law“ is mainly propaganda, and it is a bad joke looking at Saudi coalition air raids.
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Yemen downs Saudi spy drone
Yemen foiled a Saudi army operation to advance in Jizan and downed a spy drone belonging to Saudi coalition, Yemeni TV Channel ‘Al-Masirah’ reported.
http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83034350
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Three Saudi troops killed in border clash with Yemen’s Ansarullah
The Saudi media announced that three members of the kingdom’s military have been killed in a clash with the forces of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah Movement along the borders between the two Arab countries.
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Houthi sniper injures three people including two girls in Taiz
A Houthi sniper injured two girls and a young man who tried to rescue the girls. in the central Yemen province of Taiz on Friday afternoon.
Eyewitnesses said the Islamic rebel stationed on al-Qare'a hilltop in al-Domayna area, west of Taiz, opened fire
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-23626
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Army fires ballistic missile at Saudi Aramco refinery in Jizan
The army launched on Friday evening a Badr-1 ballistic missile on the Saudi Aramco refinery
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508218.htm
and
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Saudi says it destroyed missile fired at Aramco facility by Houthis
Yemen’s armed Houthi movement said it had launched a ballistic missile towards a Saudi Aramco oil refinery on Friday, but Saudi air defence forces said they had intercepted and destroyed the projectile.
The Houthis’ al-Masirah TV said Houthi forces had targeted a refinery in Jizan, southwestern Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi state news agency quoted the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen as saying the missile had been heading for residential areas and had been intercepted over Jizan.
“No casualties or damage were recorded when the missile was intercepted,” Colonel Turki al-Maliki said.
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Jemen: Hubschrauber der arabischen Koalition abgestürzt
Ein Helikopter der arabischen Koalition ist am Freitag in der Provinz al-Mahra im Osten des Jemen abgestürzt. Dabei verloren der Pilot sowie der Co-Pilot ihr Leben, teilte der Sprecher der Koalition Turki Al-Maliki vor der Presse mit.
„Der Hubschrauber der Koalition ist wegen einer technischen Störung im Gouvernement al-Mahra abgestürzt. Der Pilot und sein Assistent sind bei der Ausführung einer Mission zur Terrorbekämpfung gestorben“, so Al-Maliki.
https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20180914322315637-jemen-hubschrauber-arabische-koalition/
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Two Saudi pilots killed in helicopter crash: state media
Two Saudi pilots were killed when their helicopter came down in the eastern Yemeni province of al-Mahra on Friday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen said.
In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, the coalition said the helicopter, which belongs to the Saudi ground forces, had crashed following technical issues.
“(The helicopter came down) when it was carrying out its tasks of fighting terrorism and smuggling in al-Mahra in Yemen,” the statement said, quoting the coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki.
The Houthis side claimes they shot it down: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508263.htm
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Air Force Targets UAE Command Center with Drones in West Coast
The Air Force of the Army and Popular Committees launched an air attack on the UAE operations command center in the West Coast. A military source confirmed that the airstrike hit its target accurately.
https://english.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=2791&cat_id=1
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The missiles and artillery forces hit civilian’s’ houses and farms in Baqum district.
The enemy missiles and artillery hit several districts in al-Gmar, al-Safrah and al- Taher.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news508177.htm
cp18 Sonstiges / Other
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Film aus Kriegsalltag als Kinoerfolg im Jemen
Ein Spielfilm aus dem Kriegsalltag hat sich zum Publikumsrenner im Jemen entwickelt. Der junge Filmemacher Amr Dschamal ist vom Erfolg seines Werks selbst überrascht. „Wir haben das nicht erwartet“, sagte Dschamal. Der Film „Zehn Tage vor der Hochzeit“ beschreibt die Probleme, mit denen ein Mann und seine Braut zu kämpfen haben: keine Infrastruktur, Kämpfe, Stromausfälle.
Es ist der erste seit Jahren im Jemen produzierte Spielfilm. Regisseur Dschamal schrieb das Drehbuch in 16 Wochen, die Dreharbeiten dauerten sechs Monate. „Wir wollten die humanitäre und soziale Situation im Jemen in dieser schlimmen Zeit zeigen“, sagte Dschamal.
Das Publikum kommt in Scharen: Bis zu acht Vorstellungen pro Tag waren in der südlichen Stadt Aden ausverkauft.
https://orf.at/stories/3017721/
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War, famine and fear: Yemeni cinema fights back
More than a week later, the reception hall-turned-cinema is still packed nightly as residents of the southern city of Aden bring their children, friends and neighbours to see Gamal's "10 Days Before the Wedding".
The movie, which tells the story of a couple struggling to wed amid war and its aftermath, is Gamal's debut feature film -- and one of only a handful of Yemeni productions to come out over the past two decades.
The couple's second attempt to wed, after the conflict calmed in the government bastion of Aden, is complicated by the aftermath of war, including poverty, assassinations and sporadic battles.
"There's always a parallel war after it's officially over... after the violence has technically ended," Gamal said of his film.
"And unfortunately so many ambitions, dreams, are destroyed in the face of war across the Arab world."
The story has struck a chord with Yemenis in Aden, who have packed the makeshift cinema for each of the film's eight scheduled screenings
https://www.afp.com/en/news/206/war-famine-and-fear-yemeni-cinema-fights-back-doc-1914jl1
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Announcing Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project is proud to mark the 20th anniversary of the Moving Walls exhibition series by announcing Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home.
Another Way Home brings together eight projects led by 13 visionary artists, journalists, and creative technologists who are exploring the topic of migration through documentary practice. These artists reclaim and redefine narratives of refugee and immigrant experiences by focusing on themes of identity, community, and resilience. In addition to being selected for the Another Way Home exhibition, each featured artist will receive a fellowship for work on migration which stands at the intersection of arts, media, documentary, and social change.
Thana Faroq (b. 1989, Yemen; lives in the Netherlands) will exhibit “The Passport,” a work of personal reportage reflecting on notions of freedom and the struggle to leave a country where violence, war, and aggression are prevalent. Her fellowship will support further work on the project, including a publication, exhibitions, and public programming
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/announcing-moving-walls-25-another-way-home
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69 best Yemen photos on Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.de/almagrami/yemen/
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Film:
Yemen - The Oldest Skyscraper City in the World
Shibam Hadhramaut, "Old Walled City of Shibam", "the oldest skyscraper city in the world", "the Manhattan of the desert"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPm6dMnYeU
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-457-yemen-war-mosaic-457
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-457 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-457:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose oder / or http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
Der saudische Luftkrieg im Bild / Saudi aerial war images:
(18 +, Nichts für Sensible!) / (18 +; Graphic!)
http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
http://yemenwarcrimes.blogspot.de/
und alle Liste aller Luftangriffe / and list of all air raids:
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