... Humanitäre und Friedensansätze versagen gegen geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt im Jemen – Widerstand und Hoffnung der Frauen angesichts gewaltsamer Verschleppungen im Jemen – Bidens gebrochenes Versprechen, die Unterstützung der USA für den Krieg im Jemen zu beenden – und mehr
December 29, 2022: Yemen in Limbo: No War, Yet Still No Peace – Fear in Yemen's Southern Transitional Council over Possible Secessionist Intentions in Hadramaut – Impunity Encourages Emiratis to Commit More Crimes in Yemen –Humanitarian and Peace Frameworks Fail Against Gender-Based Violence in Yemen – Women’s Resistance and Hope in the Face of Forced Disappearance in Yemen – Biden’s Broken Promise to End U.S. Support for the War in Yemen – and more
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Kursiv: Siehe Teil 2 / In Italics: Look in part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-835b-yemen-war-mosaic-835b
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cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Coronavirus und Seuchen / Most important: Coronavirus and epidemics
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 Separatisten und Aden-Regierung im Südjemen / Separatists and Aden government in Southern Yemen
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp9a USA-Iran Krise: Spannungen am Golf / US-Iran crisis: Tensions at the Gulf
cp9b Beziehungen der USA zu Saudi-Arabien und den VAE / US-Saudi and UAE relations
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp12b Sudan
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
cp13b Söldner / Mercenaries
cp13c Kulturerbe / Cultural heritage
cp13d Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Kampf um Hodeidah / Hodeidah battle
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C = Chronik / Chronicle
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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
Audio: Hunger im Jemen
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hunger-im-jemen-dlf-1ababd02-100.html
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Yemen in Limbo: No War, Yet Still No Peace
Despite the substantial reduction, even the near cessation of military offensives between the Houthi armed group and the Saudi-UAE-led coalition, and especially following the October 2 expiration of a UN-brokered truce, Yemen today is far from peaceful. In fact, a state of “no war, no peace” currently prevails, while the country suffers from an economic collapse and an escalating humanitarian crisis consisting of scant food supplies, health problems, unaddressed trauma, and widespread displacement.
Yemen’s Ongoing Stalemate
As important as it is to silence all gunfire in Yemen’s conflict, landmines planted in many parts of the country remain among the most destructive and lethal weapons used in the conflict, and their presence requires immediate and comprehensive action.
Rather than simply aiming to freeze the conflict, the international community must instead show more courage in addressing actions by the various parties to the civil war that delay conflict settlement and deepen the unspeakable suffering of Yemen’s civilians.
The IRGY’s Diminishing Influence
As new attempts to revive collapsing peace settlements are coming to the fore, the IRGY’s role in them continues to weaken. An exchange of visits in October between delegations from Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, which occurred without the presence of any IRGY officials, represented an unprecedented step in the course of the conflict, and raised questions about the possibility of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic acknowledgement of the Houthis as the de facto authority in northern Yemen.
The IRGY’s response to a series of major Houthi attacks during October and November on an oil tanker near the al-Dhabba oil terminal in Yemen’s Hadramawt Governorate and on numerous ports in areas under its control was ineffective. Instead of ensuring the availability of an adequate and powerful mechanism to defend against such attacks, the IRGY’s response was only to issue a decree on October 23 designating the Houthi armed group a terrorist organization, an act that ultimately held no serious repercussions.
In the current situation, in which there is no war yet no peace, fuel and energy facilities are likely to form a new battlefield between the Houthi armed group and the IRGY. Houthi attacks on fuel targets in IRGY-controlled areas have disrupted fuel flow, and for several days now, Aden Governorate, where the IRGY is based, has been suffering a major blackout due to severe fuel shortages.
The public’s discontent with the IRGY has recently reached a high level. Earlier this month, leaked official documents provided details about scholarships that the IRGY gave to the relatives of its own officials, including a relative of Rashad al-Alimi, the president of the government’s executive body, the Presidential Leadership Council, without any legitimate reason or merit. Given the endless obstacles that Yemeni students face to receive such scholarship opportunities, widespread condemnation from all across Yemen understandably followed the release of this information.
The question remains: Does the IRGY still have the capability to play a vital role in any potential peacemaking process? Although both its role in the next chapter of resolving the conflict and its public popularity have been dramatically diminishing, one of the key factors that has enabled this government to survive so far is the fact that it is still recognized by the international community as being the legitimate representative of the Yemeni people.
The Houthis: Spoilers of Peace
The Houthis continue to be one of the truce’s biggest beneficiaries, as most of their conditions have been met, including ending the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes and the closure of Sanaa International Airport. However, the group refuses to compromise in return. It remains reluctant to end its siege on Taiz Governorate, which was one of the truce’s terms, and in fact is trying to maximize its gains by setting conditions for peace, such as having the IRGY pay salaries to public sector workers, including Houthi security and military forces. Houthis have long been described by both Yemen experts and international diplomats as spoilers of peace. US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking, for example, notably stated on December 6 that the Houthis were the ones who are “walking away from peace.”
The cessation of large-scale fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition that opposes it has enabled the group to recharge, reorganize, strengthen its military capacity
The Houthis’ fortified military capacity is evidently fueling their gains, and they clearly have no plans to stop. In addition to carrying out drone attacks on the IRGY’s ports, in December the group threatened any foreign oil and gas companies operating in Yemen if they looted “the wealth of the Yemeni people.”
More tragically, the cessation of large-scale fighting creates a favorable environment for the Houthis to continue waging their parallel war on personal liberties and basic human rights.
The Southern Transitional Council: Influential but Disregarded
The STC has been one of the most crucial and yet disregarded actors influencing the current situation of no war, no peace. The STC was not mentioned in the truce’s agreements, thus treating the organization as if it has no role to play in the cessation of violence. This is a mistake, since the STC authorities are predominately in control of the south of Yemen. And in fact, the STC enjoys more military power than the IRGY.
New Approaches to Peace
Stakeholders in ending Yemen’s conflict must truly think outside the box. This could entail giving women a chance to join the peacemaking process by creating mechanisms that facilitate their political participation in all peace efforts.
After nearly a decade of civil war, a resolution to the conflict in Yemen will require political courage from the IRGY, the STC, and the Houthis. Only meaningful negotiations with the participation of all of Yemen’s relevant actors can address the root causes of the civil war and eventually pave the way for a lasting peace. And importantly, peacemaking efforts must adopt a critical approach that goes beyond merely pausing the conflict. The last thing the Yemeni people need is an incomplete peace. What they need is a definite and permanent end to the conflict – by Afrah Nasser
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/yemen-in-limbo-no-war-yet-still-no-peace/
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Fear in Yemen's Southern Transitional Council over possible secessionist intentions in Hadramaut
The Transitional Council warns of the intentions of the National Rally for Reform Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood
Now the complication seems to be within the secessionists themselves. The Southern Transitional Council - not recognised by the international community -, whose goal is the independence of southern Yemen, fears that an independence movement is brewing in Hadramaut province, the largest province in the country. According to the Transitional Council, the National Rally for Reform Party (commonly known as Al-Islah) - considered the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood - may be behind the plot, which aims to further divide Yemen's already fragmented map.
The Council argues that "the vast majority of Hadhramaut made their choice and took the lead in the struggle for the independence of the south and the establishment of a just federal state to satisfy the rights of the people of the south and their aspirations for an effective national association". It is important to note that this region is rich in gas and oil, which, added to its strategic location in the south of the country, attracts the interest of many groups. One of these could be the Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered terrorist by a wide range of countries, including the US.
Its Yemeni political wing is believed to be behind this secessionist intention. Since the outbreak of the war, al-Islah has sought to impose its influence on the country's various governing bodies, and it appears that this move may be yet another attempt to shake up Yemen's already eroded - if not non-existent - stability. Indeed, observers are warning of a possible widening of the divide over the legitimate authority in the region and the problem throughout the south of the country.
These developments come against an even more complicated backdrop. The Presidential Leadership Council's announcement of the inability to pay civil servants as a result of the Houthi strike has caused the value of the Yemeni rial to fall dramatically. In one week it has fallen from 1,170 rials to 1,200 rials to the dollar, breaking a nine-month positive trend. In April alone, the value of the rial rose by 13% to 1,000 rials to the dollar – by José Maria Martin
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Impunity Encourages Emiratis to Commit More Crimes in Yemen
Throughout the eight years of its participation in the war on Yemen, Abu Dhabi continues its absurdity and violations of human rights and the commission of more crimes against Yemenis. It is specialized in assassinations, kidnappings and torture inside prisons and secret detention centers established by the Saudi-led coalition in the areas under its control.
The political activist and former leader of the so-called Southern Resistance, Adel al-Hassani, revealed in a series of tweets on his Twitter account, new information documented with pictures about Emirati intelligence officers who were present in Aden and some southern regions. They had a major role in establishing the secret prisons of the Emirates.
“The one who supervises all the UAE’s crimes in southern Yemen, including assassinations and arrests, and the first controller in the UAE’s secret prisons is the officer Abu Khalifa Saeed Mohammad Khamis Al-Nyadi, who is close to Mohammed bin Zayed,” Al-Hassani said. “He asked to meet me several times during the 2015 war, and he knew me personally, and he offered me offers that would not be rejected, to be one of their arms in my land. However, when he became certain of my position of rejection, he arrested me, and he also tried during my arrest to persuade me to join their project.”
Al-Hassani listed some of the names of the Emirati officers
Al-Hassani also revealed, in his tweets, the names of many Emirati officers and soldiers who tortured him during his arrest and against many of the abductees in the UAE's secret prisons.
On the other hand, no reactions or statements were published from the Emirati side or the pro-aggression government, denying what al-Hassani and local media are circulating about the names of the Emirati officers who were revealed.
Al-Hassani returned and stated in his tweets that he had received threats from what he described as Emirati officers to return him to prison.
“The results of the leak, after revealing and leaking pictures of some Emirati individuals in Yemen, seem to have angered them,” he said. “One of their foolish soldiers published a picture of me, which shows their crime and condemns their actions, commenting on it that they are able to send me back to their prisons.”
He released pictures of local recruits in the ranks of the coalition who were brutally tortured and slaughtered with knives in the manner of Daesh.
“These are pictures of the soldier, Majid Rushdeh, who was tortured by Mukhtar Al-Nubi from the Emirati-backed STC. He slaughtered him with a knife and threw him on the side of the road,” he said.
He added that Hilmi al-Najdi was tortured by Saddam Gharamah, commander of the UAE security belt in Abyan, until he died.
Al-Hassani pointed out that the UAE assigned Hani Bin Brik to kill preachers and lead the liquidation project. “When he was exposed and the hour of justice came, they isolated him from the world and he became a humiliated hostage, thinking that this would absolve them from their crime.”
Al-Hassani indicated that the UAE has today enabled new puppets, such as Al-Nubi and Fine, to torture and kill Yemenis (with photos)
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HOW HUMANITARIAN AND PEACE FRAMEWORKS FAIL TO RESPOND SYSTEMICALLY TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN YEMEN
As different warring parties in Yemen fail to demonstrate hard power, territorial control or political legitimacy, Yemenis continue to suffer one of the direst humanitarian crises and an unprecedented surge in gender-based violence. While women and children are disproportionately impacted by hunger and displacement and drop out from education, boys continue to be recruited for armed conflict.
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: THE OLD AND THE NEW
Women and girls, who are disproportionately affected by the crisis in Yemen, are facing human rights violations in the public and private spheres, specifically gender-based violence (GBV). As elsewhere, GBV is not new to Yemen and occurred long before the current war. It affects girls and women, boys and men. This paper looks at the experiences of Yemeni women and girls in particular, who have long suffered from different forms of GBV, including domestic violence, honour killings, female genital mutilation, child marriage, and harassment. The severity and scope of these forms have been heightened by conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic,1 and climate change.
Almost all forms of GBV are aggravated by political and security instability, like homicide in the form of ‘honour crimes’, sexual violence in the form of rape, early and coercive marriage. Violators, who can be family, close relatives or people in the community, take advantage of collapsing law enforcement systems and the fragility of social protection mechanisms to increase the severity and scope of their crimes. In addition, physical violence and torture2 can be used by state and de facto state groups and personnel to terrorize women out of the public realm. Economic violence against women also prevails in the form of deprivation of rights and resources, deprivation of education, control over salary or income, and denial of inheritance.
The ideological direction of the warring parties and the increasing popularity of extremist religious views have also contributed to pushing women back to the private domain and away from public institutions. Yemeni women face alarming levels of restrictions on movement3 in Hodeidah, Hajjah, and Sanaa, areas under Houthi control, where authorities require them to be accompanied by a mahram (male relative) in order to travel internally and abroad. In 2019, local media reported that Houthi authorities issued directives to local bus companies requiring that women be escorted by a mahram when traveling between cities in Yemen. Women also reported to local media that bus drivers have refused to take them because they do not have a mahram, or that it costs them more money to travel since they must pay for the mahram’s ticket. Women are also not allowed to stay in hotels except when accompanied by a mahram. In addition, authorities require women to show guardianship permission and have their guardian present—a father, brother, husband, or son—to obtain or renew personal identity cards or passports, despite the national law not specifically requiring such conditions. Women’s lack of access to legal documentation restricts their ability not only to travel abroad but also to access food aid4 and other opportunities for employment.
Many forms of GBV are being tolerated or even used by warring parties to suppress political and civic participation5 of marginalized groups, including women. This ideology for faith-based armed groups in Yemen, including Houthis, aims to curtail the growing interest and capacity6 of women, since the 2011 uprisings, to protest, campaign, or mobilize in society. In the last two years, the parties to the conflict have accused women of prostitution, mixing with strangers or men as a form of immorality,7 using derogatory terms as part of their public threats and harassment against opponents. In Sanaa, the Houthis have used such threats and harassment when suppressing public demonstrations involving women, and such accusations have been directed as a means of legitimizing the arbitrary detention of women.
Women humanitarian workers and women’s rights activists8 have been targeted online and on the ground to limit their influence and reach through defamation campaigns to suppress their voices and hide their realities. Unprecedented extreme actions against women, such as detainment, imprisonment, torture, and kidnapping, are being used. What were previously random and individually targeted GBV attacks have developed in the last few years into organized campaigns aimed at ridiculing women activists living in the diaspora, or women active in the public realm in general.
Despite the increased visibility of GBV issues in the humanitarian sector in Yemen, there are many more actors than previously who need convincing that GBV is a serious violation of human rights and a life-threatening health and protection issue. Despite the commitment to global humanitarian strategies and protocols, there is failure to translate these commitments into action. We know this from the dwindling global funding9 allocated for specific GBV interventions in emergencies and the lack of transparency and data around impact (as explained below). There is an urgent need for different actors—state authorities, donors, implementing international and national organizations and local civil society—to end GBV effectively and sustainably – by Sawsan Al-Refaei
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‘IF ONLY…’ WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND HOPE IN THE FACE OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE IN YEMEN
As the armed conflict in Yemen enters its eighth year, the entire population remains subject to direct and indirect social, economic, and political injustices. At least 233,000 people have been killed, over 4.3 million people have been internally displaced, and 17.4 million people face acute food insecurity.1 There is an absence of accountability for the crimes committed by warring parties, resulting in a ‘pandemic of impunity’ as conflict actors commit serious violations of international law and international humanitarian law. As this paper discusses, one crime that every party to the conflict is involved in is the enforced disappearance of individuals, including journalists, human rights defenders, or anyone who might be perceived as political opposition. And it is the impact of these disappearances, as the social fabric of communities alters, that is particularly shaping the social and political experiences and perspectives of women as those left behind. For those women, gender constitutes a driving force in their resistance, searching for truth, and reclaiming justice. This driving force is accompanied by everyday demands for social change directed at socio-economic and political structural injustices these women have to face and endure, simplified to the phrase ‘If only’. ‘If only’ was the most common phrase across all conversations and is intimately connected to the women’s demands, demands that are often related to the direct experience of the enforced disappearances.
Forced disappearances are nothing new, neither in Yemen nor worldwide. Globally, between 70% and 94% of the victims of enforced disappearances are men.2 Although the exact number of enforced disappearances in Yemen is unknown and most likely heavily underreported, due to the conflict and the dangers of reporting, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have identified hundreds of missing persons. Despite the absence of accurate statistics, one fact remains: hundreds of families, and women in particular, are suffering from the impact of enforced disappearances.3 Women are the majority of those left behind and therefore bear much of the social and economic impact of the disappearances. Scholarship on gender and post-conflict studies indicates that the primary victims are not only the disappeared themselves but also their relatives, in particular women family members.4 The disappearance of men from families often produces vulnerabilities for the girls and women relatives that can constitute a primary harm in their own right, such as loss of family income or social protection.
In their everyday struggle to deal with loss and ambiguity around the future, these women are haunted by the hope that their loved ones are still alive. This is usually accompanied by fear, knowing that in most cases enforced disappearance is accompanied by arbitrary detention and torture, and often ends in death.5 While affected women have varying personal experiences, most of them endure gender inequality, which intersects with heightened psychosocial, psychological, security and economic vulnerabilities.6 This debrief provides an insight into how women are affected by the disappearances of their male relatives. At the same time, using the lens of critical theory and feminist thought,7 this debrief shows that despite powerful systems of repression and stigma created by the enforced disappearances, women do engage in everyday resistance.
EVERYDAY RESISTANCE OF YEMENI WOMEN
The research is based on in-depth interviews. The interviews conducted for this debrief started with one question: “Can you tell me more about your story?”. The question was a simple invitation for the women to openly narrate and express past events as well as daily struggles – as the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the disappeared. The interviews explore the link between women’s personal experiences and resistance based on anonymous first-hand accounts from female relatives of the disappeared. The women interviewed are from different geographical areas, including Sana’a, al-Hodeidah, Aden, Raymah, Taiz, Ibb, and Marib, and diverging socio-economic backgrounds. Despite these differences, the interviews showed strong commonalities in how the women view their situation and how they resist. Resistance is here understood not as violent opposition, but rather as daily acts of endurance, acts against gender norms, speaking up and showing solidarity, which not only go against violent suppression but are also directed against the stigma and the normalising ideology and social inequalities. The discussion to understand the linkages between vulnerabilities and resistance among the women’s individual experiences flows around overlapping themes.
RESISTING THROUGH ENDURING SOCIAL INJUSTICE
The stories shared by the women make clear that they are aware that they not only endure the individual injustice against them and their loved ones but that they are facing multi-layered and intersecting social structures of injustice. The interviewed women frequently mentioned exclusion from education, financial resources, and the wider society. The uncertain legal status of the disappeared (who are not considered officially alive or dead) compounds the family’s financial insecurity, as a wife or a daughter often cannot access family assets, inheritance and bank accounts held in the disappeared man’s name or social benefits reserved for wives of the disappeared – by Sarah Al-Areqi
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So Much for Biden’s Promise to End U.S. Support for the War in Yemen
The best chance to end hostilities in the war-torn nation has fizzled out, leaving proponents of peace to wonder what went wrong.
The Biden administration put itself in awkward position last week when it killed off another attempt by Congress to force President Joe Biden to make good on the pledge he made nearly two years ago to end American support for the war in Yemen.
Pledging to veto the Yemen War Powers Resolution introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, the administration privately urged senators to vote against it on the grounds that it was “unnecessary” and would “complicate” diplomacy with the warring parties. Sanders pulled the bill just before its scheduled vote, but promised to bring it back up for a vote if he and Biden don’t reach an agreement on ending the war.
The Biden administration has stated multiple times that it does not consider its support for the Saudi-led coalition to constitute participation in hostilities, a view consistent with both the Obama and Trump administrations.
The concern is that by codifying this definition of hostilities, other U.S. military support operations might be undermined. One senior Democratic aide who was granted anonymity by The Washington Post said that Sanders’s resolution “really has made us nervous” because its conception of hostilities “could have real ramifications for our support for Ukraine right now, or our support for Israel.… This is the first time that the Congress is being asked to vote on defining hostility as intelligence sharing, and it’s dangerous.”
Given the lack of substantial political will required to bring about these downstream effects, this scenario seems unlikely. But top legal scholars of the War Powers Resolution told The New Republic that this concern is overblown on its own terms. “I don’t think it would have had the far-reaching impact that some might have feared,” said Yale Law professor Oona Hathaway
But opposition to the resolution isn’t merely rooted in broad interest of maintaining the executive branch’s primacy in decisions related to warmaking. The Biden administration, along with those who share his foreign policy vision, do not want to cut off the Saudi coalition because doing so could undermine Washington’s strategic interests in the region. “The Biden administration does not want the Houthis to effectively legitimize their coup,” Yemen scholar Gregory D. Johnsen told The New Republic, “and take control in a way that would set up an independent state that’s heavily linked to Iran right on Saudi’s southern border. This is not going to be a state that’s friendly to the United States.”
Observers of the conflict tend to agree that grounding the Saudi air force, which Sanders’s resolution would do by terminating essential U.S. support, would enable the Houthis to expand the territory under their control. “Saudi airpower is the one thing that has really prevented the Houthis from taking the central governorate of Marib, where there’s a lot of oil and gas fields,” which the Houthis “absolutely need in order to survive as an independent state,” Johnsen said.
Houthi control of larger swathes of Yemen would also likely mean less latitude for U.S. ground troops, which have been operating in the country since the beginning of the war on terror. Saudi Arabia would lose access to major oil fields and crucial ports on the Red Sea and Arabian Sea. “The war is very lucrative for the coalition. It’s also a very useful means to justify boots on the ground,” said Isa Blumi, author of Destroying Yemen. “Northern Yemen is still a zone that’s largely inaccessible, to the great frustration of the United States empire and those who benefit from it,” he said. Furthermore, Washington’s credibility in Riyadh would take a further hit, an especially undesirable scenario in the wake of the botched oil deal earlier this year that revealed America’s declining influence with the Saudis.
But supporters of Sanders’s resolution don’t see these potential consequences as sufficient to continue supporting the Saudi-led campaign. “I reject the premise that it is legitimate for the United States to keep air strikes on civilian targets on the table as a form of leverage,” Annelle Sheline, research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told The New Republic. “Once we return control of this conflict to Yemenis, the Houthis won’t be able to use foreign aggression as a political claim, and certain groups allying with the Houthis on these grounds can return their focus to domestic issues. Then Yemenis can decide whether or not they want to live under Houthi control.”
But until the desire for a change in course is more broadly catalysed in Washington, the threat of deadly Saudi air strikes will continue to loom large. Moreover, the internationally supported blockade of Yemen, which deprives 23 million civilians of desperately needed humanitarian aid, will persist. By taking Saudi airpower off the table, the Biden administration and U.S. Congress can go a long way toward bringing the conflict to an end and restoring Yemenis’ right to self-determination – by Gunar Olsen
https://newrepublic.com/article/169699/biden-pledge-yemen-hostilities-saudi
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[Sanaa gov.] Ministry of Health: US-Saudi Aggression, Blockade Directly Caused Spread of Many Epidemics
Ministry of Public Health and Population affirmed on Tuesday that the US-Saudi aggression and blockade that Yemen is exposed to has directly caused the spread of many epidemics over the past years.
During an event held by the Ministry on the occasion of the International Day of Epidemics, Health Spokesman Najeeb Al-Qabati explained that the statistics of epidemiological diseases during 2022 in all governorates are approximately 4.5 million infected, including 686 deaths.
“Our country was subjected to brutal aggression and an unjust blockade that caused the spread of many epidemics directly over the past years,” Al-Qabati said. He indicated that the aggression targeted health centers and epidemiological surveillance and control centers, and prevented the entry of varieties of solutions.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Health added that the crimes of aggression affected malaria control centers and treatment of cholera cases, in addition to targeting medical and emergency personnel. He pointed out that the aggression prevents the entry of varieties of solutions, supplies, medical devices, and means of combating epidemics.
Al-Qabati noted that the aggression is still continuing to prevent the arrival of ships carrying shipments of medicines despite being subject to forced inspection, and the medicines that are allowed to arrive arrive in poor condition as a result of poor storage.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health stated that unsafe water is one of the most important causes of epidemics. H
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282557/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/12/27/millions-of-yemenis-suffered-epidemic-diseases-since-start-of-saudi-invasion-in-2015/
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Film: Yemen's besieged city of Taiz struggles to manage dengue outbreak
On top of war, the country continues to experience regular outbreaks of diseases such as cholera, measles, diphtheria and dengue. In the besieged city of Taiz, cases of dengue have been rising, as Claire Herriot reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJPOCQor1qk&t=7s
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Interactive Map of Yemen War
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Interactive map of Saudi coalition aggression)
https://entesaf.org/en/interactive-map-of-the-crimes-of-the-saudi-american-aggression-on-yemen/
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“Winning hearts and minds”: Saudi Arabia's interests in Yemen
Seven years after the outbreak of the Yemeni conflict, the factions in the field are finding support from third countries. Among these, Saudi Arabia plays a key role in favor of the central government, through an offensive military strategy.
The conflict has completely devastated Yemen, the humanitarian crisis is alarming. Faced with this problem, Saudi Arabia plans emergency programs to support the most fragile areas, through a substantial plan of humanitarian aid.
Riyadh's strategic and economic interest in the sectarian conflict explains the apparent contradiction between military participation and humanitarian aid. The latter are nothing more than a means used by third countries to achieve their goals.
Based on this analysis, it is possible to interpret the apparent contradiction between the supply of humanitarian aid and Saudi Arabia's military participation in the Yemeni conflict. The Saudi interest in providing such an amount of humanitarian aid is closely linked to the goal of achieving its local aspirations. Aid projects are nothing more than a means used to contribute to the realization of one's goals. Militarily attacking the enemy on the one hand and providing aid to its own faction on the other allows Saudi Arabia to weaken the Houthis and Iran, and at the same time strengthen the "partnership" - as well as influence, control and direct - with the Legitimate government, especially for the future. This also explains the strategic decision, described above, regarding the air and sea blockade imposed by the Saudis aimed at preventing Iran, by sending its aid, from following the same pattern in support of the enemy faction. This highlights that strategic and economic interests prevail over the mere management of the humanitarian crisis that has been afflicting Yemen for years now. The interest of external actors, the diversity of objectives and the will to establish one's supremacy in the region show that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is unlikely to be resolved quickly. Against the background of this scenario, the rehabilitation process of Yemen can only take place if the occupying countries directly involved in the conflict, also exploiting the strategic and economic advantages achieved, undertake to create the conditions for a recovery process in key sectors. However, without a peace deal first, this appears to be unattainable.
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Saudi using 'economic pressure' as last card in Yemen after failing in war: Analyst
Saudi Arabia has not been able to achieve any of its goals in Yemen during the eight years of war, so economic pressure is currently the last tool of the Saudis to put pressure on the Yemeni people, according to a political commentator.
Hamza Karim, a Yemeni activist and political commentator in an interview with Press TV’s Spotlight program on Tuesday, said Saudi Arabia hopes to compensate for its eight-year military defeat in Yemen with economic pressures on the people of the country.
The money that Saudi Arabia has earned from the sale of oil since the beginning of the war in Yemen has reached its puppet government in the south of Yemen, and none of the money has reached the hands of the Yemeni people, Karim noted.
“Saudi Arabia wants whoever will be ruling Yemen to be their puppet, to be someone who will get the orders from them, otherwise they're not willing to stop this crazy War and they don't really care about what will happen to the civilians and how many people will be killed in the country,” Karim pointed out.
“As we can see, after eight years nothing has been achieved, whether it's by using the military or by using the economical card. Now it's up to Saudi Arabia, whether they're very serious about getting into peace which means that this one has to stop blockade, and salaries have to be paid to the Yemeni people."
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/12/28/695293/economic-pressure-Saudi-Yemen-UAE-Ansarullah
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Yemen D.C. Conference: The War in Yemen and How to Achieve Lasting Peace & Democracy
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Tawakkol Karman Foundation and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), cordially will organize a one-day conference entitled “Towards Sustainable Peace and Democracy in Yemen” in Washington D.C. The conference will take place on January 9, 2023, from 9 am to 5 pm at Georgetown University (Lohrifnk Auditorium) located in the Hariri Building, 3613-3625 Canal Rd NW, Washington, DC 20007.
The conference aims to bring together diverse perspectives among leading Yemeni figures, subject matter experts, academics and policymakers to discuss different scenarios and how best to reach a permanent ceasefire and build lasting peace. We will center the discussion on practical matters and policy recommendations that will allow for a peaceful and inclusive transition to a democratic state, as well as what steps Yemenis and the international community should take to rebuild Yemen.
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Film: Yemen – Yemenis voiced hopes war will end in 2023
With the advent of the new year 2023, most Yemenis expressed their hope for an end to the eight-year-old war to restore stability in their country. They said it is the key solution to improving the economy, politics and security deteriorating due to the constant attacks of the Houthi group in the war-torn country. A24 News Agency monitored, during a tour of the streets of Aden, the aspirations and hopes of Yemenis for the New Year, which were not realized in 2022. Abdel Hamid Mohamed told A24 that he hopes for the end of the war, the stability of the exchange rate, the return of electricity and water services, and the improvement of the economic situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_dXU7XWY
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RASD: According to the documented and monitored data of our field team, and by reference to our reports, the most age group that was attracted, recruited, and involved in fighting on the various fronts in #Yemen is between 13 and 15 years old.
https://twitter.com/ycmhrv/status/1608217104183861249
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[Sanaa gov.] Fisheries Ministry condemns kidnapping 3 fishermen by aggression mercenaries off Medi coast
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3217032.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282632/
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Jemen: Wenig Hoffnung auf ein Ende des Krieges
Seit Jahren befindet sich der Jemen im Krieg, auch auswärtige Mächte mischen dabei mit. Ein Waffenstillstand wurde zuletzt nicht mehr verlängert. Die Aussichten, den Krieg zu beenden, sind auch für 2023 düster.
Der Jemen kommt nicht zur Ruhe. Mehrmals war eine im Frühjahr 2022 zwischen den aufständischen Huthis und den Regierungskräften ausgehandelte Waffenruhe verlängert worden, doch im Herbst konnten sich die Kriegsgegner nicht dazu entscheiden, sie fortzusetzen. Die Vereinbarung war zwar brüchig, verschaffte dem Land aber doch eine Atempause. Zumindest kam es Angaben der Vereinten Nationen zufolge zu keinen Luftangriffen, größeren Militäreinsätze oder Angriffen aus dem Jemen auf das Territorium des benachbarten Saudi-Arabien.
An der Vorherrschaft der Huthis dürfte sich absehbar wenig ändern, sagt Jemen-Experte Jens Heibach. "Sie haben ihre Macht im Norden konsolidiert, und die wird so schnell auch nicht zerfallen. Vor allem wird der Krieg daran nichts ändern. Denn alles, was die von Saudi-Arabien geführte Koalition unternommen hat, hat letztlich nur zu einem weiteren Machtausbau der Huthis geführt."
Immer deutlicher zeigt sich, dass die von Saudi-Arabien geführte Koalition erfolglos geblieben ist. Die Angriffe haben die humanitäre Katastrophe noch einmal stark vergrößert, aber keine Änderung im Konfliktverlauf zugunsten der regulären Regierung erreicht.
Was also tun? Die beste Möglichkeit, den Krieg zu beenden, so "Foreign Policy", bestünde darin, Vertreter beider Gruppen sowie die weiterer, bislang wenig repräsentierte Gruppen im Land - etwa Frauenorganisationen und Akteure der Zivilgesellschaft - zusammenzubringen. Alles andere wäre eine Wiederholung von Rezepten, die sich bereits als unbrauchbar erwiesen hätten.
https://www.dw.com/de/jemen-wenig-hoffnung-auf-ein-ende-des-krieges/a-64072811
Ein Artikel, der es schafft, die Einmischung des Iran ständig und die wesentlich heftigere Einmischung des Westens überhaupt nicht zu erwähnen, schrammt den tatbestand der Propaganda.
and English version:
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Yemen sees little hope for end to war in 2023
During this past year, a cease-fire gave ordinary Yemenis some respite from violence. But warring parties did not extend their agreement and 2023 is likely to hold more violence and humanitarian disaster for the country.
It's been difficult to find any kind of long-lasting peace in Yemen this year, despite the brief hope offered by a cease-fire negotiated between the two parties — the Houthis and the forces belonging to the internationally recognized government. The cease-fire, first agreed in the spring and extended several times, lapsed in October when the two sides couldn't come to further agreement on it.
Despite the fragility of the agreement, it did give ordinary Yemenis some respite. According to the United Nations, there were no major military operations in the war and a 60% decrease in casualties.
Saudi efforts to defeat the Houthis have been mostly unsuccessful in changing the course of the war. In many cases, they have only exacerbated the humanitarian crisis inside the country. In fact, according to a report in Foreign Affairs magazine in December, the Saudis have only pushed the Houthis closer to their sponsor, Iran. That, in turn, has made the Houthis stronger as their military capabilities have increased.
https://www.dw.com/en/yemen-sees-little-hope-for-end-to-war-in-2023/a-64125160
My comment: Mentioning Iranian intervention again and again, while not mentioning at all the much more severe Western intervention, this turns to propaganda.
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Jemen: Die Hälfte der Bevölkerung leidet an Nahrungsmittelknappheit
Jedes Jahr zur Weihnachtszeit schafft der Jemen es dann doch noch mal in die Medien und zwar seit Jahren mit den selben Horrormeldungen über Leid, Unterernährung und dem Elend, in dem die unzähligen Binnenvertrieben im Land leben müssen:
https://jungle.world/blog/von-tunis-nach-teheran/2022/12/jemen-die-haelfte-der-bevoelkerung-leidet
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The reality of Western American military presence in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb
The United States of America, the United Kingdom, the Zionist entity and the rest of the colonial Western European countries are striving to find a permanent foothold in the Red Sea, which is particularly important in international military and political strategies as one of the world's most important sea lanes linking the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa and controlling much of international trade, especially the oil trade.
This important waterway played a vital role during the Arab-Zionist wars, giving it great attention by the colonial Powers, which sought to assert their presence in it in multiple ways, most recently by forming the force of joint tasks "153", which included the Coalition of Multinational Naval Forces, from 34 States and its latest organizer, the Egyptian Naval Forces, by which America and the Zionist entity were pushed into the front of military operations in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden under the name of combating terrorism, smuggling and countering illegal activities.
Today, the military presence of colonial powers in the Red Sea and in the vicinity of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait threatens the safety of navigation in this important waterway under false and unrelated pretexts. This presence has been dreamed up by colonial powers and looking for pretexts to find their footing in the Red Sea, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as spearheads for their active presence in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Finally, it did what it called joint task forces of 34 countries, and gave the task of leading these countries to the Egyptian Navy, where America, Britain and the Zionist entity pushed Egypt to the front of military operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea with flimsy justifications, such as tackling illegal activities and combating terrorism, which in fact are camouflage and fallacy, while the reality of the Western American military presence in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea is to cordon off the Yemeni coasts, to serve the interests of the colonial countries.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3216702.htm
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Yemeni activist “Sarmad” reveals arrival of Egyptian military unit to Mayon Island
The Yemeni activist, “Sarmad Badil”, on Sunday posted on his Twitter account a picture of an Egyptian military unit, which was deployed on the strategic Yemeni island of Mayon, located in the heart of the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
The activist said in a tweet, “Egyptian military forces deployed on the Yemeni island of Mayon, the heart of Bab al-Mandab. You entered the danger zone, so do not blame anyone but yourselves. Sleeping in our yards is forbidden.”
The “Arabi 21” website quoted a military source as saying, “The Egyptian unit appears to be the vanguard of a military presence, the first in Yemeni territory, on Mayon Island, which mediates the Bab al-Mandab Strait, in the Red Sea.”
This comes, days after the Egyptian forces assumed command of the Joint Task Force (153) in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden, which includes: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Jordan, and the United States of America.
The Egyptian military unit has built a radar system and communication devices for the Joint Maritime Forces – which took command in mid-December – on the Yemeni island located in one of the world’s important sea passage points for both energy shipments and commercial goods.
https://en.ypagency.net/282287/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/12/25/egyptian-military-forces-reported-illegally-seizing-yemeni-island/
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Joint Yemeni CSOs statement on the recent bank restrictions and implications on the humanitarian response in country [EN/AR]
Civil society organizations in Yemen are following up, with great concern, on the economic warfare currently unfolding between parties to the conflict, the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG) in Aden and Houthis authorities in Sana'a. Following failure to reach an agreement on extending and expanding the UN-led truce that ended on 2 October and therefore not being able to achieve the grounds for sustaining a long lasting peace agreement, both parties are pursuing extreme measures to suspend any financial dealings with commercial, Islamic and microfinance banks. On the 18th of December announcements have been made pertaining to the freezing of bank accounts for NGOs and exchange companies. These economic constraints will undoubtedly impact the delivery of critical aid provided by humanitarian organizations to 10.5 million people every month in all regions across Yemen and will risk hindering the implementation of aid projects to populations in need, regardless of where they are located geographically between the areas controlled by the parties of the conflict.
These measures counter the understanding of the fragility of the Yemeni economy, and the fact that 24 million Yemenis are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Warning signs and indicators pointing to the concerning macro-economic situation seem to be unheeded while almost 17 million people are currently facing severe food insecurity and millions of people remain internally displaced, lacking access to essential services. As a result of the conflict, only half of all health facilities are fully functional, and most of the water networks are barely in operation and Yemeni communities are suffering as a result.
These recent measures risk UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and humanitarian actors becoming incapable of serving those in crucial need. The humanitarian sector cannot deliver and save lives if it is to bear the consequences of the broader political and economic discords that are increasingly limiting the space in which banks, companies, exchange shops, and ordinary citizens could operate. The bottom line is that Yemeni communities in need will be the ones who will be suffering with the consequences being irreversible.
We, the undersigned Yemeni Civil Society Organizations, urge the UN Special Envoy, the Quad and Troika, and the European Union to
https://absyemen.org/news-and-events/a1
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Saudi-led coalition directs pro-coalition government to disable Aden port
Saudi Arabia on Saturday offered a large reward to a Chinese company that intended to operate the port of Aden, in southern Yemen, and it was suspended.
Saudi media quoted director of the Chinese port of Shanghai as saying that his country intends to transform the Jizan port on the Red Sea into the largest export center for Chinese industries in the Middle East, so that Saudi Arabia will become the largest corridor between East and West.
The Chinese official’s remarks came on the eve of the inauguration of a Chinese company, the largest port in Jizan, the second after the Chinese port of Shanghai.
The same company was seeking to operate the port of Aden, which is the most important of the main ports on the New Silk Road, and its request was rejected by the pro-coalition government based on the directions of the coalition countries.
Saudi Arabia is seeking to change the course of the new maritime trade route led by China, in a way that serves its economic interests.
The route, which was officially launched by China years ago, puts the Saudi and Gulf ports in general on the sidelines, in return for the greater importance of the Yemeni ports that extend along the coasts of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
https://en.ypagency.net/282171/
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Film: Just a reminder that when you speak about Yemen on Twitter, Facebook, in the newspapers, or on the street, the Yemeni people hear it & feel it.
https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1605136315992768512
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Film by ICRC: Why do we talk to all sides of a conflict? Because it saves lives.
https://twitter.com/ICRC/status/1606303896325988358
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Audio: Brandherde im Nahen Osten
Im Gespräch mit Sabine Kebir erläutert die Nahostkorrespondentin Karin Leukefeld aktuelle Krisen im Nahen Osten. Wegen der Fokussierung der Medien auf den Krieg in der Ukraine finden sie kaum öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit.
u.a. Wiederaufflammen des von Saudi Arabien geführten Kriegs im Jemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR58tyPXBak
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Konflikt im Jemen: IKRK besucht 2022 über 3 400 Inhaftierte und unterstreicht sein anhaltendes Engagement für die Freilassung bzw. den Transfer von Betroffenen
Das Internationale Komitee vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK) hat 2022 über 3 400 im Rahmen des Konflikts im Jemen inhaftierte Personen besucht – ein humanitärer Einsatz, mit dem Familien Informationen über das Schicksal ihrer Angehörigen erhalten haben.
Anfang Dezember hat das IKRK einen zehntägigen Besuch in der Haftanstalt in Chamis Muschait in Saudi-Arabien abgeschlossen, wo Häftlinge im Zusammenhang mit dem Konflikt unter der Aufsicht der gemeinsamen Streitkräfte in Saudi-Arabien gefangen gehalten werden. Im Oktober hatte bereits ein ähnlicher Besuch in Sanaa stattgefunden.
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Yemen conflict: ICRC visits more than 3,400 detainees in 2022, reiterates continued commitment to support release and transfer operations
Earlier this month the ICRC concluded a 10-day visit to the Khamis Mushait detention facility in Saudi Arabia where conflict-related detainees are held under the authority of the Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia. A similar visit was conducted in Sana’a in October.
In situations of non-international armed conflict, the ICRC offers its humanitarian services to ensure that all detainees are held in humane conditions. Such visits allow the ICRC to assess the living conditions of the detainees and facilitate the exchange of family news between them and their relatives.
“We commend the ongoing commitment of all sides to humanitarian considerations and for facilitating the work of the ICRC to assess detainees’ health conditions, to make sure their families receive updates, and to advocate for their safe release,” said Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the ICRC.
“Building on the trust in ICRC’s humanitarian mission that was shown by the parties , we reiterate our commitment to continue helping detaining authorities ensure that detainees are held in humane conditions. We await the close of political negotiations toward the release, transfer and repatriation of all conflict-related detainees so they can be reunited with their families after years of separation,” Mr Carboni added.
and AP report: https://apnews.com/article/yemen-sanaa-8714ac8288941253d2cc7d81307df54d
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Yemen’s Stubborn Conflict
This article distills insights shared by Dr. Charles Schmitz during his delivery of the Dr. Belgrad Speaker Series event on October 24, 2022. It draws on extensive research to unspool the complexity of the conflict in Yemen. The background and context of the war that it provides is meant to help readers understand not only key domestic actors but international actors as well, including the diverse and often conflicting regional agendas that they pursue (subscribers only)
https://wp.towson.edu/iajournal/yemens-stubborn-conflict/
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Film: WHY TRAVELINIG IN YEMEN IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. LET ME TELL YOU AS THE ONLY TRAVELER DID IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpZtX6QEDhc
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Die Waffen schweigen nicht
Jahresrückblick 2022. Heute: Jemen. Saudi-Arabien und westliche Verbündete suchen gesichtswahrenden Ausweg aus Krieg. Kämpfe halten an
Das Jahr 2022 begann im Jemen mit einem Paukenschlag, der symbolisch für das zunehmende Selbstbewusstsein der Ansarollah (»Huthis«) steht: Am 2. Januar setzten sie ein unter Flagge der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (VAE) fahrendes Schiff im Roten Meer fest. Entgegen der Beteuerung Abu Dhabis, die »Rawabi« habe medizinische Güter transportiert, präsentierte der den Ansarollah zugerechnete Fernsehsender Al-Masirah Aufnahmen von Militärfahrzeugen und Containern mit Waffen und Munition aus dem Schiffsinnern. Deutlich zu erkennen: das Logo der saudischen Streitkräfte. Das Schiff sei zudem »ohne Genehmigung in jemenitische Gewässer eingedrungen« und habe dort »feindliche Handlungen« begangen, so eine Erklärung der Ansarollah.
Dafür, dass die Urheber und Unterstützer des Kriegs gegen den Jemen auf absehbare Zeit nicht zum Einlenken gebracht werden, spricht auch die Tatsache, dass US-Senator Bernard Sanders am 13. Dezember zugestimmt hat, die »Yemen War Powers Resolution«, die das militärische Engagement der USA im Jemen einschränken, Unterstützung für die saudisch geführte Aggression unterbinden und die Autorität des Kongresses, militärische Missionen Washingtons zu genehmigen, bekräftigen sollte, vorerst zurückzuziehen. Vorausgegangen war intensive Lobbyarbeit des Weißen Hauses.
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/441213.jahresr%C3%BCckblick-die-waffen-schweigen-nicht.html
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The Humanitarian Influence of Yemen's Truce
The six-month truce provided a critical moment of relief for civilians and humanitarian operations. Although hostilities between the parties did not cease completely, a significant reduction in violence led to a decline in displacement and a 60 percent decrease in civilian casualties. This alone represents a substantial humanitarian benefit.
Although the truce created greater operational space for humanitarian actors, its benefits may be exaggerated. Despite the decline in hostilities, an average of 44 civilians were killed during each month of the truce from landmines, IEDs, unexploded munitions and continued violence in key conflict areas.
Throughout the truce period, humanitarian access across the country remained challenging due to bureaucratic impediments and increased violence against humanitarian staff in both Houthi- and government-controlled areas.
Southern Yemen experienced a drop-off in food assistance as the Saudi and UAE governments, traditionally responsible for the regional aid budget, ceased all contributions to humanitarian operations.
The Current Humanitarian Status
Despite “incidents of concern,” the Yemeni conflict has yet to slip back into full-fledged war. Nonetheless, millions of civilians are now at risk of renewed fighting and the threat of air strikes, ground shelling, and missile attacks.
While not perfect, the truce enabled a level of stabilization within Yemen and provided a glimpse of a quieter future. Substantial improvements in humanitarian conditions, however, depend on continued international support and the willingness of the parties to facilitate humanitarian access and commit to a political solution.
As back-channel discussions to advance the UN-backed peace negotiations continue, the parties must find a way to build trust and promote a comprehensive resolution of the conflict. However, the establishment of a durable ceasefire, halting hostilities, and providing a pathway for settlement will be dependent on the ability of mediators to create value incentivizing sustained cooperation among the parties and on the parties themselves leading and embracing a negotiated process. The future of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis will ultimately depend on the perception that continued conflict offers no hope for the future, as well as a collective endorsement of a way out of the conflict that prioritizes the dignity and safety of Yemen’s civilian population.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/humanitarian-influence-yemens-truce
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Yemen War: Good News From The West Blessed With Superior Values – OpEd
“An unexpected result of Yemen’s war: More men are cooking and cleaning”, the Washington Post already reported in 2016 on the social and cultural impact of the war in Yemen. The seemingly good side of this US-sponsored genocide: gender equality!
The fact that Yemeni men, provided they have not yet been blown to pieces by American and European bombs, are taking the housework off their wives should please German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who pursues a “feminist foreign policy.” Like her like-minded good acquaintance, the billionaire speculator George Soros, she vehemently advocates human rights and democracy in all those countries that do not want to submit to American “security interests.” The lack of democracy and the serious human rights violations in Ukraine, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia, which are part of the U.S. sphere of influence, are therefore not part of their vigorous moral offensive.
cp2a Saudische Blockade / Saudi blockade
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UN, Security Council Must Realize, Blockade Imposed on Yemen Is a Crime
[Sanaa gov.] Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Al-Ezzi affirmed that the blockade imposed on the people of Yemen is a war crime against humanity.
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282582/
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[Sanaa gov.] Deputy Transport Minister: Coalition deliberately harms citizen by diverting containers to Aden
Deputy Minister of Transport, Muhammad Al-Hashemi, said on Wednesday that shipping and transporting goods from Aden city costs 10 times what it costs to ship them from Hodeida.
Al-Hashemi confirmed that the Saudi-led coalition deliberately increases the cost, explaining that the imports that were entering Yemen through the port of Hodeida were equivalent to two-thirds of the country’s imports, and the coalition worked to divert them to Aden port.
The Deputy Transport Minister indicated that “the containers that enter today through the port of Hodeida have become very limited, compared to more than 23,000 containers that enter through the port of Aden.”
Because of the damage caused by the coalition to the port of Hodeida, the Ministry of Transport has become compelled to search for ships equipped with their own cranes, he added.
https://en.ypagency.net/282637/
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RSPC warns of aggression's practices on Hodeida port
Chairman of the board of directors of the Red Sea Ports Corporation (RSPC) warned on Tuesday of the implications of the aggression's systematic practices on the operational process of the port of Hodeida.
During an inspection visit to the port's docks, Captain Mohamed Isaac stressed that the continued the aggression states prevention of importing the spare parts of the port's equipment and machines constitutes a serious threat of the cessation of the port.
Most of the machines that need spare parts or to be replaced basically were damaged by the aggression's airstrikes, Isaac said, helding the United Nations accountable for such practices, which would halt work on the port of Hodeida.
The port works only for humanitarian purposes and received foodstuffs, the Captain said, stressing not allowing the port's urgent spare parts could be considered one of the aggression's crimes aimed at starving the Yemeni people and increasing their suffering.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3216910.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282566/
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Red Sea Ports Corporation reveals fate of 17 ships loaded with food, fuel
The Red Sea Ports Corporation on Saturday confirmed in a statement that the Saudi-led coalition continued to detain ships loaded with food and oil derivatives in the Red Sea, preventing them from entering the port of Hodeida.
The corporation’s statement said that 5 ships loaded with rice, corn, soybeans, wheat and peas are expected to arrive at the port of Hodeida during the next week.
https://en.ypagency.net/282194/
and
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Yemen: 70% of Food Imports Enter Through Hodeidah Port
About 70 percent of Yemen's food imports entered through Hodeidah ports that are under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias, which claim that these ports are besieged.
Several international reports showed that imports through ports under the legitimate government's control dropped 53 percent from the same period last year, while fuel imports through ports under Houthi control increased 330 percent during the UN-sponsored ceasefire.
The report confirmed that 70 percent of basic food commodities were imported through the western Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and al-Salif, while 30 percent was imported through Aden and other sea and land ports.
The total amount imported nationally was 14 percent lower than in the same period of 2021, due mainly to a 48 percent decline in wheat imports through government-controlled ports following the start of the war in Ukraine in February.
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Oil Company Spokesman: The United Nations Provides Cover For Marine Piracy On Fuel Ship
Issam Al-Mutawakel, a spokesman for the oil company, confirmed today, Sunday, that the United Nations provides cover for maritime piracy on fuel ships, stressing that the aggression coalition and the United Nations bear responsibility for the continuation of piracy and its repercussions.
https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/573520
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
Siehe / Look at cp1
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ICRC in Yemen: 60 years of impartial and independent humanitarian assistance in Yemen
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is marking its 60-year anniversary in Yemen and remains committed to engaging constructively with state and non-state actors to facilitate much-needed impartial humanitarian action in Yemen.
Since 1962, the ICRC has stood side by side with the Yemeni people during their most difficult moments, implementing a wide range of programs to assist victims of armed conflict and violence. Marking this 60-year anniversary, the ICRC reaffirms its commitment to continue its humanitarian operations across Yemen together with the Yemen Red Crescent Society (YRCS), its primary implementing partner for the past 50 years.
“The ICRC’s 60th anniversary in Yemen is an opportunity to reflect on the ongoing need for a faithful application of international humanitarian law (IHL),” says Katharina Ritz, the ICRC’s Head of Delegation in Yemen. “Eight years into the armed conflict in Yemen, violence and economic hardship has exhausted the population’s capacity to cope. It remains critical that all parties to the conflict uphold the rules of war and minimize harm to civilians. However, only a return to dialogue and a political solution can end the suffering of the Yemeni people.”
Film: https://twitter.com/ICRC_ye/status/1608149801757204480
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16 Prozent der Frühgeborenen im Jemen sterben aufgrund der saudischen Blockade
Der anhaltende Konflikt im Jemen hat zahlreiche verheerendere Auswirkungen. Dabei sind jemenitische Kinder von dem Konflikt besonders stark betroffen. Der Jemen hat die höchste Säuglingssterblichkeit im Nahen Osten, berichtet der arabische Nachrichtensender Al Mayadeen.
So sind etwa 16 Prozent aller Frühgeborenen im Jemen wegen der Militärintervention und der von Saudi-Arabien organisierten Blockade zum Tode verurteilt, weil die Lieferung lebenswichtiger Medikamente an das Land behindert ist. Der Gesundheitsminister des Landes Taha Moutawakel teilte mit:
"Nach unseren Statistiken sterben jeden Tag 80 Neugeborene aufgrund des Mangels an medizinischer Ausrüstung und Medikamenten infolge der Blockade gegen das jemenitische Volk."
Der Minister betonte, dass der Jemen rund 2.000 Brutkästen benötige, während es nur etwa 600 gibt. Er fügte außerdem hinzu, dass insgesamt bereits mehr als 16.000 Frauen und Kinder durch Angriffe der von Saudi-Arabien angeführten Militärallianz getötet und verwundet wurden.
Feindsender! Siehe auch https://www.extremnews.com/nachrichten/weltgeschehen/207918eb7f3deb8?source=feed
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Health Minister: 80 newborn die daily due to war, siege on Yemen
The Minister of Health in the Sanaa government, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakel, Wednesday revealed that 50 percent of premature babies die in Yemen as a result of the repercussions of the war and the blockade.
During the third scientific medical conference on neonatal diseases, organized in Sanaa by Al-Sabeen Hospital for Maternity and Childhood, Dr. Al-Murwakel said that the statistics of the Ministry of Health recorded the death of 80 newborn babies daily due to the lack of equipment, medicines and medical expertise as a result of the blockade imposed on Yemen.
He pointed out that the health sector lacks incubators for newborns, as it has only 600 incubators, while the actual need is estimated at 2,000 incubators.
The Minister of Health indicated that the first Saudi-led coalition raids on Yemen claimed the life of a woman and her fetus in Bani Hawat area eight years ago, explaining that the coalition airstrikes killed and injured more than 16,000 children and women.
For her part, the Director General of Al-Sabeen Hospital, Dr. Majda Al-Khatib, explained that the war and the siege caused an increase in the death rate of in the hospital’s incubators only, to 2,277 newborns, out of a total of more than 12,200 newborns since 2016.
In turn, the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF”, Dr. Kabir, stated: 52,000 children die annually, with a child dying every ten minutes, according to United Nations statistics, stressing that Yemen records the highest child mortality rates in the Middle East.
https://en.ypagency.net/282617/ = https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/12/28/half-of-premature-children-in-yemen-die-as-result-of-saudi-led-blockade/
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Stand with Yemen
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Jemen: Hälfte der Bevölkerung leidet an Nahrungsmittelknappheit
Der jahrelange Krieg im Jemen kommt in der westlichen Aufmerksamkeit nicht mehr vor, obwohl die Bevölkerung im größten Elend lebt und ein Ende nicht abzusehen ist.
Vergessen ist seit Langem der Konflikt im Jemen, dabei leidet die Bevölkerung seit Jahren unter diesem Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen dem Iran und Saudi-Arabien. Jedes Jahr zur Weihnachtszeit schafft der Jemen es dann doch wieder einmal in die Medien, und zwar immer mit den selben Horrormeldungen über Leid, Unterernährung und dem Elend, in dem die unzähligen Binnenvertrieben im Land leben müssen.
Nach Angaben des World Food Programme (WFP) meldeten 49 Prozent der jemenitischen Haushalte, in diesem Monat nicht genügend Nahrungsmittel zur Verfügung gehabt zu haben: »Die Agentur hob hervor, dass die Lebensmittelkosten im Jahr 2022 in den von der Regierung kontrollierten Gebieten um 21 Prozent und in den von den Huthi-Milizen gehaltenen um 18 Prozent gestiegen sind.«
https://www.mena-watch.com/jemen-haelfte-der-bevoelkerung-leidet-an-nahrungsmittelknappheit/
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Save the Children: Kinder leiden im "unsichtbaren Krieg" im Jemen
Seit der Eskalation des Bürgerkriegs im Jemen vor fast acht Jahren sind nach UN-Angaben mehr als 11 000 Kinder getötet, verstümmelt oder verletzt worden. Die Grundversorgung sei komplett zusammengebrochen, sagt Claudia Kepp von der Nichtregierungsorganisation Save the Children.
Eines der Krisengebiete der Welt ist nach wie vor der Jemen. Das Land im Süden der arabischen Halbinsel ist Schauplatz eines Stellvertreterkriegs zwischen den Regionalmächten Saudi-Arabien und Iran. "Die Grundversorgung ist komplett zusammengebrochen", schildert Claudia Kepp die aktuelle Lage. Es gebe keine Chance auf Bildung und zu wenig zu essen, sagt die deutsche Sprecherin von Save the Children, einer weltweit tätigen Hilfsorganisation für Kinder.
Unterfinanzierung der Hilfe im Jemen-Krieg
Das drängendste Problem im Jemen-Krieg sei die Unterfinanzierung der Hilfe, so Kepp. Eine kurzzeitige Waffenruhe hatte das Leben kürzlich etwas kindgerechter gemacht - das sei nun aber vorbei. Optimistisch mache sie die Hilfe der Organisationen vor Ort, deren Mitarbeitenden buchstäblich "unter Lebensgefahr" versuchten, das Leben der Menschen etwas besser zu machen, etwa mit einer mobilen medizinischen Versorgung.
"Unsichtbarer Krieg" durch Verhinderung von Berichterstattung
https://www.inforadio.de/rubriken/interviews/2022/12/28/die-krisengebiete-der-welt--jemen.html = https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/politik/save-the-children-kinder-leiden-im-unsichtbaren-krieg-im-jemen/rbb24-inforadio/12224505/
Yemen Humanitarian Update - Issue 11/ November 2022
OVER 21 MILLION PEOPLE ESTIMATED TO NEED HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN 2023
In March 2023, Yemen enters its ninth year since the escalation of the conflict in 2015. The impacts of the prolonged conflict, compounded by the ongoing macroeconomic crisis, high levels of food insecurity, recurring natural disasters, such as droughts and floods, and lack of access to basic services, have continued to drive humanitarian needs in Yemen.
The 2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview shows that some 21.6 million people will need humanitarian assistance next year, including some 13.4 million in acute need. Compared to 2022, when some 23.4 million people were identified with humanitarian needs, this is a 1.8 million decrease. A marginal improvement in the food security outlook in the last quarter of 2022, with 17 million people with acute food needs, compared to 19 million estimated in the second half of 2022, and the lowered severity of living conditions of people across different sectors contribute to a decrease in people in need .
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-update-issue-11-november-2022
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QRCS, Zakat Fund distribute 7,560 food parcels in 8 Yemeni governorates
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Mayyun sent an emergency appeal to @UN offices in Yemen and @KSRelief_EN to provide dialysis centers in Aden and the governorates with the necessary quantities of dialysis solutions due to the large shortage in the remaining stock, which exposes patients to a fatal health risk.
https://twitter.com/Mayyun_Ar/status/1607402313874051072
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Yemen Nutrition Cluster: GAP Analysis Maps, October 2022
https://reliefweb.int/map/yemen/yemen-nutrition-cluster-gap-analysis-maps-october-2022
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Emergency Maternal Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) Project - 3rd Quarter Report 2022
Women and children, especially newborns are paying the heaviest price, as they live in most humanitarian crises.
The tragic consequences have increased the number of premature or low birth weight babies and of women suffering from severe postpartum bleeding. The process of giving birth has become much more life-threatening and the morbidity and mortality of mothers and neonate have increased.Therefore, BFD funded by UNFPA seeks to address the gaps in maternal and neonatal health by running the Emergency Obstetric and Newborn project as an emergency humanitarian response since Oct 2018. In the 3rd quarter of 2022, the project has been supporting 34 HFs with emergency reproductive health services to increase the availability of lifesaving reproductive health services in seven governorates; Al Hudyada, Hajjah, Al Jawf, Al Bayda, Al Mahweet, Dhamar, and Marib in Yemen.
Also, the project is deploying 2 Mobile Medical Teams that provide reproductive health services and are integrated with nutrition, and immunization services to IDPs in campsites and host communities in remote areas.
The project provides emergency reproductive health services and supports targeted HFs with medications, medical supplies, cleaning tools, printed materials as well as the operational supportive cost of fuels, water, and electrical supply for the targeted HFs as needed.
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UNICEF Ma'rib Humanitarian Action Update - November 2022
Key Achievements
WASH
203,746 people accessed safe water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene.
476,178 people reached with critical water, sanitation and hygiene supplies and services and with messages on appropriate hygiene practices.
Health
526,383 children under 10 vaccinated against polio. 191,696 children vaccinated against measles.
190,298 children and women accessed primary health care in UNICEF-supported facilities.
Nutrition
11,106 children under five with Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition received curative services.
Child Protection
84,574 vulnerable children reached with mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSS).
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/unicef-marib-humanitarian-action-update-november-2022
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Yemen: Agrometeorological update - October Issue (Ref: #28) | 01 - 30 November 2022
Temperatures continue to decrease across the whole country
Light rainfall is in the forecast across western Yemen
Farmers are advised to start land preparations in January as rainfall will likely retain sufficient soil moisture
Rainfall likely to increase the productivity of pasturelands
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RDP: Yemen: Monthly Situation Report (November 2022)
NUTRITION
Providing MAM treatment to children U5 and PLW in Sama & As Silw districts of Taizz governorate.
Reducing acute malnutrition through blanket supplementary feeding program in 3 districts of Dhamar, Taizz, and Hajjah governorates.
HEALTH
Reducing morbidity and mortality rates caused by malnutrition and prevalence of diseases by providing an integrated package of life-saving, preventative and enhanced quality health and nutrition services in Sirwah and Harib Al Qaramish districts of Marib governorate.
FOOD SECURITY & LIVELIHOOD
Providing food rations to 53,405 individuals to reduce the severely food insecurity crisis in Al Malagim, Wald Rabi, and As Sawadiya districts of Al-Bayda gov.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-monthly-situation-report-november-2022
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Fuel shortage causes largest hospital in Yemen’s Taiz to shut down
Yemeni government, Houthi rebels share control of Taiz province
A fuel crisis has forced the largest hospital in Yemen’s central Taiz province to stop operations on Sunday, according to the hospital.
In a statement, Al-Thawra General Hospital said fuel shortage has caused all hospital’s sections to shut down.
“The lives of patients at the hospital are at risk,” the hospital warned.
Al-Thawra hospital runs on fuel donations from UN agencies and international organizations, in addition to fuel shipments from the local authorities.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/fuel-shortage-causes-largest-hospital-in-yemen-s-taiz-to-shut-down/2772445 = https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20221225-fuel-shortage-causes-largest-hospital-in-yemens-taiz-to-shut-down/
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Film von Yemen Friends: Video von unserer Verteilung von Winterpakete für hilfsbedürftige, geflüchtete Frauen im Jemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU1rl-sifA4
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Yemen lives a worst disaster due to war & siege, but we try with our donors to draw smile/ hope in poor hearts. On Thursday 22Dec, distributed 40 food aid to poor families in Sana'a. Thks to all supporters, your humanity saves more lives
https://gogetfunding.com/food-and-medicine-for-yemen/
https://twitter.com/ghalebalsudmy/status/1606764993143259139
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From despair to mental strength in war-torn Yemen
Why is the EU funding psychosocial support centres in Yemen?
Because mental health needs are high, but services are scarce.
After almost 8 years of unrelenting conflict and hardship, 1 in 5 Yemenis are believed to suffer from a mental health disorder, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Girls and women like Suhair have been pushed into poverty and driven to despair, losing all hope of a better future.
With the help she received in the centre, Suhair has regained her mental strength and restarted her education.
The centres are helping thousands of women and girls in Yemen today and their families and communities. That is why the EU supports UNFPA – because there is no health without mental health.
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKVDuEDAV6Q
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Weltweit Leben retten bei der Geburt
Setzen Sie sich mit CARE für Schwangere, Babys und deren Gesundheit ein.
Leben retten als Hebamme im Jemen
„Eine der größten Herausforderungen für mich als Hebamme ist, dass so viele schwangere Frauen, die ich behandle, so jung sind. Viele von ihnen sind 16 Jahre alt oder jünger. Es besteht ein größeres Risiko für Komplikationen, wenn ihr Körper noch relativ klein ist. Oft werden die Babys auch zu früh geboren. Aber die Traditionen und Mitgiftpraktiken führen oft zu frühen Ehen und frühen Schwangerschaften. Ich rate den Frauen, sich mit der Familienplanung zu befassen und sie über Verhütungsmittel aufzuklären, die Schwangerschaften von vornherein verhindern können, wenn sie noch nicht bereit sind“, sagt Rasha Abdulsaram (33), die seit 13 Jahren Hebamme ist.
https://www.care.de/schwerpunkte/geschlechtergerechtigkeit/sicherheit-bei-der-geburt/
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JEMEN: ZWEI MILLIONEN KINDER UNTERERNÄHRT
Millionen Kinder im Jemen sind unterernährt. Tausende Kinder wurden durch den andauernden Bürgerkrieg im Land getötet oder verletzt. Save the Children ist mit Nothilfeprojekten vor Ort.
MANGELERNÄHRUNG ALS FOLGE DES KRIEGS
Laut den Vereinten Nationen (UN) sind im Jemen 2,2 Millionen Kinder akut unterernährt. Zudem sind ihre Immunsysteme so geschwächt, dass sie extrem anfällig für Krankheiten sind. Vor allem Cholera und Masern brechen immer aus – Krankheiten, die durch eine Impfung vermeidbar wären.
JEMEN GERÄT IN VERGESSENHEIT
Bei einer Untersuchung von Save the Children und PRIO für den Report „Krieg gegen Kinder – Tödliches Vergessen“ kam heraus, dass die Medienberichterstattung über die Situation im Jemen im Vergleich zu anderen Krisen weltweit vollkommen unterrepräsentiert ist. Obwohl der Jemen das gefährlichste Land für Kinder ist, erhielt das Land nur 2,3 Prozent der Aufmerksamkeit, welche die Ukraine seit dem russischen Angriffskrieg bekam.
https://www.savethechildren.de/news/jemen-zwei-millionen-kinder-unterernaehrt/
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The #Warm_Winter campaign begins in its second phase today by distributing winter clothes (jackets - deglat - kawaii) to street workers in the early morning, as well as some eligible families and children, and the winter cold has been reduced for 200 eligible persons. (photos)
https://twitter.com/alialsonidar/status/1606264418471251969
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How to respond to local needs during war: An example from Yemen
To use this momentum and to address some of the challenges in service delivery, directors of financial and zakat authorities from governorates under the internationally recognised government met in the city of Aden. The meeting is part of the joint effort of the Political Development Forum (PDF) and the Berghof Foundation to strengthen inclusive local governance in Yemen, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
This was the first time since Aden was declared the temporary capital of Yemen in 2015 that officials came together in a meeting like this. Participants sought to identify ways to further increase revenues from local and joint resources, such as local taxes, fees for local services, or zakat – an obligatory charity contribution by eligible Muslims to support the poor – while highlighting that in the first half of this year, revenue collection had already increased by over 30 percent compared to 2021.
Despite these improvements, one key challenge to collecting local revenues is the growing number of collection agencies in the governorates that do not deposit the collected revenues to the agreed-upon government accounts.
Attempts to support local governance in Yemen remain urgent, especially for citizens who rely heavily on local authorities to provide services and address local issues. However, local authorities are overwhelmed by the reality of the war, which has rendered the Yemeni government incapable of filling the needs and requirements of the local authorities to deliver effectively. This pressing situation creates an opportunity for international development partners to prevent the erosion of local authorities by continuing to build human and technical capacities, and by fostering coordination and dialogue at the central and local levels between international actors and local authorities.
https://berghof-foundation.org/news/local-needs-during-war-example-yemen
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Thousands of Renal Failure Patients Threatened with Death, Medicines Running Out, US-Saudi Blockade Continues
The official for international cooperation at the [Sanaa gov.] Ministry of Health, Murtadha Al-Murtadha, confirmed that the medicines for renal failure's patients in the Ministry of Health's storage are about to run out by the end of this year.
Al-Murtadha stated to Almasirah, Tuesday, that 4,150 patients with renal failure are threatened with inevitable death if the dialysis sessions stop, as medicines run out. He said, "We addressed the United Nations organizations months ago regarding the provision of drugs for kidney failure for the year 2023, and delay is the master of the situation." He indicated that due to the blockade on Sana'a Airport and the port of Hodeidah, the state is unable to import medicines, and therefore we resort to United Nations organizations.
The official for international cooperation at the Ministry of Health pointed out that the documents of the Ministry of Public Health presented by Almasirah show calls for the World Health Organization since January 2022 to provide medicines for renal failure and warn of depletion of stock.
and also https://en.ypagency.net/281802/
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Dhamar General Hospital Warns of Catastrophic Situation, Running out of Dialysis Solutions
Dhamar General Hospital Authority announced an imminent disaster that will affect 256 cases of dialysis patients in the coming days.
The head of the authority, Dr. Hamoud Al-Mushki, said, "The depletion of medical solutions for the dialysis center threatens the patients' lives with inevitable death, due to the continuation of the siege and the failure of the forces of the aggression coalition to enter solutions and medical supplies for dialysis patients."
Al-Mushki confirmed that the dialysis center at the Dhamar General Hospital Authority provides free medical services to patients from four governorates, “Dhamar, Al-Baidha, Raimah, and large parts of Ibb,” in addition to emergency cases.
He explained that there are 28 cases of kidney failure patients on the waiting list, holding the United Nations and its health and human rights organizations fully responsible.
Dr. Al-Mushki indicated that the center includes 24 devices, of which 13 devices need repair and maintenance at a cost of $32,000, with the station and network being equipped, indicating that the cost will constitute a burden on the authority.
Dr. Al-Mushki attributed the deterioration of health services in hospitals and centers to the continuation of the blockade imposed on our country
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Yemen: Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) 2022 - Funding Status (14 December 2022)
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Yemen Education Cluster - Humanitarian Dashboard (January - October 2022)
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Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023 (December 2022)
The continued fragility of Yemen’s economy in 2022 exacerbated vulnerabilities among poor families, including as a result of depreciation of the Yemeni rial (YER), macroeconomic instability, the de facto separation of economic institutions and issuance of competing monetary policies, and decreasing household purchasing power.
Being largely reliant on imported food and goods, Yemen is extremely vulnerable to fluctuations in global prices.
Throughout the course of the year, pressures on international supply chains stemming from the crisis in Ukraine has heightened global food insecurity and contributed to increased food prices in Yemeni markets. The Black Sea Grain Initiative provided for the resumption of some exports, easing pressures on global prices and supply chains, although uncertainties in the market remain.
Yemen’s public services and infrastructure have been severely impacted by the conflict, deteriorating economy and recurrent natural hazards. More than 80 per cent of the country’s population struggles to access food, safe drinking water and adequate health services, while nearly 90 per cent of the population has no access to publicly supplied electricity. Most public sector employees, including teachers and healthcare workers, have not received a regular salary in years—while this issue has formed part of discussions between the parties throughout 2022, little progress had been made by the end of the year.
Overall, some 17.7 million people are estimated to be in need of protection services in 2023. This includes people exposed to the risks associated with landmines and ERW, including unexploded ordnance (UXO). Legal and civil issues also perpetuate disadvantage and protection risks, such as the lack or loss of civil documentation, which undermines and prevents people from exercising their basic rights.
The humanitarian operating environment remains severely restricted.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-needs-overview-2023-december-2022
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Yemen: Humanitarian Response Snapshot (October 2022)
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-response-snapshot-october-2022
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CCCM Yemen - Cluster Situation Overview, November 2022
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/cccm-yemen-cluster-situation-overview-november-2022
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Yemen Emergency Dashboard, December 2022
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-emergency-dashboard-december-2022
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Yemen: Acute Food Insecurity Projection Update October - December 2022
The high levels of food insecurity are driven by the impact of Yemen’s conflict on its people, in particular the loss of life, disruption of livelihoods and internal displacement; and the above normal rainfall and moderate-to-severe drought conditions which were coupled by an unprecedented rise in temperatures, affecting all cropped regions of Yemen. Yemen’s economy also remains frail and unstable and the war in Ukraine has triggered spikes in international prices of wheat and other basic food and fuel commodities, contributing to local food inflation.
This analysis update indicates similarly high levels of food insecurity compared to the first half of the year (January-May 2022); however, the update shows an improvement in the food security outlook compared with the projection June-December 2022 from the previous IPC analysis conducted in February 2022.
The IPC analysis indicates a decrease of 2 million people in IPC Phase3 or above (7 percent of the population), and 1.2 million people (4%) in IPC Phase 4 or above. As anticipated, the update also indicates the absence of people in IPC Phase 5 (catastrophe) in the last quarter of 2022. The 161,000 people previously classified in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) in the June-December projection period are estimated to have now shifted to the lower phases. The number of districts classified in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) has also decreased from 233 districts (projection Jun-Dec 2022 from the February analysis) to 184.
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1156028/
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WFP Yemen Situation Report #11, November 2022
Highlights
In line with the encouraging findings of the IPC food insecurity analysis update released on 16 November, WFP data shows that inadequate food consumption decreased slightly in Yemen in October for the second consecutive month.
WFP in November started data collection for the next nationwide Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment (FSLA).
Under the School Feeding programme, WFP in November completed works for the expansion of its Healthy Kitchen pilot project to Sana’a city.
SITUATION UPDATE
Food Security Situation:
According to the latest WFP food security data, the nationwide prevalence of inadequate food consumption slightly decreased in October for the second consecutive month. However, close to half of Yemeni households (49 percent nationwide) reported inadequate food consumption during the month, with rates of inadequate food consumption at critically high levels in 17 of 22 governorates.
These positive findings are in line with the findings of the 16 November update to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update released on 16 November, which showed an improvement in the food security outlook compared to the previous projection released in March.
The cost of the minimum food basket also decreased slightly in October across the country. However, overall, food costs have increased by 21 percent over the past year in areas under the internationally recognized Government of Yemen (IRG), and by 18 percent in areas under the Sana’a-based authorities (SBA).
Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment (FSLA):
Data collection for the next Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment (FSLA) started in mid-November
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/wfp-yemen-situation-report-11-november-2022
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Yemen Food Security Outlook Update October 2022 to May 2023
KEY MESSAGES
Reduced levels of conflict during the recently expired truce, which began in April 2022 and ended in October, have supported some improvements in business activity, trade, and humanitarian access. However, given that the renewal of the truce is conditioned upon demands that are unlikely to be realized during the projection period, conflict is expected to re-escalate gradually. Additionally, food and essential non-food prices remain significantly above average. Rising levels of conflict will likely once again reduce household incomeearning opportunities and impede fuel imports through the Red Sea ports, leading to declining fuel availability and upward pressure on prices in areas controlled by the Sana’a-based authorities (SBA).
In highland areas, the main season harvest is ongoing and will conclude in December/January. In lowland areas, the vegetable cultivation season is expected from November/December to January. However, associated seasonal improvements in household access to food and income will be temporary, with household food stocks expected to last no more than two months. Given that the availability of other sources of food and income remain very low after years of protracted conflict, many households will have low to minimal income and will be unable to purchase sufficient food from the market after their food stocks are depleted.
Around 13 million beneficiaries of humanitarian assistance have experienced reductions in the frequency and size of deliveries throughout 2022. Due to funding shortfalls, WFP has reduced the frequency of distributions from monthly to around once every six weeks and reduced the ration size per distribution from around 80 percent of one month’s minimum kilocalorie needs (last delivered in 2021) to around 65 percent in the ongoing distribution cycle. While a 65 percent ration represents a relative improvement from earlier this year, households still have food consumption gaps.
Given limited income, reduced humanitarian assistance, and significantly above-average food prices, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes are expected to remain widespread. In Marib, Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes will likely persist given the large population of displaced and flood-affected people. In Hajjah, which is anticipated to be among the frontlines of an escalation in conflict, Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes are expected from February to May.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-food-security-outlook-update-october-2022-may-2023
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Houthi Restrictions Hinder UN Efforts to Study Food Security in Yemen
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was unable to assess the food situation of Yemenis living under Houthi control because of restrictions imposed by the Iran-backed group.
OCHA, however, noted that its new analysis on food security showed that the number of aid beneficiaries during the last three months of this year increased to four times the estimated figure in previous outlooks.
The UN body added that two Houthi-run areas are facing the threat of famine.
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Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023 (December 2022)
The continued fragility of Yemen’s economy in 2022 exacerbated vulnerabilities among poor families, including as a result of depreciation of the Yemeni rial (YER), macroeconomic instability, the de facto separation of economic institutions and issuance of competing monetary policies, and decreasing household purchasing power.
Being largely reliant on imported food and goods, Yemen is extremely vulnerable to fluctuations in global prices.
Throughout the course of the year, pressures on international supply chains stemming from the crisis in Ukraine has heightened global food insecurity and contributed to increased food prices in Yemeni markets. The Black Sea Grain Initiative provided for the resumption of some exports, easing pressures on global prices and supply chains, although uncertainties in the market remain.
Yemen’s public services and infrastructure have been severely impacted by the conflict, deteriorating economy and recurrent natural hazards. More than 80 per cent of the country’s population struggles to access food, safe drinking water and adequate health services, while nearly 90 per cent of the population has no access to publicly supplied electricity. Most public sector employees, including teachers and healthcare workers, have not received a regular salary in years—while this issue has formed part of discussions between the parties throughout 2022, little progress had been made by the end of the year.
Overall, some 17.7 million people are estimated to be in need of protection services in 2023.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-needs-overview-2023-december-2022
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Yemen: Humanitarian Response Snapshot (October 2022)
In the first ten months of 2022, 200 humanitarian organizations continued to deliver aid to an average of 10.7 million people per month. While the number of people reached with assistance per sector/cluster remained low, partners continued to provide support to millions of people – an average of 8.8 million people were reached each month with food assistance, over 3 million people were provided with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, over 580,000 people were assisted with healthcare and nearly 595,000 people received nutritional support.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-response-snapshot-october-2022
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Film: Vergnügungspark bringt ein Lächeln nach Sanaa
Der Bürgerkrieg im Jemen hat bereits mehr als 11.000 Kinder verstümmelt, Tausende Minderjährige haben bei den Kämpfen zwischen den Regierungstruppen und den Rebellen ihr Leben verloren. In der Hauptstadt Sanaa versucht ein Mann den Schrecken des Krieges etwas entgegenzusetzen.
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The unseen silver lining in Yemen's salary crisis
Needless to say that the increasing irregularity and now the suspension of salaries is having a severe impact on the lives of Yemeni state employees on the payroll of the Aden-based government.
However what many don't see is that the lack of income is driving people to give up on the evil (narcotic plant of) Qat, cigarettes and turning a new leaf in their daily lifestyle.
Many many friends and acquaintances of mine not able to afford the cost of Qat have replaced the Maqyal (afternoon Qat chewing sessions) with more positive ways of socializing like visiting female relatives, with fasting, memorizing Quran, reading, self-study, gardening and learning of skills.
This phenomenon reminded me of the fact that Qat is the Yemeni people's biggest problem and timewaster. And unfortunately, our people are not able to control themselves when they have money at hand.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62166
cp4 Flüchtlinge / Refugees
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IOM Yemen Ma’rib Response Update (November 2022)
Furthermore, Ma’rib governorate remains one of the governorates with the highest numbers of displaced persons in Yemen, with some of the largest displacement sites and urban displaced populations. In November 2022, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) reported the new displacement of 131 households (HHs) or around 786 individuals in Ma’rib governorate, mainly to Ma’rib City and Ma’rib Al Wadi.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/iom-yemen-marib-response-update-november-2022
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zaha hadid designs 27 tents as schools, clinics and shelters for refugee communities
‘Together, we developed a robust, cost-effective, and lightweight modular architectural system with fabric envelope to build structures that can be adapted in many variations to meet the conditions and lives of displaced children and children on the move. We hope that these newly donated tents will bring safety, learning and play to thousands in Yemen, Syria and Turkey.’
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IOM Yemen Crisis Response Plan 2023
In 2023, IOM in Yemen will continue to respond to the severe and worsening humanitarian crisis through the provision of lifesaving multisectoral humanitarian assistance. In addition, IOM seeks to address the pre-existing drivers of fragility and improve access to durable assistance, both of which will reduce the reliance of populations of concern on humanitarian aid and support them in to transitioning from emergency to recovery conditions. In conjunction with a frontline response, IOM supports the restoration of household and public infrastructure to enhance communities’ self-sufficiency and promote local ownership of the communities’ recovery efforts.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-crisis-response-plan-2023
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IOM Yemen: Rapid Displacement Tracking - 2022 Third Quarter Report (July - September 2022)
During the reporting period, between 1 July and 30 September 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 1,963 households (HH) (11,778 individuals)1 who experienced displacement at least once. This compares to 2,052 households (12,312 Individuals) in the second quarter representing a four per cent decrease. Since the beginning of the 2022, the number of tracked new instances of displacement has been declining with a truce holding between April and October 2022.
Safety and security concerns as a result of the conflict were the main reason for displacement, accounting for 73 per cent (1,431 HHs) of the total, followed by economic reasons related to conflict, accounting for 13 per cent (256 HHs) and natural disasters (14%, 276 HHs).
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IOM Yemen: Rapid Displacement Tracking - Yemen IDP Dashboard I Reporting Period: 18 to 24 December 2022
IOM Yemen DTM’s Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, and needs. It also tracks returnees who returned to their location of origin.
From 1 January to 24 December 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 10,090 households (HH) (60,540 Individuals) who experienced displacement at least once.
Between 18 and 24 December 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 73 households (438 individuals) displaced at least once. The majority of people moved into/within the following governorates and districts:
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Repatriation of 136 African migrants
The [Sanaa gov.] Immigration, Passports and Nationality Authority, in cooperation and coordination with IOM, repatriated on Tuesday136 illegal migrants from the Horn of Africa region to their countries via Sana'a International Airport.
The Director-General of Follow-up and Deportation in the immigration authority Colonel Hussein al-Kibsi said that the repatriation of illegal immigrants from the shelter centre in the immigration authority in the capital, Sana'a, to their countries in accordance with applicable international conventions.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3216893.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282548/
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SAFE PASSAGE HOME FOR TWO WOMEN STRANDED IN WAR-TORN YEMEN
Tens of thousands of migrants travel from the Horn of Africa, mainly Ethiopia and Somalia, to Yemen each year. Most migrants take this journey to escape destitution and hope to find better economic opportunities in Gulf countries, mainly KSA.
Their journeys are facilitated by smuggling networks who convince migrants they are just a few steps away from a better life. Instead, they are met with extreme hardship and violence on their journeys.
“At the beach in Somalia, smugglers crammed us into unseaworthy boats that took us across the Gulf of Aden to conflict-affected Yemen. There were nearly a hundred people on the boat. In the middle of the sea, we had to take the water out with our hands to avoid drowning,” recalled Abeba.
Abeba was one of the few who made it to shore alive. She managed to come up with the additional money smugglers asked her for to make her way to Sa’dah, a city on the border of Yemen and KSA.
There, she stayed with her sister who was living there while she waited to travel onward. One day, a missile hit their house and her life was changed forever.
Abeba lost her sister in the attack. Her own injuries put her in a coma in the hospital for many months. A relative brought her from Sa’dah to Sana’a and did his best to take care of her needs.
He quickly realized he could not care for her alone and came to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for help. IOM’s health team received her at a hospital in Sana’a and covered the cost of her treatment in the hospital.
https://yemen.iom.int/stories/safe-passage-home-two-women-stranded-war-torn-yemen
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Film: A painful scene for a group of young people from the south suffering fatigue and cold in the forests of Europe in search of a safe haven! A scene that sums up all the meanings and repercussions that a person can suffer when he loses his homeland!
https://twitter.com/AhmedBinFareed1/status/1607711791496269825
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‘We are overjoyed’: the family finally united in the UK after fleeing Yemen
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/25/family-finally-united-in-the-uk-after-fleeing-yemen
and also http://en.adenpress.news/news/37044
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Massive fire plagues refugee camp in Hodeidah
A massive fire broke in a camp for Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Hodeidah governorate, western Yemen, causing mass displacement of many families.
https://hodhodyemennews.net/en_US/2022/12/23/massive-fire-plagues-refugee-camp-in-hodeidah/
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Yemen: Marib official inaugurates Kuwaiti sponsored prefab housing for IDPs
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62165
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[Aden] Yemeni gov't: IDPs urgently need protection from cold waves
The Yemeni government-run managing unit for IDP camps on Monday called on the UN and other international agencies to provide IDPs living in tents with urgent protection against cold seen by the northeastern governorate of Marib.
The Marib-based IDP managing unit received SOS calls from 67 camps following the recent waves of cold, the MU said, amid almost absence of basic supplies for warming.
IDP families are facing severe winter with low resources and damaged shelter, the MU added in a release seen by Debriefer, as the recent chill exacerbated the situation.
Camps lack the minimum basic services and living resources to help IDPs survive and preserve their dignity, according to the release.
55,991 displaced families living in 197 (i.e. 98 percent of Marib-based) IDP camps, sites and gatherings suffer from impacts of cold, the release read.
In addition, tens of thousands of displaced families live outside camps in fenced pieces of lands, farms, abandoned houses, containers, etc.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-32061.html
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Yemen: women migrants’ tragic odyssey
“Imagine leaving your hometown hoping to find a better life but instead turning back with nothing, not even your dignity,” said Aisha*, a young Ethiopian migrant who left her family with her sights set on new opportunities.
“They told me the route to Saudi Arabia would be easy, but when I arrived in Yemen, I saw how difficult it is to go there and I found out that the borders were closed,” explained Aisha.
“This journey is difficult for everyone, but it is horrifying for women because we are sometimes violated, harassed and even unwillingly impregnated
For months, Aisha tried unsuccessfully to make it to her destination, but she had no way of earning a living and relied on a friend from her village to feed and house her.
“Then I talked to some migrants who returned from the border. They warned us about the horrible destiny that awaits those who try to cross,” she said.
After hearing the stories of those being injured or killed, Aisha opted to return to Ethiopia, through a voluntary humanitarian repatriation programme.
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IOM Yemen: Rapid Displacement Tracking - Yemen IDP Dashboard I Reporting Period: 11 to 17 December 2022
From 1 January to 17 December 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 10,006 households (HH) (60,036 Individuals) who experienced displacement at least once.
Between 11 and 17 December 2022, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 109 households (654 individuals) displaced at least once. The majority of people moved into/within the following governorates and districts:
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Letters To UN Experts: Saudi Security Forces Kill Migrants At Their Borders In Various Ways
Letters to United Nations experts revealed that Saudi security forces killed nearly 430 immigrants and wounded 650 others in cross-border bombing and shooting between January and April 2022.
They also showed that they tortured imprisoned immigrants, and raped girls, some of whom were no more than 13 years old!!
According to the messages, in at least 16 incidents, the Saudi security forces fired artillery shells at migrants who were on their way in Al-Raqou and Al-Ghar mountains in Munabbih and Thabit districts of the Qutbir district in Yemen and the border area of the Red Valley in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
https://www.ansarollah.com/archives/573517
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Film: Ali, 13, had to flee his home with his family due to #conflict. He received support from #UNICEF who provides #mental and #psychosocial support to #children and caregivers affected by conflict in #Yemen. This intervention is part of the #EHCP, which is funded by @WorldBank
https://twitter.com/UNICEF_Yemen/status/1605624140043472896
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
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In this video, the Houthi leader Abdulsalam Jahaf @jahafabdulsalam is threatening Yemenis who criticize the Houthi corruption on social media. He also reminds them of the fate of former president Ali Saleh and how he was brutally killed by them.
https://twitter.com/RiyadhAldubai/status/1608403237153165328
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Film: Abdelmalik al-Houthi, head of the #Houthis, says hungry people in areas under the internationally-recognized government of #Yemen should turn against the government while the hungry ones in areas under the control of his group should join the frontlines.
https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1608135110834163714
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Film: Houthis tight restrictions on women in Yemen
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels are implementing social restrictions on women in the areas of Yemen that are under their control, such as arbitrarily imposing travel bans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wowi0PXVx00
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Houthis reportedly arrested Yemeni YouTuber Mustafa al-Maumari tonight in Sana'a over speaking up against their corruption, calling on them to release Yemeni actor Ahmed Hajar, who was abducted off al-Zubair Street last week.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1607898070217269248
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Not only kidnapped from a street, but tortured to death inside Houthis prison. Ibrahim Yahya al-Thumani, a young vendor from Sahar district of Sa'ada governorate, north #Yemen, was detained, interrogated, tortured to death today by Houthis security, according to locals.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1607840734715035652
and also https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62259
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New 140 page report by Houthi controlled Ministry of Education to "reform education." First recommendation is to improve education based on "The Qura'nic vision" as laid out in Hussain Al-Houthi & Badraddim Al-Houthis lectures.
https://twitter.com/Ndawsari/status/1607804708772511748
referring to
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Recommendations centered on being guided by the "Quranic march" and consolidating the "guardianship of the flags of guidance"... An internal report exposes Houthi's secret plans in the educational process
"Specialists must start reading and analyzing Hussein al-Houthi's lieutenant in order to come up with an educational vision and correct foundations for developing the educational process and keeping pace with global changes, according to faith foundations linked to the flags of guidance and the state." This is a summary of an internal report by the office of the Minister of Education in the militia government, Yahya Badr al-Din, which includes the vision of his proposed group to develop the entire educational process (curricula, teachers, school administration) leading to comprehensive changes, including the restructuring of the Ministry of Education and the issuance of new laws and legislation for education, and the ministry and its relationship to you In other areas, such as higher education, mosques, and so on. This vision came in the report entitled "Education in Yemen... Reality, Aspirations, Challenges and Proposed Treatments", issued by the office of the Houthi leader himself. "Al-Masdar Online" obtained a copy of it and viewed its details. The 140-page report discloses a large and broad project to completely modernize the educational process, which the Houthis began to systematically implement under the name "The National Vision for Building the Modern Yemeni State 2019."
https://almasdaronline.com/articles/265942
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Natural Resources Legitimate Right for All People of Yemen
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, Ahmed Hajar, affirmed that natural resources are a legitimate right for all people of Yemen, and the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries have no right to seize it.
"70% of the revenues are collected from US-Saudi aggression and 30% from the Salvation Government, meaning that it runs the state with a third of the 2014 budget, the average salary in the normal situation is not sufficient for the living requirements of employees," he said.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance stated that the number of state employees amounts to one million and three hundred thousand, including 600 thousand employees in the public and judicial sectors, and the rest in the army and security institutions.
He pointed out that the number of employees in the government apparatus represents 34% of the workforce in the Republic, meaning that the state supports 43% of the population of the Republic of Yemen.
For its part, Member of national delegation, Abdulmalik Al-Ejri, confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression and mercenaries are obligated to supply employee entitlements in all governorates, as they control oil and gas resources.
My comment: This is an odd claim. “All people of Yemen” isn’t the Sanaa government. An equal division of natural resources should be the final goal of successful peace negotiations, and cannot be claimed as a precondition before any peace negotiations.
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Die neue Phase der militärischen Konfrontation mit Saudi-Arabien wird völlig anders verlaufen
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, ein hochrangiges Mitglied der jemenitischen Ansarallah, sagte am Sonntagabend: „Die neue Phase der militärischen Konfrontation mit Saudi-Arabien wird im Vergleich zur Vergangenheit völlig anders verlaufen, weil Sana'a seine Raketen- und Luftmacht ausgebaut hat.“
„Was die Aggressorenkoalition präsentiert, entspricht nicht den Forderungen von Sana'a, und die Position der Aggressorenländer bezüglich der Zahlung der Gehälter jemenitischer Angestellter ist nicht klar“, erklärte er.
Er warf den Aggressorstaaten im Jemen vor, mit der Planung, einen Teil der Mitarbeiter zu bezahlen, interne Streitigkeiten im Jemen zu provozieren.
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Houthis bar 40 trucks loaded with commercial goods from entry to Sana'a/Aden Alghad
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62202
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Houthis issue a new resolution to ban women from the right to work/Yemen Voice
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62202
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A wave of real estate offer for sale in Houthi-controlled Sana'a as owners want to leave
A growing number of people and traders in Sana'a have been offering their real estates in the Houthi militia-controlled capital city for sale as they want to leave outside the country. Owners of lands and rental buildings are facing Houthi crackdowns in the form of nefarious taxes collected brutally which eventually threatens to ruin investment in the city and is already causing a wave of real estate sales and immigration to invest the money overseas./Sawt Al-Watan website
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62202
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YPC: Fuel actual cost in free zones will be reduced
The Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC) on Friday confirmed that, starting tomorrow morning, Saturday, the actual cost of fuel in the free zones will be reduced.
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3216422.htm
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282163/
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Al-Houthi stresses who stand with aggression don't have decision
Member of the Supreme Political Council (SPC) and Head of the Supreme Justice System Muhammad al-Houthi affirmed on Saturday that what hinders peace in Yemen is that those involved in the side of aggression do not have a decision for themselves as do not have a national will or vision.
In his speech at the closing ceremony of the qualifying course for the 16th batch of officers and soldiers returning to the national, organized by the Fourth Military Region Command, the senior political member said, "Even the Arab countries that claim to have entered the aggression for the sake of Yemen, are well aware that they have fallen into the arms of America and Israel."
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3216534.htm
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqQeuZh-XJ4
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Film: Houthis detained Yemeni actor Ahmed Hajar in Sana'a yesterday over criticism of Houthi corruption. #Yemen watchers/experts shud watch this video to understand the situation in the Houthi-controlled areas.
https://twitter.com/Alsakaniali/status/1606315514350952450
and also https://twitter.com/RepYemenEnglish/status/1606620948261634048
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According to to Rasd Coalition field monitors, 26 children have been recruited since April 2022 in many governarates under Houthis control.
https://twitter.com/ycmhrv/status/1605936181916549120
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Sana'a Warning: Decisive Options to End US-Saudi Economic War
After more than two and a half months since the end of the UN-sponsored truce and the extension talks did not reach solutions, Sana’a re-bets on force to break the economic war. It confirmed through the Supreme Political Council, the highest official authority, that the situation of “no war and no peace” in Yemen will not last.
With the position of the Supreme Political Council, Sana’a marks the beginning of the end of the “state of no war and no peace” that Yemen entered into since the end of the truce on the 2nd of last October, which means that Sana’a’s military operations can resume at any moment.
This was confirmed by the Supreme Political Council, which stated that Yemen will take the necessary measures when the time is right for that, and to prevent the aggression’s plan to trap Yemen in the trap of “no war and no peace” while maintaining the blockade.
and
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Assem: Alleviating Suffering of Yemeni People Priority in Any Negotiations
Member of the National Negotiating team, Hamid Assem, asserted that alleviating the suffering of the Yemeni People is a priority issue in any negotiations before any other discussions.
Assem said in a statement to Al-Masirah that the situation cannot remain as it is, either the salaries are paid or the state of war returns, adding that any truce without meeting the demands of our people will only be in the interest of the countries of aggression.
He indicated that Sana'a's position is firm, which is to raise the suffering of our people by paying our salaries from our oil and gas wealth, pointing out that paying salaries and lifting the siege on the ports and Sana'a airport are the entrances to any upcoming negotiations and must be met before other addresses.
and also https://en.ypagency.net/282001/
and
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President Al-Mashat: No Truce If US-Saudi Aggression Does Not Respond to demands of Yemeni People
President Mahdi Al-Mashat, head of the Supreme Political Council, stressed that there can be no truce if it does not respond to the just demands of the Yemeni People.
This came during his meeting, Thursday, with the delegation of the brotherly Sultanate of Oman, who is currently visiting Yemen as part of the Sultanate's efforts to bring peace to Yemen.
In the meeting, President Al-Mashat stressed Sana'a's desire for a just and honorable peace that achieves stability and prosperity for the people of Yemen and the region in general.
President Al-Mashat said: "There can be no truce if you do not respond to the just and just demands of the Yemeni People represented in paying the salaries of all state employees from Yemen's oil and gas wealth and opening all airports and ports, and there is no way to back down from protecting the oil and gas wealth of the Yemeni people."
My comment: The Houthi side is just repeating its preconditiona again and again. The most odd one: The Aden government should pay the Houthi military.
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Film: Students are being expelled from their schools in the Houthi-held city of Sana'a for not paying one thousand riyals. In fact, their situation is miserable as they are without education,without books, without teachers, and the teachers work without salaries in all areas controlled
https://twitter.com/RiyadhAldubai/status/1605858637406150656
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Yemen's women chafe under tightening Huthi restrictions
The Iran-backed Huthis, who have controlled swathes of the Arab world's poorest country since seizing the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2014, have increasingly enforced travel restrictions on women over the past eight months, residents and activists say.
Yemeni society, although deeply conservative, has traditionally allowed space for individual freedoms. But this is changing under the Huthi movement, which was founded with the aim of pushing for a theocracy.
Recently the Huthis clamped down on women travelling without a "mahram" -- or male relative -- even within the country. Women in the rebels' northwestern stronghold of Saada are denied contraception if they don't have a prescription and their husband isn't present.
In Saada and some small towns, women cannot travel alone after dark, even for medical emergencies, while an all-female police force called the "Zainabiyat" enforces discipline.
However, there are numerous examples of women complaining and pushing back, especially in the big cities.
"As a Yemeni woman, I feel that all my rights and my freedoms are being stolen from me," Maqtari said.
Restrictions on female freedoms, which parallel decrees issued by the fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan, are not part of Yemeni law and are enforced arbitrarily through rebel directives.
Radhya al-Mutawakel, co-founder of Yemeni rights group Mwatana, said the travel restrictions set a "very dangerous" precedent and disproportionately affect women who have jobs.
"This is the first time that a decision limiting the freedom of movement of women has come from an official authority," Mutawakel said.
Bilqees al-Lahbi, a gender consultant at the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies think tank, said the restrictions are aimed at satisfying the most extreme branch of the Huthi movement and exerting political control.
"They are inspired by both the Iranian model and that of the Taliban to silence all opposition and subjugate society," she said.
But in major cities, residents are resisting "attempts to Talibanise society", Mutawakel said, highlighting Sanaa's younger and more defiant population.
Aicha Ahmed was forced to close her beauty salon and gym in Sanaa for months after the Huthis shut down swimming pools, fitness facilities and other businesses catering exclusively to women over the summer.
After repeated complaints and lobbying on social media she was permitted to reopen her salon, but not the gym.
"Eight employees lost their jobs," she said.
In the western city of Hodeida, also under Huthi control, the owner of a cafe for women had to fight to stay in business.
"We told them that we were ready to respect all their conditions," the 38-year-old said, requesting anonymity over security concerns.
In Sanaa, an outcry over prohibitions on men and women mixing at graduation ceremonies and in restaurants, as well as a ban on music during certain events, has forced the authorities to backtrack.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20221222-yemen-s-women-chafe-under-tightening-huthi-restrictions = https://www.albawaba.com/news/womens-lives-under-houthis-not-happy-one-1503173
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Houthis calls on Egypt to distance itself from any hostile actions against them
The Houthi group called on Egypt to distance itself from the ongoing struggle for power in Yemen which has been ongoing for eight years, vowing to inflict pain on those who hurt Yemen.
Commenting on Egypt's assumption of command of international missions in the Red Sea, Hussein Al-Ezzi, deputy foreign minister in the National Salvation Government formed by the Houthis, said via Twitter: "I hope that beloved Egypt will distance itself from any hostile actions against Sanaa."
He added, "Frankly, we love Egypt and do not want it to be harmed, but we also will not accept turning our water into wasted water or an open platform to harm the interests of our people."
and also https://en.ypagency.net/281926/
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Minister of Human Rights: Will Submit Crimes of US-Saudi Aggression to Criminal Court
The Minister of Human Rights, Ali Al-Dailami, affirmed that Sana'a is ready to submit the crimes of theUS- Saudi-Emirati aggression to the International Criminal Court.
"We are ready to request the international tribunal and our cases are ready, the only problem is the protection that America provides to criminals," he said. He explained that the American and British role is the most dangerous in obstructing cases demanding the prosecution of criminals.
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Amnesty International: Yemen: Huthis Must End the Prosecution of Journalists and Crackdown on Media
The Huthi de facto authorities are continuing to use repressive tactics to suppress the right to freedom of expression and media freedom, and silence peaceful dissent in areas under their control. In this statement, Amnesty International has examined the cases of three imprisoned journalists subjected to detention-related violations and unfair trials between 2015 and 2022, the case of a journalist who was arbitrarily detained for over a year and then released in December 2022, four other journalists who continued to face the death penalty following grossly unfair trial, and the crackdown on six radio stations by the Huthis in January 2022
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde31/6189/2022/en/
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Death penalty for 16 Yemenis reflects high cost of Houthi impunity [EN/AR]
A Houthi court sentencing of 29 Yemenis to either death or imprisonment following unfair trials is deeply concerning, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement.
Urgent intervention, particularly by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, is required to reverse these sentences and prevent involved parties from implementing them in the future, as well as to ensure that the accused have full legal rights, including the right to a fair trial.
On 7 December, the Specialised Criminal Court of First Instance in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a convicted 16 people, seven of whom were already detained, on charges of communicating with and assisting the “Saudi-Emirati aggression countries”. They were sentenced to death by firing squad.
The court sentenced 13 others, all of whom were already detained, to prison terms ranging from 10 to 15 years on the same charges, as well as three years of security surveillance following the expiry of their original prison sentences. The convicts were also forced to sign an undertaking promising to pay 15 million Yemeni riyals (about €56,000 EUR) if any one of them committed “a crime of aiding the aggression countries or illegally communicating with a foreign country within two years after the expiry of the original prison sentence”.
The de facto Houthi authorities did not provide any clarification on the rationale behind the rulings at the time they were issued or afterwards; details were later revealed by the defendants’ lawyer on Saturday, 17 December.
Anas Jerjawi, Euro-Med Monitor’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “The Houthi group’s issuance of mass death sentences against defendants based on ostensibly false charges reflects the high cost of ignoring accountability for those responsible for issuing or carrying out previous, similar sentences. It highlights, once again, the serious consequences of human rights violators enjoying impunity in Yemen.
“It is disheartening that the international community is still unable to put an end to these atrocities, which have been ongoing for more than eight years and will undoubtedly worsen unless they are met with decisive measures that deter perpetrators from repeating their crimes,” Jerjawi added.
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Saadah Islah condemns Houthi terrorists' sentencing of some of its members to death
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform (the Islah) party has lambasted the condemnation of 32 of the party's members to death by the terrorist Houthi militia in Sana'a on alleged trumped-up charges.
In a statement, the Islahs office in Yemen's northern Saadah province emphasized the invalidity of any actions taken by the dynastic Houthi militia who maintain an unlawful hold on public facilities including courts in Sana'a and in other Yemeni cities.
The sentenced Islah members hail from Saadah and they have been in Houthi terrorists' captivity for years
The party said it reserves the right to prosecute all Houthi terror elements who assumed the identity of state men and law enforcement officials and cracked down on the people of Saadah.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-62126
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[Aden] Yemeni gov't: Houthis collectively kill opponents by death sentences
The Yemeni official government sees the death sentences, issued by the Houthi group against 16 people accused of spying for the Saudi-led Coalition, as collective killing of political opponents, the information minister tweeted on Sunday, calling for international stance.
Sana'a-based criminal court had earlier sentenced 16 Yemenis to death and 13 others to 10-15 years in prison on charges of spying for the Arab Coalition.
Having fabricated false charges, the Houthis sentenced 16 people from Sa'ada for rejecting their coup and opposing their radical ideologies, Moammar al-Eryani said.
https://debriefer.net/en/news-32058.html
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Civil Service Ministry issues circular to pay half salary to all state staff
Civil Service on Saturday issued a circular to pay the first half of salary for July 2018 to all employees of the state, including civilian and military and retirees.
https://en.ypagency.net/281723/
My comment: !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Al-Houthi: Battle against aggression not ended yet, it will be more severe
Member of the Supreme Political Council Muhammad al-Houthi confirmed on Monday that the battle with the aggression forces is not over yet, and the next one will be tougher, bigger and more painful than what they experienced during the past eight years.
During his meeting with the security and military leaders and the general mobilization committees in Ibb province, al-Houthi said the Yemeni people must realize that we fight the aggression forces, because they are the ones who oppress our people and are the cause of the suffering of the country. "Action must be taken to face them."
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3216036.htm
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Supreme Political Council warns of dangers of continuation of no peace-no war state
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3215998.htm
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Public Prosecution, ICRC bury 45 unidentified bodies in Dhamar
The Office of the Attorney General, in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Dhamar province, on Sunday carried out the burial of 45 unknown bodies, which remained in the refrigerators of Dhamar General Hospital and Ma’abar, during 2021-2022.
Director of Forensic Medicine at the Office of the Public Prosecutor, Dr. Alaa Al-Dhubaie, appreciated the cooperation of the ICRC, the General Directorate of Criminal Evidence and the Ministry of Health in implementing this humanitarian mission by the burial of the bodies after they had been kept in refrigerators for a long time and had become a health threat.
https://en.ypagency.net/281597/
Fortsetzung / Sequel: cp6 – cp19
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-835b-yemen-war-mosaic-835b
Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-834-yemen-war-mosaic-834
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-834 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-834:
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/
Liste aller Luftangriffe / and list of all air raids:
http://yemendataproject.org/data/
Untersuchung ausgewählter Luftangriffe durch Bellingcat / Bellingcat investigations of selected air raids:
Untersuchungen von Angriffen, hunderte von Filmen / Investigations of attacks, hundreds of films:
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