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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Auch nach den jüngsten Luftschlägen vom gestrigen Montag billigt die Bundesregierung den Krieg eines von Saudi-Arabien geführten Militärbündnisses gegen Aufständische im Jemen. Man habe "Verständnis" für die bewaffnete Intervention, heißt es im Auswärtigen Amt. Saudische Luftschläge trafen gestern unter anderem ein jemenitisches Flüchtlingslager; dabei starben mindestens 45 Personen. Riads neuer Krieg richtet sich gegen einen angeblichen Machtzuwachs Irans, dem gute Verbindungen zu den schiitischen Huthi-Rebellen nachgesagt werden. Er entspricht den Interessen der NATO-Staaten: Man wolle verhindern, dass Teheran mit Hilfe der Huthis "neben der Meerenge von Hormuz auch noch die Meerenge zwischen dem Jemen und Afrika kontrollieren könnte, durch die jeden Tag Millionen Barrel Erdöl transportiert werden", erläutert ein renommierter Kommentator.

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=14456

Will Yemen kick-off the 'War of the two Blocs?'

No, it isn’t a battle between Shia and Sunni, Iranian and Arab or the much-ballyhooed Iran-Saudi stand-off. Yes, these narratives have played a part in defining ‘sides,’ but often only in the most simplistic fashion, to rally constituencies behind a policy objective. And they do often reflect some truth.

But the ‘sides’ demarcated for our consumption do not explain, for instance, why Oman or Algeria refuse to participate, why Turkey is where it is, why Russia, China and the BRICS are participants, why the US is so conflicted in its direction – and why, in a number of regional conflicts, Sunni, Shia, Islamist, secularist, liberal, conservative, Christian, Muslim, Arab and Iranian sometimes find themselves on the same side.

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=14458

Operation Decisive Storm and the Expanding Counter-Revolution

.............For those with longer historical memories, this military campaign suggests a previous proxy war between Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt and Saudi Arabia, when both countries intervened in the Yemeni civil war (1962-1967) to support the Yemeni republicans, on the one hand, and the Yemeni monarchy, on the other. In that conflict, the Saudis backed the deposed Zaydi imam while Egyptian troops fought on the side of the “free officers.” Although the republican officers prevailed, Egypt suffered a kind of defeat, and Saudi Arabia ultimately extended its hegemony over what was then North Yemen.

A closer historical analogy might be the Iranian, Jordanian and British intervention in Oman against the rebellion of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (PFLO) in the 1960s and 1970s. In that case an alliance of conservative monarchies joined forces to support the Omani sultanate against popular forces that had threatened to spread into the greater Persian Gulf. While the Houthis in no way resemble the leftist PFLO in ideology or revolutionary practice, the forces gathered against them have a great deal in common. ...............

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=14455

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Saudi Arabia and Israel are the two most malign influences in the Middle East. In a region blighted by (mostly western-backed) dictatorships, these two regimes stand out because of their influence. They are what I have termed, the permanent counter-revolution.

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=14461

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Professor Noam Chomsky on the ‘terror-generating’ drone strikes in Yemen which leads to Al Qaeda’s expansion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41631.htm

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

President Obama has pointed to Yemen as a model for the U.S.'s counter-terrorism strategy. But now, an anti-American rebel group known as the Houthis has ousted the president and thrown the country into turmoil. As a Saudi-led military campaign bombards Yemen, FRONTLINE in conjunction with BBC Arabic brings this special report from inside the war zone.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365460557/

Das Video wegen Copyright kannt in Deutschland nicht gezeigt werden
.... aber hier kann es sehen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lk5o07trKM

Dieses Video hat gleich Thema aber ist eine compilation von verschiedenen Quele .

Saudi War in Yemen - Video Compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ22F83wl6s

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

On 21 April 2015, the Saudi-led war coalition of Arab states announced that “Operation Decisive Storm,” the military campaign against Yemen that started on 25 March, had transitioned to a new, more peaceful phase, codenamed “Operation Restore Hope.” Shortly thereafter, Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi delivered his first speech to the nation from exile in Saudi Arabia, repeating many of the same accusations against, and ultimatums to, the Houthis. The bombing resumed mere hours after the coalition’s announcement and, more than a week later, it shows no signs of slowing. It seems that little has changed except for the branding of the war. But what this new phase has confirmed is that any of Saudi Arabia’s attempts at “peace” in Yemen—whether under the guise of “Operation Restore Hope” or otherwise—will likely be more violent and permanent than its current war.

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21538/saudi-arabia-and-the-war-of-legitimacy-in-yemen

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Die Luftangriffe Saudi-Arabiens auf den Jemen werden auch mit deutschen Kampfflugzeugen geführt. Dies geht aus mehreren voneinander unabhängigen Berichten von der Arabischen Halbinsel hervor. Demnach werden Eurofighter, an deren Produktion deutsche Rüstungsfirmen maßgeblich beteiligt sind, für sogenannte Präzisionsschläge gegen Stellungen der Huthi-Rebellen eingesetzt.

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=14515

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Two thirds of Yemen without clean water, as outbreak of disease looms: Oxfam

Oxfam has called for a ceasefire to allow for medical supplies and clean water to be brought in to alleviate a desperate humanitarian situation

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/two-thirds-yemen-without-clean-water-outbreak-disease-looms-oxfam-1208776251

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Britain’s Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is providing technical support and arming Saudi Arabia in its ongoing war against Yemen, RT has learned.

http://rt.com/uk/268324-uk-arming-saudi-yemen/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Britain has actively contributed to the creation a humanitarian disaster in Yemen, and potentially helped turn the Middle East’s poorest state into the new Syria. Not hyperbole or rhetoric, just a bald statement of fact. I’ll leave it to others to try to explain the near total silence on this issue throughout the British media and across the political spectrum. For now, it will suffice simply to tell the story.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/yemen-world-s-newest-humanitarian-catastrophe-and-how-britain-helped-create-it-759527421

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More than 6 million people in Yemen are on the verge of starvation, Oxfam warned on Tuesday, adding that months of war and a blockade on imports were pushing an additional 25,000 people into hunger every day.

One in two of Yemen's people - nearly 13 million - are now struggling to find enough to eat, the aid agency said.

"As the warring parties continue to ignore calls for a ceasefire, the average family in Yemen is left wondering when their next meal will be," Oxfam's Yemen country director Philippe Clerc said.

Nearly 4,000 people have been killed and more than 1.2 million displaced in a conflict between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Four fifths of the population need help, the United Nations says.

Oxfam said the number of hungry people had risen by 2.3 million to 12.9 million since March, when a Saudi-led coalition backing Hadi began bombarding the Houthis and imposed a blockade in a bid to cut off arms supplies.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/07/28/yemen-security-hunger-idINL5N10832C20150728

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A Saudi-led coalition air strike killed 13 teaching staff and four children in northern Yemen, in a raid apparently targeting Shiite rebels, medics and witnesses said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-led-yemen-raid-kills-13-teaching-staff-131723999.html

Millions of Yemenis 'staring at famine' as war rages

Millions of people risk facing famine in Yemen, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

The UN agency said in a statement released on Wednesday, that the number of food insecure people in Yemen was now close to 13 million, adding that one in five of the country's population were suffering from severe food insecurity.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/millions-yemenis-staring-famine-wfp-150820071130741.html

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

As many as 800 Egyptian soldiers arrived in Yemen late on Tuesday, Egyptian security sources said, swelling the ranks of a Gulf Arab military contingent which aims to rout the Iran-allied Houthi group after a five-month civil war.

It was the first reported deployment of ground troops there by Egypt, which has one of the Arab world's strongest armies.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/uk-yemen-security-idUKKCN0R91I720150909

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

The United States may be directly responsible for more civilian deaths in Yemen than al-Qaida over the past year, according to a grim United Nations report released Wednesday.

As many as 40 Yemeni civilians are believed to have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in the war-torn nation over the past 12 months, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concluded in its latest report.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Drone-Strikes-Kill-More-Yemeni-Civilians-than-al-Qaida-UN-20150915-0026.html

Mit deutschen Waffen starten enge arabische Verbündete der Bundesrepublik eine mörderische Offensive auf die Hauptstadt des Jemen. Saudi-Arabien führt seit knapp einem halben Jahr in dem Land Krieg, um die Huthi-Rebellen aus Sanaa zu vertreiben, die als Parteigänger Irans gelten. Dabei nutzen seine Streitkräfte deutsche Waffen; ihre Verbündeten, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate und Qatar, sind ebenfalls von deutschen Rüstungsfirmen ausgestattet worden.

http://politik-im-spiegel.de/in-flammen-iii/

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What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/23/yemen-as-laboratory-why-is-the-west-so-silent-about-this-savage-war/

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More than 114,000 people have fled war-torn Yemen, and the figure could reach at least 200,000 by the end of 2016, aid officials said Tuesday.

Fighting escalated in March when Saudi-led airstrikes began targeting Yemen's Huthi rebels to defend embattled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

"Close to 70,000 people fleeing the crisis have arrived in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan," the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/more-114-000-flee-yemen-war-un-150209773.html

Six months of violence in Yemen leave more than 500 children dead, some 1.7 million at risk of malnutrition: UNICEF

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_85714.html

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On 7 October, it was reported that Yemen's Houthi rebels and their ally, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had accepted a peace plan brokered by the UN in Oman, as well as Security Council resolution 2216 of April this year. Saleh reiterated his acceptance in a TV interview five days later, adding that he was willing to quit his leadership of Yemen's largest party, the General People's Congress (GPC), to facilitate an end to the conflict.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's chief spokesman Stephane Dujarric was right to describe this as "an important step," and Yemen's internationally recognised government and its allies should have acknowledged it as such. They had been insisting all along that an end to the conflict must be based on prior acceptance of resolution 2216.

The resolution reaffirmed the "legitimacy" of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, expressed alarm at the Houthis' "military escalation," and condemned "in the strongest terms" their "ongoing unilateral actions".

It also demanded that the Houthis "immediately and unconditionally ... end the use of violence; withdraw their forces from all areas they have seized, including the capital Sanaa; relinquish all additional arms seized from military and security institutions," and "refrain from any provocation or threats to neighbouring states".
Rejection

As such, acceptance of the resolution by the Houthis and Saleh meets the demands of the government and its allies, and is tantamount to a victory for the latter. It also represents the most important opportunity to end the conflict since it began. Unfortunately, however, the reception has been wholly dismissive.

"There must be an announcement of willingness to implement all articles of the resolution without any changes," said Hadi's press secretary, Mokhtar al-Rahbi. "We are ready to go to any talks after a clear acceptance of the implementation of the UN resolution."

However, it should suffice that acceptance came in the form of a Houthi letter to Ban and a TV announcement by Saleh. Both were clear, and most importantly acceptance was in writing and to the mediating party. Al-Rahbi claimed that the acceptance had come with conditions, but Reuters, which said it had seen the letter to Ban, reported that the Houthis "fully accepted" resolution 2216.

Given past experience, it is understandable why the Yemeni government has described the acceptance as a "manoeuvre". The Houthis have reneged on previous agreements, which set the stage for the current conflict, and Saleh has continued to play spoiler since a popular revolution led to his overthrow almost four years ago.

mehr ... http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/wasted-chance-end-yemens-conflict-1233931630

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

As many as 800 Colombian nationals could soon be fighting in Yemen, with dozens likely already in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/800-Colombian-Soldiers-to-Join-Saudi-Led-Forces-in-Yemen-20151025-0034.html

um sie werden Bezahlt mit dem Drogen schmugel Geld ....

Two tonnes of drugs were seized by Beirut airport security officials
after a Saudi prince attempted to smuggle them on private jet

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-prince-arrested-massive-drug-
bust-beirut-airport-316006623

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Some 1,800 Latin American former soldiers are being trained somewhere in the desert of United Arab Emirates as part of an operation set up by Blackwater Worldwide.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/450-Colombian-Ex-Soldiers-Sent-by-UAE-to-Fight-Houthis-in-Yemen-20151126-0017.html

Over 500,000 children face malnutrition in Yemen: UNICEF

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-500000-children-face-malnutrition-yemen-unicef-380657074

UK will not launch probe into allegations British weapons used in Yemen air strike
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-will-not-launch-probe-allegations-british-weapons-used-illegal-yemen-air-strike-1856819426

Yemen war: The conflict everyone wants to forget

Caught between the Saudi-led war machine and Saleh-Houthi aggression, the Yemeni people feel abandoned by the world
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/yemen-war-conflict-everyone-wants-forget-1391449721

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

After all the bloodshed witnessed over recent months, a return to power for President Hadi seems unthinkable

On my way to Sanaa airport in September, leaving Yemen after a reporting trip, I watched from my car window as one airstrike after another landed across the desolate landscape around me. Looking back, my heart ached for the family I was leaving behind, for the starving children I had met on Sanaa’s streets, for Khadija Al-Bayna, in Hajjah, who had lost her teenage sons and breadwinners when a strike hit the water-bottling plant where they worked, for Fareed Shawky who pleaded: “Don’t bury me, Don’t bury me” as he was being treated for injuries sustained after Houthi shelling…
http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/yemen-s-tug-war-50700445

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Award winning Journalist and film maker, John Pilger talks about media silence on Yemen, media attacks on Corbyn and the importance of the Spanish election. Plus what to expect from the Chilcot report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43785.htm

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A spokesman for the Yemeni army told Russian media that hundreds of mercenaries are fighting in his country on behalf of Saudi Arabia and its allies.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/213579-2/213579/

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In Al-Gumhouri Teaching Hospital in Sanaa, a security guard in a hallway has covered his mouth and nose with a face mask and refuses to shake hands with patrons asking his permission to visit patients in the hospital. The guard told one of the visitors, “Sorry, we are taking precautions because of the virus.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/yemen-worst-humanitarian-crisis-health.html#

Why Yemen may not be heading for a split

Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi won over two prominent secessionist leaders by giving them positions of power in the current government. In doing so, he redirected rebel interests to align with his fight against the Houthis and his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/yemen-president-hadi-southern-mobility-movement-secession.html#

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Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy

Nearly 3,000 civilians have been slaughtered and a million displaced in Saudi Arabia’s noble aerial bombardment of Yemen, which is backed by the United States and Britain.

Over 14 million Yemenis face food insecurity – a jump of 12 percent since June 2015. Out of these, three million children are malnourished. And across the country, an estimated 20 million people cannot safely access clean water.

The Saudi air force has systematically bombed Yemen’s civilian infrastructure in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. An official UN report to the Security Council leaked last month found that the Saudis have “conducted airstrikes targeting civilians and civilian objects … including camps for internally displaced persons and refugees; civilian gatherings, including weddings; civilian vehicles, including buses; civilian residential areas; medical facilities; schools; mosques; markets, factories and food storage warehouses; and other essential civilian infrastructure, such as the airport in Sanaa, the port in Hudaida and domestic transit routes.”

US-made cluster bombs have been dropped on residential areas – an act that even the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon tepidly concedes “may amount to a war crime”.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/saudi-war-yemen-oil-pipeline-empowering-al-qaeda-1386143996

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Seit einem Jahr bombardiert nun Saudi-Arabien mit einer von der autoritären Monarchie geführten Allianz sunnitischer Staaten und der Unterstützung der USA, Großbritannien und Frankreichs Ziele im Jemen, eines der ärmsten Länder der Welt. Im Gegensatz zu Syrien ist Kritik aus dem Westen an dem Krieg aber kaum zu vernehmen: Syrien und Jemen: Die Schwarz-Weiß-Logik des Kalten Kriegs. Die Saudis bekämpfen dort die aufständischen schiitischen Huthi-Rebellen und ihre Verbündeten, darunter Teile des Militärs, die dem 2012 zurückgetretenen Präsidenten Ali Abdullah Salih weiter loyal sind, und anderen Stämmen. Unterstützt wird der jemenitische Präsident Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi, der letztes Jahr aus dem Land nach Saudi-Arabien geflohen war.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/47/47785/1.html

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This has lead to calls for the UK to come clean on its weapon sales and military support to Saudi Arabia.

In a statement on Monday, the UK-based rights group said that unexploded cluster bombs have turned northern Yemen into “minefields” for civilians.
http://yournewswire.com/amnesty-finds-illegal-uk-made-cluster-bombs-in-yemeni-village/

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The credibility of the United Nations is on the line after it shamefully caved in to pressure to remove the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition from the UN’s list of states and armed groups that violate children’s rights in conflict, Amnesty International said today.

Last night a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the change to the list published on 2 June as part of an annual report by his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. The move was a direct result of diplomatic pressure from Saudi Arabia, angry at the UN’s conclusion that coalition operations had led to the death and suffering of children in the armed conflict in Yemen.

“It is unprecedented for the UN to bow to pressure to alter its own published report on children in armed conflict. It is unconscionable that this pressure was brought to bear by one of the very states listed in the report,” said Richard Bennett, Representative and Head of Amnesty International’s UN Office.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/06/un-shameful-pandering-to-saudi-arabia-over-children-killed-in-yemen-conflict/

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Popular Resistance factions, originally raised to battle the Houthis, now squabble for control of Yemen province's resources and economy
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemenis-complain-unfair-treatment-popular-resistance-controlled-taiz-539019222

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KHAMER, Yemen — Inside a ramshackle tent, seven days after she was married, Fayrouz Ahmed Haider softly recounted how she ran away from her 25-year-old husband when he tried to force her to have sex.

“It would have been better if my marriage had been delayed,” she said.

Fayrouz is 11.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-story-of-a-girl-married-at-11-tracks-the-horrors-of-yemens-war/2016/07/06/a38c581a-283e-11e6-8329-6104954928d2_story.html

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Almost a year and a half into Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed bombing campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian toll has become so extensive that the International Committee of the Red Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units to Yemeni hospitals.

“The hospitals were not able to cope,” said Rima Kamal, a Yemen-based spokesperson for the Red Cross. “You could have more than 20 dead people brought into one hospital on one single day. The morgue capacity at a regular hospital is not equipped to handle this influx of dead bodies.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/25/the-death-toll-in-yemen-is-so-high-the-red-cross-has-started-donating-morgues-to-hospitals/

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Homes flattened by air strikes. Boys killed by discarded cluster bombs. Babies dying in incubators. This is Yemen in 2016
http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-houthi-sanaa-peter-oborne-820075995

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Naseem al-Odaini, an activist in Taiz, has been monitoring Houthi violations in the war-torn Yemeni city since April 2015, using her phone and notebooks to take photos and document civilian casualties.

Working with more than 20 women and men volunteers within the initiative "Love it", she helps reveal violations to the world through social media and various media outlets.

Three months ago, however, noted Islamic scholar Abdullah al-Odaini issued a fatwa (religious ruling), forbidding female and male activists from working together, arguing that Islam prohibits the free mixing of women and men.

The fatwa has created resentment and fear among activists, who reply that they too are supporters of the anti-Houthi Popular Resistance, the same as Abdullah al-Odaini, who is also a member of the Yemeni parliament and imam of Taiz's al-Noor mosque.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fatwa-forbids-work-female-activists-taiz-112812818

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More than half of Yemen's population is suffering from malnutrition, the United Nations told MEE on Wednesday, while warning the war-torn nation faces imminent famine.

A spokesperson for the UN’s office of humanitarian affairs said 51 percent of the population - some 14.1 million people - “are suffering from food insecurity and malnutrition today”.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-humanitarian-crisis-outrageous-country-faces-famine-1273314193

Cholera outbreak hits war-torn Yemen: UNICEF

War-torn Yemen is suffering from a cholera outbreak, the UN's children agency said on Friday, posing a further threat to infants in the impoverished nation.

"This outbreak adds to the misery of millions of children in Yemen," UNICEF Yemen representative Julien Harneis said in a statement.

"Children are at a particularly high risk if the current cholera outbreak is not urgently contained, especially since the health system in Yemen is crumbling as the conflict continues."
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cholera-outbreak-hits-war-torn-yemen-unicef-946202631

The American-made catastrophe in Yemen

For a generation of Americans old enough to remember, the Korean conflict is often dubbed the “forgotten war”. Where Hollywood has lionised or contextualised those who fought in the Second World War and Vietnam, the nearly 2 million Americans who fought on the Korean peninsula in the early 1950s have largely been airbrushed from history.

Fast forward 60 odd years, and Americans find themselves participating in yet another forgotten war: Yemen.

Where the unfolding tragedy in Syria has grabbed media attention in the US over the course of the past five years, at least intermittingly, America’s participation and contribution towards alleged war crimes and the unmitigated humanitarian crisis in Yemen is yet to have even grabbed the attention of CNN’s scrolling news ticker.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/american-made-catastrophe-yemen-2117766545

BAE in talks with Saudi over multi-billion pound deal as Yemen war continues

BAE Systems is in discussions with Saudi Arabia over a multi-billion pound arms contract, according to an announcement on Thursday.

The deal is likely to be controversial, taking place against a backdrop of a Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen which has been accused of helping to create a humanitarian disaster in the impoverished country.

"Discussions between BAE Systems, the UK government and the Saudi Arabian government are progressing to define the scope and terms of the next five-year Saudi-British Defence Co-operation Programme," BAE told the Stock Exchange on Thursday.

British MPs last month called for an arms ban to be imposed on Saudi Arabia pending an investigation of alleged war crimes and human rights abuses in Yemen. The UK sold military equipment worth £3.3bn to Saudi Arabia during the first year of the conflict.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bae-systems-arms-talks-saudi-violence-continues-yemen-1541001816

Gangsters in war-torn Yemen ensnare women to do their dirty work

Teenager Asma Mahboob was alone in the family home on that fateful Thursday night in September.

The rest of her family, who live in Aden, Yemen, were away at a neighbour’s wedding; Asma, 13, had chosen to stay at home. Her father, Mohammed, had told his daughter not to open the door to strangers as there had been talk in the Crater district, where they live, of thieves operating in the area.

Then there was the knock at the door.

Asma recognized the voice as a friend of her mother’s, someone from a poor family whom her mother used to help. And it was early – only 7pm. The young teen let the woman into the home and then went to make them both tea.

It was while Asma was distracted that the visitor opened the door - and let in fellow gang members who stormed the family home.

The thieves, who Mohammed believes had been watching the house, tied the teenager up before escaping with jewelry valued at about YR100,000 ($400), $160 hidden in a clothes cupboard and other belongings valued at $80.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-women-war-torn-yemen-are-being-ensnared-criminal-gangs-and-society-1837260771

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U.S. and U.K. Continue to Actively Participate in Saudi War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians

From the start of the hideous Saudi bombing campaign against Yemen 18 months ago, two countries have played active, vital roles in enabling the carnage: the U.S. and U.K. The atrocities committed by the Saudis would have been impossible without their steadfast, aggressive support.

The Obama administration “has offered to sell $115 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia over its eight years in office, more than any previous U.S. administration,” as The Guardian reported this week, and also provides extensive surveillance technology. As The Intercept documented in April, “In his first five years as president, Obama sold $30 billion more in weapons than President Bush did during his entire eight years as commander in chief.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/10/u-s-and-u-k-continue-to-actively-participate-in-saudi-war-crimes-targeting-of-yemeni-civilians/

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The Yemen Files are a collection of more than 500 documents from the United States embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. Comprising more than 200 emails and 300 PDFs, the collection details official documents and correspondence pertaining to the Office for Military Cooperation (OMC) located at the US embassy. The collection spans the period from 2009 until just before the war in Yemen broke out in earnest during March 2015. This time period covers both Hillary Clinton's term as Secretary of State (20092013) and the first two years of Secretary John Kerry’s tenure.
https://wikileaks.org/yemen-files/?saudi

Obama Is Killing Yemen: A Yemeni Journalist Speaks Out After U.S.-Backed Bombing Strikes Funeral

On Sunday, thousands of Yemenis gathered at the United Nations building in Sana’a calling for an international investigation into the U.S-backed Saudi assault on a funeral. The attack was carried out with warplanes and munitions sold to the Saudi-led coalition by the United States. The U.S. Air Force continues to provide midair refueling to Saudi warplanes. According to the U.N., more than 4,000 civilians have been killed and over 7,000 injured since the Saudi-led coalition bombing began last year. Airstrikes have reportedly caused about 60 percent of the deaths. We go to Sana’a to speak with Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee and Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch.
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/obama_is_killing_yemen_a_yemeni?utm_source=Democracy+Now!&utm_campaign=f11427f5f0-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-f11427f5f0-190167973

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Nearly 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, victims of the near-collapse of the healthcare system during two years of escalating conflict, UN children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday.

At least 462,000 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, as food supplies have been disrupted by the devastating war between the Saudi-backed government and Shia Houthi rebels, the agency said.

Saada province, a rebel bastion in the far north, has the world's highest stunting rate among children with eight out of 10 children affected in some areas, it added.

"Malnutrition in Yemen is at an all-time high and increasing," said UNICEF's acting country representative, Meritxell Relano.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-two-million-yemen-children-acutely-malnourished-says-un-504372373

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A UN envoy held talks with Yemen's President Abd Rabbuh Hadi on Monday as the United Nations said the death toll from the war had reached 10,000.

The envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, was in Aden for the meeting that focused on a return to a ceasefire and to political talks to end the nearly two-year war.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-war-death-toll-reaches-10000-un-1702397925

Yemen Vote - The Responsibility To Protect Profits

At first sight, compassion appears to loom large in 'mainstream' politics and media. When the American and British governments target countries like Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, 'compassion' is always at or near the top of the agenda.

Time and again, the cry from the political system is: 'We Must Do Something!' 'We' must save Afghan women from the 'Medieval' Taliban. 'We' must save Kuwaiti new-borns flung from their incubators by Iraqi stormtroopers. 'We' must save Iraqi civilians from Saddam's shredding machines. 'We' must save civilians in Kosovo from Milosevic's 'final solution'.
http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2016/830-yemen-vote-the-responsibility-to-protect-profits.html

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The main goal of 21-year-old Ibrahim, youngest of five siblings and the only one to reach university, is to complete his degree and secure a better future.

That, and staying alive.

To pay for his university studies, Ibrahim, who asked that his real name not be revealed, must brave the sniper-infested streets of Taiz city as a part-time soldier in Yemen's bitter civil war.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fighting-degree-yemens-taiz-street-street-180021840

Heartbreaking photograph shows baby tied to bed after airstrike killed her mother
http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/19/heartbreaking-photograph-shows-baby-tied-to-bed-after-airstrike-killed-her-mother-6458147/

Die USA helfen in ganzer Ruhe Saudi-Arabien, verheerende Luftangriffe auf den Jemen durchzuführen

Eine Woche vor den Terrorangriffen von Brüssel bombte die von Saudi-Arabien angeführte Koalition einen Marktplatz in Mastaba im Jemen. Obwohl in Mastaba mehr Menschen den Tod fanden als in Brüssel — 106 gegen 34 — ignorierten die Medien und die internationale Gemeinschaft im Allgemeinen jene frühere Gräueltat, wie sie auch den Großteil der 150 willkürlichen Luftangriffe außer Acht ließen, von denen die Vereinten Nationen und Human Rights Watch im letzten Jahr berichteten.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19137

Exclusive: Britain's 'confused' Yemen policy is increasing the risk of UK terror attack, warns Andrew Mitchell

Britain is increasing the likelihood of a terrorist attack on UK soil if the Government does not rethink its "confused" policy in Yemen, a former International Development Secretary has warned.

Andrew Mitchell, speaking on his return from Yemen, said Britain's support for the Saudi Coalition "will stoke a further generation of terror" and lead to "threats to Europe."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/16/exclusive-britains-confused-yemen-policy-increasing-risk-uk/

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On January 29, 5-year-old Sinan al Ameri was asleep with his mother, his aunt, and 12 other children in a one-room stone hut typical of poor rural villages in the highlands of Yemen. A little after 1 a.m., the women and children awoke to the sound of a gunfight erupting a few hundred feet away. Roughly 30 members of Navy SEAL Team 6 were storming the eastern hillside of the remote settlement.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/women-and-children-in-yemeni-village-recall-horror-of-trumps-highly-successful-seal-raid/

‘US Navy SEALS in Yemen shot everything that moved, including women & children’
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/379503-saudi-airstrikes-yemen-us-seals/

US Hiring Mercenaries with $1,500 Daily Wages for War in Southern Yemen: Reports

Intelligence sources in Sana'a disclosed that the US has sent a large number of mercenaries it has hired on high wages to the Southern parts of Yemen to help the Saudi troops against the Yemeni forces there.
http://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/war-on-yemen/1505-us-mercenaries-yemen.html

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An air strike by a Saudi-led coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said.

The aircraft tried to target Houthi rebels at a roadblock on the southern outskirts of the Red Sea port of Khoukha, but the fighters fled to a market where they were attacked, the sources claimed.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-led-air-strike-kills-dozens-yemen-1124287347

Pakistan sends combat troops to Saudi southern border

The Pakistan army is sending a brigade of combat troops to shore up Saudi Arabia’s vulnerable southern border from reprisal attacks mounted by the Houthis in Yemen, according to senior security sources.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-pakistan-sends-combat-troops-saudi-southern-border-248886071

Yemen war turns two

This month the war in Yemen is 2 years old. It pits a coalition of mostly wealthy Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia, supporting President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's government against a ragged alliance of Houthi Shiite rebels and backers of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who enjoy Iranian support. Despite occasional claims that victory is near by the Saudi-backed Hadi loyalists, there is little prospect for the war to end. The Yemeni people, the poorest in Arabia, are paying a terrible price.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-two-years-houthi-iran.html

UN warns of catastrophe as 18m face famine in Yemen

Millions of Yemenis are on the verge of starvation the United Nations has warned, as the body said the world is facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945.

The warning came as part of a worldwide plea by senior UN aid workers, faced with almost 20 million people across just four countries - Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Kenya - confronting starvation and famine.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/world-facing-greatest-humanitarian-crisis-1945-un-1826175092