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Saudi Jet Fighters Attack Wedding in Yemen, Kill 10 Women

The airstrike targeted a wedding procession in the Qaramesh region on Saturday, it said.

Locals said the women were simply returning on foot from the wedding when they were targeted. Several other women, who were riding in a car, escaped the attacks, they said.

“The aggressor committed a hideous crime by targeting ordinary women who were returning from a wedding,” said the father of two of the slain women, using a term widely used by the Yemenis to refer to Saudi Arabia.

The deaths are the latest from more than two years of Saudi Arabia’s devastating military campaign against Yemen. Well above 12,000, including many women and children, have been killed in Saudi airstrikes while millions remain displaced in a dire humanitarian situation.

The military intervention was launched in March 2015 as part of a Saudi plan to reinstate a former president and crush the ruling Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Rights groups and governments have repeatedly lambasted Saudi Arabia for its indiscriminate targeting of civilians in Yemen, saying many of those killed in the airstrikes are ordinary people with no links to groups opposed to Riyadh.

They have documented numerous cases where Saudi warplanes have deliberately dropped bombs on public gatherings, including on weddings. Riyadh simply ignores any criticism after such attacks and calls them a mistake.

http://ifpnews.com/wired/saudi-jet-fighters-attack-wedding-yemen-kill-10-women

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39 Yemenis dead in Saudi-led raid on police camp in Sanaa

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A Houthi militant walks by a Houthi-run detention centre after it was hit by air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen December 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
Reuters, Dubai

Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a military police camp in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 90 more, including some prisoners, an official and witnesses said.

The strike is part of an air campaign by the Western-backed coalition on the Iran-allied Houthis that has escalated since the Houthis crushed an uprising last week led by former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh and killed him.

One official in the camp said the coalition aircraft had launched seven raids on the camp, located in the eastern part of Sanaa, where some 180 prisoners were being held.

The official said rescue teams had pulled out 35 bodies from the rubble, while the rest were not accounted for.

It was the latest in a string of air raids the coalition has conducted on Sanaa and other parts of the country, sometimes causing multiple casualties among civilians.

A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for comment on the report. The coalition denies that it targets civilians.

The United States and Britain provide political backing as well as weapons and logistical support for the Saudi-led coalition, which has been fighting since 2015 to restore Yemen’s internationally-recognised president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to power.

http://www.thedailystar.net/world/39-yemenis-killed-saudi-led-raid-sanaa-1504396

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Over the past few hours, the Saudi coalition aircraft intensified raids on civilian areas targeting villages and markets, killing 54 citizens and wounding 19 others.

Local Yemeni media reported the death of 23 citizens and wounding four others in the targeting of aircraft market Al-Sheikh in the Directorate of Manba in the province of Saada, and cited two women raid on the Walba district Directorate of Zaher.

On the ground, in front of the killing and wounding 7 elements of the forces of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi targeting the army and the committees their military vehicle with a guided missile in the district of the district in the Directorate of Nham, northeast of Sanaa.

In the province of Taiz, he killed and wounded many of the forces of President Hadi, while destroying two military vehicles to them during the army and the committees to try to advance towards the hill of Harizin in the area of Hamli dispensary south-west of Taiz province, according to a Yemeni military source.

 
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Bombed into famine: how Saudi air campaign targets Yemen’s food supplies

Sources of food are a lifeline in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, but are being targeted by the Saudi-led coalition

Iona Craig in Hodeidah and Sana’a

Tuesday 12 December 2017 05.00 GMTLast modified on Tuesday 12 December 2017 16.13 GMT

At 11.30pm, 10 nautical miles off Yemen’s western Red Sea coast, seven fishermen were near the end of the four hours it had taken to haul their nets bulging with the day’s catch into their fibreglass boat. Suddenly, away from the illumination of the vessel’s large spotlight, one of the men spotted a black silhouette coming towards them.

Moments later a helicopter began circling overhead. The fishermen were well within the 30 nautical mile boundary they had been warned not to cross by leaflets airdropped on land by the Saudi-led coalition. But, without warning, gunfire erupted from the helicopter.

Osam Mouafa grabbed his friend, Abdullah, dragging him into a corner, curling himself into a protective ball as bullets flew through the boat. Shot in both knees, with a third bullet having grazed his thigh, Osam began to feel water rising around him. “The boat became like a sieve,” he said, sitting next to the wooden stick he now needs to walk.

By the time the onslaught stopped, the captain – a father of eight – and Abdullah were dead. Another crew member, Hamdi, was deafened and paralysed down one side after being hit in the head by shrapnel. All bleeding heavily, the five survivors frantically began bailing water out of the sinking boat.

The partially submerged vessel, with the fishermen’s clothes plugging the holes, drifted at sea for 15 hours until another boat rescued them, towing them ashore.

Since Saudi Arabia launched its military intervention in Yemen in March 2015, more than 10,000 civilians have died. More than 250 fishing boats have been damaged or destroyed and 152 fishermen have been killed by coalition warships and helicopters in the Red Sea, according to Mohammed Hassani, the head of the fishermen’s union in Yemen’s western port of Hodeidah.

“They have declared war on fishermen,” said Hassani. More than 100 miles further south in the port of Mocha, fishermen have been barred from going out to sea since the Houthi-Saleh forces, who the Saudi-led coalition have been fighting for more than two and half years, were pushed out by Yemeni fighters backed by a coalition partner, the United Arab Emirates, in February.

Yemen’s fishing industry has become an ever more vital lifeline for a country in the midst of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. More than eight million Yemenis are now facing famine after Saudi Arabia tightened a blockade on the country on 6 November. Restrictions were slightly eased on 26 November, allowing some aid in for the 20 million Yemenis relying on humanitarian support. But aid agencies have predicted mass famine if key ports such as Hodeidah remain closed to commercial imports.

Yemen relies on maritime imports for more than 80% of its annual staple food supplies. Although staples remain available, the Saudi-imposed import restrictions, combined with a rapidly depreciating currency, mean food prices have sky-rocketed. Government salaries have gone unpaid since August 2016 and an estimated 55% of the workforce have been laid off due to the conflict. Millions of Yemenis can no longer afford to buy food, forcing them into the more than 75% of the population who are in need of humanitarian assistance.

In the district of al-Rawda in northern Sana’a, farmer Yahya Abdu Taleb stopped cultivating his land after a bomb from an airstrike landed in a field less than 50 metres from his house. Fortunately for the family, the missile failed to explode.

Standing in the now fallow farmland, Yahya watches a team from Yemen’s national demining programme extract the missile buried some 10ft into the soil.

“I have three wells on my land. But now I don’t grow anything,” he said. When food prices started to rise, he went to rebuild the polytunnels needed to grow vegetables in the extreme mountain temperatures of Yemen’s arid northern highlands. But his neighbours begged him to stop. “The Saudis target them [the polytunnels]. They were afraid the planes would come back, bomb us and kill their families.”

Nine-year-old Zahara Taleb used a mobile phone to film the bomb being winched out of her father’s farmland next to their home. “I want to make sure it’s gone so I don’t have to be afraid anymore,” she said.

Ali al-Mowafa, heading the team from the NDP working to remove the unexploded ordnance in al-Rawda, said British, American and Italian-made bombs were identified among 12 missiles that failed to explode from one night when 52 bombs hit the district last August.


Zahara Taleb watches an unexploded bomb being removed from her father’s farmland. Photograph: Iona Craig for the Guardian


Research on the pattern of bombing, carried out by emeritus professor Martha Mundy at the London School of Economics, concludedthat in the first 17 months of the Saudi-led bombing campaign there was “strong evidence that coalition strategy has aimed to destroy food production and distribution” in areas controlled by the Houthis and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was killed by Houthi forces in Sana’a last week, days after declaring he had switched allegiances.

Data on coalition airstrikes collected by the Yemen Data Project have recorded 356 air raids targeting farms, 174 targeting market places and 61 air raids targeting food storage sites from March 2015 to the end of September 2017.

The UK’s de-facto deputy prime minister Damian Green has defended the British government’s continued support of weapons sales to the kingdom on the grounds that “our defence industry is an extremely important creator of jobs and prosperity”, while also highlighting Britain’s role as “the fourth largest humanitarian donor to Yemen”.

The British government has approved more than £4.6bn in fighter jets and arms sales to Saudi Arabia since their Yemen bombing campaign began. British military officers are also providing targeting training to the Royal Saudi Airforce.

May said she would demand Saudi Arabia immediately end its blockade during her recent visit to the kingdom. It remains in place.

Attacking Yemenis’ ability to provide food for themselves has been described as a “blatant violation of international laws” by aid agencies.

Despite the prospect of imminent mass famine, this strategy is being used to put greater pressure on the Houthis in lieu of failed efforts by the Saudi coalition to bomb the Iranian-aligned rebels into submission over more than two years.

Yemen analysts also point to the policy as a more appealing option for the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who also holds the role of minister of defence, than deploying thousands of loosely aligned, highly factional troops to attempt a precarious forced takeover of the Houthi-controlled capital.

“There are voices in the coalition and Yemeni government who view economic levers as a potential means of putting pressure on the Houthis and of pressuring people living under the Houthis into rebelling or expressing greater discontent against them as conditions worsen,” said Adam Baron, a Yemen expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

“Destruction of access to food and water constitutes a war crime,” Mundy of the LSE noted in a paper published in September by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition.

“But who is to prosecute when the same international organisations and national states, which stood aside for months of bombardment and blockade, now play the role of humanitarian intervention to save Yemenis from famine and cholera?”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...udi-air-campaign-targets-yemens-food-supplies

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More Houthi terrorist cult propaganda. After losing tons of cities recently after their killing of their former ally (Ali Abdullah Saleh) they are going back to desperate propaganda.

Huge and extremely positive developments of late. As predicted although not surprising.




What to expect from a terrorist cult? Unbelievable that certain people on this forum support such trash. No surprises from their likes.


Another significant development;


 
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Iran strongly condemns Saudi killing of Yemeni women

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/18/545993/Saudi-Arabia-Yemen-airstrikes-Iran-wedding

Mon Dec 18, 2017 06:57AM

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Smoke rises from the site of a Saudi airstrike in Sana'a.

Iran has strongly condemned recent attacks by Saudi aircraft on civilian targets in various Yemeni cities as well as the kingdom’s Saturday bombing of a wedding ceremony in northern Ma’rib province.

“The intensified bombardment of residential areas, the continued blockade and closure of maritime, ground, and air entry points, and the denial of access to humanitarian aid and basic needs by Saudi rulers indicate their desperation, defeat and countless failures in achieving their goals through aggression on Yemen,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said late Sunday.

An airstrike by Saudi Arabia struck a wedding procession east of Yemen’s capital Saturday night, killing at least a dozen women.

Witnesses and health officials said the airstrike targeted the women as they marched in the Harib al-Qaramesh region in Ma’rib province, where it’s a tradition for the bride’s female friends and relatives to escort her to the wedding ceremony where the groom awaits.

Separately, at least three civilians lost their lives when Saudi aircraft carried out an assault in Mawza district in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz on Sunday evening.

Qassemi criticized the international community's silence on the “Saudi war crimes which are committed with American weapons”.

He said attacks on residential areas and civilian targets, and Saudi Arabia’s denial of access to international relief agencies is a flagrant violation of indisputable principles of humanitarian law.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi addresses reporters during a weekly news briefing in Tehran on Dec. 11, 2017. (Photo by IRNA)

The spokesman said those providing arms support to the aggressors are complicit in daily atrocities committed by the Saudis in Yemen.

He called on the United Nations and the effective countries in the Yemen crisis to increase their efforts to immediately stop the attacks and take necessary measures to protect the safety and security of civilians, especially women and children.

Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has been pounding Yemen where more than 12,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

The UN has listed Yemen as the world’s No. 1 humanitarian crisis, with 7 million people on the brink of famine, where more than 20,000 people have also died of cholera this year.

Attack in Quetta

Qassemi also condemned a terrorist attack by the Daesh group on a church in the Pakistan city of Quetta on Sunday, denouncing it as a brutal and blind act against innocent people.

“The remnants of the Takfiri-Zionist terrorists of Daesh, who reared a head in the Middle East with the support of certain regional and trans-regional countries but whose defeat has become definitive in Syria and Iraq, have now scattered around the region, killing and spilling the blood of innocent people of every faith and persuasion,” he said.

Two terrorist bombers struck a church in Pakistani on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding more than 50 others, in the first attack on a church claimed by the country's Daesh group affiliate.

The Takfiri group, Qassemi said, is trying to create terror and trepidation through “blind, aimless and scattered terrorist attacks” among nations and undermine their determination and unity.

"Although the largest terrorist group in the world disintegrated with the steely will of the regional governments and nations in spite of the ill-wishers, the group’s remnants seek to keep alive its ideology through such blind and barbarous acts in order to keep the region and the world in turmoil and unrest," he said.
 
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