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Scores of Yemenis Killed in Clashes and Saudi-Led Air Strikes, More Killed by Diseases and Malnutrition

April 6, 2018 

A Yemeni father carrying his dead child after a Saudi-led air strike, file, April 6, 2018

 

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The following news stories are from the Yemeni pro-Saudi website Al-Sahwa ( http://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/  ):

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18 Houthi fighters killed east of Sanaa, 17 killed in other provinces

قوات الجيش تحرز تقدما جديدا شرق صنعاء ومقتل 18 حوثيا وتدمير آليات عسكرية

تمكنت قوات الجيش الوطني والمقاومة من تحرير جبال الصخر والجبل الاحمر في مديرية نهم شرق العاصمة صنعاء، من سيطرة ميليشيا الحوثي الإنقلابية، بعد المعارك التي دارت اليوم، وتكبدت فيها الميليشيات خسائر فادحة . وأوضح الناطق الرسمي للمنطقة العسكرية السابعة، العقيد، عبدالله الشندقي، أن قوات 

إب: الحوثيون يشيعون 17 من مسلحيهم لقوا مصرعهم بعدد من الجبهات

الخميس 05 أبريل 2018 07:48 م الصحوة نت - خاص

في ظل خسائر كبيرة ومتتالية تتلقاها مليشيا الحوثي الإنقلابية في الأرواح والعتاد بعدد من الجبهات القتالية ضد القوات الحكومية ، شيع الإنقلابيون 17 قتيلا في محافظة إب وسط اليمن بينهم 14 شخص من مديرية واحدة.
وبحسب مصادر محلية فقد شيعت مليشيا الحوثي 14 قتيلاً من مسلحيها في مديرية حزم العدين غرب إب.
وقالت المصادر بأن 14 مسلحاً حوثياً تم دفنهم يوم أمس ، في مديرية الحزم أغلبهم من منطقة الشعاور، من بينهم قيادات قتلوا بجبهتي حيس وتعز خلال الأيام الماضية.
وفي مدينة إب شيعت مليشيا الحوثي القيادي الحوثي عبدالفتاح هاشم السادة المُكنى ـ أبو هاشم والذي لقي مصرعه ليلة أمس الأول ، في معارك على مشارف مدينة حيس جنوبي الحديدة.
وفي مديرية القفر شيعت اثنين من قتلاها لقوا مصرعهم بجبهة كرش بمحافظة لحج جنوب اليمن.

http://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/p-17152 

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The following news stories are from the Yemeni independent website Al-Masdar ( http://www.almasdaronline.com/category/42  ):

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Coalition aircrafts attack Houthi sites in al Hodeida province

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-04-04T15:33:06

The Saudi-led Arab Coalition aircrafts launched a number of air raids on military positions of the Houthi militants in the western city of al Hodeida province on Wednesday, witnesses said.
 
Almasdaronline reporter quoted witnesses saying that the air raids targeted the city airport and air defense camp, in the southern neighborhood of the city.
 
He added that the air strikes targeted a warehouse located between the coastal defense camp and the town of Albidhani residential in Kilo 7 region.

Saudi oil tanker hit in Houthi attack off Yemen

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-04-04T01:11:16

The Houthi group hit a Saudi oil tanker off the main port city of Hodeida on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said.
 
In a statement carried by Saudi media, the coalition said the oil tanker was in international waters when it came under “Houthi-Iranian attack” at around 1330 local time (1030 GMT).
 
A coalition warship conducted a “swift intervention” foiling the attack, it said, without identifying the type of weapon used in the assault.
“As a result of that attack, the tanker was subjected to a slight but ineffective hit and it resumed its naval course northwards, escorted by a coalition warship,” the statement said.
 
A coalition spokesman said the alliance takes the report very seriously, promising a full investigation.
 
Last week, Saudi air defences intercepted a flurry of missiles, and falling debris caused the first death in the capital Riyadh.

Houthis launch missile toward Saudia: Arab Coalition

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-04-02T22:35:15

The Houthi militia launched a ballistic missile late on Monday towards Dhahran Al-Janoub region in Saudi Arabia, close to the southern border with Yemen.
 
The Arab Coalition spokesperson Colonel Turki Al-Maliki said in a statement: "An Iranian missile supplied to Houthi militia in Yemen was launched from Sa'dah towards Dhahran Al-Janoub region."
 
The missile, according to Al-Maliki, fell on wasteland in Yemen two kilometres from the Saudi border.
 
The Houthis announced through their Al-Masirah channel that a rocket had been fired at the Saudi Djerba camp in the southwestern of the Kingdom with a missile type "Badr."

Arab Coalition air strike kills 12 civilians, including women and children

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-04-02T22:25:27

An air strike by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition aircrafts killed 12 civilians on Monday in the coastal city of Hodeida in Yemen, medics and an eyewitnesses said.
 
Medics said the air strike had destroyed a house in the al-Hali district, where displaced civilians from other provinces were settled.
 
The 12 victims were all from the same family including seven children and three woman, they said.
 
 
The source added that the coalition fighters launched three raids targeting a group of displaced people in Al-Saleh city, located in the outskirts of al Hodeida city, and they were displaced from Al-Khokha and Hays cities southern the province.

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The following news stories are from the pro-Houthi website Yemen Extra (http://www.yemenextra.net/):

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Saudi-led coalition jets target the Yemeni capital

Apr 5, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Saudi-led coalition jets  ,Thursday , launched eight airstrikes on the capital Sana’a.

The airstrikes hit  the Sana’a International Airpot, according to an official.

Dead ,wounded by the Saudi-led coalition’s fatal airstrike in Hodeidah province

Apr 5, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

Two citizens were killed, and three others were injured in a raid by the Saudi-led coalition jets on a farm belonging to a citizen of the Al-Hecta district in Hodeidah province.

A local source in the district ,the raid of coalition left a large destruction on the farm .

Yemen the slow death of society could be reversed : ICRC

Apr 4, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

According to (ICRC) report–

This is what the slow death of society looks like: A list of things that have collapsed in Yemen: The food chain. The health care system. The education system. The sewer and water system. A list of things expanding in Yemen: Disease. Malnutrition. The deaths of civilians.

Government leaders gather in Geneva ,April 3, for a pledging conference for Yemen. Three years after the start of the war, life for residents is indescribably miserable, it added.

“The desperate needs of families would shrink – and so would disease, malnutrition and civilian deaths – if the mere basics of international humanitarian law were observed,” said Robert Mardini, ICRC’s regional director for the Near and Middle East. “Yemeni society is succumbing to a slow death through mass hunger and little medicine. It is impossible to express the gravity of the situation.”

The ICRC has been, inaddition, repeating the same message for three years: Do not target civilians. Do not target hospitals. Do not target ambulances. Do not target humanitarian workers. Allow an increased flow of commercial imports and humanitarian goods into and across the country. Those same messages need to be repeated today and, ultimately, they need to be adhered to. There is a significant gap between the words we hear in response to these requests and the reality we see on the ground.

Siege and War Increase Suffering of Kidney Failure Patients in Yemen

Apr 5, 2018, YemenExtra 

By: Shefa’a Abdullah

In Yemen, each day, hour and minute has not passed but carried new pains and suffering for patients with renal failure; as a result of the siege imposed by the brutal coalition on Yemen over three years, death is pursuing lives of patients continuously and every day more patients lose their life.

The dialysis machines are being worn out daily, large numbers of them are no longer usable, while technicians have not been able to repair it, because of the lack of spare parts. Dr.Rajeh Al-Hosn, who works in the renal dialysis unit at Al-Thawra Hospital in Sana’a ,capital of Yemen, confirmed that they could not even import damaged parts ; because of the blockade imposed on Yemen. 

Patients with renal failure, in Yemen live in the most difficult cases, a large number of them are barely able to breathe, from excess hypersensitivity in the blood, others are transferred to intensive care, which is full of patients coming from all sections, where the patient dies, if bed is not available

While we were in the dialysis unit, a patient was transferred to the intensive care unit after he went into a coma and his condition became very difficult, clinically dead and may die after moments.

The patient was getting 12 hours per week in dialysis, but under the war, the patient is getting only 6 hours, because of the lack of medical solutions due to the siege, in addition to the large congestion of patients, with the influx of large numbers of patients who come from other provinces.

In the renal dialysis unit there are many children who have suffered ,according to the doctors “a large number of children have suffered kidney failure as a result of their fear of hearing the severe explosions caused by the raids on various Yemeni provinces.”

The Yemeni elder brother ,AbdulRahman, confirmed that his sister has got sick after a bombardment hit Nadra district of Ibb province, doctors also confirmed that a number of children in Yemen are suffering kidney failure because of the fear they feel from the raids of the US-Saudi coalition

We talked to a number of patients and their families, where is a real suffering, everyone has suffered kidney failure for many years but the situation was more compassionate than the current time in light of the brutal war on Yemen, medicines were available to some extent before the siege, while patients now hope to provide only little medicine and medical solutions to survive the rest of their lives.

Head of the Department of Nephrology in Al-Thawra Hospital , Dr. Mujahid al-Batahi, said that several reasons made difficulties increased after the decision of the coalition countries to close all air passages, sea and land :

First, preventing the entry of dialysis material, where most centers do not have sufficient stock; as an expensive, the washing session is between $ 80 and $ 100 per session, and for these reasons the cases are coming to us as a reference center, while we only have for 50 days, because we work 210 sessions a day.

Second, Patients coming from other centers, as well as patients who are unable to travel for treatment or agriculture, cannot travel which increase the burden on us, as well as closing the corridors is a humanitarian disaster.

Dr. al-Batahi explained that the number of dialysis centers in Yemen is more than 32 centers, and 7800 Yemeni are patients, if the kidney washing stops, everyone is threatened with death, in addition to cases of acute kidney failure, which is estimated to be 30-50 cases.

Dr. al-Batahi pointed out that cholera epidemic has contributed significantly to the increase of kidney failure, especially for patients with diabetes, hypertension, the elderly and some kidney-related immunological patients, as well as patients with renal insufficiency in the first and second stages under conservative treatment, the fourth and fifth patients were treated with laundry, a large proportion of 4,000 to 5,000 patients.

The US-Saudi coalition’s war against Yemen left big suffering on patients with renal failure in particular, and all patients in general, the Yemeni people in general live amid the disregard of the international silence suspicious.

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