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Scores of Yemenis Killed in Faction Fighting and Saudi-Led Air Strikes

July 11, 2018 

Houthi Yemeni fighters	Saudi-backed Yemeni forces on their way to Zubaid, in Hudayida Province, July 10, 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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Saudi-backed Yemeni forces advance in armored vehicles towards Zubaid, to take it from the Houthi forces, part of taking back Al-Hudayida Province. Fighting in neighboring Tahita resulting in killing dozens of Houthi fighters.

الحديدة: الجيش يدفع بتعزيزات كبيرة لتنفيذ عملية عسكرية واسعة بمدينة "زبيد"

الأربعاء 11 يوليو 2018 10:49 ص الصحوة نت - متابعات

أطلقت قوات الجيش والمقاومة بإسناد من التحالف العربي عملية عسكرية واسعة لتحرير مديرية زبيد، عقب إحكام سيطرته الكاملة على مديرية التحيتا في محافظة الحديدة. وقال مدير المركز الإعلامي لألوية العمالقة التابعة للجيش أصيل السقلدي إن الجيش الوطني والمقاومة يخوضان معارك عنيفة مع ميليشيا الحوثي الانقلابية على بعد 30 كيلومترا من مركز مديرية زبيد".

وأضاف في تصريح نقلته صحيفة " عكاظ" أن الجيش الوطني دفع بتعزيزات كبيرة في اتجاه المديرية، منها تشكيلات من ألوية جديدة دخلت المعركة خلال الساعات الماضية، وأخرى يجري تجهيزها. وأوضح السقلدي "أن خطة تحرير الحديدة تجري على محورين رئيسين الأول؛ مدينة الحديدة، والثاني استكمال تحرير ما تبقى من مديرياتها وقطع الإمدادات القادمة للمحافظة" لا فتا "أن قوات الجيش تتوزع على 3 مستويات رئيسية؛ عسكرية، وإنسانية، وإغاثية، تتمثل في تقديم الغذاء وإعادة المياه والكهرباء والوصول إلى المستهدفين في القرى والمزارع". وأشار إلى مقتل عشرات الحوثيين بينهم قيادات في معارك مديرية التحيتا؛ أبرزهم مشرف الحوثيين في المديرية وليد السراجي.

http://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/p-19967  

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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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Eight Houthis killed in clashes with resistance in Al Baidhah

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-07-10
 
Eight al-Houthi militiamen were killed and others injured in clashes with the popular resistance in the Al-Zaher and Al-Na'imah directorates of al-Bayda Governorate on Tuesday.
 
"There were violent confrontations between the resistance and the al-Houthi militias on the fronts of al-Ajradi and Habagge," sources told almasdar online.
 
The clashes left three al-Houthi militia dead and others injured, the sources said.
 
In addition, the al-Houthi militias indiscriminately shelled the homes and properties of citizens in the areas of the Mahsan and Kasad Agardi in the district.
At Thi Naem violent confrontations between Houthis militias and the resistance at “Hajlah, Menwab, Al abdois and Tiab” after the attempt of Houthis to take positions at Al Abdois in the area. The clashes left five al-Houthi members dead and three others injured, the sources said, while the rest escaped.

Six civilians killed and another wounded by Coalition airstrike South Hodeidah

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-07-10

Six civilians were killed Tuesday in a car bombing in the Beit al-Faidah district of Hodeidah province, western Yemen, by air strikes by fighters of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition.
 
Eyewitnesses told the Almasdar online that an air raid on a four-wheel-drive 4x4 vehicle in Beit Faqih was returning from Al jarahi market at the south, killing six civilians and injuring another.
 
The victims were returning from the Aljarahi market, he added.
 
He noted that the parents had buried three of the identified dead, who belonged to Beit al-Faqih Directorate, while the seventh survivor had been taken to the Al-Tihama hospital at the directorate.

Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missile: Media report

Almasdaronline- Agencies, 2018-07-10

Saudi air defenses on Tuesday intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group into Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jazan region, according to Saudi television channel Al-Arabiya.

The broadcaster did not provide any additional details, while Houthi spokesmen have yet to respond to the claims.

According to a Saudi-led military coalition (cobbled together in 2015 to fight the Houthis), the rebel group has fired a total of 158 missiles into Saudi territory since the conflict began some three years ago.

Impoverished Yemen has been wracked by conflict since 2014, when the Houthis overran much of the country, including capital Sanaa.

The conflict escalated in 2015 when Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-Arab allies launched a wide-ranging campaign aimed at shoring up Yemen’s pro-Saudi government.

Riyadh accuses the Shia Houthis of serving as proxies for Shia Iran, Saudi Arabia’s arch-foe in the region.

Displaced from Hodeidah spill into Sanaa's streets

Almasdaronline- Agencies 2018-07-10

Outside Abu-Bakr al-Sideeq School in the Yemeni capital Sanaa sleep dozens of people.

They are residents of Hodeidah, displaced by a pro-government forces assault on the Red Sea port city. Now, they wait to be approved for entry to the school, which has recently been transformed into a camp to receive the fleeing Yemenis.

The camp's guards prevent anyone entering without permission from its supervisors, but with the school already full, the supervisors can only note the names of the displaced people and are unable to help them further.

Omar Ahmed Ibrahim, a 44-year-old father of six, left his home near Ghulail Market in Hodeidah on 20 June after the battles reached his neighborhood.

Like many people, he took his clothes and nothing else.

"Three Houthi tanks beside my house were targeting the [pro-Yemeni government] forces, and the air strikes targeted the Houthis near our neighborhood, so the house was shaking," Ibrahim told Middle East Eye.

Ibrahim used to work as a laborer in the fish market, and he did not have money for transportation or opportunity to make a livelihood away from his home, but when the war approached his neighborhood, he only thought how to keep his family safe.

"When I heard the bombing, I did not think about money, and we fled the neighborhood in groups walking on foot, as the roads were already blocked because of the battles," he said.

"When we arrived at the Kilo 16 area, there were some buses that took us to Sanaa for free," he said. "That was the good news, that I got a free bus from Hodeidah to Sanaa."

Bussing in

The assault on Hodeidah is being conducted by a collection of Yemeni factions backed by foreign mercenaries, Emirati ground forces, and UAE and Saudi aircraft and battleships.

Some 30,000 people have been displaced so far, with another 600,000 people still residing in the port city, where Houthi rebels are digging in, preparing for protracted street-to-street battles.

"The conflict continues to displace people within their own districts and to neighboring governorates including Sanaa, Dharma, and Ibb; some using their own vehicles and others public transport," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said last week.

Even fleeing the battle is dangerous for Yemenis.

The Houthis have scattered landmines across Hodeida's outskirts, and pro-Houthi media have reported that a coalition air strike hit a bus carrying displaced people fleeing the city towards Taiz.

Ibrahim said he felt he was in a safe area when he rode the bus, but he was not aware that new suffering would begin on arriving in Sanaa.

"We arrived in Sanaa by sunset. The bus left us in the street, where we slept the first night," he said.

"The next day a philanthropist took us to his house, and we stayed there for four days. After that, he asked us to leave his house and look for shelter in Abu-Bakr al-Sideeq camp."

The camp has been set up by the Houthi rebels controlling the Yemeni capital. The supervisors and guards are all members of the rebel group.

Ibrahim, his wife, and six children sleep behind Abu-Bakr al-Sideeq camp, waiting for supervisors to accept them.

"I have slept in the street for four days together with my family," he said. "I registered my name with the camp supervisors but they told me that the camp is full and they cannot accept new people, so they are preparing a new school to be a camp."

MEE tried to enter the camp but the guards and supervisors prevented entry or photos being taken there. They declined to speak to MEE.

Insufficient camps

Hasan Mohammed, a 41-year-old displaced person, left his house near Hodeidah airport, the scene of fierce early fighting, on 20 June and stayed five days in the port city.

Like Ibrahim, he then took a bus to Sanaa and now sleeps beside the camp with his family.

"The bus brought us to this camp, but the supervisors have not accepted us because the camp is full,” Mohammed told MEE. "But they promised us to open new camps."

The displaced people inside and outside the camp receive daily meals. Lunch consists of rice, yogurt, and bread, while breakfast and dinner consist of bread and beans.

"We can receive food here, but we will not get it somewhere else, so we will wait here until we get shelter," Mohammed said.

Dozens of families outside the camp dream to enter it, but displaced people on the inside are also not satisfied with their situation because of overcrowding.

"We receive daily food in the camp, but the camp is full of people, with more than one family living in the same room," a displaced man who entered the camp six days ago told MEE on condition of anonymity.

The supervisors prevent displaced people in the camp from speaking to the media.

The man spoke to MEE outside the camp as he was going to buy medicine for his daughter, who suffers from headaches, and he said that the supervisors do not allow them to leave the camp at will.

"If we need to leave the camp we have to coordinate with the supervisors, or the guards will not allow us to leave," he said.

"This is the camp's system, and we cannot oppose it. But we hope that officials open new camps to reduce the number of people in this camp."

Regarding the work of international humanitarian organizations in the camp, the man said that some aid workers had come to the camp and taken the displaced people's details. However, he said the displaced have not yet received any aid from them.

Taking responsibility

Some activists have accused the Houthi supervisors of the camp of mistreating the displaced people, saying they have not provided them with proper food and they do not allow them to leave the camp to buy qat, a narcotic stimulant leaf popularly chewed in the country.

"The displaced people in Sanaa prefer to return to Hodeidah than live under the supervisors’ mistreatment, as the missiles have more mercy upon them than life in the camps," Yemeni journalist and the editor-in-chief of al-Hodeidah News website Ghamdan Abu Ali said in a post on Facebook.

"The displaced people eat food that dogs cannot eat, they receive only rice and yogurt as lunch, without meat, chicken or fish, and they eat beans for breakfast. The supervisors prevent the displaced people from leaving the camp to buy qat as if they are in the central prison."

However, activists who help the displaced in Sanaa say that it is international organizations' responsibility to help those who have fled Hodeidah, and not the job of Houthis.

Social activist Mohammed Gaber, who helps displaced people with transportation, told MEE: "The Houthis cannot do anything for the displaced people, while the international organizations are still making arrangements to work with the displaced people, and they may begin soon."

Suze van Meegan, protection and advocacy adviser at the Norwegian Refugee Council, told MEE ahead of the Hodeidah assault that humanitarian organizations were not equipped to deal with the looming crisis.

"The scale of needs could overwhelm humanitarian organizations – we are already struggling to keep pace with needs across the country," she said.

Some 22 million people in Yemen require food aid, with at least eight million on the brink of famine. The UN says Yemen is suffering the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

As displacement continues, humanitarian organizations have scaled up coordinated assistance to affected people in all areas hosting displaced families, including rapid-response packages that contain ready-to-eat food rations and other essential items.

However, in some districts, the fighting is limiting access to displaced people, according to OCHA.

Ibrahim said he was shocked to see how many displaced people were suffering in Sanaa and the lack of organizations preparing camps for all those flooding into the city.

"Shelters and food are the main needs of displaced people, and I hope that organizations can open new camps as soon as possible," he said.

"We cannot bear more suffering in the streets."

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

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Two Yemeni Ballistic Missiles Strike Saudi Targets

Jul 10, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni army soldiers, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a position of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s western coastal province of Hudaydah.

The Yemeni missile force fired a ballistic missile (Badr1) onto the Saudi Economic City in Jizan after it had had struck the supply depots of the US-Saudi-led coalition on western coast with another ballistic missile.

A military source said that the Yemeni army forces also launched the projectile ,today noon, and that the short-range missile struck supply depots of the coalition paid fighters with great precision.The source, however, did not provide further information about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.

Earlier in the day, Saudi military aircraft had bombarded a number of residential areas across Yemen, leaving 15 civilians dead in Hodeidah and Sa’ada provinces.

The leader of the Yemeni Revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi, on Saturday said Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seeking to pave the way for Zionism to completely control the Red Sea.

In a statement, the leader said both Gulf states, which led a US-backed military coalition, are using the United Nations and its UN envoy as an umbrella to seize control the port city of Hodeidah through baseless justifications.

The leader’s statement came a day after the US-backed Saudi-led coalition forces launched a major assault on al-Tuhayta district in the western coast, south of Hodeidah port city.

Even if the UK warned against attacking the vital port of Hodeidah, we bear responsibility for the horrors of this war, according to a report issued by the Guardian on June 17.

A Yemeni source confirmed the continuation of military operations inside Saudi Arabia until the US-Saudi -led coalition against the Yemeni people stops.

The source said that launching ballistic missiles is a message comes as a response to the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen for four years, targeting civilians and the capabilities of the Yemeni, threatening the security, stability and unity of Yemen.

Hodeidah is Yemen’s main city on the Red Sea and, with a population of 600,000, the fourth-largest city in Yemen.The city’s seaport is the gateway for approximately 80 percent of essential food, medical and commercial supplies for Yemen. It has been under the control of the so caled Houthis , part of the Yemeni army forces, since 2014 but the Gulf coalition has imposed a blockade on the city since 2017.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the US-Saudi-led coalition had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured since March 2015.

‘Yemeni forces shoot dead dozens of their enemy in battlefronts

Jul 10, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

A report has unveiled that the Yemeni army forces killed and injured dozens of Saudi soldiers and paid fighters recently e as part of their retaliatory raids against the US-Saudi-led coalition regime’s aerial bombardment campaign.

The Yemeni army forces snipers, today, shot dead  44 paid fighters of the US-Saudi-led coalition , including four Saudi soldiers in several fronts over last 48 hours, a military official.

According to  al-Masirah television network,  the Yemeniarmy  forces fatally shot 30 troopers in the regions of Jizan, Najran and Asir last month.

Another 46 also sustained injuries in retaliatory attacks.

This is while the Saudi Press Agency asserted that only 26 soldiers had been killed in clashes with Yemeni troops and allied fighters.

Yesterday, the coalition destroyed with two airstrikes the communications network of Ketaf district ,causing its destruction .It  also launched an airstrike on a citizen’s home  which led to its destruction in Sa’ada province.

It is noteworthy that the coalition intensified its raids during the past two days.

Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

A UN panel has compiled a detailed report of civilian casualties caused by the Saudi military and its allies during their war against Yemen, saying the Riyadh-led coalition has used precision-guided munitions in its raids on civilian targets.

Sayyad Abdulmalik AL-Houthi claimed on one of his speech that Saudi Arabia is just a tool used by USA and Israel to fight Yemen to conquer it and wrestle control over Red Sea and Bab-AL-Mandab which will enable them to rule the world.

According to several reports, the US-Saudi-led coalition campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

Saudi Aerial Raid Kills and Injures Civilians in Saada

Jul 10, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

Two citizens were killed while a woman and a child sustained injuries on Tuesday by an aerial raid conducted by the Saudi-led coalition in Saada province. 

The US sold missile, waged by Saudi-led warplanes targeted a house of a citizen in al-Qahr area in the district of Baqem, Saada province, killing two people and injuring a woman along with a child, a source reported to YemenExtra.

It is worth mentioning that last Monday, a communications network in al-Wadi region in Kataf district was demolished by two aerial raids. Moreover, a house was destroyed in Bani-Maeen in Razih border district.

Last Sunday, a massacre was committed, whereas a Saudi raid struck a farm owned by a citizen in the area of al-Shaab in Khadir district, which resulted in the death of 6 people and the injury of four others, the majority of them are children.

While last Tuesday, a similar crime was perpetrated by the coalition, which targeted a wedding party in Ghafra area, located in the district of al-Zaher, Saada province, resulting in the killing of 11 people and injury of an additional 11, mostly women and children.

This comes in the context of the crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition against the Yemeni people for more than three years in various Yemeni regions.

Saudi Machine Guns Shoot Down Civilians, Shells Strike Border Districts

Jul 10, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

A citizen lost his life by Saudi guards’ fire in Shada district of Saada province, while residential areas within Razih district were bombarded by rocket and artillery fire.

In Shada border district, a citizen was killed by Saudi machine guns fired by the Saudi border guards, a source said.

Residential areas in the border district of Razih were struck by rocket and artillery shells, which led to material damage inflicted by the property of citizens, the source added.

Two citizens were killed while a woman and a child sustained injuries early Tuesday as a result of an airstrike that hit a citizen’s house in al-Qahr area, Baqim district in Saada province.

A number of civilians killed in Saudi airstrikes on Hodeidah

Jul 10, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

Four civilians were killed and seven others sustained injuries on Tuesday in a preliminary toll of Saudi-led airstrikes, which were waged on Hodeidah province, a security official told YemenExtra. 

The airstrikes struck two cars in Zabid district, the official said.

The fighter jets kept on hovering over the crime scene in an attempt to prevent the rescue teams from reaching the wounded civilians.

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