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As Missile and Air Strikes Continue, Yemeni Children Are Most Victimized, With 31% of Girls Out of School

October 13, 2018 

A Yemeni girl, the most victimized category because of war, file, October 13, 2018	Yemeni school girls, file, October 13, 2018

 

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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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Military commander and general director escape from armed ambush west of Taiz city

October 13, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ١٢ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

A local official and a military commander escaped Thursday evening an assassination attempt by gunmen in the Jabal Habashi district west of Taiz City (southwest Yemen).

A security source told Al-Masdar Online that Brigadier General Amin Ja’eish, commander of the 17th Infantry Brigade, and Fares al-Maliki, director of the Jabal Habashi Directorate, were exposed to an ambush in Khaisa’ah  area, and they were leading a security campaign to remove armed points on the road of fog controlled by militants.

He added that the ambush resulted in the killing of a soldier of the security campaign, the commander of the gunmen implementing the ambush, while the Mulaiki and Ja’eish  survived the incident after the security campaign forces intervened to respond to the attackers.

The incident comes after weeks of calm and a decline in assassinations in Taiz and the southern province countryside.

Griffith meets Houthi delegation, discusses opening of Sanaa airport and economic situation

October 12, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ١٢ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

UN special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths met Thursday in Muscat, capital of Oman, with the Houthis ' delegation to the peace consultations led by the spokesman of the group Mohamed Abdel Salam.

According to Saba's version of the Houthis, "during the meeting, aspects related to the opening of the Sana'a International Airport, as well as the special mechanism for the management of the economic and financial situation in Yemen and the payment of salaries as confidence-building steps, were discussed."

"As was the case during the meeting, the most important issues on which the overall framework for a comprehensive settlement should be built were reviewed for discussion in the next round of consultations scheduled for next month," she said.

Griffiths arrived in Muscat and met Omani officials on Thursday.

This comes a day after he met with Yemeni Vice President Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and head of government in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to discuss the resumption of peace consultations.

Houthis announce ballistic missile launch on Yemeni forces camp in southern kingdom

October 11, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ١١ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

Al-Houthi group on Thursday announced the launch of a ballistic missile at a military site of Yemeni government forces in Asir, southern Saudi Arabia.

The Houthis  -affiliated "al-Masirah" Channel said the rocket force of the Houthis fired a badr-1 ballistic missile at the "hypocrites" in Asir, referring to Yemeni government forces that are south of the Kingdom.

The channel did not provide further details, nor did the Saudi or Yemeni side make any Comment.

Arab coalition announces destruction of Houthi missile launched toward Saudi city

October 11, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ١١ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

The Arab coalition forces have destroyed a rocket launched by the Al-Houthi group in the southern Saudi city of Najran without causing any casualties, the army said.

The coalition air Defense Forces on late Wednesday spotted a ballistic missile fired from Sa'ada Governorate (northern Yemen) by the Houthis in the direction of the Kingdom's southern city of Najran, "said Alliance spokesman Turki Al Maliki.

According to a statement quoted by the Saudi agency in the early hours of Thursday morning, Al-Maliki added: "the Air Defense Forces were able to intercept and destroy the rocket, which was launched to target civilian and populated areas in Najran."

"no injuries were caused by the missile interception," Al-Maliki added.

The total number of ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis toward Saudi Arabia so far has been 204 since the start of the Yemeni war in 2015, "causing the martyrdom of 112 civilians and residents, and injuring hundreds," Al-Maliki Said.

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

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The Saudi-led coalition sustains big losses on the West Coast Front

Oct 12, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni army forces killed and injured a number of the paid fighters of the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, while encountering a military ground creep on the West Coast.

Their Anti Armor Unit , also, was able to destroy an armored by a guided missile eastern Ad-Durayhimi, killing who were on board.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

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

More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

A ballistic missile lands amid the Saudi-led coalition in Nehm

Oct 12, 2018, YemenExtra

Y.A

The missile forces of the Yemeni army forces on Friday fired a short-range ballistic missile on gatherings of the Saudi-led coalition ,backed by the US, in Nehm district of Sana’a province, a military official told YemeneExtra.

The missile targeted the artillery’s sites of the paid fighters at the down part of Fardat Nihem, the official said.

The official confirmed that the missile hit its target accurately, leaving deaths and injuries amid their ranks in addition to causing big destruction to the military equipment.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

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

More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

Ministry of Water Condemns Continuation of Targeting Water Facilities in Kamaran

Oct 13, 2018, YemenExtra, SH.A.

The Ministry of Water and Environment condemned the targeting of the US-Saudi-led coalition to a  water tank in Kamran island of Hodeidah province.

In a statement, The ministry said that the continuation of the coalition targeting on  water facilities and the destruction of water resources aims to displace the population of the island and deprive them of clean drinking water.

The statement pointed out that the coalition had already targeted the desalination plant at the beginning of the aggression in 2015 and then re-targeted wells surface water at the end of August 2018, which led to the destruction of 10 wells altogether and four wells partially destroyed, as well as the destruction of the rainwater harvesting tank to feed these wells.

The Ministry of Water and Environment called on international organizations, especially the United Nations, to play their humanitarian role and prevent coalition from targeting water installations, which have increased recently.

UN Called on Saudi Arabia to Immediately Halt Deadly Strikes against Yemenis

Oct 13, 2018, YemenExtra, SH.A.

A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia to immediately halt its deadly air strikes against civilian targets in Yemen and to prosecute officials responsible for child casualties due to unlawful attacks.

The censure by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child coincided with international concern at the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Riyadh’s military role in Yemen, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2.

Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia, including from allies, to do more to limit civilian casualties in a 3-1/2 year civil war that has killed more than 10,000 people and pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.

Britain and the United States are among countries supplying the coalition with weapons and military intelligence.

Saudi Arabia told the child rights panel last week that it was working hard to correct mistaken targeting by its military alliance, but the experts voiced scepticism.

The panel of 18 independent experts, in its conclusions issued on Thursday, took note of the Saudi statement but said that Yemeni children continue to be killed, maimed and orphaned.

“We asked them to put a halt immediately to these air strikes,” Clarence Nelson, panel vice-chair, told reporters.

At least 1,248 children had been killed and nearly the same number wounded in air strikes since March 2015, including dozens killed in a strike on a school bus in Saada province in August, U.N. figures show.

“Nearly 20 percent of the deaths of civilians are children. So that’s one in five civilians killed is a child under 18. That’s a lot of children,” Nelson said.

OCHA: About 31% of Yemeni Girls are Out of School

Oct 13, 2018, YemenExtra, SH.A.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that 31% of Yemeni girls are out of school, according to a tweet of OCHA in Yemen on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl, which falls on October 11 each year.

The Office explained that because of the war on Yemen, Yemen’s girls become more at risk of losing primary and secondary education.

The Office pointed out that every girl has the right to have the skill available to reach success.

Yemen has a humanitarian catastrophe described as the worst in the world, where 22 million Yemenis need food and drinking water, and 8.4 million people do not know where to get their next meal.

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