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100,000 Yemeni Children Die Annually, Directly by Attacks and Indirectly by Lack of Food and Medicine

March 24, 2019 

Father and Yemeni children, the apparent victims of war, file, March 24, 2019	Surviving an dead Yemeni children, the apparent victims of war, file, March 24, 2019

Yemeni children, the apparent victims of war, March 22, 2019	Yemen's Four Years of Criminality and Brutality, file, March 24, 2019

 

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

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Yemeni Minister Of Health: More Than 100,000 Children Die Per Year Due To Saudi War

On Mar 24, 2019, YemenExtra, M.A.

Yemeni Minister of Public Health and Population Dr. Taha al-Mutawakkil said on Tuesday that more than 100,000 Yemeni children die in one year because of the Saudi-led war and the siege imposed on the Yemeni people.

The Health Minister remarks came in a press conference held in the capital Sanaa, confirming that 50% of the health sector was destroyed and that 97% of the equipment of Yemeni hospitals exceeded the lifespan due to aggression and siege.

“We’re lacking radiotherapy device to treat 40 thousand patients with cancer,” Dr. Mutawakkil said. Pointing out that the US-backed coalition prevents the entry of certain health equipment, causing the loss of Yemenis lives.

The Minister of Health pointed out that the public sector and health sector employees present the Yemeni steadfastness despite the interruption of salaries and operating expenses.

Dr. Mutawakkil called on international organizations not to tamper with aid and to abide by the health plan prepared according to needs. He pointed out that the MRI at the Al-Thawra Hospital in Sana’a is out of order, despite the urgent need for it in time of war, by the intransigence of aggression and the complicity of the United Nations.

The minister noted that the humanitarian role of the United Nations in Yemen is not in the level of UN responsibility, pointing out that the international aid and international organizations in the health sector face a real test in 2019 and everything will be revealed to the public opinion.

Saudi Crimes in Yemen on a Daily Crimes

On Mar 24, 2019, YemenExtra, M.A.

The US-backed Saudi aggression and their mercenaries continued on Friday to launch raids and bombardments on a number of provinces, leaving killed and wounded civilians in addition to causing material damage to public and private property. Also, committed violations by the Saudi aggression continued in Hodeidah, where both rivals agreed three months ago to hold truce in this coastal city.

In Amran, a child was killed and three others were injured when a remnant of a cluster bomb previously dropped by the Saudi-led aggression exploded in the district of Qafla Atar.

In the northern province of Saada, the Saudi fighter jets carried out 10 raids on different areas in the al-Zaher district and launched two raids on the border district of Shada, and launched five raids on different areas of the Baqem district.

Moreover, Saudi jets conducted 9 raids on different areas in the province of Kataf and launched a series of raids on the district of al-Zaher, one of them on a distribution center affiliated with the World Food Programme (WHO) in the region of Ghafra.

It is worth mentioning that Saada was also exposed to ground shelling as well on that day, where the bordering district of Munebah, Baqem, Razih and Haidan were hit by rocket fire and artillery shelling, which caused severe damage to civilian’s homes and property.

In the coastal Yemeni province of Hodeidah, the forces of Saudi aggression shelled the citizens’ farms east of the al-Durayhmi city and with automatic weapons in the south and east of the al-Durayhmi city. 35 artillery shells were recorded targeting different parts in the Tuhita district.

The aggression forces targeted various areas in the July 7 residential area, Hodeidah airport, he 50th Street with heavy and medium machine guns.

The mercenaries affiliated with the Saudi-UAE aggression launched more than 70 shells on different areas east and south of the district of the Tuhita, while the various machine guns were used to bomb different areas in the city.

A military bulldozer belonging to the Saudi-UAE mercenaries has developed combat fortifications in the Kilo 16 area.

The aggression warplanes and espionage drones continued to hover over the city of Hodeidah and its districts.

In the Hajjah governorate, the Saudi-American f-16 warplanes carried out 4 raids on the districts of Harad and Medi.

Yemen: Four Years of Criminality and Brutality-Report

 Mar 24, 2019, YemenExtra, M.A.

Since March 26, 2015, and until today, many harsh events have occurred. These events are able to reveal all the masks from the faces of many countries, international organizations and institutions to show that Yemen by all it means is facing a universal aggression that is being participated by all countries and entities of the world, on top of it are the United States, the Zionists, the British and the French, and their Saudi and UAE tools, including gangs, companies and criminal organizations such as Al Qaeda, Hadash, the Janjaweed, Blackwater and others.

The thirst of the forces of aggression to shed the blood of the Yemeni people:

Scenes that are more difficult to bear than a human mind, scattered body parts, charred bodies, and bodies under the rubble, those scenes that are shameful, which everyone in Yemen has gotten used to looking at either in the crime scene or behind the television screens.

The aggression against Yemen reached a really high record of criminality, brutality, and hatred, which is clearly a war of the rich against the poor Muslims. The brutal massacres committed by the forces of aggression go beyond what you think. Yemen’s war is not just like any other regular war like the wars that have taken place throughout history. It has become a war of total annihilation for the people of Yemen, who refuse submission and humiliation.

Four years have passed since America and Israel, and its tools, the regime of the UAE and the Saudi kingdom continue to commit genocide against the Yemeni people until there is no single person in Yemen.

After these huge numbers of crimes and massacres committed by them, America’s tools are still desperate to shed more blood of Yemenis who are against injustice and tyranny and doesn’t kneel for their desires, because the survival of one Yemeni is a danger to them and their projects on the region.

In an embodiment of the thirst for the bloodshed of the Yemeni people, the process of that takes place while searching for a target that Saudi-UAE jet could strike is the ones that hold many civilians, so they can reach the highest casualties as possible. The US-UK backed Saudi-led aggression warplanes have targeted residential neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, places of worship, Condolences halls, roads; thus, showing blatant violations of international humanitarian law.

The Saudi military aircraft directly targeted population centers, commercial markets, service facilities, And destroyed most of the components of life from schools, factories, hospitals, mosques, museums, gardens, bridges, roads, ports, food stores, and government facilities. , Non-governmental organizations, religious sites and imposing a land, sea and air blockade that deprives the entry of food, medicine and all essential services.

The world’s silence and immoral

Four years of aggression against Yemen can reveal to the world the horror of the shameful silence and the immorality. Never before has international humanitarian law been violated as it has been during this period. While the forces of aggression are committing crimes and massacres against civilians of Yemen, they have thrown all international and humanitarian law to the wall, and not surprisingly, especially as they receive American and European support and armament and even participate in the commission of crimes.

Yemen is the invader’s Graveyard:

The coalition of aggression believed that the Yemeni people would surrender in the first or second week, or perhaps in the first or second month of this aggression, but the Yemeni people recorded a legendary steadfastness that was manifested day by day, perhaps the greatest in its history, which stunned the world by standing up to it. An aggressive coalition that consists of 22 countries and Yemeni people have proved that throughout this period that has passed its steadfastness and strength.

Four years of a US, European and Gulf aggression on Yemen is a miracle for Yemen to keep its strength and steadfastness for this such long time in front of a huge amount of countries that are ranked from the best military. Yemen has not been defeated through history, but their blessed land was a graveyard for every occupier or invader.

In Yemen’s history, no invader had successfully taken Yemen under their control, because it is still in the hands of the great people of Yemen. The people of Yemen continue to send their loved ones to the front lines, those who heal the devastated hearts from the Saudi aggression and inflict the human and material losses on the invaders and their mercenaries who flee before them because they are fighting for the money and not for the land and dignity.

Saudi-led coalition once again hit by Yemeni attacks over its banned weaponry!

On Mar 20, 2019, YemenExtra, Y.A

Yemen army forces respond heavily to the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, in retaliation for the war, with internationally banned weaponry being waged against the country by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies, including the U.K.

The Rocketry Force of the Yemeni army forces ,launched, Wednesday midnight, two ballistic missiles, Badr P_1, on two targets in Jizan Front.

A source in the Rocketry Force told YemenExtra that the first missile targeted a training camp of the paid fighters in Al-Nar mountain across from Jizan.The source confirmed that Badr P_1 hit its target accurately, killing and injuring dozens of the paid fighters. Ambulances were seen hurrying to the training camp.

The second missile targeted a gathering of the paid fighters, the fifth battalion of the forces of the coalition, at Al-Khubba in Jizan Front, according to the source in the Rocketry Force.

The source confirmed that the second missile hit its target accurately as well, resulting in the death and injury of more than 70 paid fighters, including 3 officers and leaders at Al-Khubba in Jizan.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemeni army forces, said on Sunday that at least 11 Saudi soldiers and 26 Sudanese troops had been killed in Saudi Arabia’s provinces of Jizan and Najran over the past hours, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah reported.

Brigadier Yahya Sare’e, denied, on Tuesday, the authenticity of the coalition published reports, in which they accused the Yemeni army forces of targeting the headquarters of the representatives of the coalition and its paid fighters in the Joint Commission for Ceasefire in Hodeidah. Sare’e told Saba news agency “the allegation of aggression, its mercenaries and their media that our forces targeted the headquarters of the representatives of the aggression in the Joint Commission is incorrect and comes within the framework of coverage of their continuous violations and their great reinforcements and impede the implementation of the agreement. ”

Minister of Public Health and Population Dr. Taha al-Mutawakkil , on the other hand, said on Tuesday that more than 100,000 Yemeni children die in one year because of the coalition and the siege imposed on the Yemeni people, confirming  that 50% of the health sector was destroyed and that 97% of the equipment of Yemeni hospitals exceeded the lifespan due to aggression and siege.

“We’re lacking radiotherapy device to treat 40 thousand patients with cancer,” Dr. Mutawakkil said. Pointing out that the aggression prevents the entry of certain health equipment, causing the loss of Yemenis lives.

Yemen’s army says the country’s air defense has managed to shoot down 19 Saudi Apache helicopters since the outbreak of the war in 2015.

The Yemeni military, he stressed, has managed to destroy over 7,000 armored vehicles, trucks, tanks and bulldozers belonging to the coalition.

The spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Sare’e, said on Monday that the coalition and its paid fighters continued their intensive violations in Hodeidah, committing 1019 violations during the past 4 days. In a statement to Saba news agency, he said that the paid fighters targeted with 432 artillery shells, 29 missiles, 344 bombs and 128 movement operations, farms and Yemeni Army’ sites in several districts. He explained that the fighter jets and reconnaissance continued to fly intensely over Hodiedah city and districts.

The coalition warplanes fired at least 5914 cluster and phosphorus bombs at several Yemeni provinces, he added.

Since mid-December 2018, persisting violence and war have killed one person every eight hours, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday, says a report co-sponsored by aid group Oxfam.

Armed Forces Minister Mark Lancaster told the parliament on Monday that Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was providing “engineering support”  and “generic training” to Saudi Arabian military in its war on its southern neighbor.

“We have aerial photographs and coordinates of dozens of headquarters, facilities, and military bases of the enemy,” Sare’e said. “The legitimate targets of our forces extend to the capital of Saudi Arabia and to the emirate of Abu Dhabi.”

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.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.

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