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International News Roundup 26 Feb 2024
https://carinamalatesta.substack.com/p/international-news-roundup-26-feb
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No, israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory
By : Noura Erakat
A state cannot simultaneously exercise control over territory it occupies and militarily attack that territory on the claim that it is “foreign” and poses an exogenous national security threat. In doing precisely that, Israel is asserting rights that may be consistent with colonial domination but simply do not exist under international law.
Admittedly, the enforceability of international law largely depends on voluntary state consent and compliance. Absent the political will to make state behavior comport with the law, violations are the norm rather than the exception. Nevertheless, examining what international law says with regard to an occupant’s right to use force is worthwhile in light of Israel`s deliberate attempts since 1967 to reinterpret and transform the laws applicable to occupied territory. These efforts have expanded significantly since the eruption of the Palestinian uprising in 2000, and if successful, Israel’s reinterpretation would cast the law as an instrument that protects colonial authority at the expense of the rights of civilian non-combatants.
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https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/27551
US proposes to UN ‘Israel’s’ right to ‘self-defense’
On Monday, Jordan’s UN Ambassador Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud told the UNSC, citing a 2004 opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on an Israeli-built separation barrier around the West Bank, that “the Gaza Strip is an occupied territory,” adding: “We recall the advisory opinion of the ICJ … according to which Israel does not have the right to defend itself within occupied Palestinian territory”.
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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-proposes-to-un-israels-right-to-self-defense
Right of peoples to self-determination/Struggle by all available means – GA resolution
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184801/
Nutteryahoo is such a Scumbag he tries to use the Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey to cause dissent amongst Syrians against Assad
Russia denies asking ‘Israel’ to help Syria – reports
Russia did not ask “Israel” to send aid to Syria, a source in the Kremlin told Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
Israeli KAN political affairs correspondent Amichai Stein said a source in the Kremlin denied that Moscow had asked “Tel Aviv” to send aid to Syria. “We do not need to ask Israel to help Syria because we will be doing that ourselves.”
The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth website claimed that the Israeli occupation received an aid request from Russia to help Syria based on Damacus’ request following the devastating earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey. Syria completely denied this claim.
A Syrian official source completely denied the claims of Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of having received a request for aid from a Syrian official.
If Netanyahu ever received such a request, it is definitely from his allies and friends in ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra, among other terrorist organizations, the Syrian source said.
“The occupation is the reason behind the woes, wars, and tensions in the region, and it is the last party that gets to talk about humanitarian aid and help,” the source added.
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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-denies-asking-israel-to-help-syria—reports
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15 Killed, Dozens Injured in Iran’s Shiraz Terrorist Attack
Islam Times – More than a dozen people have been killed and several others injured after a heavily-armed terrorist attacked a holy shrine in Iranian province of Shiraz.Esmail Mohebbi-Pour, the deputy director of political, security, and social affairs at Fars provincial governor’s office put the death toll at 15, Iran’s Press TV reported.
While details are still awaited, according to state media at least 40 others were injured in the attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz, the sprawling funerary monument and pilgrimage site dating back to the 12th century that belongs to Ahmad bin Musa Kazim.
Providing details about the attack, which took place at around 5:45 p.m. local time (1415 GMT), the police commander of Fars province said the lone attacker opened indiscriminate fire at pilgrims inside the shrine and was himself wounded and arrested by security officials.
Nour News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s top security body, said the militant who carried out the attack was a foreign national.
Earlier, there were reports that three terrorists had attacked visitors at the popular shrine that is thronged by both local and foreign pilgrims.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA said two children and a woman were among those killed in the terrorist attack. Their identity has not been disclosed yet.
Meanwhile, one of the eyewitnesses of the attack told reporters that loud screams were heard in the women’s section of the shrine at the time of adhan (the call for prayer) and suddenly an armed man was spotted with a Kalashnikov firing indiscriminately in the compound of the shrine.
After the initial burst of fire, the attacker went near the shrine and fired many rounds at those present at the scene, the eyewitness said.
The governor of Fars province was quoted as saying that the terrorist first targeted the servant and guard of the shrine, and intended to attack the congregational evening prayers, but one of the servants shut the door on him.
He further said the shrine is presently being cleaned by the staff and will be open for morning congregational prayers.
Shiraz witnessed a massive explosion in 2008, when at least 14 people were killed and more than 200 others were injured during a religious gathering.
Iran’s President Vows “Crushing”Response to Terrorist Attack Claimed by ISIS (USA)
Islam Times – Iran’s President Sayed Ibrahim Raisi has vowed the Islamic Republic will give a “crushing” reaction to a Wednesday evening terrorist attack targeting civilians in a holy shrine in Shiraz, reportedly claimed by ISIS terrorist group.“This vicious act will definitely not go unanswered. The country’s security and law enforcement forces, having identified the root causes of this heinous crime, will deliver a decisive response to its architects and operatives, which will make them regret their act,” the Iranian president said Wednesday evening.
“Experience shows that Iran’s enemies take revenge for their desperation and failed attempts to cause divisions within the united ranks of the Iranian society and impede the country’s progress by means of violence and terror,” President Raeisi said in his remarks.
The attack took place around 5:45 pm local time and ( 2:15 pm GMT).
Nour News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s top security body, said the militant who carried out the attack was a foreign national.
For his part, the Iranian Vice President Mohammad Mokhber offered his condolences to thef families of the victims, saying that the “enemies once again showed their ferocity and evil nature, and the real face of the enemies of the Iranian nation was introduced to the world.”
He promised that the government will give destructive response to those behind the attack.
“The supporters of this dirty operation and the takfiri groups behind this horrible crime should know that they will definitely receive a strong and crushing response,” he asserted.
Azov Nazis Celebrated at US Academic Centers
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Embassy of Russia in the USA:
Answer of Russia’s Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov to a media question
❓Dear Ambassador, how could you comment on the representatives of the Azov battalion arriving in the United States and engaging in “educational activities” in American academic centers?
💬 Anatoly Antonov: We have noted media reports about the meetings of fighters of the Azov battalion (recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization) with students of top U.S. universities. Representatives of the neo-Nazi paramilitary organization spoke in front of an audience in Stanford University.
There is no doubt regarding the kind of ideas the Ukrainian terrorists – with blood on their hands from the killings of civilians – are spreading among the youth. Let us recall the martyrs of Odessa burned alive in the House of Trade Unions in May 2014, the elderly, women and children of Donbass killed in atrocious and barbaric shelling by neo-Nazis.
The mentioned organization professes a misanthropic and fascist ideology, which the West is well aware of. The official symbol of Azov is a sign of one of the SS divisions of Nazi Germany.
We would like to remind that American lawmakers appealed to the US Secretary of State in 2019 to include the Azov in the list of foreign terrorist organizations. It was said that congressmen were shocked by the report of Soufan Center that Azov had turned into an international agency for recruiting and training ultra-right radicals around the world.
It seems that in a maniacal desire to “denigrate and abolish” Russia, the United States is ready even to glorify Nazism, against which the peoples of our countries heroically fought during World War II.
In the U.S., the glorious past – the Soviet-American brotherhood during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 when our grandfathers died at the hands of fascists, blood was shed for a future without Nazism – is being increasing forgotten. Is it really for the sake of defeating Russia on the battlefield that Americans will stand in line with the fascist thugs from the Azov battalion and defend the Nazi ideology?
Just FYI Tulsi was in Congress in 2014 and she did not vote against funding Ukraine … things to think about now as she tries a different ploy to get elected while still serving in the US military reserves. In 2014 there were only 11 Republicans who voted against funding Ukraine.
UN-Sponsored Truce in Yemen Does Not Fulfill Simple Demands, Elevates Suffering … No Shit
Yemen: The US-Saudi aggression did not deal with the UN-sponsored truce seriously and adhere to all its provisions, but rather dealt with it as an opportunity to catch a breath and to arrange their mercenaries on the frontlines, waiting for upcoming confrontations.
Who did not see this coming … everyone knows this is what US and it’s tools do every time. They don’t want peace. They want Yemen’s resources and the people of Yemen be damned, who cares. This was a shock to me when Yemen accepted this bs truce. This is also one of the reasons I stopped posting about the events in Yemen. I never in a million years thought that Yemenis would fall for this crap.
You can read the rest of the article at the link below
The World Celebrates Children’s Day While 43% of Yemeni Newborns Die Due to US-Saudi Aggression, Siege
Yemen: Prime Minister Dr. Abdulaziz bin Habtoor affirmed Saturday that Yemen is subjected to brutal US-Saudi aggression and siege, which negatively affected children in particular, stressing that the Yemeni children were the first victim from the first minute of this aggression.
During an official event held by the Supreme Council in Sana’a, to mark the World Children’s Day, Bin Habtoor said: We remind the world of their responsibilities before these children who hundreds of them die daily in a systematic targeting of childhood through direct US-Saudi airstrikes and siege.
For his part, Acting Minister of Human Rights Ali al-Dailami said: for nearly eight years of the aggression and siege, those humanitarian organizations, led by the United Nations, have not fulfilled their duty to protect Yemenis, especially children.
Al-Dailami added: The situation of Yemeni children is very difficult, and there are millions of children who suffer the siege and the aggression which affected their bodies and psyches.
In turn, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Naguib Al-Qubati, said that more than 300 children under the age of five years die daily as a result of the aggression and the siege and their catastrophic consequences.
“43% of premature babies and newborns die due to the scarcity of capabilities and the lack of nurseries and other medical devices,” he added.
Number of Yemeni Children Suffer Cancer Increased Since US-Saudi Aggression
Yemen: Who distorted the beautiful face? Four children from the Al-Humaimi family, were infected with cancerous tumors after a US-Saudi raid targeting a site near their home in Sa’adah province. For the past seven years, the children have faced a grim fate amid the imposed a siege that prevents them from traveling for medical treatment abroad.
Their faces are the mirror of the truth, reflecting the violations of the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen. Nasser, Muhammad, Abeer, and Amna, the four Yemeni children were distorted by the war, and its poisonous gases left them with an insidious disease.It was supposed to be a normal school day, the children prepared to go to school, they loaded their bags and put books, pens, dreams and wishes in them. However, a US-Saudi raid targeted a location near their home in Kitaf city in Sa’adah province, completely changed their schedule,and plunged them into an inescapable dark tunnel.
Since 2015, the four children have been living in isolation from the world. The poison and smoke of the raid caused them skin cancerous tumors. Look closely at the picture above, it is Nasser Al-Humaimi, one of these children, and the most affected by the injury, his face’s skin has begun to melt gradually, and the tumor is forming in more than one place on his face.
Nasser told Al-Mayadeen net: “I went to school for only 5 days, and after that I had a break. I wish I could go back to school.”
Mohammad, also had skin cancer as a result of the poisons of the raid, sores and scars spread on his face, part of his nose melted, we tried to ask him what happened, and who distorted his face? But he was unable to talk, his tears did not stop, making one ask oneself: “How false, deceitful, and unjust this world is.
The health status of Abeer and Amna may seem better than their brothers Nasser and Mohammad, but no one can guarantee that they will not meet a similar fate if no organization intervenes to provide treatment for these children and put an end to their tragedy.
For seven years, Matar Al-Humaimi has been suffering with his four children, moving them from one hospital to another, trying to find a way for them to treat, but the heavy financial costs piled up on him, and the Saudi blockade put more obstacles in front of him. He was unable to travel with them for treatment abroad.
Matar says to Al-Mayadeen net: “After months from the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression, my children’s lives were turned upside down, they were deprived of their most basic rights as children, they are isolated from everything, they do not play, study and live. We did not receive help from any organization, and the siege blocked access to their treatment.
The four children are not the only victims of such horrible crimes. In 2019, the official reports of the Ministry of Health indicate that the closure of Sana’a airport to critical cases caused the death of over 43 thousand patients, in addition to over 28 thousand cases of cancer patients, due to the siege and lack of necessary medical supplies.
The UN has done nothing in dealing with the humanitarian crisis in Yemen for nearly seven years, except for announcing optimistic initiatives and solutions to alleviate suffering without any tangible result on the ground.
It was unable to manage the medical bridge to transport patients and health conditions, which the coalition of aggression was forced to accept and declare in May 2018 under the pressure of a catastrophic humanitarian situation, only for misleading public opinion.
On December 3, 2018, a UN plane evacuated 50 injured people, accompanied by the National Delegation, to Muscat for treatment, a step towards what they called supporting confidence-building efforts ahead of peace talks in Sweden, to be followed by humanitarian flights for incurable medical conditions.In the face of the determination of the coalition of aggression to underestimate the suffering of the Yemenis in addition to the silence and complicity of the international community, this was the first and last flight.
Neither the UN has pushed for the medical bridge to run at a rate of two trips per month, according to the agreement, nor has it brought the wounded home. Even those who died in the course of treatment were stranded with their families and had to bury their bodies abroad.
Since then, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen has been mere figures and statistics circulated by UN organizations to solicit international sympathy and make money despite the shocking and bloody connotations that have made it the worst crisis in the world.
Prelude to Ongoing Yemen Genocide: Saleh to Hadi ~ Part 1
The following are the chronological events from 2011 to 2014 in Yemen. For 33 years Saleh was the US puppet leader in Yemen. There are many events prior to the 2011 Revolution that are not included. In 2011 US Puppet President Ali Abdullah Saleh was deposed and replaced by his deputy, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, another US puppet. Hadi was “elected” February 25, 2012 following a single-candidate presidential election backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Demos will continue until Saleh is gone
10/26/2011
Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh has once again promised to step down, but the anti-regime demonsrators say they will continue holding demonstrations until they see it with their eyes.
Saleh made the remarks during a meeting with US Ambassador Gerald Feierstein, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
It was the first meeting between Saleh and a US ambassador since Saleh returned from Saudi Arabia on September 23, where he was receiving treatment for injuries he received in a June 3 rocket attack on the presidential palace.
Saleh met with Feierstein to discuss developments in Yemen after the UN Security Council and the US both urged him to begin the transfer of power immediately, Nuland said.
Read in Full at Link Below
https://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/demos-will-continue-until-saleh-is-gone/
A very important piece of information that needs to be known. Saleh was behind destroying Yemeni Air Defenses under US Directives.
2011’s political transition failed to produce any tangible change in direction, the United States has backed the new puppet regime.
Yemen’s Tattered Reality After ‘Fairytale’ Revolution
11/05/2012
The unrest brought about by the Arab Spring triggered numerous political transitions throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011. In Yemen, the only state in the Arabian Peninsula to have a republican form of government, President Ali Abdullah Saleh was deposed after 33 years in power, and replaced by his deputy, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
After nearly a year since this political transition, Yemen continues to face food insecurity, impoverishment and the threat of violent extremism from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and other Islamist militias. Guns are everywhere in the country’s capital, Sana’a, and several government ministries are abandoned and riddled with bullet holes. Once frequented by foreign tourists, political instability has left Yemen’s rich historical sites abandoned.
While many argue that 2011’s political transition failed to produce any tangible change in direction, the United States has backed the new administration and continues to implement a program of drone strikes in Yemen’s rural areas, despite reports of substantial civilian causalities. While the country continues to be plagued by instability and lawlessness due to foreign interference, a cloud of uncertainty hangs over Yemen as Washington eyes to further increase its military presence in the Arab state.
Original Source
Protests and US backed aggression continue under Hadi regime. US upsurped Yemen’s 2011 Revolution.
Sana’a protest urges government be purged of Saleh loyalists
02/02/2013
Demonstrators have poured into the streets in Sana’a, demanding the government be purged of loyalists to former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, Press TV reports.
Chanting slogans against the loyalists to the former regime on Friday, the protestors vowed to continue their protests and bring all corrupt government officials to justice.
The protesters joined to mark the February revolution in 2011 when the Yemeni people stood against Saleh.
“February is the month of people’s revolution in which the young and elders took to streets to call for freedom, dignity and equality,” Gadah al-Gaderi, one protester, told Press TV.
Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, stepped down in February 2012 under a US-backed power transfer deal in return for immunity, after a year of mass street demonstrations demanding his ouster.
His vice president, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, replaced him on February 25, 2012 following a single-candidate presidential election backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Yemenis continue to hold demonstrations to call for political restructuring of the country and to demand the dismissal of members of Saleh’s regime from their government posts.
During the Friday rally, the protesters also called for an end to Washington’s assassination drone attacks in the country.
The US regularly carries out assassination drone attacks in Yemen, which is located on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula and is among the poorest countries in the region.
Washington uses its assassination drones in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, claiming that they target the terrorists. The attacks, however, have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.
The United Nations has censured the US drone attacks as targeted killings, stressing that the raids flout international law. Reports, however, say that the CIA is seeking to expand its covert drone attacks in Yemen.
Source
https://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/sanaa-protest-urges-government-be-purged-of-saleh-loyalists/
There were a lot of Salafist terrorists shipped into Yemen at this time by Saudis, Erdogan, and US. I’m not going to list all of it, the post would be huge. Internationally banned Cluster bombs were also used on the revolutionaries during this time frame as well as being used in the present.
Saudi terrorists head to Yemen from Iraq, Syria
16/03/2014
US again steps in to ensure their puppet regime stays in place regardless of the Yemeni protests.
Houthis suspend talks with govt. after foreign ‘interference’
15/09/2014
Obomba and the imperialists create a plan to carve up Yemen.
While All Eyes Were on Ukraine, the West Hatched a Plan for Yemen
While the world’s eyes were transfixed on the events in Ukraine, with U.S. government officials and legislators making pilgrimages to Kiev to egg on the motley assortment of neo-fascists and World Bank globalists who, through civil disruption, intimidation, and violence, overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych, the United States was busy carving a new identity for the nation of Yemen. Constantly under attack from CIA drones and cruise missiles, Yemen, which ousted its longtime dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, during the “Arab Spring” movement, has now had a Western-imposed federation foisted upon it…
Recently, the pro-U.S. president, Abdrahab Mansur Hadi, and representatives from only a fraction of Yemen’s political parties, agreed to form a six-region federation that resulted from a so-called “national dialogue.” However, the plan announced in January by the much-ballyhooed National Dialogue Conference ignored the aspirations of the stakeholders in Yemen’s future, particularly the people of the former independent People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen, who want their sovereignty restored after years of brutal rule from the Saleh regime in Sana’a in north Yemen.
Neither did the “dialogue” take into account the legitimate demands of the Shi’a Muslim minority in the north who have suffered from constant attacks from the Sana’a regime, attacks sometimes joined by military forces from neighboring Saudi Arabia. The Saudis never miss a chance to attack any group seen as being in league with Iran, whether they are the Shi’a majority of Bahrain, the Alawite minority of Syria, or the Shi’a Houthi minority of north Yemen.
Rather than split Yemen into its two former constituent regions, the former independent North Yemen and South Yemen, the foreign-directed “nation –builders” in Yemen opted to create six regions because they feared a region of South Yemen would provide the impetus for the region to re-establish its independence, lost when South Yemen agreed to merge with Yemen in an fateful and disastrous union in 1990.
The proposed six-region federation was largely the brainchild of the past U.S. ambassador to Yemen, Gerald Feierstein, who also served as deputy consul general in Jerusalem. Feierstein, who served as ambassador in Sana’a until October 2013, mirrored the interventionist style of other U.S. diplomats carrying certain ideological “baggage,” namely U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland (Nudelman).
The northern province of Saada, where most of the Shi’a Houthi live was cobbled together with the new Azal region, which also includes Sana’a, the capital. The Houthi Ansarullah rebel commander stated that Saada and the Houthis lost its special identity as a region having closer ties to coastal Hajja and Jawf than with Sana’a. However, considering Feierstein’s more than problematic ties with the Zionist-influenced neo-conservatives in Washington, the drawing of the borders of Azal had much to do with pleasing the enemies of the Houthis in Riyadh and Tel Aviv and sending a stark warning to the friends of the Houthis in Tehran.
Ansarullah leaders also realized that the Azal region was poor in natural resources with no maritime access. In other words, Feierstein and company punished the Shi’as by combining their province with the poorest region in Yemen and one that would lack economic clout in the new Yemeni federation. The other three proposed regions in the north are Saba, Janad, and Tahama. Rather than a unified South Yemen, the former independent socialist republic is divided into Aden and Hadramaut. The plan for South Yemen reflects hot the British Empire divided the territory.
The British ruled South Yemen directly through the Aden Protectorate, later the Federation of South Arabia, and through local sultans of Quaiti, Mahra, and Kathiri states through the Protectorate of South Arabia in the Hadramaut. Feierstein and his British colleague, John Wilkes, merely dusted off the old British Colonial Office maps to arrive at their new Yemeni federation. Perhaps nowhere in the world will find more enthusiasts for the status quo ante than in the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office.
In an August 14, 2013 interview, Feierstein made it quite clear that the Yemeni “dialogue” was not a strictly Yemeni affair. He cited the assistance he had in framing the dialogue from European Union and British diplomats. Feierstein’s EU colleague, Michele Cervone D’Urso, left Yemen to engage in “nation building” across the Gulf of Aden in Somalia. Feierstein also had the support of Abdul Karim al-Iryani, the representative of the discredited Saleh dictatorship, the Gulf Cooperation Council of uber-wealthy oil kingdoms and potentates, western energy companies that are active in Yemen, the International Monetary Fund (which is already determining all the financial policies in Yemen), and the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida.
Incredibly, Feierstein also stated that the most contentious issue between Yemen and the United States, the use of drones to conduct targeted killings of Yemeni citizens, many of them citizens, is “understood” by the Yemeni people based on “a little bit of polling data” and “what we hear from other people.” For Feierstein to suggest that Yemenis, many of them living in the remotest areas on the planet, could provide any legitimate polling data on what they think about aerial robots killing their relatives and friends flies in the face of reality.
Feierstein also said it was U.S. and United Nations policy to keep Yemen unified at all costs, regardless of the wishes of the secessionist Southern Movement or “Hirak.” Over 1300 Hirak fighters have been killed by Yemeni forces supported by their American military allies. In many cases, drone attacks on Hirak fighters, many of whom are secularists, have been reported as attacks on “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” or AQAP). If Al Qaeda never existed, the United States would have had to create it so it could act as a straw man for every U.S. intervention around the world. In fact, in places like Yemen, North Africa, and Syria, Al Qaeda is a total creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and other clandestine U.S. operators.
Feierstein and his neo-conservative colleagues have brushed off the boycott of the Yemeni dialogue by southern Yemeni leaders. The Saudis fear the southerners because of the legacy of the former Marxist-Leninist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, which granted the Soviet Union base rights in Aden and on the strategic island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. The United States wants to ensure that an independent South Yemen is in no position to grant base rights to Russia or China. There have been reports of U.S. troops being sighted on Socotra conducting surveys for potential U.S. air and naval bases.
The proposed new federation of Yemen will only come into force after the adoption of a new constitution, a popular referendum, and presidential and legislative elections. It is clear that the United States and its allies will only recognize a Yemen that agrees to remain subservient to the Western military alliances, multinational energy companies, and the dictates of global bankers. Meanwhile, Houthis in north Yemen, Hirak supporters in South Yemen, and tribes in the Hadramaut continue to suffer from constant Yemeni military assaults supported by America’s killer robots in the sky.
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Part 2 will be Hadi resigning and escaping house arrest to Saudi Barbaria. U.S. Obomba forming Arab coalition to attack Yemen and again impose Hadi puppet on Yemeni people.
Rock a Bye Baby ~ Imperialist Flavor
Rock a bye baby there’s no sense in weeping
If Syria’s bombed again while you’re sleeping
Bidet will babble, and pushing right after
Kamala Harris with speeches and laughter
Into the wrecks that yesterday were countries
Past destroyed villages, with corpses for sentries
They shall advance and CNN will follow
Singing their praises puffed up and hollow
Past Afghan hills, promises all forgotten
Through Mosul ruins where bodies lie rotten
Clapping while children in Yemen lie in shallow
Graves and zionists turn West Bank groves fallow
Bidet and Harris with cackles like witches
Will rip open hearts and close mouths with stitches
Talk of freedom, while Wall Street makes gallows
And turns every eve to nightmare All Hallows
Rock a bye baby there’s no sense in weeping
If Syria’s bombed again while you’re sleeping
Bidet will babble, and pushing right after
Kamala Harris with speeches and laughter.
Original Nursery Rhyme
Rock-a-Bye, Baby
https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/rock-a-bye-baby/index.htm
US Saudi Coalition’s fighter jets target displaced camps in Marib | Yemen Press Agency
MARIB, March 2 (YPA) – The US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition’s fighter jets targeted on Tuesday displaced camps in Marib province, local sources told Yemen Press Agency.
The sources said that coalition’s warplanes waged air strikes on displaced camps in al-Sawabin area of Thana valley.
The sources confirmed that the camp contains 470 displaced families and Islah militias prevented them from leaving the camp two weeks ago in order to use them as human shields.
http://en.ypagency.net/212214/
Update: Coalition warplanes target camp of IDPs in Marib for second time
MARIB, March 02 (YPA) – Saudi-led coalition warplanes on Tuesday evening committed the second crime of targeting the camps of internal displaced persons (IDPs) in “Danat Al-Hayal” area, west of Marib city, local sources reported.
The sources called for the international human rights and humanitarian organizations to open an international investigation into the crimes committed by the coalition fighter jets against the displaced west of the city of Marib.
This came less than two hour after the coalition warplanes targeted a camp of displaced in “Al-Sawabin” area in “Thanna” Valley, which contains 470 displaced families whom were prevented by Islah Party militia two weeks ago from leaving the camp to use them as human shields.
Joe Biden Completes His Predecessor’s Policy, Supports Saudi-led Coalition in Its War on Yemen
Yemen: The administration of US President Joe Biden announces its adoption to support the Saudi-led coalition in its war on Yemen, ending a torrent of speculation about the policy that this administration will pursue regarding Yemen.
The statements of the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his first press conference made it clear that the US support for Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen will continue.
Blinken described the US relation with Saudi Arabia as a partnership, which requires the US “to help defend Saudi Arabia against aggression directed at Saudi Arabia, including from Yemen and from the Houthis.”
Observers consider Blinken’s remarks as the beginning of new chapters of the US-Saudi war on Yemen that may continue for years to come.
Blinkin’s statement, which comes in conjunction with the arrival of new US forces in Mahra, confirms that Yemen is a priority for the Americans. The occupation of Yemen’s islands, ports and coasts has become the US goal for all successive administrations of the White House and this is the reason behind the declaration of this war by Washington on the 15th of March 2015.
According to observers, the new US administration has put control over these areas as the basis for any upcoming move in Yemen. This is evident and clear in my vision of peace recently presented by the former ambassador to Yemen Gerald Verstein and his deputy Nabil Khoury, which stipulates that the governorate of Al-Mahrah will be granted to Saudi Arabia, while Aden and Socotra island to the Emirates as a basis for any political solution in Yemen. Observers considered this vision as a US plan to tighten its control over these areas, directly through its forces, and indirectly, through its tools in the Saudi region and the UAE.
Observers believe that Biden today confirmed, through his foreign minister, his formal adoption to support the Saudi-led coalition in its war on Yemen. Although he would pursue his own policy that contradicts the policies of his predecessors Obama and Trump, he will not contradict the general policy drawn up by the deep state that rules the US, which considers its occupation of Yemen part of the project to control strategic marine navigation lanes and keep US opponents away from this region.
Translated report from YPA
Stop the War on Yemen Global Day of Action ~ Yemen Rallies entitled “The American aggression and blockade are terrorist crimes”
#YemenCantWait
Aerial photos from the mass rally in the capital #Sanaa entitled “The American aggression and blockade are terrorist crimes” 01-25-2021
Today.. Activists Launch Global Campaign Against War And Blockade Of Yemen
Activists around the world are organizing an international campaign against the war and blockade of Yemen, the largest to date, in conjunction with a massive outcry marches that will take place today in 24 major squares in the capital Sanaa and other 14 provinces inside Yemen.
The activists will hold demonstrations in dozens of capitals around the world, including Washington, London, Paris and others to call for an end to the aggression against Yemen.
There will also be twitter campaigns on and an extensive online meeting of more than 700 people from 620 organizations worldwide to stand up against the aggression against Yemen.
Millions of Yemenis in the capital Sanaa and the rest of the provinces are preparing to go out this morning and afternoon in a major mass rallies entitled “The US blockade and aggression are a terrorist crime.”
The organizing committees has set 24 major squares in the capital, Sanaa, and 14 other provinces for the rallies, calling on the free and honorable Yemeni people to come out and participate in large-scale protest rallies.
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This lack of empathy and mass murder has never faded from memory
The West Is Still Complicit in the War on Yemen
By Isa Ferrero, Progressive International
Late last year, in the waning days of his administration, Donald Trump made an unsurprising but nevertheless grotesque announcement: the United States had agreed to sell an incredible $23 billion worth of bombs, drones, and fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates, despite – or perhaps, because of – their repeated use of US weapons to commit unspeakable atrocities in Yemen.
Tragically, this was nothing new: one cannot speak of the humanitarian disaster in Yemen without mentioning the complicity of the West. Born out of a domestic contest for political control, the already brutal Yemeni war has transformed into an unrelenting and unmitigated killing field at the hands of foreign actors.
The United States has been an active and malign influence in Yemen since well before the onset of war in 2014. Starting under the Bush administration, and continuing without pause under Obama and Trump, the US drone campaign killed somewhere between 1,020 and 1,389 people from 2004 to February 2020 in Yemen alone.
Thus when, in 2015, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates began an intervention into the war, the US jumped at the chance to lend its support. From the West to the Gulf, backing from US allies was soon overwhelming, justifying their decision by claiming “[it] was Saudi’s legitimate and logical response to block Iranian expansion in the Gulf and to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Kingdom’s backyard.”
It’s hard to believe that Saudi intervention was necessary to avoid disaster in Yemen. It’s even harder to believe that the Obama administration wasn’t fully aware of the disaster they would soon sponsor. As former Obama administration official Robert Malley later acknowledged, the United States at the time was worried that, after the Arab Spring, and with the Iran nuclear deal negotiations ongoing, the “decades old relationship” with Saudi Arabia was “at a breaking point”. According to Malley “nobody could question” that massive suffering “was a very, very likely outcome” – but keeping Saudi Arabia happy was more important.
These predictions of suffering would quickly come true. Both the US and the UK soon began providing logistical, intelligence, and diplomatic support, while they, Germany, France, and more have all provided massive flows of weapons to the intervention coalition. Backed by such overwhelming and unconditional support, the coalition has had no qualms about repeatedly committing horrific crimes against the civilian population, including using mass starvation as a weapon of war by imposing a land, sea and air blockade on a country that already imported more than 90% of its food before the war. Simply put, without the help of the US and the UK, many of these atrocities would never have been committed. Meanwhile, other Western countries have provided decisive diplomatic support, partly by not jeopardizing business with the absolutist monarchies of the Gulf, and partly by avoiding interfering with, or often actively promoting, the big business of weapons sales.
For the Yemeni population, this blank check for the Coalition intervention has spelled disaster. After years of conflict, 24 million people now require some form of humanitarian assistance. According to the famous report of the Pardee Center for the United Nations Development Program, since March 2015, approximately 310,000 people have died in the conflict.
Last year, this already-dire humanitarian crisis deteriorated even further. The intensification of fighting, environmental catastrophe – floods have now displaced more than 300,000 – and the impact of the coronavirus in a country with little remaining healthcare system have all played a deadly part. Against this background, United Nations aid programs have become the only instrument that millions of people depend upon to survive.
But existing aid is not enough. With a scaling back of funding from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the UN is now desperately urging the international community to help avert “the worst famine the world has seen for decades.”
The West, however, has not met the United Nations’ call. The numbers speak for themselves: less than half of the humanitarian aid requested by the United Nations has been delivered to Yemen. For a sense of scale, compare the remainder – $1.7 billion – to the tens of billions of dollars that the West sells in arms to the coalition each year.
In short, the West has not only poured gas on the Yemeni conflagration – it has also cut off the fire hose’s water supply.
But all hope for Yemen is not lost. While Western governments have supported the systematic murder of a generation, movements across the world have mobilized in resistance. The Campaign Against Arms Trade [CAAT] managed to temporarily paralyze the United Kingdom’s sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, despite the British government’s best effort. Italian dockworkers have taken direct action, refusing to load a ship with weapons bound for Saudi Arabia. And, bowing to pressure following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the conservative German government of Angela Merkel declared an embargo on Saudi Arabia. [Merkel’s government still has no qualms about selling weapons to the UAE, however].
One important piece of this battle is taking place in the United States, where sustained grassroots pressure has managed to push back on the entrenched powers of the weapons industry, the warmongering foreign policy establishment, and the Saudi/Emirati lobbies to force the Democratic Party toward a more progressive position than that under Obama. Over the course of the Trump administration, the US Congress voted multiple times to block specific weapons sales to the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Though these were ultimately vetoed, the incoming Biden administration provides a chance for change, with “ending US complicity in the war in Yemen” an explicit campaign promise. Surely the establishment, corporate-friendly politics of a Biden administration are not going to lead the way on their own, but the chances of a total rethinking of US relations with Saudi Arabia are higher than they’ve been in years.
There are reasons to be optimistic, but also to be cautious. Western elites will not confront the interests of the powerful military-industrial complex on their own. Only mobilization can force them to. The time for such mobilization is now: the people of Yemen can wait no longer.
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Two-Thirds of Yemenis Lack Access to Safe Water: Red Cross
Yemen: The International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen says the Saudi-led coalition’s aggression against the Arab country has deprived two-thirds of Yemenis of access to potable water and basic health services.
“Two out of three Yemenis lack access to safe water and basic health services,” the Red Cross said in a post in its Twitter account.
“We provided 800,000 liters of fuel to the Local Corporation for Water and Sanitation and to Al-Thawra Hospital in Hudaydah, in addition to our regular support for the water and health sector around Yemen, but the need remains great,” it added.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 to suppress an uprising that had toppled a Riyadh-friendly regime.
In late November, the United Nations (UN) offered the new staggering death toll of 233,000 from the Saudi-led war on Yemen, stressing the importance of a ceasefire.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released the toll in a report, calling it “unfortunate and unacceptable.”
The international body said those counted had lost their lives either directly due to the conflict or for war-related reasons.
UN offers staggering death toll of 233,000 from Saudi-led war on Yemen
The United Nations (UN) offers the new staggering death toll of 233,000 from the Saudi-led war on Yemen, stressing the importance of a ceasefire.
According to the report, Yemen is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and more than 80% of its inhabitants are in need of humanitarian assistance and support.
The war has taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
Children are among the most vulnerable victims of the Saudi war on Yemen, but the issue has barely drawn any international response.
The UN children’s agency warned in late June 2020 that the shortage of humanitarian assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic threatened to push more children in Yemen to the brink of starvation.
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Martyr Qassem Soleimani the Living Martyr Parts 1 thru 4
A look at the incredible early life of the outstanding Shaheed Qasem Soleimani. As the first anniversary of the martyrdom of General Qasem Soleimani dawns upon us, Islamic Pulse is releasing a four-part mini series on this great and unparalleled warrior of Islam in the modern world. Who was this shining star of the Ummah, through whom countless lives were saved? How were the humble beginnings of this selfless individual? How did he prove at a young age that his soul was worthy of serving the noble cause of Imam Mahdi (A)?
The Early Life of Qasem Soleimani | The Living Martyr P. 1
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This is the second part of our four-part mini series on the Shaheed Qasem Soleimani, unveiling the truth about Syria. A flash back to remember how the world was deceived by the Mainstream Media into believing that President Assad was a murderer and how the Western powers backed foreign mercenaries like the FSA (Free Syrian Army) and ISIS militants, who filled the streets with blood. General Qasem Soleimani bravely stood against the many foes and lead the united Islamic Resistance forces to victory with the help of the legendary Hezbollah, courageous Iraqi militants and orthodox Christian Russia. Through the foresight of the General, the world moved one step closer towards the reality of Imam Mahdi (A)…
General Soleimani In Syria | The Living Martyr P. 2
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YouTube pulled the third installment showing General Soleimani was the hero who destroyed ISIS …
The third installment of the Living Martyr explores General Soleimani’s unique close bond and friendship with Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, commander of the Hashd Shabi (PMF). It shows how the General united the various groups and factions within Iraq in order to destroy the brutal and bloodthirsty group, ISIS (DAESH). This special part also explores how General Soleimani blew the lid off the reality that America was collaborating closely with ISIS, supplying them with food, ammunition and military equipment. While the US tried to claim they were the ones who stopped ISIS, their mainstream media machine pumping out false information on their farfetched narrative, the informed world had woken up to the truth: America in fact supported ISIS and Iran defeated them. It is through the recognition of martyrdom that General Qasem Soleimani truly served the cause of Imam Mahdi (A).
Those Who Crushed ISIS In Iraq | The Living Martyr P. 3 | English
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In the final part of this series, we explore the climactic martyrdom of Shaheed Qasem Soleimani, the repercussions and the severe revenge which is yet to be dished out to the tyrannical perpetrators… How did the assassination of Shaheed Qasem Soleimani snowball the world into a chaotic, painful and seemingly sporadic realm? What is the Severe Revenge that must be taken from the USA? What is your role in all of this, wherever you are?!
The Severe Revenge is Coming | The Living Martyr P. 4 (FINAL PART)
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A brief but profound and spiritual talk by Martyr Qasem Soleimani on the battlefield. This Living Martyr ruled the hearts of the soldiers. Even after his martyrdom, he continues to rule the hearts of the brave. He truly is a legend!
The Revolution\’S LIVING MARTYR Among Some Soldiers | Farsi Sub English
Soleimani, The Man Who Defended an Entire Nation – Dr. Tim Anderson
By Al-Ahed News
Director of the Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies Dr. Tim Anderson commented on the US assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and hailed the martyr whom he described as the man who embodied the highest human values of love, dedication and self-sacrifice.
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Those Who Crushed ISIS in Iraq | The Living Martyr P. 3
The third installment of the Living Martyr explores General Soleimani’s unique close bond and friendship with Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, commander of the Hashd Shabi (PMF). It shows how the General united the various groups and factions within Iraq in order to destroy the brutal and bloodthirsty group, ISIS (DAESH). This special part also explores how General Soleimani blew the lid off the reality that America was collaborating closely with ISIS, supplying them with food, ammunition and military equipment. While the US tried to claim they were the ones who stopped ISIS, their mainstream media machine pumping out false information on their farfetched narrative, the informed world had woken up to the truth: America in fact supported ISIS and Iran defeated them. It is through the recognition of martyrdom that General Qasem Soleimani truly served the cause of Imam Mahdi (A).
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UN stands with human rights’ violators in Yemen: HR | Yemen Press Agency
SANAA, Dec. 10 (YPA) – Ministry of Human Rights confirmed on Thursday that United Nations and its organizations and bodies concerned with human rights are standing with violators of human rights in Yemen.
The Ministry stated the UN claims to protect the human rights and the laws, principles, decisions and treaties in the world, is propaganda.
The ministry said in a statement on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day that the voice of the United Nations became faded and cold due to its failure to respond to the voices of the grieving children, women and elderly people in Yemen.
How the world and the United Nations can celebrate the International Day of Human Rights, and there are violations, crimes and genocide committed by the Saudi-led coalition against the Yemeni people for six years? the minister asked.
It explained over 45,000 civilians have been killed or injured, and a Yemeni child dies every ten minutes from malnutrition, and more than 300,000 suffer from serious diseases due to the war and the siege imposed by the Saudi-UAE coalition, which led to systematic destruction of the infrastructure and an outbreak of diseases.
The statement indicated that the international community knows that the coalition was able to change the principles of human rights and removing the name of the coalition from the list of human rights’ violators and its crimes committed in Yemen.
The ministry called on the United Nations and the international community to review their accounts, not double standards, and save human principles and rights from the violations.
The statement renewed its call on the United Nations to raise their voices in establishing the right and ending the war, killing, destruction and its siege imposed by the coalition on the Yemeni people for nearly six years.
At the same time, it called on the world’s free jurists to play their role to reach the international legal prosecution against the perpetrators of war crimes and genocide on the Yemeni people by the Saudi and Emirati regimes.
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United Nations Remains Silent Regarding Crimes of Aggression in Yemen
More than 43 thousand civilians are victims of the Saudi aggression in Yemen. This was some of the shocking numbers of a report, by the national team, in charge of dealing with the international experts, they revealed them during a press conference, in Sana’a, highlighting some of the crimes and violations of the Saudi aggression in Yemen. The national team refuted what was mentioned in the reports of the International Group of Experts and said that it is incomplete information that does not reflect the size of the actual violations of the aggression coalition in Yemen.
A member of the Yemeni national team, Akhlaq al-Shami, said: “The reports of international experts need to be edited. The information is inaccurate and they are supposed to come on the ground and verify it.”
Ali Tayseer, an official in the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights, said: “There is a group estimated at 361 civilians who lost their lives due to the siege and their inability to obtain the necessary medicine or go abroad for treatment.”
The aggression and the siege have caused the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. According to the report, 20 million Yemenis suffer from food insecurity, while 80% of the population is in urgent need of humanitarian aid. The aggression and siege have also caused a decline in the level of health and educational services, the non-payment of salaries, closure of Sanaa airport, and the widespread destruction of the infrastructure. The human rights reports monitored other violations related to the displacement of civilians, their forcible disappearance in secret prisons, and the aggression’s use of forbidden weapons.
Nasruddin Amer, Undersecretary of the Yemeni Ministry of Information, said: “Regarding the issued reports by the group of eminent international experts of the violations, which have become documented by the United Nations, no action was done by anyone from the international community and the United Nations.”
The categories of children and women are considered the most affected by the aggression and siege. A large number of them were killed due to direct targeting and malnutrition. The statistics of the official authorities indicate an increase in the number of displaced persons as more than four million, most of them children and women, are displaced. The organizations indicated that these numbers are what they have been able to document, confirming that the real numbers are much more than that.
Despite the international reports on these crimes and violations are continuous and demands for the formation of impartial investigation committees are not stopped, they do not receive any positive reactions from the United Nations.
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Yemeni Children as Young as Seven Being Recruited by Saudi Arabia to Kill or Be Killed
Alwaght- Already a poor country, Yemen goes through hell every day; poverty has been exasperated by drought, famine, disease, embargo and war. The Saudi-led campaign has opened a Pandora’s Box for the Yemeni people, including children.
A Yemeni child in red identifies himself on a hill, facing his enemy on the other hill. Blood, bombs, bullets and bodies; these are two drawings by former child soldiers recruited by the Saudi-led coalition, which show what’s going on inside their minds. It clearly shows that their childhood has been stolen. But they are not alone.
In 2019, UNICEF reported that there are more than 2,700 cases of children enlisted in combat in Yemen pointing out that “this could just be a tip of the iceberg.”
Exclusive footage from Al Jazeera shows that these children are being recruited to defend the Saudi border, as if billions of dollars worth of purchased arms and military equipment are not enough for this purpose.
“We were told we would be working in a kitchen.”
One of these child soldiers is Ahmad al-Naqib – from a village near Taiz – who left home when he was 15-year-old. He had been promised to get regular paycheck and a job in the kitchens of Yemeni military units on Saudi soil.
“We went because we were told we would be working in a kitchen and making 3,000 Saudi riyals ($800)… so we believed them and got on the bus.”
They know about the people that they are recruiting, people they are promising, what seems to be large amounts of money and not delivering those large amounts of money, sometimes tricking them into being, thinking they’re going to be working as kitchen hands or in some cases and then being pushed into the front line with weapons, so I’m sure that they know about it and then I think it does reflect the fact that the Saudis have very little respect for people in their own system at the bottom of the heap, so to speak.
Tim Anderson, Director, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
Investigators have identified a military camp in al-Buqa’, near the Saudi border, where the child recruits are being trained.
The recruitment process is facilitated by human traffickers and the recruits are given identification cards before crossing into Saudi Arabia and being placed into a military camp.
Use of children in conflicts war crime
It is considered a war crime, generally, because children, that is to say those under 18, are not considered capable of giving an informed consent to take on the responsibility of joining a military and being under orders to carry out, what might be serious criminal activity, remember that soldiers, since the Second World War, are regarded to have their own capacity to reject orders which which require them to carry out crime so there is a there is a type of adult conscience and their capacity to, on the one hand, take on responsibility, on the other hand, to follow to disobey orders which are criminal orders. And so, children are not capable of that they’ve taken advantage of. And the trickery I mentioned before is something that also children are very susceptible to so there’s less chance of children rejecting those sorts of orders or standing up and resisting what they’re being asked to do. So that’s why there’s this general consensus around the world that children should not be recruited into, particularly going into situations where they are engaged in conflicts that they don’t understand.
Tim Anderson, Director, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
According to Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization SAM, many Yemenis are entering the kingdom under the pretext of receiving emergency medical treatment only to be sent to the Yemen-Saudi border to fight for Riyadh.
“The Saudi-led coalition is recruiting boys from schools, poor urban areas and detention centers, inducing them to fight with a combination of bribes, indoctrination and coercion.”
But the Saudi-led coalition does not recruit only Yemeni children. In late 2018, Riyadh came under fire for recruiting Sudanese children to fight on its behalf in Yemen. Tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur, many of them children, are now fighting in Yemen.
Most of them belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed.
Life is cheap
These children are reportedly being paid in Saudi riyals, the equivalent of about $480 a month for a 14-year-old novice. They receive an additional $185 to $285 for any month they saw combat.
Their payments were deposited directly into the Faisal Islamic Bank of Sudan, partly owned by Saudis.
According to The Times, Sudanese soldiers who fought in Yemen said that between 20% and 40% of their units were made up of children.
I think we need to understand what the Saudis represent in the region, it’s very important that the Saudis are there, as an arm of the old colonial regime; the British regime initially and now run by the North Americans that they are a proxy for, effectively a barrier between the British and the Americans being held accountable for their responsibilities for the terrible Dirty War and the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, that really these young people that are being recruited by the Saudis are effectively masking the responsibility of the NATO powers that are sending so many arms and weapons to perpetuate this sort of war.
And I don’t think we can understand that unless we understand the role of the Saudis and the fact that they are only there to carry out the orders of these big powers from outside trying to manipulate events within the region.
So I think that the role of Al Saud, generally the family, needs to be understood to understand why there are so many appalling acts going on, including the use of child soldiers to perpetuate this dirty war against Yemen.
Tim Anderson, Director, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
A dirty game has been in play since the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen. With billions of dollars in their pockets, the Saudi-led gang is still trying to outsource the war. They want to keep the cost of the war at the lowest possible level. So they are using child mercenaries from poor backgrounds in Yemen or Sudan; those whose lives are cheaper than the ones in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain.
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Yemen Stresses Right to Self-defense as Saudi Arabia Resorts to UN Over Aramco Operation
Once again the United Nations being used to save child murdering terrorists …. aren’t you getting sick of this? I am
Yemen emphasized that its armed forces reserve the legitimate right to respond to any act of aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition, after Riyadh complained to the United Nations Security Council over a Yemeni missile operation that targeted Aramco petroleum products distribution plant in the kingdom’s port city of Jeddah.
“The Saudi regime, despite all its appeals for condemnation and attempts to portray itself as a victim, cannot escape the fact that it is an aggressor and abuses the rights of Yemeni people,” Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman of Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary movement, wrote in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
He added, “The whole world knows it was the Saudi regime which launched an aggression and siege [against Yemen], and is pressing ahead with them.”
“As long as the Saudi regime continues such behavior, it should only wait for a response and legitimate defense unless it puts an end to the aggression and lifts the blockade,” Abdul-Salam said.
Moreover, Ansarullah politburo member Ali al-Qahoum told Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen television news network on Tuesday evening that the Riyadh regime’s confusion over the missile strike on the Saudi Aramco plant in Jeddah is proof of growing capabilities of the Yemeni armed forces.
Al-Qahoum noted that the next strikes by Yemeni armed forces will be even more painful.
Saudi UN Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi wrote in a letter to the Security Council late on Monday that Yemeni forces were to blame for the missile attack on the Aramco petroleum plant in Jeddah earlier in the day.
He urged the 15-member body to stop what he described as a “threat” to global energy security, Yemen’s political process and regional security.
Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that the Yemeni attack targeted the “core of the global economy and its supply routes,” causing major damage to the Aramco distribution facility.
Sana’a said the raid was a response to the Riyadh-led war and siege of Yemen, and that it was “similar to what happened at Khurais and Abqaiq,” referring to the strikes on the two Saudi oil facilities in 2019 that halved the kingdom’s oil production and sent global oil prices soaring.
The Ansarullah movement, backed by armed forces, has been defending Yemen against the Saudi-led alliance, preventing the aggressors from fulfilling the objectives of the atrocious war that has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Yemeni people.
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Why Does Saudi Arabia Only Admit Attacks On Its Oil Facilities?
Middle East: Translated from Al-Alam
If we look closely at the media in Saudi Arabia in recent years, we find that they have a repetitive news policy on their agenda, which includes censorship, minimization, and sometimes refutation and denial. The Saudi media and officials, in a strange insistence, confirm the attacks of Yemeni Armed Forces on their oil installations. Their insistence seems to be done because of the sensitivity of the international community towards the issue of energy, the media and authorities have focused their efforts on this issue in order to gain an international consensus against Ansarullah.
For this reason, Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the alleged coalition against Yemen, described the attacks on Aramco in Jeddah to be in line with the previous attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais refineries.
Of course, in recent years, the attacks by Ansarullah on the infrastructure of Saudi Arabia as well as on the royal palaces were considered as being addressed. However, these media outlets were screaming due to the attacks on the Aramco facility.
This means that the Saudi media feel more frustration and despair than anyone else because of the inability of its country’s officials to win the war in Yemen. In such circumstances, the unified assurances of Saudi officials and media professionals and their regional allies escalate demanding the United States to place Ansarullah on the US terrorist list, to achieve the idea of ”global consensus” against Ansarullah, in order to compensate for the field failure and to ensure withdrawal of bin Salman from war “honorably”.
Ansarullah operation in Jeddah showed that the 300-target list has not been completed yet, which means that the Yemen war will continue until the occupiers are completely expelled from the country.
Shocking New Figures Show How Just Much the US is Fueling the Violence in Yemen
New figures from the UN and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute show that since the war in Yemen began, the US has sold over $13 billion in high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia, making the Kingdom a cash cow for US weapons makers.
Despite presenting itself as a force for good and peace in the Middle East, the United States sells at least five times as much weaponry to Saudi Arabia than aid it donates to Yemen. The State Department constantly portrays itself as a humanitarian superpower with the welfare of the Yemeni people as its highest priority, yet figures released from the United Nations and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) show that since the war in Yemen began, the U.S. government has given $2.56 billion in aid to the country, but sold over $13 billion in high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia, the leader of the coalition prosecuting a relentless onslaught against the country.
Figures like these are always debatable. What constitutes legitimate “aid” is a question everyone would answer differently. Furthermore, the $13 billion figure does not include the enormous weapons deal Saudi Arabia signed with Donald Trump in 2017, which will reportedly see the Kingdom purchase $350 billion over ten years.
SIPRI is skeptical of the size of these numbers, but if they prove to be correct, once the orders begin arriving, they will make the paltry aid donations seem like small change by comparison. Sales include all manner of military equipment, from radar and transport systems to F-15 fighter jets, TOW missiles, Abrams tanks, and Paladin howitzers.
While the Saudis pay in petrodollars, Yemenis pay in blood. Four years ago, the Saudi Air Force bombed a well-attended funeral in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. It was a bright, clear day. The Saudis used a “double tap” airstrike to ensure maximum carnage. 240 people were killed, and like with the 2018 Saudi attack on a school bus that killed 40 children, the bombs that did the damage were 500-pound (227 kilogram) MK 82’s, built and supplied by Lockheed Martin, America’s largest weapons contractor.
“Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent. The world’s wealthiest nations cannot continue to put profits above the Yemeni people,” said Muhsin Siddiquey, Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director.
Already the region’s poorest nation, Yemen has been utterly devastated by the six-year conflict. The United Nations estimates that 14 million people — over half the country’s population — are at risk of famine, and 20.5 million need help accessing drinkable water. 80% of the population, it calculates, needs some form of humanitarian assistance. The Saudi-led coalition, which includes the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain, has deliberately attacked soft targets like hospitals and water facilities, carrying out the equivalent of one strike against such buildings every ten days since the fighting began.
“The fact that the United Nations, faced with such enormous human, environmental and migration devastation around the world, has said for several years now that Yemen is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, that says it all. This war has devastated what was already the poorest country in the Arab world. Not only the direct bombing — of funerals, of weddings — but the blockading and bombing of the ports. Yemen is a country very dependent on imported food, basic medicines, everything. So when the ports are closed down, people move close to starvation very quickly,” Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and an expert on the Middle East, told MintPress.
In addition to supplying the weapons, the U.S. (and many of its European allies) train Saudi forces, have provided critical military infrastructure and logistical support, and even refueled Saudi bombers in the air and provided targeting guidance to help Saudi forces find their marks more efficiently. On top of that, the U.S. has shielded Riyadh from international censure by defending it at bodies like the United Nations. In essence, the U.S. is involved in every area of the Yemen conflict, doing everything up to pulling the trigger itself.
“The U.S. must end its support for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and instead prioritize the people across Yemen fighting to survive,” Scott Paul, Oxfam America’s Humanitarian Policy Lead told MintPress in a statement.
The U.S. has paused much of its aid to the most vulnerable Yemenis, while it continues to provide weapons that fuel the deadly conflict. Congress and the American people have made it clear that they do not want any part in this. We continue to call for the U.S., the international community and all parties to the conflict to push for peace, and we will hold the incoming Biden administration to its pledge to do its part”.
The United States has a long history of mistreating Yemen. In 1990, the administration of George H.W. Bush wanted a unanimous United Nations agreement to rubber-stamp its attack on Iraq. Yemen, newly appointed to the Security Council, refused to go along with the resolution (as did Cuba). Just minutes after it voted against the U.S. plan, a senior American diplomat told the Yemeni representative, on a hot mic, “That was the most expensive ‘no’ vote you ever cast.” Within hours, all U.S. aid (a $70 million program) to the country was stopped. 800,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia, and the country had difficulties securing loans with international financial institutions. Thus, as Bennis said, “The U.S. refusal to take Yemen and Yemenis seriously goes back a very long way.”
Saudi Arabia has proven to be one of the United States’ most loyal allies in the region over the past 50 years — and its enforcer. In return for keeping the oil money flowing into the United States, Washington has been willing to defend the country’s abysmal human rights record, and even to overlook the assassination of journalists like the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi. Andrew Feinstein, an arms industry expert and author of “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade,” explained to MintPress that,
The U.S. has allied itself with Saudi Arabia, despite it being one of the world’s most corrupt countries and worst human rights abusers, at home and abroad, for two primary reasons: oil and the U.S. right’s desire for regime change in Iran. This is despite the reality that Saudi is the primary ideological supporter of, financier and, weaponizer of the most extreme Islamist groups.”
Under Trump, the United States has sharply increased its military support to Saudi Arabia, signing a number of weapons deals that put the lie to any idea that he was an anti-war president. Overall, SIPRI calculates that the U.S. accounted for 36% of global weapons sales between 2015 and 2019, a large increase over the previous five years. Saudi Arabia is by far America’s best customer, and America is the Kingdom’s most important supplier, accounting for three-quarters of all purchases. In 2019, this included 59,000 guided bombs, most of which were destined to be dropped on soft targets in Yemen. As Bennis noted, “The Saudis buy more arms from the U.S. than any other country in the world, so it is embedded in the very fabric of the military industrial complex here.” Furthermore, many of Washington’s other best customers are also Middle Eastern dictatorships also bombing Yemen.
Saudi Arabia will be hosting the G20 summit this weekend, a meeting of the 20 most powerful nations in the world. Remarkably, for a country where women cannot travel or get married without permission from a man, the Saudi government has chosen “female empowerment” as the theme of this year’s meeting. And while the G20 is being urged to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its role in Yemen, that possibility seems doubtful, seeing as G20 arms exports to Riyadh are three times what they give to Yemen in aid.
With an impending change of administration in the White House, there is some talk that a Biden administration will reverse direction on Yemen. Bennis, however, was skeptical of how profound a change Biden will implement:
There may be a rather abrupt change. The question, for me, is how deep it will be. Biden has made a commitment on his statement of intention on foreign affairs to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi War on Yemen. How that gets defined is the question. There will be some symbolic moves very quickly after he is inaugurated, hopefully in the first days or weeks of the new administration. The big question is will he actually stop the massive arms sales of basics- the F-15s and F-16s, the bombers and bombs, the drones, the ammunition and equipment that is responsible for so much death and destruction in Yemen. Is he prepared to do that? I’m hopeful but not terribly optimistic.”
This is the view echoed by Yemenis on the ground who spoke to MintPress. Ibrahim Abdulkareem, who lost his infant child when a Saudi warplane dropped a U.S.-made bomb on his home in Sanaa in 2015, said that Biden’s statement of intention on foreign affairs was not good enough: ”I am not optimistic that Biden will stop supplying [Saudi leader Mohammed] Bin Salman with bombs like the ones that killed my daughter,” he stated. In international affairs, money talks. And the U.S. is making a lot of it from this war.
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Obama’s War on Yemen Rages ~ Yemen Updates: 23 May 2015
A region awash with powerful weapons is getting more – a bonanza for US defense companies, a nightmare for people throughout the Middle East.
Riyadh continues using its weapons for naked aggression on Yemen – ongoing terror-bombing and shelling.
Civilian neighborhoods and other nonmilitary sites are regularly targeted. On Thursday, a northern Hajjah province-based international humanitarian office was struck. At least five deaths and 10 injuries were reported.
UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Johannes van der Klaauw blasted Riyadh saying “indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in contravention of international humanitarian law.”
Attacking another country without Security Council authorization is naked aggression. It’s permitted only in self-defense if SC members OK it. Otherwise it blatantly violates core international law.
US, Saudi and other involved regional authorities are war criminals.
Obama’s rap sheet includes naked aggression against seven countries – plus subversion against numerous others, a kill list deciding who dies on his say, and injustice under a homeland police state apparatus coordinated with state and local authorities.
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Yemeni Children Suffering Through US-Saudi Aggression, Celebrate the International Children’s Day
Yemen: The Ministry of Education launched the activities of the International Children’s Day, which falls on November 20 of each year, under the slogan “Your silence is a war crime,” refering to the world’s disregard of the US-Saudi crimes against Yemeni children. The Education Sector Undersecretary stressed the importance of exposing the direct and systematic targeting of Yemeni children by the Saudi-led aggression.
He added, “On November 20, the countries of the world celebrate the International Children’s Day, which its first goal stipulates that all children should be enrolled in schools, that they be safe from harm, and are able to fulfill their potential and dreams, while the children of Yemen have lost their lives and bloodshed as a result of the aggression, targeting their schools for the sixth year in a row.”
“Our children, despite the arrogance of the aggression, continue with unparalleled courage to teach them on the rubble of their schools, under trees and in tents, affirming thus to thwart the aggression plans aimed at ignoring them by depriving them of their right to education,” he added.
He pointed to the importance of documenting the brutal violations of the US-Saudi aggression for Yemeni children’s rights, pointing to the massacres caused by the aggression’s airstrikes, “by directly targeting our students, in their schools and on the roads.”
Russian Colonel Zhilin: “This is Erdogan’s war against Russia for the Caucasus”
Following is an English translation of the October 1, 2020 on-camera remarks by Ret. Colonel Alexander Ivanovich Zhilin of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation provided to The Armenian Weekly.
The war has started. Azerbaijan attacked Armenia along the entire length of the Line of Contact. As always, it all happened quite unexpectedly for the two neighboring states [countries], but I think that our fabulous intelligence had information regarding the preparations for this war.
This war has been in preparation for a minimum of two years. Azerbaijan was being trained by Turkish as well as American specialists. I do not view these military actions as a battle for Karabakh (Artsakh). Karabakh is secondary in this case. This is Erdogan’s war against Russia for the Caucasus. This is Casus belli (an excuse for war), and the way we have been building our relations with Turkey will now cost us dearly. What do I mean? Look at the declarations of Turkey’s leader. They are harsh. They are precise. In fact Erdogan announced that Azerbaijan is a resource for achieving his certain objectives. The objectives are global.
I would like to say that no matter how much fun they make of Mr. Erdogan here, today he is one of the most effective politicians and leaders. He is cynical, he is shrewd, and he and his council are able to foresee situations. If we simply evaluate our relations with Turkey under Erdogan’s rule (I am saying this with a feeling of certain shame), he had us everywhere, wherever it was possible. We labored to build a nuclear plant, we laid pipelines, we opened our markets for him, and so on. Today, after the immense expenses for construction of those gas and oil pipelines, factually, the delivery [supply] has been stopped. We are suffering losses all around. Moreover, this war, which Azerbaijan instigated under Turkey’s pressure, is extraordinarily dangerous for the Russian Federation. We are a multinational state, and while everybody is analyzing whether Karabakh is occupied or unoccupied territory, the danger comes from the Turkish side. Hence Azerbaijan as an arena and a resource also becomes our strategic enemy. Let’s say this in all honesty: Azerbaijan is not a partner. We do not have any partners. We have either those who are consumerists or enemies. This is how the situation stands in the 21st century.
To say today that it is somehow possible to come to terms with Mr. Aliyev via some political consultations is a delirium [nonsense]. It is a delirium. One can come to terms only by taking a hard position. For example, we can say behind closed doors that for 72 hours we are closing all Azeri businesses throughout the Russian Federation, starting with markets to all those Food Cities, and so on and so forth. We can work things out with Kurds so that there will be shockwaves in Turkey. We also have other resources that we must implement in order to extinguish this [war]. The developing situation there is catastrophic for us. What do I mean? Both sides now feel extreme mutual hatred. That is obvious everywhere. If, say, in Armenia or in Azerbaijan the policy is to instill hatred toward the neighbor, then even in the Russian Federation the same kids from Azerbaijan permit themselves in my opinion to conduct flagrant actions. We all remember too well that the Food City complex refused to serve Armenians and almost threw Armenians out [of the stores]. You are in a third country, gentlemen! What are you permitting yourselves to do?
I am further extrapolating this situation. The pressure keeps increasing and increasing. Someone prognosticated a situation as follows. Some strange people with some kind of characteristic accent deliberately storm into a school. It is a provocation. It can be done by anybody— the CIA, by anyone. It can be done by guys [khloptsy] from Ukraine. So, God forbid, they start butchering children from Armenia, or children from Azerbaijan at school. Let’s say it’s been randomly established that there [at school] children from Armenian or Azeri Diaspora study.
What is Russia to do when the Caucasus rises, when Azerbaijani or Armenian Diaspora rises, and all that turns into a bloody mess? Do we have forces to stop all that later, when that process is in full force? What am I talking about? I am talking about that little war. If Erdogan succeeds in reaching certain objectives and if we (God forbid) treacherously betray Armenia, then our authority in Caucasus will become a total zilch [naught]. We will not be able to control the situation there. We will be obliged to… I don’t even know how to act. Because in this case it is about activation of dormant cells. All that exists and all that works against us. Therefore, when this war is discussed, we have to realize that in my view (and I can be wrong): first Ukraine, then Central Asia, then Eastern Europe, then Belarus, then frankly speaking, this little war. All those events are stemming from one united anti-Russian plan. That such a plan exists, I think, our intelligence reported to the political administration. One of the distinguishing marks is that we conducted the Kavkaz 2020 [Caucasus 2020 military exercises] with significantly (at the last moment significantly) increased potential.Those Kavkaz 2020 exercises were a form of warning: lads, don’t play with fire. They did not heed. Neither Erdogan nor anyone else heard [the warning]. [Voice of the interviewer: “Nor Aliyev. He never grasps warnings.”] Not at all. The consolidation there is on these levels: Washington, Ankara and Baku. A technological lineup on the road to organization of an interethnic nationalistic little war in Russia, a most fierce one from which practically there is no exit, to create within the Russian Federation an explosion which will simply tear apart our country.
Today we do not have such potential as to counterweight these processes. There is no ideology [or] image of the future. In this case, I think that the situation should be viewed as critical, and every sort of leverage ought to be used first and foremost against Turkey. Because – I underscore – because if over there the circumstances develop in favor of the plan which is being implemented, then we will not lose only Caucasus, but we might lose [our] country.
I would like to address our remarkable Kremlinites with a request. Please ask your advisors, your area specialists to compile a historical document on Russo-Turkish relations. How many times has Turkey been armed against Russia? Who told you gentlemen who sold S-400 to our unconciliatory foe Turkey that these missiles will not be used against our airplanes taking off from Gyumri? Who told you that? Has Erdogan fulfilled even one single promise given to Putin? Do we not see how Turkey attacks us in Syria? Do we not see that Turkey attacks us in Libya, attempting to throw away all our oil resources? Do we not see [Turkey’s] behavior in other areas? Please give me an example: who is as actively acting against Russia today as Turkey does? Even the USA is not acting as actively against us as Erdogan does. I want to say once again that Erdogan is a very strong politician, whoever might make fun of him. Thus far he has only victories. We have only bluff.
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Saudi Airstrike Kills Four Yemeni Children as UN Removes Kingdom From List of Child Killers – Yemen Press
It was not the first time that the mother of Faisel Ahmed al-Jaser heard the small radio perched in the corner of her kitchen report that Saudi aircraft were once again dropping bombs in the area. This time, though, was different. She sensed something was amiss when she heard the aircraft buzzing overhead and would later come to find that one of the bombs had struck 14-year old Faisel, killing him instantly. The death of Faisel came as the United Nations announced a new decision this week to remove the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a blacklist of parties that violate the human rights of children. This, despite the fact UN investigators have themselves reported that the Saudi forces have killed hundreds of children in Yemen in the past year alone.
In fact, even as Virginia Gamba, the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, was busy telling reporters at a news conference that her boss had made the decision to remove Saudi Arabia from the blacklist, the bodies of children were burning inside of a car that was targeted by Saudi warplanes in Yemen’s northwestern province of Saada.
Latest decision by the United Nations puts the reality of what is happening on the ground in Yemen in the public interest. The aftermath of the Saudi attack on a family car filled with children is not easy to watch but it lays bare the nature of the total war that the Saudi coalition is waging on Yemeni civilians.
“Unbelievable, dirty Saudi Riyals have dropped the Kingdom from the blacklist, shame on the UN,” Abdullah Jaber Ali al-Bojani said. Al-Bojani was among the family members gathered to recover the body parts of 12-year-old Abdullah, who was killed on Monday when a Saudi airstrike hit the car he was traveling in on a highway in (Sheda) district in Saada province. In addition to Faisel and Abdullah, at least 14 people, among them four children and a woman, were killed and others were injured in the attack.
Two mine-clearance personnel and a medic also lost their lives on Monday when Saudi warplanes pounded (Ketaf) district in the same province just one after a similar attack last Wednesday that killed three civilians and injured another.
The recent United Nations decision has not only completely shaken up Yemen’s broken-heart families who lost children to coalition attacks, but it has also sparked concern that the United Nations is taking steps that will leave their-loved ones vulnerable to further Saudi attacks.
Yemeni activists and human rights groups accuse Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, of bias, saying that the move shows a blatant disregard for Saudi crimes that have documented by the UN itself. They say that the decision places a moral responsibility on Guterres and the United Nations for future Saudi crimes against children.
Yemen’s National Committee for Women views the UN decision as an attempt to provide official cover for all Saudi human rights violations and crimes against children and women in Yemen. The group pointed out that removing Saudi Arabia from the blacklist does not negate the crimes it has committed in Yemen.
For their part, Ansarullah (Houthis) sharply censured the United Nations over the decision. Mohammed AbdulSalam, the spokesman and chief negotiator for Ansar Allah, condemned the UN decision and said that it cannot erase Saudi crimes from the record. He also stated that the move affirms that the UN is colluding with Saudi Arabia is no longer capable of acting as a broker for any political solution in Yemen or anywhere else.
Hisham Sharaf, Ansar Allah’s Foreign Minister in Sana’a, warned that removing the Saudi-led coalition from the list will only encourage the Saudi regime and its air force to continue their crimes against Yemen’s children. He described the decision as a setback for UN efforts to protect and promote children’s rights all over the world.
In retaliation for the latest Saudi attacks, the Yemeni army loyal to Houthis launched a massive operation on Thursday against coalition aircraft, armories, and other sensitive targets at the Saudi military base in Khamis Masheit.
Guterres’s “list of shame”
International human rights groups have also spoken out against the UN decision. Human Rights Watch accused Guterres of ignoring evidence of grave human rights violations.
“The secretary-general is adding a new level of shame to his ‘list of shame’ by removing the Saudi-led coalition and ignoring the UN’s own evidence of continued grave violations against children,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director for Human Rights Watch.
Adrianne Lapar, director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, said that the delisting “sends the message that powerful actors can get away with killing children,” and called for “an independent, objective, transparent assessment of the process leading to the decision.”
The coalition has been on the blacklist for three years. It was added in 2016 but subsequently removed following protests from the Saudi government. Former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused the kingdom of exerting unacceptable pressure on the UN with allied countries, allegedly threatening to cut vital funding for aid programs.
Guterres returned the Saudi-led coalition to the list in 2017 in the wake of Saudi attacks on Yemeni schools and hospitals but placed it in a newly created category. In 2018, Guterres removed the coalition from a list of parties that attack schools and hospitals, despite 19 UN-documented attacks on schools in the previous year.
In his annual report on children and armed conflict, released on June 15, 2020, Guterres reported that the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for 222 child casualties and four attacks on schools and hospitals in Yemen in 2019, but he removed the Kingdom from a list of parties responsible for grave human rights violations against children.
Guterres’s removal of Saudi Arabia from the list is also at odds with his “Call to Action on Human Rights” announced earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said. In that appeal, he said, “International humanitarian law and human rights law must be respected.” Yet his decision to delist or omit the Saudi Kingdom for grave violations of the rights of children raises questions about that commitment.
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JUNE 2ND – A GOOD DAY FOR A HISTORY LESSON ABOUT THE FUTURE ~ Russell Bentley
In memory of the June 2nd, 2014 attack on Lugansk, that killed 8 peaceful civilians, including Inna Kukuruza.
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As Reaper attack drones circle the skies of Washington D.C. today, the US military prowls streets across the nation, ready to defend the goddamned US government and its owners and masters from the citizens of the USA, it is a good day to look back in history, in order to see what lies ahead. Because what’s past is prologue…
Six years ago today, on June 2nd, 2014, US-backed Ukrainian nazis made a rocket attack on the administration building in Lugansk, an area formerly in Eastern Ukraine that had risen up and refused to recognize or submit to the neo-nazi puppet regime illegally installed in a murderous coup by the Obama/Biden regime and the Clinton State Department. In act of abject terrorism that exactly fit the definition of a war crime, a Ukrainian SU-25 attacked a group of civilians gathered peacefully on the street in front. Five women and three men were murdered, with 20 more severely injured by the attack. All were civilians, none were involved in defensive military actions. Unprovoked mass murder by the military against peaceful unarmed civilians. on orders from the USA. What the US government has been doing here for more than half a decade, they are now preparing to do there, inside the United States. What they have done to us, they will soon be doing to you. Come and see…
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Embattled Yemen Fights Coronavirus with Empty Hands
Directives to open all public and private hospitals to receive cases with coronavirus and to add at least twenty beds to isolation rooms and five beds for intensive care. This came at a meeting of the Yemeni Minister of Health with directors of medical centers and health offices as part of fighting the coronavirus with the available capabilities according to a vision appropriate to the conditions in the country.
“The secret of our strength, the great power that we have and possess is a single force in the face of this aggression or this virus is the medical sector and the medical staff, the angels of mercy, the medical sector and the human cadre, is the most important element in facing this danger that almost invades everyone,” the Yemeni Minister of Health, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakkil said.
In light of the collapse of the health sector in the country and the complete inability to provide medical equipment and medicines due to the blockade imposed by the Saudi-led aggression and the failure of international organizations to provide the necessary assistance and support with the inaccuracy and efficiencies of solutions and swabs sent by the World Health Organization recently, cases of infection and the spread of the corona virus increased in more than one area in Yemen, according to a statement of the Yemeni Ministry of Health.
In his part, the Director General of Kuwait University Hospital, Dr. Amin Al-Junaid said that the epidemic came while the country is under siege. “The World Health Organization and the international organization sponsoring health should support us with materials, supplies and medicines, instead, unfortunately they have no role to mention. We need respirators, we need anesthetics, we need many drugs. “
The Supreme Committee for Combating Epidemics condemned the countries of aggression for allowing the stranded people to return to Yemen without taking precautionary measures, indicating the deliberate spread of the epidemic on a wider scale, which puts Yemenis in front of more complex challenges.
An alert from the official authorities in the health sector to combat the infection and receive patients with corona disease, with an emphasis on raising prevention to the highest levels in hospitals and medical centers, amid the complications the country is witnessing as a result of the continued aggression and siege for nearly six years.
#Yemen #US_Saudi_Aggression #Coronavirus
Intl. Quds Day, Symbol of Fighting Global Arrogance, Hegemony
Muslims around the world makes the International Quds Day, which falls on the last Friday of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
The International Quds Day is an annual event during which demonstrators express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the Zionist enemy regime of Israel.
The day is seen as the legacy of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, who officially declared the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as International Quds Day back in 1979.
The auspicious day is not merely meant for the declaration of support for an oppressed nation who have been driven out of their motherland and homes but has become the symbol of fighting Arrogance and global hegemons.
Every year people around the world pour into the streets to cast their support to the people of Palestine and express their indignation at the apartheid regime of Israel, which has occupied Palestinian territories since 1967.
However, this year, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, rallies will have a different shape and style. The rallies in the Iranian capital, Tehran, are set to be held by marching cars to show the resolve to prove that the anti-Zionism path is always full of people who never put the Palestinian cause aside.
The day is not limited to Muslims, as all freedom-seekers of the world join the rallies every year. Iranian religious minorities, including Jews and Christians, also join the demonstrations to live up to Imam Khomeini’s true purpose on declaring the Quds Day, and show unity and solidarity with their oppressed brothers and sisters in Palestine.
Head of Tehran Jewish Association Homayoun Sameyeh said Imam Khomeini formed the International Quds Day with the aim of unifying all the freedom-seekers in the world against the global Arrogance and their hegemon.
“This unity, which is shown in all world countries, increases the pressure on the occupying regime and will finally force them to stop their crimes against the Palestinians,” Sameyah told Mehr News Agency on the occasion of International Quds Day.
“The declaration of disgust by the Jewish community in Iran, as well as other countries, of the Israeli regime’s brutal actions, is a testament to this fact,” he added.
Significance of Quds Day 2020
The Israeli enemy regime has been exploiting the deteriorating regional and international developments in the past seven decades to press ahead with its crimes; however, this year’s Quds Day is very important especially with the ongoing conflict with the Zionist entity and US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century,’ which recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the ‘capital’ of the Israeli Israel and the Zionists’ decision for the annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Now, 72 years into the occupation, the regime has stepped up its belligerent moves against the oppressed people of Palestine, as Tel Aviv’s is expected to impose the Zionists’ “sovereignty” over their settlements and the strategic Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
Israeli enemy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he would start plans for annexing more areas in the occupied West Bank on July 1, in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “deal of the century.
The Palestinians, along with other Muslim nations and supporters of the Palestinian cause, are gearing up to mark this year’s International Quds Day to reiterate their call for the liberation of their homeland.
Several countries, as well as international organizations and figures, have lambasted the new annexation scheme, calling for a global stance against the decision.
The resistance leaders have called on true believers to mark the International Quds Day to assert that Jerusalem al-Quds was and will remain the undivided capital of the Palestinian people and that the occupation will one day come to an end.
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Afghanistan: Explanatory remarks by the spokesman of Islamic Emirate regarding the horrific attack in Kabul
An armed attack took place the other day on a 100-bed hospital in Dashti Barchi area of Kabul city which resulted in a number of our innocent compatriots – women and children deliberately and ruthlessly martyred in a horrendous crime.
Another blast took place at a funeral in Nangarhar on the same day which also resulted in death and injuries to a number of our fellow civilian countrymen.
The Islamic Emirate strongly condemned both attacks and clarified that these attacks were the work of criminal and malicious elements who are seeking to attain their malicious objectives by killing defenseless human beings.
But the Kabul administration officials at the highest levels immediately attributed these crimes to the Islamic Emirate and made use of a host of fabrications, photoshop and deceptions to mislead common perception.
The Islamic Emirate once again clarifies that it had no hand in the Dashti Barchi incident, considers it a vile, inhumane and an un-Islamic act and shares the grief of the families of martyrs and wounded of this tragedy.
The Islamic Emirate considers the Kabul incident the work of malicious elements directly affiliated with the Kabul administration for the following reasons:
– The 100-bed hospital in Dashti Barchi was founded and established for women and children in 2014 due to the efforts and upon the continuous requests by the Islamic Emirate to International and Doctors Without Borders NGOs hence it would make no sense for Mujahideen of the Emirate to attack the same hospital or clinic.
– How could a Mujahid who understands Islam and considers the killing innocent human beings a grave crime open fire upon women and even newborn innocent infants at a hospital which had absolutely no military target inside it?
– In the initial phase of the attack the Kabul administration spokespersons and their media partners and at the end of the day Ashraf Ghani himself launched extensive and systematic propaganda in an effort to pin the attacks on the Islamic Emirate without any expert investigation!!? This itself showcases that malicious circles were behind this crime and they planned and executed it following joint consultations to defame the Islamic Emirate.
– Exploiting the Dashti Barchi incident and blast at a funeral in Nangarhar to declare the launch of offensive operations against the Islamic Emirate also indicates that the Kabul administration sought to implement its warmongering policy by muddying water and catching fish in order to find an excuse for such an irrational declaration.
– The creation of fake whatsapp and messenger messages by various Kabul administration organs at the same time as the attack, the broadcasting of fake audio clips and dissemination of photoshopped images also demonstrate that the Dashti Barchi attack was a pre-planed conspiracy aimed at defaming the Islamic Emirate and misusing this great crime for nefarious goals.
The agents of war and misery in Afghanistan are known. Those who have ruthlessly murdered civilians for the past nineteen years now seek to provoke public and international anger against the believing Mujahid Afghan nation with crimes akin to the communist era KHAD and to use it as an excuse for revealing their anti-peace stance.
The Islamic Emirate once again explicitly clarifies that the attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar have no relation with the Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate. We consider both incidents crimes and unspeakable savagery. Attacks on clinics, funerals and public infrastructure have no place in our policy.
At the same time, we firmly call for the transparent and impartial investigation of these attacks in order to expose the dark faces of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes and bring them to justice.
Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Zabihullah Mujahid
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Afghanistan: Anti-peace elements behind civilian massacres
Following the signing of the historical agreement in Qatar on 29th of February 2020, the enemies of peace have also begun working overtime to wreck havoc and cause confusions in an effort to obstruct the successful implementation of the agreement aimed at bringing lasting peace to Afghanistan. We have seen that the past few months and this week in particular have proven deadly for innocent Afghan civilians. In this Holy month of Ramadan, the criminal Kabul administration has targeted protests, clinics and gatherings in provinces of Wardak, Ghor and Balkh.
Today the enemies of peace again carried out heinous assaults on a funeral in Nangarhar and a hospital in Kabul. There is now an emerging pattern that whenever a step is taken forward towards peace, the enemies of peace simultaneously begin committing crimes and the shameless Kabul regime — the beneficiary of war in Afghanistan — immediately pins the blame on the Mujahideen even though it is the criminal anti-peace Kabul based administration that sheltered and continues to shelter terrorists like the so called Daesh in Kabul guesthouses after evacuating them to safety from the forces of the Islamic Emirate who destroyed their bases and liberated the poor common Afghans from their brutalities and cruelties. Such elements are used by anti-peace elements to strike soft targets and cause casualties among the civilians.
The sole purpose of Islamic Emirate is to liberate the people from oppression and bring peace and prosperity to the people of Afghanistan. Safeguarding the lives and properties of common Afghans is duty of every soldier of the Islamic Emirate and each is deeply saddened by such incidents thus causing them to strive that much harder to bring stability to their homeland and eliminate all enemies of peace.
The Kabul based administration’s so called security sector made up of CIA deaths squads and mercenaries of foreign intelligence agencies are the ones responsible for these recent crimes against humanity in Kabul and Nangarhar, just like the ones which took place over the past 24 hours in other provinces. These Kabul administration security heads are known and documented criminals, a fact widely reported by international organizations.
The International community should know that it is this very regime that is using every despicable tactic in the playbook to try and sabotage peace efforts however these Kabul-based elitists and war profiteers heading the double-headed criminal enterprise will not succeed because there now exists a regional and international consensus for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
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From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia Creating Next Fallujah in Yemen
As the world’s focus turns to the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 pandemic, Yemenis are reeling from their own brewing tragedy, contending with the thousands of cluster bombs, landmines and other exploded munitions that now litter their homeland. Just yesterday, a young child was killed and another was injured in the al-Ghail district of al-Jawf when a landmine left by the Saudi military exploded, witnesses told MintPress. Outraged and terrified by the presence of these unexploded ordnances, Ahmed Sharif, a father of 9 who owns a farm in the district called the unexploded ordnances “a significant threat to our children.”
Earlier this week, thousands of cluster bombs containing between dozens and hundreds of smaller submunitions were dropped by air and scattered indiscriminately over large areas near Ahmed’s farm. A large number of those munitions failed to explode on impact, creating a new threat to residents already reeling from 5 years of war, famine and an economic blockade. The use, production, sale, and transfer of cluster munitions is prohibited under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international agreement recognized by over 100 countries, but rejected by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Saudi Arabia is estimated to have dropped thousands of tons of U.S.-made weapons in al-Jawf over the past 100 days alone. Al-Jawf is an oil-rich province that lies in Yemen’s north-central reaches along the Saudi border. The aerial campaign is likely a last-ditch effort to stem the tide of battlefield success by local volunteer fighters who teamed with Houthi forces to recapture large swaths of al-Jawf and Marib provinces. That campaign, for all intents and purposes, has failed.
On Wednesday, the Houthis announced that their military operation – dubbed “God Overpowered Them” – was complete and that al-Jawf was free of Saudi occupation. According to Houthi sources, more than 1,200 Saudi-led coalition fighters were killed or injured during the operation and dozens of Saudi troops, including officers, were captured. The Houthis also struck deep into Saudi territory in retaliation for the more than 250 Saudi airstrikes that were carried out during the campaign. In multiple operations, ballistic missiles and drones were used to target facilities inside Saudi Arabia, according to officials.
Saudi losses haven’t been limited to al-Jawf either. Last week, Marib province, which lies adjacent to Yemen’s capital of Sana’a, was recaptured following heavy battles with Saudi forces. Local tribal fighters were able to clear strategic areas in the Sirwah District with the assistance of Houthi forces and take control of the town of Tabab Al-Bara and the strategic Tala Hamra hills that overlook Marib city. Both the Saudi-led coalition and its allied militants initially admitted defeat but later described their loss as a tactic withdrawal.
Marib is now the second Yemeni governorate adjacent to Saudi Arabia to fall under the control by Yemen’s resistance forces in the last month, al-Jawf being the first. Both provinces have strategic importance to Saudi Arabia and could serve as a potential launch point for operations into Saudi Arabia’s Najran province.
“Saudi [Arabia] and America have planted our land with death”
The highly populated urban areas of Sana’a, Sadaa, Hodeida, Hajjah, Marib, and al-Jawf have been subjected to incomprehensible bombing campaigns during the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which turns five on March 26. The sheer scale of that campaign, which often sees hundreds of separate airstrikes carried out every day, coupled with its indiscriminate nature, has left Yemen one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world.
Since 2015, when the war began, coalition warplanes have conducted more than 250,000 airstrikes in Yemen, according to the Yemeni Army. 70 percent of those airstrikes have hit civilian targets. Thousands of tons of weapons, most often supplied by the United States, have been dropped on hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, farms, factories, bridges, and power and water treatment plants and have left unexploded ordnances scattered across densely populated areas.
A significant proportion of those ordnances are still embedded in the ground or amid the rubble of bombed-out buildings, posing a threat to both civilians and the environment. As Man’e Abu Rasein, a father who lost two sons to an unexploded cluster bomb in August of 2018 puts it: “Saudi [Arabia] and America have planted our land with death.” Abu Rasein’s sons, Rashid, ten, and Hussein, eight, were grazing their family’s herd of sheep in the village of al-Ghol north of Sadaa, far from any battlefield. They spotted an unusual looking object and like most curious young boys, picked it up to investigate. But the object they found was no toy, it was an unexploded cluster munition dropped by a Saudi jet. After hearing an explosion, the boys’ family went to investigate and found them lying dead, covered in blood.
Since March of 2015, Human Rights Watch has recorded more than 15 incidents involving six different types of cluster munitions in at least five of Yemen’s 21 governorates. According to the United Nations Development Program’s Emergency Mine Action Project, some of the heaviest mine and ERW (explosive remnants of war) contamination is reported in northern governorates bordering Saudi Arabia, southern coastal governorates and west-central governorates, all areas surrounding Houthi-dominated regions of Yemen. Since 2018 alone, the UNDP has cleared nearly 9,000 landmines and over 116,000 explosive remnants in Yemen.
From the Yemeni war of 1994 to the six wars in Sadaa, Yemenis have suffered several wars over the last three decades. Yet thanks to saturation of U.S. weapons, the ongoing war has brought death on a toll not seen in Yemen for hundreds of years. In Sadaa, the Saudi coalition has a significant legacy of unexploded ordinances, up to one million according to figures provided to MintPress by the Yemeni Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC), an organization backed by the United Nations.
The Project Manager of YEMAC identified heavy cluster munition contamination in Saada, al-Jawf, Amran, Hodeida, Mawit, and Sanaa governorates, including in Sanaa city. Contamination was also reported in Marib. For the time being, YEMAC is the only organization working throughout the country during the ongoing war. Their teams are confronted with a very complex situation, disposing of both conventional munitions and bombs dropped from airplanes, including explosive remnants of war rockets, artillery shells, mortars, bombs, hand grenades, landmines, cluster bombs, and other sub-munitions and similar explosives.
Saudi Arabia’s toxic legacy
In addition to killing and injuring hundreds of civilians, American-made weapons have exposed Yemen’s people to highly toxic substances on a level not seen since the now-infamous use of radioactive depleted uranium by the United States in Fallujah, Iraq, which to this day is causing abnormally high rates of cancer and birth defects.
The hazardous chemicals from Saudi Coalition military waste, including radioactive materials, fuel hydrocarbons, and heavy metals, has already led to outbreaks of disease. Vehicles abandoned on battlefields, usually in various states of destruction, contain toxic substances including PCBs, CFCs, DU residue, heavy metals, unexploded ordnances, asbestos and mineral oils. Hundreds of these military scraps remain publicly accessible in Nihm, al-Jawf, Serwah, Marib and throughout Yemen.
Aside from the threat they pose to life and limb, unexploded ordnances contain toxic substances like RDX, TNT, and heavy metals which release significant levels of toxic substances into the air, soil and water. According to both the Ministry of Water and Environment and the Ministry of Health, which have undertaken environmental assessments on the impact of urban bombing, high levels of hazardous waste and air pollutants are already present in a populated areas
Alongside the still unknown quantities of more conventional weapons remnants in Yemen, the waste from the cleanup of bombed-out buildings has been found to be especially contaminated with hazardous materials, including asbestos which is used in military applications for sound insulation, fireproofing and wiring among other things. Fires and heavy smoke billowing over heavily populated civilian areas following Saudi bombing runs also pose an imminent threat to human health. A common sight in many Yemeni cities since the war began, these thick clouds of toxic smoke sometimes linger for days and coat both surfaces and people’s lungs with hazardous toxins like PAHs, dioxins and furans, materials which have been shown to cause cancer, liver problems and birth defects.
Before the war began, most hazardous materials were trucked to Sanaa where they were separated and disposed of properly at the sprawling al-Azragein treatment plant south of the capital. But that plant was among the first targets destroyed by Saudi airstrikes after the war began. After it was bombed, puddles and heaps of toxic material were left to mix with rainwater and seep into surrounding areas. Yemeni researchers are still trying to grasp the scale of pollution from biohazardous chemicals at the site.
Although a comprehensive nationwide environmental assessment of the impact of urban bombing in Yemen has yet to be completed, high levels of hazardous waste and air pollutants have been recorded by many hospitals and environmental agencies. Some idea of the long-term effects can also be gleaned from studies carried out in areas where similar toxins have been used, particularly by the United States in Fallujah, Iraq and in Vietnam, where scientific assessments have shown increased cases of birth defects, cancer and other diseases, including in U.S. veterans.
In southern Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates operate largely unchallenged, the coalition has been disposing of military waste in large trenches devoid of any measures to mitigate potential toxic fallout. Waste is dumped into large holes and either detonated or simply buried, inevitably contaminating soil and groundwater according to data from the UN Environment Program.
Yemen’s coastline hasn’t been immune either. The country’s General Authority for Environmental Protection said Wednesday that the Saudi-led coalition is dumping toxic and polluted waste on the shores of Yemen and in Yemeni regional waters, causing great damage to the marine environment, the deaths of fish and marine organisms, and in some cases, actually changing the color of the sea to a toxic green. The agency stated that in addition to dumping toxic waste, the coalition was allowing unsafe fishing practices such as marine dredging and the use of explosives by foreign ships, destroying the marine environment and coral reefs.
One hundred years to safety
Thousands of displaced Yemenis cannot fathom returning home due to the large number of explosives potentially hidden in and around their houses. Removing them all would require an end to the U.S.-backed war and economic blockade. Special equipment and armored machines such as armored excavators would need to be brought in, a slim prospect in a country unable to secure even the basic stapes of life.
Explosive remnants do not just impact lives and limbs, they prevent the use of potentially productive agricultural land and the rebuilding of important infrastructure. Like many border areas in Saada and Hajjah, fertile soil in al-Jawf and Marib has become so environmentally polluted since the war began that it could take decades to recover. Explosive remnants also prevent access to vital resources like water and firewood, cripples the movement of residents, including children traveling to school, and prevents aid from reaching those in need.
Even if the Saudi-led coalition were to stop the war immediately and lift the blockade, its legacy of indiscriminate bombing on such a massive scale will be felt for years to come. Due to the intensity of the bombing, experts at the United Nations Development Program’s Yemeni Executive Mine Action Center estimate that clearance could take at least 100 years in larger cities. Despite these dangers, desperate families with nowhere to go do not waste a lull in the barrage of Saudi airstrikes or a short-lived ceasefire to attempt to return home.
Source: MintPress News
Ahmed AbdulKareem
http://alwaght.com/en/news/173783
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One civilian martyred after US occupation opened fire on locals in Khirbet Ammo, eastern Qamishli
Hasaka, SANA– A civilian was martyred and other was injured when American Occupation forces opened fire on locals of the villages of Khirbet Ammo and Hamou in eastern Qamishli after they gathered near a Syrian Arab Army post while the Army was preventing American occupation vehicles from crossing.
Meanwhile, locals of Bweir al-Bouassi village threw stones at the U.S. occupation’s vehicles and they took down the US flag from above them.
SANA reporter in Hasaka said that “A Syrian Arab Army post in the area on Wednesday morning stopped four American occupation vehicles while they were crossing al-Suwais – Alaia- Khirbet Ammo road east of Qamishli city, then hundreds of locals of Khirbet Ammo and Hamou villages gathered near the post to prevent the American occupation vehicles from crossing and to force them to return from where they came”.
The reporter stated that “The American occupation soldiers fired live bullets and smoke bombs on the locals as a civilian from the village of Khirbet Ammo was martyred while another civilian from Hamou village was injured.”
In response to the attack by the American occupation forces, the locals damaged four of the occupation’s armored vehicles, while the occupation forces rushed to bring reinforcements to the area that include 5 armored vehicles, to withdraw their damaged vehicles and evacuate their personnel.
In the same context, and during the passage of a number of American occupation armored vehicles through Bweir al-Bouassi village, in the countryside of al-Qamishli city, locals of the village intercepted them and attacked the armored vehicles with stones and forced them to stop while a number of young men got on the top of one of the vehicles and took down the U.S flag from it.
Later, SANA reporter said that there is news on air assault by US occupation on Khirbet Ammo village, Qamishli countryside
The reporter added that direct clashes with light weapons erupted between the locals of the village and the U.S. occupation.
The reporter indicated that the occupation forces withdrew from the village under a cover by the U.S. warplanes.
Yara Ismail/ Ruaa al-Jazaeri
Source 👇
https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=185108
U.S. Cockroaches
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Al-Qaeda Recruited Again in Yemen by Saudi-Led Coalition
TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi Arabia and the UAE are using al-Qaeda in Yemen again despite claims that the terrorist group has ended its presence in the Arab country, a Yemeni news website disclosed on Monday.
The Arabic-language al-Khabar al-Yamani news website reported on Monday that the UAE is making use of the al-Qaeda again in al-Shabwah province in Southern Yemen to restore its influence which was almost gone last year.
Meantime, Saudi Arabia is correcting the structure of the resigned government’s forces which allows the al-Qaeda leaders to remain at the top of the rank.
According to the report, the Saudi-led coalition is attempting to deploy new forces, commanded by Zaki al-Haji who is linked with al-Qaeda in Lahij, to act as a wall stretching from Lahij to the West, from Yafe and Zale’ to the Central parts of the country and from Baiza and Ma’arib to the East to prevent advance of the Yemeni army and Ansarullah forces.
In a relevant development last September, Yemen’s Transportation Minister in the fugitive president Mansour Hadi’s cabinet Salih al-Jabwani accused the UAE of close ties and cooperation with the al-Qaeda and ISIL terrorists.
“We have evidence to prove that the UAE has relations with al-Qaeda and ISIL terrorist groups in Yemen,” al-Jabwani wrote in his twitter page.
He added that the UAE uses these terrorists to attack the Yemeni army forces and equipment on Shabwah-Abyan road in Southern Yemen.
Al-Jabwani underlined the need for the residents of Shabwah and Abyan provinces to take stance against the UAE and its affiliated terrorists.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have been supporting the Takfiri terrorist groups in Southern Yemen against the Yemeni popular forces for a long time.
The Yemeni intelligence sources disclosed in 2016 that the country’s security forces had gained access to a series of documents and correspondence which prove the UAE’s role in supporting Al-Qaeda and other radical terrorists groups in Southern Yemen.
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Millions of Yemenis Starve, International Humanitarian Organizations Spend Aid Amounts on Dogs
Despite the attempts by the international organization to cover its corruption by pointing the finger of blame at Sana’a, corruption affecting humanitarian and relief work in Yemen continues to unfold. According to data recently revealed by the Salvation government, and multiple documents obtained by Al-Akhbar news website, the United Nations agents in this poor country do not refrain from wasting aid on fake projects, for personal interests, or even for those who raise their dogs, while 10 million Yemenis suffer from 28 million are extremely hungry, and receive only corrupt aid from the World Food Program.
Source: Millions of Yemenis Starve, International Humanitarian Organizations Spend Aid Amounts on Dogs
The Members of Congress Who Profit from War
Here are the senators and representatives who own stock in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and other top defense contractors. 💡💰
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/members-congress-profit-war/5701416
Lucia Trent: Breed, little mothers, breed for the war lords who slaughter your sons
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Women writers on peace and war
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Lucia Trent
Breed, Women, Breed
Breed, little mothers,
With tired backs and tired hands,
Breed for the owners of mills and the owners of mines,
Breed a race of danger-haunted men,
A race of toiling, sweating, miserable men,
Breed, little mothers,
Breed for the owners of mills and the owners of mines,
Breed, breed, breed!
Breed, little mothers,
With the sunken eyes and the sagging cheeks,
Breed for the bankers, the crafty and terrible masters of men,
Breed a race of machines,
A race of aenemic, round-shouldered, subway-herded machines!
Breed, little mothers,
With a faith patient and stupid as cattle.
Breed for the war lords,
Offer your woman flesh for incredible torment,
Wrack your frail bodies with the pangs of birth
For the…
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Israel is Genociding Gaza. It’s far worse than anything I saw during two brutal Israeli wars on Gaza
Video: Yemeni hacker publishes warning during breaking into israeli TV channel
SANAA, Nov. 31 (YPA) – A Yemeni hacker has managed to break into the live broadcast of an Israeli TV channel and published a severe warning.
Yemeni activists circulated on social media a video showing a hacking operation carried out by a Yemeni engineer to get into one of the Zionist TV channels, during which he published excerpts from the warnings of the leader, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, to the Zionist entity.
The hacker also raised the Yemeni flag and al-Sarkha slogan in the TV, and scenes of military operations by drones and the missile force of the Yemeni army.
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https://en.ypagency.net/308992
Long video but a must watch to understand what is really going on and the mindsets involved.
JULIUS MALEMA IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE AT ISRAEL EMBASSY 🔥
https://youtu.be/WgDSgp9rkK0?si=Yxv3Ovxzu5ubYFNZ
Video is in the comments because I guess WP does not like this video or you can no longer embed videos in the posts.
The real legacy of Christopher Columbus: slavery and genocide – Liberation School
It makes sense that USA celebrates a genocidal maniac
To celebrate Columbus is to celebrate a legacy of genocide, slavery, rape and plunder. It commemorates the violent and bloody accumulation of capital for the ruling classes of Europe and, later, the U.S.
Columbus’ voyage was financed by the Spanish monarchy. Spain was then a newly unified nation-state in competition with other European powers to expand its domain and amass great wealth. The purpose of his expedition was to establish an alternative trade route to the East and return with riches. Gold and silver were of particular interest to Columbus.
When he landed in the islands now known as the Bahamas, Columbus encountered the Arawak Indians, whose kindness and generosity he noted in his journal and letters. Columbus quickly took a group of Arawaks captive, hoping they could lead him to gold. He then sailed to Hispaniola-Haiti and the Dominican Republic-where he enslaved even more Indians.
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https://www.liberationschool.org/the-legacy-of-christopher-columbus/
Over 2,000 dead in western Afghanistan earthquakes
I know everyone is now focused on Palestine and big surprise they are forgetting Ukraine now, hmmm. Anyway here’s a horrific disaster not making the news. I believe that USA is still holding Afghanistan’s money hostage or funneled it into their own pockets.
A devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3, accompanied by significant aftershocks, claimed the lives of numerous individuals in western Afghanistan on Saturday, as reported by the nation’s disaster management agency.
However, Abdul Wahid Rayan, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Information and Culture, has indicated that the number of casualties resulting from the Herat earthquake is greater than initially stated. Approximately six villages have been devastated, and numerous civilians are trapped under the rubble, prompting an urgent appeal for assistance.
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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/miscellaneous/over-2000-dead-in-western-afghanistan-earthquakes
It breaks my heart to hear that 14 members of his family, including his 5-day-old child, are trapped under the rubble. A devastating earthquake has devastated countless homes in Herat, Afghanistan, claiming the lives of over 2,000 people and leaving more than 10,000 injured. Sadly, the number of casualties might rise as there are still several missing bodies. My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected. آه وطنم
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The Canadian Sieg Heil and the Shrine of the Partisans WW2
https://carinamalatesta.substack.com/p/the-shrine-of-the-bolognese-partisans
I’ve always wondered how Italy was an “enemy state” during WW2 when Mussolini was arrested and imprisoned. Hitler invaded and imposed Mussolini on Italy. The partisans were fighting the Nazis and the fascist brigades along with the Allies. Meanwhile, the “Allies” destroyed Italy with their bombings, flying so low you could see the planes from the windows. They knew exactly who and what they were bombing, homes, hospitals etc.. After the war the Allies aligned with the fascists and terrorized Italy with gladio ops. We all know that the Allies worked with Hitler so I have a very different perspective of WW2. I might right about it in the future. In the mean time there is this from the US and their gladio ops.
Right-Wing Terrorists Trained at NATO Bases Set To Go on Trial in Italy (EN)
The massacres in Italy. With NATO too many deaths and unfinished business (IT)
Biden Walks on the Bodies of Dead Ukranians as Campaign Ad
Just unbelievable the audacity of this demented war criminal, using the destruction of Ukraine in US proxy war with Russia as a campaign ad. Wonder how the many mothers and wives of the dead and missing feel about Biden using them as a campaign ad.
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Sunday International News Wrap Up ~ 10 September 2023
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