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Hundreds of Yemenis Killed and Injured in Taz Before Abu Abbas Exist Agreement, French Weapon Sales Continue to Kill Yemenis

April 27, 2019 

An attack on a neighborhood in the Yemeni city of Taiz, April 25, 2019	Agreement on the exit of the Yemeni Abu Abbas brigades from Taiz to Al-Kadaha and the presidential guard to secure the City, April 27, 2019

 

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

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Abu Al-'abbas brigades ' gunmen exit from Taiz to Al-Kadaha with the protection of the Presidential guard

April 27, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٧ أبريل ٢٠١٩

Gunmen from the "Abu Abbas" brigades arrived at the al-Kadaha front in the al-Ma'afer district from the old city of Taiz in southwest Yemen after several days of clashes between them and the security campaign.

Local sources told "Al-Masdar  online " that the elements of the "Abu Abbas" Brigades moved from the old City to the Kadaha on the board of 30 vehicles and 20 cars, and were secured with by the Fifth Brigade presidential guard who oversaw the implementation of an agreement to end the confrontations and evacuate the old city of militants.

He also accompanied the convoy of battalions from the city to al-Kadaha Aref Jamel, chairman of the Pacification Committee and abdul hakim Awn, and military and social leaders.

The militants of the "Abu Abbas" brigades came out of the old City on the basis of an agreement with the Pacification committee headed by Arif Jamel, charged by Taiz Governor Nabil Shaman and implementing previous agreements.

Also on the basis of the agreement, the forces of the Fifth Brigade presidential Guards and special security forces assigned to protect and secure the old city and to hand over police stations to the security department.

Taiz.. The agreement on the exit of the Abu Abbas brigades to Al-Kadaha and the presidential guard to secure the Old City

April 27, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٧ أبريل ٢٠١٩

The truce committee tasked by the Governor of Taiz, Nabil Shaman, on Friday reached an agreement with representatives of the Abu Abbas brigades on a ceasefire in the old City after five days of confrontations.

A source who attended the meeting told "Al-Masdar online " that the pacification committee headed by Arif Jamil agreed with the representative of the Abu al-Abbas brigades Mo’amen Al-mikhlafi on a ceasefire and the extradition of security wanted.

The agreement also stipulated that the forces of the Fifth Brigade presidential guard should take over the security of the Old City and its environs, and protect the withdrawal of the gunmen from Abu Abbas to al-Kadaha in the Ma'afer district

On Thursday, Mo’amen, who were accused of assassinating Capt. Mahmoud al-Humaidi, deputy security and system officer, had handed over the accused of assassination of the officer to Bab al-Kabir police station.

This agreement was concluded in the presence of General Abdul Karim al-Sabri, deputy governor of Taiz for Defence and Security affairs, and Dr. Abdul Hakim Awn, undersecretary of the province and Ammar al-Jundubi, head of the Fifth Brigade operation.

This is not the first agreement and will not be the last if the Abu Abbas brigades are delayed from implementing its terms as in previous times.

Taiz.. 2 soldiers, 3 gunmen, 10 civilians killed in Taiz

April 26, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٦ أبريل ٢٠١٩

Two soldiers, three gunmen and 10 civilians were killed and 11 civilians were injured as a result of clashes and ongoing shelling between the security campaign and the Abu al-Abbas brigades of the 35th Armoured Brigade south of Taiz City.

Security sources told Al-Masdar online that the clashes had been expanded, accompanied by artillery shelling and sniping operations between the security campaign forces and the Abu Abbas Brigades, which is funded by Emirati in the old city and adjacent areas.

According to sources, the soldier Rabie Mahjub Naaman and another military police soldier were shot dead by snipers of Abu al-Abbas brigades in front of the Republican hospital building, in return, killing three Abu al-Abbas gunmen.

A citizen called Al-Wisabi  and six other members of his family were killed in Wadi al-Madam, the child Uday Jalal Osman was killed in Bab al-Kabir as a result of the shells, and a citizen was killed and a motorcycle driver in a Aqbat Mofreh by sniper fire.

In addition, 11 civilians, including three seriously wounded, were taken to  AL- Thawrah Republican Hospital and Al-Safwah hospitals.

The fall of some of the shells due to mutual shelling burned two buildings  and three shops on al-Khayateen Street and commercial stalls in Bab Musa and Bab al-Kabir.

Suicide bomber kills 9 civilians in al-Baydha

April 27, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٧ أبريل ٢٠١٩

At least nine civilians were killed Friday in a suicide bombing attack on a shop for a citizen in al-Quraishiah district in al-Bayda province, central Yemen, according to local source  told al-Masdar online.

According to the source, a suicide bomber believed to be affiliated with "ISIS " blew himself up in the "shop " of the Citizen Shawkah Ahmed Abu Suraimah, in Thi Kaleb Al-Safil area «Al Abu Suraimah » which killed nine civilians who were inside.

He added that among the dead were the owner of the "shop " and his brother  "Ali ", two of his children, and four other citizens.

ISIS gunmen tried to control several sites in the region at the end of last month, but tribesmen and militants believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda repelled them and, after fierce battles that lasted nearly a week to take control of the sites, and most of ISIS operatives flee in the direction of positions controlled By the Al-Houthi group, while others withdrew to unknown areas.

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

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Unbearable Situation in the Old City of Taiz

April 27, 2019, YemenExtra, SH.A.

Local residents in the old city of Taiz on Thursday have said that the attack launched the Islah militias on the city on the pretext of searching for wanted people from the radical Salafist group Abu Abbas resulted in the death and injury of more than 100 citizens, mostly children and women.

The residents explained that Abu Abbas militias fortified themselves in homes of civilians and faced the campaign launched by Islah militias, (the branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen), with a counter-campaign using snipers and thermal rockets.

They noted that the civilians remained in their homes under the fire of the two sides, calling for help, but no one gives a dim about their cry “while artillery shells were falling on houses and their voices reverberating throughout the city.”

Since Thursday morning, the old city has been witnessing attacks that the owners of shops have not been able to open, which doubling food and nutritional crisis  that the people of the city have suffered as a result of blockade imposed by the coalition countries since more than four years ago and malnutrition getting higher in Yemen as a whole.

Other sources said that many residents of the old City were forced to flee to mosques as safe places, and its minarets launched calls for those who rescued them from what they called the storm owners, referring to the militias of the coalition which named its war on Yemen with the decisive storm, but to no avail, in the time when the loudspeakers were repeating calls, the shells were falling on the city on both sides.

As clashes between coalition rival militias increase, the health situation in the city is worsening, residents said.

“The situation is unbearable in the old city, there are wounded civilians. There are no medical centers to receive them, and they are being rushed to homes or mosques,” one of the local residents added.

According to sources, “the hospitals in Taiz City started evacuating the patients and the majority of doctors and workers left their homes before neighborhoods and streets are closed after the fighting intensified in the east of the city.”

The governor of Taiz, appointed by the exiled President ” Hadi”, sent a memorandum to the commander of the so-called “35 Armored Brigade” and Abu al-Abbas,  “to hand over  the wanted (extremists of Salafist militias) included in a list of  Police director of Taiz province were  accused of assassinating security personnel. ”

Over the past two weeks, Taiz has been witnessing violent confrontations between Salafist militias led by Abu Abbas and Islah party militias led by the city’s security, following which hundreds of families have been displaced from the city to Sanaa run by the Supreme Political Council, seeking a safe place to stay.

France wants to kill Yemenis ,misleads the whole world

April 26, 2019,  YemenExtra, Y.A

Diplomatic sources said that the prosecutor’s office in Paris is launching an investigation into the disclosure of military secrets after French media published a secret report prepared by the military intelligence on the use of French weapons in Yemen.

The news agency ” France Presse” on Wednesday, quoting several informed sources, that the investigation was launched on December 13 last year, on the basis of a lawsuit submitted by the French Ministry of the armies. The sources explained that the General Directorate of Internal Security (a French intelligence agency) is responsible for conducting the mentioned investigation.

The same sources indicated that a person or people who had access to the document under their functional status might have been involved in the disclosure process.

The report (15 pages) prepared by the French Military Intelligence, which revealed its content the new non-governmental organization, DISLOSE, contains detailed information on the weapons that France sent to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are participating in the war against Yemen.

Although French officials have repeatedly covered their participation in the Yemen war under the pretext that the French arms supplied to Saudi Arabia and the UAE are used in a limited manner and in defensive operations only outside the lines of the fronts.

However, a number of French media outlets, based on the content of the report (which also includes an assessment of the seriousness of the use of French weapons against civilians), concluded that French arms, such as the heavy Leclerc and the large-caliber Cessars are used In offensive operations against Yemen.

Discovery’s founder, Geoffrey Lepulsi, revealed that at least three journalists who were involved in the investigative report on the subject of the report were summoned to provide intelligence briefings by the coming mid-May.

“The sole purpose of this investigation is to identify sources that have allowed us to complete our professional work with the content of the report,” he said.

“This is a flagrant violation of press freedom,” he added, breaking national legislation on the protection of press sources.

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

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

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

South Yemen the scene of high tension

April 25, 2019, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni Air Force carried out a successful aerial attack on the Saudi-led coalition’s , backed by the US, main headquarters in Aden, a Qasef-K2 Drone attacked the headquarters of the coalition-backed militants in Burika district, the attack hit its target precisely, causing direct injuries.

The Qasef-K2 drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle that explodes at a height of 10 meters above the target, causing a wide spreading of shrapnel fragments with a diameter of 80 meters.

Fierce clashes erupted on Wednesday between paid fighters in the third straight day in Yemen’s city of Aden, residents said.The clashed happened between paid fighters of al-Sailah and al-Maharaiq in line of ignoring Saudi-UAE coalition-backed local authorities.

The assailants used medium and heavy weapons, showing rise of smoke at a sky of al-Shiekh Othman district.

Assassinations and security disorder have been ramping in Aden since United Arab Emirates forces , main part of the coalition, took over the city.

Saudi-led coalition sustains losses at the hands of the Yemeni army forces

On Apr 24, 2019, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Air Force of the Yemeni army forces launched an airstrike Wednesday with Qasef K2 drone targeting gatherings of the coalition army in Al-Rabwa area of Asir front.

A military source told YemenExtra that the attack hit its target accurately, confirming the deaths and injuries of number of their enemy.

Their air defense , recently, said that the unit has shot down 17 coalition’s drones over the past 80 days.The operation took place in Najran, Hodeidah, Jizan, Saada and Sanaa province.

Revealing a new model of the “Exploring and Exploding” drone, Qasef 2K , The Yemeni Air Force recently used it in the attack on the Airbase of Al-Anad, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. “This drone has been tested for its accuracy and effectiveness, it can carry heavy payloads and can cause wide damage to targets,” The Armed Forces Spokesman, Brigadier Yahya Sari said. “A video showing its design, history of development and tests will be distributed soon,” he promised. The Air Force spokesman, Brigadier General Al-Jafri, said that our aircraft could penetrate the enemy’s airspace without being detected, pointing out that there are many surprises similar to this one will be revealed. Qasef 2K targeted a large military parade of the coalition at the air base of Al-Anad, killing and wounding dozens, including senior military and political leaders. Various media outlets have released scenes of the explosion the drone caused, on a platform where leaders of the paid fighters were present.

“Our missiles and drones are able to reach their targets, despite the measures of the UAE,” Yemeni Army spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman has said. All targets are strategic, in the range of the Yemeni fire, and targeting will be sore to the enemy. “The next would be tougher and the invaders and their mercenaries would reap only shame and awful defeats on the hands of our heroic heroes”, Armed Forces Spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e added. He stressed that this qualitative operation is the inauguration of the new combat year 2019, which will be the year of victories and qualitative operations unless the forces of the coalition and their paid fighters accepted peace and stopped their war against their homeland and people.

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

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

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

 

 

 

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