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UAE Air Strikes on Yemeni Army in Aden, Saudi Air Strike on a Detention Center in Dhamar, Houthi Drone Attack on Jizan  

September 3, 2019

 

UAE-backed Yemeni militiamen, file, September 2, 2019

Yemenis in Turkey, protest against UAE's targeting of national army. September 1, 2019	Yemenis in Michigan, USA, protest against UAE's targeting of national army. September 1, 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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Yemenis protest against UAE's targeting of national army in Michigan

September 3, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٠٣ سبتمبر ٢٠١٩

Hundreds of Members of the Yemeni community in Michigan, USA, on Monday staged a vigil to denounce the UAE's targeting of the Yemeni national army and to demand that the UAE stop supporting militias and tampering with Yemen.

The demonstrators carried banners denouncing the UAE regime's policy towards Yemen, calling for the expulsion of the UAE force from the pro-legitimacy coalition.

Thousands of Yemeni communities in New York, Washington, Germany and Turkey carried out similar vigils to denounce the UAE's intervention.

In the Turkish city of Istanbul, members of the Yemeni community during a vigil on Sunday to denounce the crimes of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen, prayed for the deaths of the national army who died in the bombing of the UAE air force in the provinces of Aden and Abyan in southern Yemen.

The protesters denounced the air strikes on the army, raising Yemeni flags and banners with anti-UAE slogans and the subversive roles of Mohammed bin Zayed in southern Yemen in support of separatist militias, and persistent attempts to divide Yemen.

On Saturday, members of the Yemeni community in Washington and New York, U.S.A, held vigils in front of the White House and in front of the UN headquarters to denounce the crimes committed by the UAE against the national army. Chanting angry slogans including "O Bin Zayed, you are a liar, you are ISIS and terrorism."

In front of the UAE embassy in Berlin, the Yemeni community condemned the UAE's crimes in Yemen, its support for outlaw armed groups and demanded that the UAE be expelled from Yemen.

UAE warplanes targeted government forces in Aden and Abyan provinces, killing and wounding hundreds of army soldiers. 

Amnesty International calls for independent investigation into Saudi attack on the Houthi-run detention in Yemen, accountability of perpetrators

September 3, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٠٣ سبتمبر ٢٠١٩

Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into the Saudi-led coalition's attack on a Houthi-run detention in central Yemen's Dhamar province, which it described as one of the most horrific attacks this year.

At midnight Saturday, coalition fighters carried out several raids on the community college building in Dhamar, where Houthi militias are holding a detention center for their opponents, leaving dozens dead and wounded.

In a series of tweets on its Twitter page, Amnesty International said: "In one of the most horrific attacks this year, yesterday's coalition air strike completely destroyed a detention center in Dhamar, Yemen, where 170 detainees were held, killing most of them. This attack must be investigated independently."

The organization stressed the need not to target people who are not directly involved in hostilities, such as prisoners, and to take all possible precautions to avoid targeting civilians.

Amnesty International called on the international community to step up efforts to stop ongoing and international law violations by all parties to the conflict in Yemen, by ensuring that civilians are protected and that violations are independently investigated. "The perpetrators must be held accountable, and compensation must be provided to the victims."

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

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Yemenis harm the Saudi-led coalition in Jizan with Qasif 2K

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Air Force of the Yemeni army forces, on Monday, carried out an offensive on the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, paid fighters’ gatherings with a drone, Qasif 2K, in Jizan.

The Armed Forces spokesman, Brigadier Yahya Sare’e said in a statement that “The Air Forces carried  out an attack with drone, Qasif 2K, targeting US-Saudi mercenaries gatherings, north of Haradh, near Jizan, confirming that the targeted Saudi army and paid fighterswere preparing to creep towards the positions of  the Yemeni army forces.

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

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

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

Saudi Arabia recruits Yemeni childern to kill eachother

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Saudi Arabia recruit Yemeni civilians, including children, via local human trafficking networks to fight on their behalf in Yemen , a new report has revealed.

Over the last four years, the report explained, Saudi Arabia has been enlisting thousands of Yemeni fighters, including children, “using human trafficking networks, to fight on its behalf along its southern border with Yemen”.

This, it continued, was in clear “violation of domestic laws and international conventions, which prohibit the use of civilians to fight”.

Yemenis who died as a result of the unrest at the border were often buried in the kingdom without their families being informed. Some 300 have had to have a limb amputated as a result of their war injuries, SAM continued.

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

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

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

Dozens of the Saudi-led coalition’s recruits killed at once in southern Yemen

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67 Saudi-backed exiled Hadi’s soldiers were killed and 29 military vehicles have been destroyed in 12 ambushes over in the past two days, according to sources.

The Hadi’s troops were hit in Mahfad district while trying to move towards Shabwah province, the sources added.

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

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

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

UAE-backed militiamen committed some 7,000 rights violations in Yemen in August: Rights group

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An independent human rights group says it documented 6,978 cases of grave human rights violations committed by militiamen backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against civilians in the southern Yemeni provinces of Aden, Abyan and Shabwah during the month of August.

The Yemeni American Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights said in a statement on Sunday that its field teams had recorded the murder of 48 civilians, including six women and eight children, between August 2 and 30.

It added that 16 people lost their lives due to gunshot wounds, 10 were killed in missile strikes, a dozen more were liquidated in secret prisons run the UAE, six more were fatally shot, and another four were killed as a result of indiscriminate shelling of residential buildings.

The Observatory also documented 193 cases of torture and ill-treatment of detainees in Aden prisons operated by UAE forces, stating that various forms of torture, including electricity shocks, drilling, suspension, sleep deprivation, the use of salt on wounds, complete medical negligence, burning with cigarettes, humiliation and whipping are being carried out.

It further noted that sexual torture is practiced mainly inside a prison at al-Bareeqa base, the house of Aden’s Security Chief Shalal Shaya – a staunch advocate for the partition of Yemen who has a close working relationship with the UAE as well as the notorious Bir Ahmed prison.

Rape is done as a means of forcing detainees in some cases to collaborate with Emirati forces and to spy on certain people, according to witnesses.

The Observatory went on to say that 14 pregnant women have suffered miscarriage as a result of fear and panic in Aden, while four others went through a similar hardship in Abyan and another three in Shabwah.

It further noted that sexual torture is practiced mainly inside a prison at al-Bareeqa base, the house of Aden’s Security Chief Shalal Shaya – a staunch advocate for the partition of Yemen who has a close working relationship with the UAE as well as the notorious Bir Ahmed prison.

Rape is done as a means of forcing detainees in some cases to collaborate with Emirati forces and to spy on certain people, according to witnesses.

The Observatory went on to say that 14 pregnant women have suffered miscarriage as a result of fear and panic in Aden, while four others went through a similar hardship in Abyan and another three in Shabwah.

It also recorded 583 cases of abduction and forced detention of civilians, stressing that militiamen from the so-called Southern Transitional Council carried out a massive campaign of raids and systematic looting of houses of citizens.

Moreover, the Observatory also registered the displacement of 3,163 people in addition to 374 cases of physical assault against displaced citizens.

The director of the Observatory, Afrah al-Akhali, called on the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council to issue an international draft resolution that classifies the Southern Transitional Council as a terrorist movement, which threatens local and international peace and security and to confront systematic violations against civilians

Akhali also held the UAE fully responsible and stated that the Observatory reserves the right to prosecute the Abu Dhabi regime before the International Court of Justice as well as the International Criminal Court over its crimes in Yemen.

Both the UAE-sponsored separatists and the Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to the former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, serve the Riyadh-led coalition and have been engaged, since 2015, in a bloody war on Yemen aimed at reinstating Hadi and crushing the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Ties between the two sides have soured over a number of issues, including what the Yemenis view as Abu Dhabi’s intention to occupy Yemen’s strategic Socotra Island and gain dominance over the major waterways in the region.

Last month, the UAE announced a surprise plan to withdraw part of its troops from Yemen, largely because Abu Dhabi believes the war appears to have become “unwinnable,” according to US reports.

The Western-backed war on Yemen, coupled with a naval blockade, has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis, destroyed the country’s infrastructure, and led to a massive humanitarian crisis.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 91,000 lives over the past four and a half years

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