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Yemenis Still Being Killed in Fighting and Saudi-Led Air Strikes, a Million Children Cannot Attend Schools Because of the War

October 23, 2018 

A Yemeni child standing on the rubble after a Saudi air strike, file, October 22, 2018 yextra	Site of a Saudi air strike on Yemen, file, October 22, 2018 yextra

Violent clashes in the center of the city of Aden ,dead and wounded fall, October 22, 2018

 

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

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2 killed, 3 wounded in clashes between gunmen in Aden

Oct 22, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٢ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

Two people were killed and a third seriously wounded in clashes early Monday between gunmen in Crater in the southern city of Aden, a security source said.

The source told Al-Masdar online that heavy gunfire from light and medium machine guns was carried out between gunmen on Arwa Street, which lasted for minutes before the forces of the security belt that control the city intervened.

Two gunmen were killed and a third wounded in the clashes, he said.

The incident, however, evolved into mutual gunfire between the security forces and a group of militants, after the first attempted to arrest those responsible for firing and defusing tensions in the neighborhood.

The source noted that the commander of an armed group had taken barricaded in his home near the agricultural Credit bank, and started firing at the security forces, which imposed a cordon on the house to force him to surrender himself.

Houthis announce attack by drones on Saudi military positions

Oct 22, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٢ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

The al-Houthi group on Monday launched an attack by drones on positions of the Saudi army, in Najran, south of the Kingdom.

The group's spokesperson, Al-Masirah channel, said the Drones force  -affiliated Air Force "carried out an attack on the Saudi army's mercenary gatherings opposite Najran by  Qasif 1 drones ."

The channel did not provide further details, nor did the Saudi side issue any comment.

More than a million Yemeni children cannot attend school because of the war

Oct 22, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٢ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

According to Minister of Education, Abdallah Lamlas, more than 1 million children are unable to attend school because of the war, and about 2 million children do not have access to a formal education system.

At a meeting on "the strategic role of school feeding" in Tunisia, he said that nearly 3,000 to 600 basic education schools have been closed since the start of the war, and 67 percent of them have not paid for their education staff.

Some 2,000 schools were damaged or used by the Houthis, he said, recalling that the lack of formal education in Yemen could have an irreversible effect.

Government says the war has resulted in the closure of 3,600 schools in Yemen

ALMASDARONLINE ٢١ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

The Minister of Education, Dr. Abdallah Lamlas, said that nearly 3.600 schools in Yemen have been closed since the start of the war between government forces backed by the Arab coalition and the Houthi militia.

The closure of those schools had deprived 1.9 million children of the formal education system, he said, noting that about 2,000 basic and secondary schools had been damaged or used by the Houthi militia and 67 percent of schools teachers  had not been paid for nearly two years.

He was speaking at a high-level meeting on the strategic role of school feeding in supporting education, inclusive development, and stability in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, held in Tunisia. According to Saba.

The minister said that more than 1 million children cannot attend school because of the Houthi militia's war and that 2 million children do not have a formal education system.

Fierce battles in the southern city of Hodeidah following an attack by the Houthis on government forces

Oct 21, 2018, ALMASDARONLINE ٢١ أكتوبر ٢٠١٨

Local residents in the western city of Hodeidah said Sunday that fierce battles erupted between government troops and Huothi militants at the southern entrance of the city.

According to al-Masdar online, fierce battles lasted for hours from the direction of Hodeidah University and Kilo 10, and the parties used heavy and light machine guns and artillery shells, while the Saudi Arabian coalition fighters flew intensively.

Our correspondent quoted field sources as having fought the two sides, and that the confrontations did not result in control or progress on the ground, and that the parties continued to cling to their positions.

He noted that the fighting was renewed between the two sides after the Houthis launched repeated attacks on the positions of the government forces, while the al-Masirah channel, the spokesperson of the group, announced the participation of its drones and rockets in the attack.

On Saturday evening, the Arab Alliance announced the interception of two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis in the direction of government forces positions in Drihmi, south of Hodeidah city.

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

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Violent clashes in the center of the city of Aden ,dead and wounded fall

Oct 22, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

A number of UAE paid fighters, including two citizens, were killed and wounded on Monday in violent clashes in the southern city of Aden, run by UAE.

According to local sources for the “YemenExtra” three gunmen, including a citizen, were killed and wounded as a result of armed clashes between armed factions belonging to the forces of the United Arab Emirates in the field near the roundabout Zeko directorate crater downtown.

According to sources, another citizen was wounded, near the site of the clashes, which lasted for two hours , and was taken to a hospital in the city for treatment ,noting that the tension between them is still frantic until the completion of the writing of the news, amid panic among the citizens.

The southern cities are witnessing an overwhelming security and an unprecedented security chaos under the control of the UAE forces.

Saudi Humanitarian Violations on October 22nd: Record

Oct 22, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

The Saudi-led coalition continues its raids on a number of provinces, causing material damage to public and private property.

In Saada, northern Yemeni border, the US-backed coalition launched a raid on Al-Sawh area in Kattaf district on Monday.

Meanwhile, the houses and farms of citizens in the border district of Baqm witnessed Saudi missile bombardment.

In addition, Saudi border guards targeted, using heavy weapons, the main road in Al-Ruku region in Monabeh district, Saada Province.

In Hodeidah, western coastal Yemen, the Saudi/UAE warplanes launched a raid on Al-Hali district.

Concluding it with the governorate of Sana’a, the coalition raided the district of Nehm.

Saudi border guards attack the main road in Saada

Oct 22, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

The Saudi border guards continue to launch aggressive operations against villages and populated border areas in the province of Saada, the latest of which was against one of the areas in the district of Monabeh border, which was subjected to a new Saudi attack on Monday.

A local source in the province of Saada reported that the Saudi border guards fired heavy weapons on the main road in Al-Raqou region based in Monabeh border district, causing damage to the public road linking the area with its general surroundings.

Earlier today, one citizen was killed and another wounded by the Saudi border guards in the border district of Shada, Saada province, while other cities in the border district of Razih were hit by Saudi rocket fire.

Saudi-led coalition hits a civilian car in Hajjah, creates another war crime

Oct 22, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

The Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US/UK/UAE, conducted a raid on Sunday on a citizen’s house in Beni-Abs district in Hajjah province, Saba News Agency reported on Monday. 

The coalition’s airstrikes killed four citizens while an additional one sustained injuries, the source added. The Saudi-led coalition has been committing countless war crimes in Yemen, according to numerous humanitarian organizations, but the perpetrators remain unpunished to this day. Saudi-led war on Yemen began on March 26th in 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a Saudi-friendly ex-president and eliminate the Ansarullah revolution.

Here is what you need know about the Yemeni army forces’s operations documented by New York Times on the West Coast

Oct 22, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni army forces carried out large-scale offensive operations of several axes and directions on the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US,positions south of Kilo 16 in the western coast ended with full control of its positions and defeated them.

The spokesman of the armed forces Brigadier Yahya Sariy said that the operations left a large number of dead and wounded in the ranks of their enemy ,destroyed more than 14 vehicles and nine armored vehicles and gained large military equipment of ammunition and medium weapons.

The official spokesman of the armed forces told YemenExtra the large operations began with clearing with and intensive artillery and missile bombardment with Zelzal 1 missiles, targeting the sites and concentrations of their enemy , causing loss of lives and equipment amid their ranks.

He pointed out that the operations involved specialized units of the Yemeni army forces, forcing their enemy to clear with the hysterical types of warplanes using ammunition and cluster bombs. Their enemy also targeted large groups of its paid fighters , pointing out that  scenes of these operations will be broadcast during the coming hours.

The US-Saudi-led coalition  launched an offensive on Hudaydah on 12 June in the largest battle of the war that the United Nations fears risks triggering a famine in Yemen where an estimated 8.4 million people are on the verge of starvation. Recently, It has been paused for peace talks, but no deal has been struck leaving Yemenis pessimistic over a viable political process.

Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi(Ansarallah)  movement, which is the main force that faces the coallition, said on a TV speech ,” The decision of invading the Yemeni ,western coast, has been taken and adopted by the United States of America,noting that the Saudis are trying to abolish Yemen’s freedom,” stressing that it was the people of Yemen’s right to defend their country.

The Bab el-Mandab Strait, which is the southern entrance to the Red Sea, is one of the world’s key shipping lanes for crude oil and allows crude exports into the European market.

The United Nations said more than 350,000 people have been displaced from the strategic Red Sea port town of Hudaydah in western Yemen since June.Deputy spokesman for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, said during a press conference on Monday that violent clashes have erupted in the city over the past few days, especially in the Ad Durayhimi district.He added that emergency humanitarian assistance has already been provided to more than 90 per cent of those displaced.

New York Times documents losses suffered by the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, at the hands of the Yemeni army forces on the West Coast front on October 22, 2018

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Stastics of 1300 Days of War on Yemen

Oct 21, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

The Saudi-led coalition statistics on Yemen after a thousand and three hundred days has committed thousands of crimes and violations in Yemen, where the United Nations appealed urgently to demand an end to the Saudi war and lifting its imposed siege, stressing that Yemen faces the biggest famine since the end of world war II.

The humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Liz Grande, said the international community should be ashamed of the humanitarian situation in this impoverished country and warned that Yemen could soon witness famine on a large scale if the ongoing war continues without aid reaching the needy. Grande said 13 million people are threatened by famine in Yemen.

The head of the People’s Committee to Break the Siege on Yemen, Abdullah Shaaban, said in an interview with al-Alam television channel that the Saudi-led warplanes had committed crimes against civilians and that the Committee of breaking the Siege observed that there has been many massacres and violations against children and women in Yemen.

“We have 327 hospitals and a health facility that was bombarded. We have 888 schools and institutes hit. I do not know why they were attacked. We have 125 university facilities. We have 279 tourist facilities and 112 sports facilities which were also subjected to bombardment along with 38 media facilities, and I do not know why the media and press institutions were struck and they don’t have to anything with the war. Until now, we have suffered great losses in bringing Yemen’s injustice to the world conscience. ” he said

Shaaban added that the international role in Yemen is letting down Yemenis and that there is a vast complicity of the United Nations officials on the Yemeni issue.

The Yemeni journalist Talib al-Hassan said Yemen is facing the largest famine in this century and that there are terrifying statistics left behind by the Saudi coalition on Yemen after a thousand and three hundred days of the war.

The Yemeni journalist Talib al-Hassan said Yemen is facing the largest famine in this century and that there are terrifying statistics left behind by the Saudi coalition on Yemen after a thousand and three hundred days of the war.

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