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Death Toll from the Yemeni Detention Center Strike Rises to 91, as Saudi-Emarati Air Strikes Continue on Yemen

January 25, 2022

Yemeni victims of Saudi-Emarati air strikes, January 25, 2022	View of the detention center that has recently been targeted by Saudi-Emarati air strikes on Sa'ada, Yemen, January 22, 2022 reut

 

Death toll from Yemen detention center strike rises to 91, Houthi minister says

DUBAI, Jan 25, 2022 (Reuters) -

Air strikes last week on a detention centre in Yemen killed around 90 people and wounded more than 200, the Houthi administration's health minister said on Tuesday, providing an updated toll after rescue efforts ended.

The United Nations said on Saturday that at least 60 people were killed in the attacks. Witnesses interviewed by Reuters described blasts hitting the centre, which was reduced to rubble, images show.

The Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis has said the facility in Saada province was not included on a no-target list agreed with U.N. agencies. The coalition accused the Houthi forces of spreading unspecified misinformation about the attack.

Fighting has escalated in recent weeks, with more air strikes on what the Saudi-led coalition says are Houthi military targets. The Iran-aligned Houthi movement has stepped up missile and drone attacks on the United Arab Emirates and cross-border launches on neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

In Saada, a northern Houthi stronghold, survivors of the attack on the holding facility were still in hospital on Sunday.

Inmate Muhammad al-Khulaidi, who suffered a broken leg and burns, said he managed to pull himself from the rubble while some of his cell mates were killed.

"I was trying to free my leg from under the pillar and the warplane continued to bombard us," he told Reuters.

"I tried, I tried, and I removed the debris from under my leg, and I got out. I could not help my friends because my leg was broken," he said.

Houthi health minister Taha al-Mutawakal, in comments carried by Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, said 91 people had been killed and 236 hospitalised by the end of rescue operations.

The United Nations has urged de-escalation in the nearly seven-year-old war in which more than 100,000 people have been killed and 4 million displaced. Millions of Yemenis are on the brink of famine.

The coalition intervened in Yemen in March, 2015 after the Houthis ousted the internationally recognised government from power in the capital, Sanaa. The group says it is fighting a corrupt system and foreign aggression.

Reporting by Reuters team in Yemen, Writing by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Ed Osmond

Death toll from Yemen detention centre strike rises to 91, Houthi minister says | Reuters

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Coalition in Yemen begins military operations in Sanaa

ARAB NEWS January 25, 2022

More than 50 Houthis killed in operations targeting Marib and Al-Bayda

RIYADH: The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said on Monday that it had began “military operations” against “legitimate targets” in the capital, Sanaa, Saudi state TV reported. The coalition said the operation is in response to threats and out of military necessity to protect civilians from hostile attacks.

The Iran-backed Houthi militia launched missiles toward Saudi Arabia and the UAE earlier on Monday, sparking widespread condemnation from the international community. Meanwhile, the coalition said it carried out 14 operations targeting the Houthi militia in Marib and Al-Bayda during the past 24 hours, killing more than 50 fighters and destroying nine military vehicles.

Coalition in Yemen begins military operations in Sanaa (arabnews.com)

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Saudi-Emirate Coalition Commits Massacres In Conjunction With Internet Outage In Yemen

Yemen Extra, On Jan 25, 2022  2  Share

During the past two days, the Coalition Saudi-Emirate has committed many massacres in Yemen, in which about 500 civilians have been reported killed or wounded, in conjunction with a near total internet outage due to airstrikes that hit the country’s international internet portal in the coastal city of Hodeidah in western Yemen, official sources said.

The Coalition Saudi-Emirate has stepped up its air strikes on civilian positions in Yemen, after the army forces bombed sensitive positions in the United Arab Emirates.

About 91 civilians were killed and nearly 500 other inmates of the reserve prison in Saada were injured following airstrikes on a prison and detention center where some 2,000 prisoners were being held.

According to the official sources, fifteen telecommunications company workers were also killed and wounded in a bombing targeting the telecommunications building in Hodeidah city, which resulted in a near total internet service blackout in large areas of the country.

Coalition Saudi-Emirate commits massacres in conjunction with internet outage in Yemen | YemenExtra

Saudi-Emirate Coalition Warplanes Target Telecommunications Network In Dhamar

Yemen Extra, On Jan 25, 2022  2  Share

The Coalition Saudi-Emirate attack warplanes launched four airstrikes on Dhamar province, a security official said.

The official added The Coalition Saudi-Emirate airstrikes targeted telecommunication towers in al-Kumaim area in al-Hada district.

Saudi -Emirati Coalition Attacked Bombs Yemeni Provinces

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Coalition Saudi-Emirati warplanes launched a series of raids on Shabwa, Dhale’a, Bayda and Jawf province, a security official said.

The official added the Coalition Saudi -Emirati’s warplanes launched 3 raids on Ain district of Shabwa province and 3 raids on al-Fakher area in Qa’ataba district of Dhale’a province.

He pointed out the Coalition Saudi -Emirati’s warplanes launched 3 raids on al-Bayda city, targeting the al-Labnat area in al-Hazm district with 2 raids, and also launched 3 raids on Khab WaSha`af district in al-Jawf province.

UAE-Saudi Warplanes Heavily Target Sanaa Int. Airport

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YemenExtra

According to the report, Sanaa International Airport was targeted with the heaviest airstrikes launched by Saudis this Wednesday morning.

This is while that other area in Sanaa were also bombed by Saudi fighter jets.

The Saudi attacks on Yemen intensified after the army and popular committees of the country were able to successfully target strategic and vital targets and positions in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on Monday this week.

In this line, a member of the Political Bureau of Yemeni Ansarullah Movement Mohammed al-Bakhiti said, “UAE has resumed its offensive operations against Yemenis which prompted Yemeni forces to respond it aggressively.”

The UAE is weak enough against any kind of military operation, he stated.

He added that Yemenis defended themselves against UAE’s attack in accordance with international law, a Yemeni expert in strategic and military affairs added.

Al-Masirah TV of Yemen reported that Emirati fighters affiliated with the Saudi-led coalition have bombed the Yemeni capital of Sanaa 12 times since this morning.

Moments after the news was released, Yemeni Ansarullah quoted a military intelligence source as saying that the number of airstrikes against Sanaa had risen to 15 during the mentioned period.

The news comes as fighter jets of the Saudi-led coalition launched the heaviest airstrikes on Sanaa International Airport and its surroundings on Wednesday.

Northern and eastern areas of Sanna, as well as the Sanhan district of this Yemeni province, came under the attack of the Emirati fighter jets.

14 Civilians Killed In Coalition Saudi-Emirate Airstrikes On Sana’a

Last updated Jan 18, 2022  4  Share

YemenExtra

At least 14 civilians including women and children were killed and 11 others wounded as a result of airstrikes launched by Saudi-Emirate coalition warplanes that targeted residential neighborhoods in the capital Sana’a, a security official said.

The official explained that the Coalition Saudi-Emirate aircrafts bombed a citizen’s house in the Libyan neighborhood of the capital Sana’a on Monday evening, killing 12 and wounding 11 others.

This toll is not final, as the search is still continuing for survivors under the rubble of the bombed house, the official added.

He noted that the Coalition Saudi-Emirate’s raids totally destroyed five houses and damaged dozens of nearby houses in the civilian residential neighborhood.

14 civilians killed in Coalition Saudi-Emirate Airstrikes on Sana'a | YemenExtra 

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The UAE Is No Longer Safe; Investors Should Leave Immediately (Report)

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YemenExtra

The latest operation by the Yemeni forces against UAE, which targeted the Emirati depth, was not just a military operation, but a strategic and qualitative development in the course of confronting the US-Emirati-British-Saudi coalition aggression. The operation came at a time after seven years of the Saudi-led war on Yemen to send many strategic and military messages. It also shows that the Emirates are now at the targeting circle, and will be subjected to what the Yemeni army calls “the stage of great pain.”

We are not going to review the losses resulted from the operation to the UAE state, despite its importance and its role in shaping the next events of the conflict. The UAE intervention in Yemen will impact their investors and capital owners in their country, as more operations will take place if the UAE continues their aggression on Yemen, according to the spokesman of the Yemeni army.

But the question that must be asked today is: What is the fate of the investors, and what is the fate of the capital in the UAE after the last operation?

This question can also be restated by saying can the UAE provide protection for investments, capital and companies, as long as it is involved in the aggression and siege on Yemen? Can a state whose buildings are made of glass that ignites and wages war on the Yemeni people guarantees even one investor safety and security from risks, after it has already been proven that the Yemeni people have the ability to strike the depths of the UAE state with missiles and drones, and that the Yemeni leadership has the courage to take the decision to target sensitive targets?

Investors and capital owners should not overlook the warning of the armed forces, which was issued within the statement announcing the latest operation on the UAE, which says that the UAE is no longer a safe country for investment. All investors and capital owners in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and others, in the Expo and in the real estate of Dubai and Abu Dhabi and their ports, in crude oil, in shipping and manufacturing, in aviation and in various existing investments, should know a number of facts: 

First: The warning of the leader of the revolution, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, previously, that the UAE state’s continued aggression against Yemen makes it an unsafe country, and has entered Yemen’s targets bank. When the UAE did not care about its aggression and siege, the Yemen Hurricane Operation (the latest operation on the UAE) inaugurated a new phase that puts the “UAE statelet” in the circle of Yemen’s escalating targeting.

Second: As long as the UAE state continues to launch its aggression against Yemen, the operations against it will continue and will escalate, and the Hurricane operation can be considered a warning message and not the culmination of response and military action.

Third: There is no military, political, or other obstacles that hinder the army from targeting the state of the UAE. As long as it continues to wage aggression and war on the Yemeni people, it will be subjected to missile and aerial attacks from Yemen, and with an escalating quantity, and in the selection of targets upwards towards sensitive and vital targets, and an expansion in the form of strikes and the number of missiles and drones. The armed forces in Yemen now have advanced missiles and drones with long ranges capable of reaching all the emirates of the statelet and its interests.

Fourth: Yemen’s armed forces have a broad and sensitive list of targets, and this list will expand to include sensitive and fateful targets. The targets include economic interests, investment projects and others.

Fifth: according to the UAE’s actions, it is most likely that they will continue their aggression against the people of Yemen. This is because yesterday, the UAE committed a heinous crime after targeting a neighborhood in the capital, Sana’a, which killed several civilians, including children and women. Therefore, nothing guarantees its safety nor investment safety on its lands. As long as it continues to commit crimes and aggression against Yemen, the situation is getting darker and more dangerous, in addition to the armed forces warning in the statement of Yemen’s Hurricane operation to businessmen, investors and residents of the UAE state not to approach vital and economic facilities and to not keep their capital and investments in the Emirates. The Yemeni Armed Forces have cleared its responsibility for any damages and risks to residents or investors and capital owners.

The UAE state – along with the coalition of aggression – has committed an unforgivable historical sin by being involved in the aggression against the Yemeni people. It has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis unjustly, arrogantly, with raids and sieges. It also destroyed structures, facilities, services, markets, interests, roads, bridges, hospitals with missiles, deadly and destructive bombs, and forbidden weapons. It has besieged millions of people and practiced starvation and impoverishment against them and robbed them of livelihood and means of life.

It has contributed to creating suffering and economic hardship for the people of the entire Republic of Yemen, without exception, in the north, south, east and west. It helped in the spread of diseases and epidemics, and in imposing a deadly criminal blockade on fuel, food, medicine and even humanitarian aid, in the hope of creating an environment conducive to the occupation, looting and enslavement of the people of Yemen.

The UAE state has taken advantage of the poverty the Yemeni people are being subjected to due to the aggression against them, in order to perpetuate a reality of the cheap occupation in Socotra, Mayun and other islands of Yemen, in addition to Aden, Hadramout, Lahj and other occupied provinces in the south.

The state of the Emirates enlisted and volunteered for the Zionists and the Americans to launch the aggression that it believed would be profitable to meet and respond to the criminal demands of the Zionists, the Americans and the British, and today it has to pay the price of its foolishness, the price of crime, the costs of transgression, murder and destruction, and the least price is that it has become an imperfect country and not safe for investment.

Yemen’s missiles and drones are ready to deter the coalition of aggression, and today they are basically aimed at the depth of the UAE state, and the continuation of the aggression against Yemen has become costly and exorbitant. With all this, withdrawal from the Saudi-led aggression has become inevitable.

The UAE is no longer safe; Investors should leave immediately (Report) | YemenExtra

 

 

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