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Saudi air raids at Taiz, August 20, 2015, part 1

 

Saudische Luftschläge auf Taiz, 20. August 2015, Teil 1

 

 

After very heavy fighting during which the city had been severely destroyed by ruthless shelling from the sides of the Houthis as of their opponents, the so-called. "Resistance", and also by Saudi airstrikes, Yemen's second largest city Taiz finally, at least in great parts, had been conquered by anti-Houthi forces. In the public, the opponents of the Houthis brutally executed Houthi prisoners. The humanitarian situation in the city was and is catastrophic.

The repulse of the Houthis, however, was not to last. The Houthis advanced at Taiz and ruthlessly shelled the city with artillery, that means they were shelling also residential quarters, killing numerous people. According to "Doctors Without Borders", they temporarily also blocked access to hospitals for the wounded.

Since the position of the Houthis’ opponents was no longer tenable, they largely moved out of the town. The Saudis and their allies answered to the Houthi artillery bombardment in their own way: by air strikes on the city and its neighborhoods, where still many more people were killed than by the previous shelling of the Houthis. The damages done to the buildings also were significant.

What a perverse logic, what a clear proof of how totally the Yemeni civilians do not matter at all for the Saudis and their accomplice allies in the Arab world as the "West"!

The figures given for the victims of the Houthi shelling and of the Saudi airstrikes are varying. Medical sources tell that the number of the civilians killed by Houthi shelling was 13, while the Saudi air strikes had killed at least 65 civilians. – For Reports see below.

 

Jemens zweitgrößte Stadt Taiz war nach äußerst erbitterten Kämpfen, bei denen die Stadt durch rücksichtlosen Artilleriebeschuss durch die Huthis wie durch ihre Gegner, die sog. „Resistance“, und außerdem durch saudische Luftangriffe stark zerstört worden war, schließlich weitgehend durch anti-Huthi-Kräfte erobert worden, zumindest weitgehend. Gegner der Huthis richteten auf öffentlichen Plätzen gefangene Huthis brutal hin. Die humanitäre Lage in der Stadt war und ist katastrophal.

Die Zurückschlagung der Huthis war jedoch nicht von Dauer. Die Huthis marschierten erneut auf Taiz und beschossen die Stadt , d. h. auch Wohnviertel, rücksichtslos mit Artillerie und töteten dabei zahlreiche Menschen. Nach Angaben von „Ärzte ohne Grenzen“ blockierten sie zeitweise auch den Zugang zu den Krankenhäusern für die Verletzten.

Da die Lage für die Gegner der Huthis nicht mehr zu halten war, zogen sie sich weitgehend aus der Stadt zurück. Den Artilleriebeschuss durch die Huthis beantworteten die Saudis und ihre Verbündeten nun auf ihre Weise: durch Luftschläge auf die Stadt und ihre Wohngebiete, bei denen noch wesentlich mehr Menschen getötet wurden als durch den Artilleriebeschuss der Huthis zuvor. Die angerichteten Schäden an den Gebäuden sind erheblich.

Was für eine perverse Logik, was für ein Beweis dafür, wie völlig egal den Saudis und ihren aktiv mittuenden Verbündeten in der arabischen Welt wie im „Westen“ die Zivilbevölkerung im Jemen ist!

Die Zahlenangaben zu den Opfern des Huthi-Artilleriebeschusses und der saudischen Luftschläge weichen z. T. von einander ab. Medizinische Quellen geben die Zahl der von den Huthis verschuldeten Todesopfer mit 13, die der saudischen Luftschläge mit mindestens 65 an. Berichte hierzu siehe unten.

 

 

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Images from films of Almasirah TV, which were variously cut and repeated.

Images partly in all, in most or only a few or one film

If the images are also used for a Twitter account, this is specially mentioned

 

Bilder aus Filmen des Fernsehsenders Almasirah TV, die unterschiedlich geschnitten und wiederholt wurden.

Die Bilder kommen z. T. in allen, in mehreren, wenigen oder nur einem einzelnen Film vor.

Falls die Bilder auch in Twitter-Accounts vorkommen, ist das extra vermerkt

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bLTA1M4uo = https://www.facebook.com/yemen.crisis/posts/503405603159014

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8brExDOJ_OA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5dnmeuCHc

 

 

Reports    Berichte

 

 

21.8.2015 – Vice News

       Saudi-led Assault on Yemeni City Kills Dozens of Civilians, Raising Questions About US Role

Coalition airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia reportedly killed more than 65 civilians in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz on Friday, as aid officials excoriated the US government for its role in supporting the Arab force that has targeted Houthi rebels since late March.

Salah Dongu'du, project coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Taiz, said in a statement that the strikes hit 17 homes and left at least 37 women and children dead.

"Patients and MSF staff are unable to reach hospitals due to heavy fighting and airstrikes in Taiz," said Dongu'du. "It is very frustrating that people are dying in the streets of Taiz and our teams are unable to reach injured people." – by Samuel Oakford

https://news.vice.com/article/saudi-led-assault-on-yemeni-city-kills-dozens-of-civilians-raising-questions-about-us-role

 

21.8.2015 – Voice of America

       Houthis Say 43 Killed in Airstrikes on Central Yemen City

Iranian-allied fighters controlling much of Yemen said on Friday airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia killed 43 people in the central city of Taiz.

Medical sources said Houthi attacks on the city killed 13 people, including seven children.

Reuters was not immediately able to independently verify the information on either side. There was no immediate comment from officials from the Saudi-led coalition.

The Saba news agency run by the Houthis said the Saudi-led air raids late on Thursday targeted Taiz's republican palace and the city's Sala neighborhood, which has a dense population of the Houthi group that dominates northern Yemen.

It said 50 people had been injured and some of the 43 killed were found dead in the ruins of buildings destroyed by the bombing in Sala.

Meanwhile, local officials told Reuters that Houthi fighters fired mortars at Taiz's Asifrah neighborhood and al-Masbah, east of the city, in a bid to drive out Hadi's supporters. They said the shelling destroyed a main power plant in the city.

 

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-houthis-say-43-killed-in-air-strikes-on-central-yemen-city/2926900.html

21.8.2015 – Deutsche Welle u.a.

       Luftangriffe töten zahlreiche Zivilisten im Jemen

Bei Kämpfen um die Stadt Tais im Südjemen sind offenbar erneut zahlreiche Zivilisten durch Luftangriffe getötet worden. Die Verletzten können kaum noch versorgt werden, da es an allem mangelt.

Bei Luftangriffen der von Saudi-Arabien angeführten Koalition auf die südjemenitische Stadt Tais sind nach Angaben der Hilfsorganisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen (MSF) mindestens 65 Zivilisten ums Leben gekommen. Unter den Toten seien auch 17 Kinder und 20 Frauen. Nach Angaben der MSF-Projektleiterin in Tais, Salah Dongu'du, suchen Menschen im Schutt mit bloßen Händen nach Überlebenden der Luftangriffe. Nur sieben von einst 20 Krankenhäusern in der Stadt arbeiteten noch, hieß es weiter. Sie seien mit Verletzten überfüllt, wichtige Medikamente fehlten. Wegen der Kämpfe und Luftangriffe erreichten viele Verwundete sowie medizinisches Personal die Kliniken erst gar nicht.

http://www.dw.com/de/luftangriffe-töten-zahlreiche-zivilisten-im-jemen/a-18665133 ähnlich http://www.rp-online.de/politik/ausland/aerzte-ohne-grenzen-mindestens-65-zivilisten-im-jemen-getoetet-aid-1.5331779 und https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/jemen-429.html

 

21.8.2015 – AP

       Aid group makes dramatic plea, day after 65 killed in Yemen

A leading international aid group on Friday made a dramatic appeal to Yemen's warring factions to halt attacks on civilians, a day after heavy fighting in a key southern city killed more than 65 people and wounded at least 23.

Yemeni security officials said the violence in Taiz began with Shiite rebels, also known as Houthis, first shelling residential areas and killing 23 civilians. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

The shelling provoked airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition, which has been targeting the Houthis since March, when Yemen's crisis escalated amid the rebel advance and land grab.

The subsequent airstrikes killed at least 35 people and demolished five houses in the eastern neighborhood of Sala, from where the rebels launched their attacks earlier Thursday, the officials added.

Among those killed, at least 17 were children and 20 were women, according to Doctors Without Borders, which added that more than 65 people were killed in Taiz on Thursday.

The survivors, the group reported, were left "searching through the rubble with their bare hands" in the hope of finding victims buried underneath – by Ahmed Al-Haj

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Fighting-in-Yemen-s-south-kills-58-civilians-6457507.php auch http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/21/58-civilians-dead-in-yemen-fighting und http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/21/us-yemen-security-taiz-idUSKCN0QQ17D20150821 = http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/21/aid-group-makes-dramatic-plea-day-after-65-killed-in-yemen dazu auch http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34019475

 

 

 

 

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