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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.
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 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. 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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