03.11.2016 | 21:05
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik
223 - Yemen War Mosaic 223
Yemen Press Reader 223: Krise im
Detail–Zentralbank–USA–Schutzverantwortung?–Politiker-Argumente–Humanitäre
Katastrophe–Italien–Deutschland–US-Bürger, Israelis bei Saudis–Britischer
Geheimkrieg
Yemen crisis analysis –
Central Bank – What the US can do for Yemen – “Responsibility to Protect” –
Politicians’ pro-Saudi arguments – Humanitarian catastrophe – Italy’s and
Germany’s dirty war – US, Israelis in Saudi air base – Britain’s secret war in
Yemen – and more
Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Klassifizierung / Classification
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp3 Humanitäre Lage /
Humanitarian situation
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis /
Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung /
Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche/ UN and
peace talks
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
cp13b Flüchtlinge / Refugees
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air
raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Sonstiges / Other
Klassifizierung / Classification
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(Kein Stern / No star)
A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian
questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik /
Politics
PH = Pro-Houthi
PS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most
important
1.11.2016 – ACAPS (*** A H)
Crisis analysis of Yemen
Topics:
Politics and
security
Humanitarian
access
Displacement
Food security
and livelihoods
Health
Nutrition
WASH
Shelter and NFIs
Education
Protection
https://www.acaps.org/country/yemen/crisis-analysis
Comment: A very
detailed analysis of the Yemeni humanitarian crisis.
3.11.2016 – Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies
(** B E H P)
Yemen Without a Functioning Central Bank: The
loss of basic economic stabilization and accelerating famine
Executive
Summary
The Yemeni
government’s decision in September to relocate the central bank and replace its
governor has left the country without an institution capable of providing basic
economic stabilization. While all the belligerent parties to Yemen’s armed
conflict have sought to leverage economic factors, the incapacitation of the
central bank may represent an unprecedented escalation in this regard and the
international community must act to ensure the starvation of millions of people
is not employed as a tactic of this war.
In July this
year the United Nations elevated the humanitarian crisis in Yemen to Level 3 –
the highest designation the UN has – placing it in the same category as Syria,
Iraq and South Sudan. As of October, some 370,000 Yemeni children were acutely
malnourished; four out of five of Yemen’s 26 million people required
humanitarian assistance, and for nearly half the population this assistance was
considered life-saving.
The Central Bank
of Yemen (CBY) had, until recently, been among the only state institutions to
operate effectively at a national capacity throughout the last five years of
political upheaval and armed conflict. Even as central government authority
eroded across the country, the CBY had continued financial coordination with
local governing councils to facilitate basic public service provision,
dispersed monthly salaries to 1.2 million Yemenis on the public payroll,
protected the value of the domestic currency and ensured importers access to
foreign currency to purchase basic commodities. All this, while also fulfilling
Yemen’s foreign debt obligations and maintaining the trust of international
financial markets.
Through these
actions the CBY preserved baseline economic stability and prevented one of the
world’s worst humanitarian crises from becoming far worse. Such interventions
were, however, predicated upon two factors that no longer apply: (1) the CBY
having access to foreign currency reserves to finance operations, and (2) a
tacit agreement between the main warring parties to respect the central bank’s
neutrality and not to interfere in its operations.
Since the CBY's
incapacitation there has been a marked deterioration in the country's
humanitarian situation. It is absolutely essential that all the parties to the
conflict, as well as local, regional and international stakeholders, coordinate
efforts to empower the CBY to resume its functions as quickly as possible,
irrespective of its location. In particular, there is an immediate critical
need to pay the monthly salaries of the country’s civil servants, most of whom
have not received their wages since August. Given that most civil servants are
heads of households, they equate to as many as 6 millions Yemenis who have been
without an income for more than two months. The resumption of import credits is
also essential to ensure the country’s food supply; Yemeni wheat importers
estimate that without renewed import financing for grains, existing domestic
supplies will be exhausted within two months – by Mansour Rageh, Amal Nasser
and Farea Al-Muslimi
http://sanaacenter.org/publications/item/55-yemen-without-a-functioning-central-bank.html
2.11.2016 – National Interest (** A P)
How America Can Genuinely Push the Saudis on
Yemen
The United
States must begin to use its considerable leverage over the Saudi-led coalition
to ensure that Power’s message isn’t just a collection of words on a piece of
paper that will be tossed in the shredder as soon as the Security Council
adjourns for the day. Instead, Washington—in partnership with the other members
of the Security Council—must stop tiptoeing around the issue and demand that
the Saudis and all combatants in the war stop firing on one another, take more
care in protecting civilians during their operations, speed up the delivery of
humanitarian assistance to a population that sorely needs it, and get to the
business of a negotiation.
First, the UN
Security Council must adopt a new resolution modifying the terms for a
conflict-ending settlement. The last
substantive resolution, passed on April 14, 2015, is incredibly
outdated and has become an obstacle to a peace negotiation rather than an
enabler. The April 2015 resolution, passed weeks after the Saudis began their
bombing campaign and at a time when the Council believed that Riyadh would make
short work of the Houthis militarily, is essentially a surrender document in favor
of Yemeni president Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government. The terms are
completely lopsided, and place the onus on the Houthis and armed supporters of
former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to surrender all of their weapons, withdraw
from all the territory they acquired and cease acting as a government before
the Yemeni authorities even engage in diplomacy.
President Hadi
has repeatedly cited the existence of this Security Council resolution as an
excuse to keep a hard-line position and refuse to entertain any suggestions
that would lessen his power or remove him from office. The Security Council
therefore needs to take that excuse away, by passing another resolution that
strips away the previous preconditions and codifies the UN envoy’s roadmap for
a peaceful resolution to the war.
Secondly, the
Obama administration should directly tell the Saudis that if it refuses to use
its influence over Hadi to force him to cooperate with the UN-led process, then
the United States will use its own influence over the Saudis by blocking any
further offensive-weapons sales that could be used in Yemen.
Finally, if the
situation remains unchanged, the war continues and Washington has persuadable
evidence that the Yemeni government is an impediment to a peace deal, U.S.
officials should seriously review whether additional punitive measures should
be applied directly to Hadi's inner circle—and to Hadi himself. Thankfully, the
Security Council already has the authority to do exactly that.
The United
States can no longer cry about the conflict from the sidelines – by Daniel R.
DePetris
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/how-america-can-genuinely-push-the-saudis-yemen-18271
Comment:
DePetris is absolutely right on UN Security Council resolution 2216. – I
disagree when the author suggests that there still is not the time to stop arms
sales to Saudi Arabia just NOW.
2.11.2016 – Medialens (** A P)
Yemen Vote - The Responsibility To Protect Profits
At first sight,
compassion appears to loom large in 'mainstream' politics and media. When the
American and British governments target countries like Serbia, Afghanistan,
Iraq and Libya, 'compassion' is always at or near the top of the agenda.
Time and again,
the cry from the political
system is: 'We Must Do Something!' 'We' must save Afghan women from the
'Medieval' Taliban. 'We' must save Kuwaiti new-borns flung
from their incubators by Iraqi stormtroopers. 'We' must saveIraqi civilians from Saddam's
shredding machines. 'We' must save civilians in Kosovo from
Milosevic's 'final solution'.
As for the suffering civilians of Aleppo in
Syria, hard-right MPs like Andrew Mitchell demand, not merely that 'we' save
them, not merely that 'we' engage in war to save them, but that 'we' must
confront Russia, shoot down their planes if necessary, and risk actual
thermonuclear war – complete self-destruction – to save them:
State-corporate
propaganda is full of 'shoulds', all rooted in 'our' alleged 'responsibility to
protect'. Why 'us'? Why not Sweden or Iceland? Because 'we'
care. 'We' just care more.
A key task of
the corporate media is to pretend this is something more than a charade.
If politicians
are clearly bluffers, corporate journalists are selected because they
powerfully echo and enhance the alleged need for compassionate 'intervention'.
The message is always the same: we understand
you're sincere, but sometimes you have to drop your reflexive
'anti-Americanism', drop your blinkered adherence to 'principled opposition'
and live in the real world. You can't just sit on your hands, you can't just
righteously preach – you have to act!
This is the
shtick of the corporate warmonger and it is repeated over and over again. It
appears to be the key function that determines whether a commentator is granted
job-for-life privileges at newspapers like the Guardian, The Times and
Telegraph.
But the point is
that compassion – the kind rooted in an understanding that all suffering is
equal, the kind that feels even more responsibility for suffering caused by our
own government – is not partial, it does not defer to power. It doesn't fall
silent when 'we' are committing crimes. Quite the reverse.
The Yemen Motion
On October 26,
Emily Thornberry, Labour shadow foreign secretary, placed the following motion before the House of
Commons:
As for
Thornberry's motion, more than 100
Labour MPs – almost half the Labour Party – failed to
support it. As a result, it was defeated by 283 votes to just 193, a majority
of 90.
Since the
rejection of the motion, 'Do something!' crusaders like Aaronovitch, Freedland
and Cohen have printed not a word about 'our' 'responsibility to protect'
civilian life in Yemen.
In the entire UK
'mainstream' press, we found a single opinion piece, in the Guardian, condemning
the vote
No corporate journalist raised the question that
cried out to be asked: if Britain cares enough about civilian suffering in
Kosovo, Libya and Syria to actually go to war, then how can it not merely
suspend support for Saudi Arabia while potential war crimes are investigated?
Literally no journalist made the point that the
vote makes a complete nonsense of the UK's famed enthusiasm for 'responsibility
to protect'. The warmongers' silence tells us their 'compassion' is a tool of realpolitik,
nothing more.
Comment:
Perfectly unmasking Western interventionist policy and Western hypocrisy.
3.11.2016 – Open Democracy (** B P)
Uncomfortable assumptions about security: the UK
vote on support for Saudi Arabia
Pervasive and
problematic assumptions about the UK’s security lie at the heart of
parliament’s recent decision to continue to support Saudi Arabia, despite
accusations of war crimes in Yemen.
MPs in
Westminster voted last week against a Labour motion calling on the UK
government to withdraw its support for the Saudi-led coalition? What arguments
could possibly justify the decision made by 283 MPs to continue to back a
government which stands accused, not just once but on
repeated occasions over the last 18 months, of deliberately targeting civilians
and civilian infrastructure?
Several MPs
argued that despite serious allegations
of war crimes by the Saudi coalition, it remains right
and proper to continue to provide support to the Saudi government, in the form
of arms exports and specialist military advice.
The legal
question-marks hanging over UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia could not be
clearer.
Despite these
grave concerns, some MPs argued that any action to suspend such deals would be
premature. They suggested that Saudi Arabia should be given more time to
undertake its own internal investigations of alleged violations, despite the lengthy delays and
unsatisfactory outcomes so far.
It is hard to
see how this position can be squared with the government’s pride in the
“leading role” it recently played in the negotiation of the legally-binding
international Arms Trade Treaty.
The arguments
put forward in defence of the status quo last week suggest otherwise. They
imply that the principles and obligations that are supposed to define the UK’s
role in the world are discretionary; they can be trumped, when required, by a
series of pragmatic assumptions, priorities and interests. It is therefore
worth examining and exposing these arguments, as they play a crucial role in
shaping the UK establishment’s response not only to the current crisis in
Yemen, but to national security policy more generally.
The ‘benign influence’ argument
The jobs argument
The ‘regional security ally’ argument
The argument
that a UK ally should receive unwavering support in the face of accusations of
war crimes deserves further scrutiny. As with the jobs argument, the
implication of this position is that the lives of those thousands of civilians
who have been killed by the Saudi-led coalition are somehow less important than
the lives of people in the UK, who must be protected from the threat of
terrorism at any cost.
It is likely
that the MPs who spoke in defence of Saudi Arabia’s importance as an ally would
want to distance themselves from that position. But the shameful reality is
that parliament’s refusal to suspend its support for Riyadh gives exactly that
message. And in doing so it shines an uncomfortable light on an assumption that
lies at the heart of the UK’s current approach to security - that the security
of people in this country is a supreme imperative, to which the needs of others
can be legitimately subordinated.
In May this year,
the Ammerdown Group published a discussion paper, Rethinking
Security, which offered a critique of the UK’s current approach to security. It pointed
out that the problem with UK security lies in the dominant narrative about what
security means, whom it should benefit, and how it
should be achieved. It argued that this narrative privileges UK national
security over the security of people elsewhere, rather than recognising
security as a common right; that it aims to advance ‘national interests’
defined by the political establishment, including corporate business interests
and UK ‘world power’ status, and so dissociates the practice of security from the
needs of people in their communities, and that it assumes a short-term outlook.
The
parliamentary debate last week is a stark illustration of the pervasive nature
of this narrative, and its impact on the critical political decisions of the
day. Shamefully, it is the people of Yemen who will pay the price for this
approach, unless and until we challenge these assumptions and make a compelling
case for a new approach to security, that can better
meet the needs of all people, whether they live in the Middle East or the UK.
Comment:
Unmasking the arguments of those who further want to back the Saudi war in
Yemen, for what reason ever.
31.10.2016 – CNN (** B K)
Film: Yemen: Why people are dying
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154871089948641
Comment by
Judith Brown: A brilliant summary of the war on Yemen. Well done CNN.
and
2.11.2016 – France 24 (** B H K)
Film: Yemen: 'A humanitarian catastrophe is
unfolding"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRncWzgDv5M
and
2.11.2016 – Press TV Iran (** A H)
Film: “Hunger, malnutrition, airstrikes
continue to plague #Yemen. Shocking film on the Yemen famine.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154870796458641
2.11.2016 – Real News (** B K P)
Film / Audio: Are the U.S. Claims that Iran Is
Arming the Yemeni Houthis Credible?
Investigative
journalist Gareth Porter scrutinizes the claims made by the U.S. and finds
credibility of Its evidence highly questionable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7pbDhwpfs
3.11.2016 – Rationalgalerie (** B K P)
Saudis kämpfen für Menschenrechte in
Jemen
Deutscher Rüstungskonzern liefert die
Rechts-Hilfe
Hoppla, wird sich der letzte deutsche
Präsident des UN-Menschenrechtsrates Joachim Rücker, unser SPD-Mann aus
Schwaben, gedacht haben: Hoppla, da sind sie ja wieder, die Saudis, als die
erneut in den UN-Menschenrechtsrat gewählt wurden. Von den Saudis weiß man ja,
dass sie als wesentliches Menschenrecht die Scharia auf Vorrat halten,
inklusive Enthauptungen, Steinigungen und Folterei aller Art. Für einen
Wimpernschlag könnte Rücker sich gefragt haben, ob das Land denn wirklich
ausgerechnet in den Menschenrechtsrat gehöre, aber dann hat er sich
wahrscheinlich an die Milliarden und Abermilliarden erinnert, die Deutschland
mit den Saudis im Rüstungssektor umsetzt und war überzeugt: Wenn einer sich um
Menschenrechte kümmert, dann doch wohl die Saudis. Inzwischen ist Joachim
Rücker zum Job des neuen Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für die
„Stabilitätspartnerschaft im Mittleren Osten“ gewechselt. Zu dieser Gegend gehören Saudi Arabien wie auch der Jemen.
Besonders intensiv sorgen sich die
saudischen Freunde Deutschlands um die Menschenrechte im Jemen. So gründlich,
dass die Opfer ihrer Bomben – gern Frauen, Kinder, Alte, Zivilisten aller Art –
gar nicht mehr an Menschenrechte denken müssen. Denn seit dem letzten Jahr
führen die Saudis im Jemen etwas durch, das in deutschen Medien vornehm eine
„Militärintervention“ genannt wird. Na klar, wer eine blutige Diktatur ein
„Königreich“ nennt, der muss einen völkerrechtswidrigen Überfall auf ein Nachbarland
auch eine „Intervention“ nennen. Und wer sich die Partner dieser „Intervention“
ansieht, der weiß, dass die Menschenrechte der Jemeniten in guten Händen sind:
Denn neben Saudi-Arabien bomben dort Bahrain, Katar, Kuwait, die Vereinigten
Arabischen Emirate und Ägypten, eine prima Mischung aus islamischen Diktaturen
und einer laizistischen. Unterstützt werden sie von Freiberuflern der al-Qaida
im Jemen (AQAP) und eines Ablegers des Islamischen Staates (IS). Alles bekannte Kämpfer für Menschenrechte.
Um die jemenitischen Menschenrechte
macht sich auch ein deutscher Konzern verdient. Der verdient nämlich jede Menge
Kohle durch die Lieferung von erstklassigen 1.000-Pfund-Bomben aus der MK-Serie
an die Saudis: Die Rheinmetall AG. So trug dieser Rüstungslieferant jüngst noch
zur Illuminierung einer Beerdigungsfeier im Jemen bei. Dabei kamen doch glatt
140 Menschen ums Leben. Um deren Rechte muss sich schon keiner mehr kümmern. –
von Ulrich Gellermann
http://www.rationalgalerie.de/home/saudis-kaempfen-fuer-menschenrechte-in-jemen.html = http://www.kritisches-netzwerk.de/forum/saudis-kaempfen-fuer-menschenrechte-jemen
Kommentar: Eine ungewöhnliche Sicht auf
den Jemenkrieg – es fällt auch reichlich schwer, angesichts des westlichen
Verhaltens nicht in Zynismus und Sarkasmus zu verfallen.
1.11.2016 – Il
Manifesto (** B K)
Italy’s dirty war in Yemen
It is possible
that Italian-made bombs were the ones that hit the building in Sana’a in Yemen
on Saturday. At this location, a funeral was in progress. There were 155
casualties and more than 530 wounded. The correspondent for the British TV
channel ITV Neil Connery, who entered the building shortly after the bombing,
posted via Twitter the photo of a component of a bomb that, according to a
Yemeni official, was the Mark 82 type (MK 82).
Other images
published via Twitter are more accurate: They report the tag detached from a
bomb with the inscription: “For use on MK82, FIN guided bomb.” The serial
number follows: 96214ASSY837760-4. The device was manufactured under license of
the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon for use on a MK82 bomb. But it is not
clear which company actually made it and which country exported it. It could
have been Italy.
MK82 bombs are,
in fact, manufactured in the Domusnovas factory in Sardinia by RWM Italia, a
German subsidiary of the Rheinmetall conglomerate, with a registered office in
Ghedi, Brescia province. These bombs are exported from Italy with the
permission of the Armament Exports Licensing Unit (Italian acronym UAMA).
Defense Minister
Roberta Pinotti confirmed it last Wednesday, albeit indirectly, when she
answered a question by Representative Luca Frusone (M5S). Pinotti said: “The company RWM Italia has exported to Saudi Arabia under a
license issued in accordance with current legislation.”
But a key fact
is missing in the detailed tables compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
attached to the government report that show all the individual licenses issued
to manufacturers: the country of destination. For example, it is reported that
in 2015 RWM Italia was issued 24 licenses for a total value of over €28
million, but the target countries are not listed.
It is reported,
for example, that in 2015, RWM Italia was granted a license to export 250
500-pound MK82 inert bombs along with 150 other inert MK 84 bombs, for a total
value of over €3 million, but the ministerial table does not mention the buyer
country, making it impossible for Parliament and research centers to analyze
the data.
But one thing is
certain: In the years 2014-15, the Renzi government authorized exports to Saudi
Arabia for a total value of nearly €419 million, a quantum leap from the last
decade.
But there is
another fact. In the months between October and December 2015, at least four
Boeing 747 cargo planes from the Azerbaijani company Silk Way, loaded with a
cargo of bombs produced in the Domusnovas factory of RWM Italia in Sardinia,
departed from the civil airport Elmas in Cagliari. The cargo landed at the Taif
base of the Royal Saudi Air Force in Saudi Arabia. Last January, the Italian
Network for Disarmament filed a complaint with various prosecutors about these
expeditions and those of all military systems that Italy is sending to Saudi
Arabia. Brescia Deputy Prosecutor Fabio Salamone has opened an investigation
“against unknown parties” for alleged violations of the law on armament
exports.
Last February
the European Parliament voted by a large majority for a resolution in which it
requested the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy and Commission Vice-President, Federica Mogherini, to “launch an
initiative by the European Union and the imposition of an arms embargo against
Saudi Arabia,” based on the serious allegations of violations of international
humanitarian law committed by Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
Instead, exports
of arms and military deals of European countries with the Gulf monarchies have
continued – by Giorgio Beretta
http://ilmanifesto.global/italys-dirty-war-in-yemen/
Comment: I did
not know that this type of bombs used for the Sanaa funeral air raid (and also
for the Saudi air raid at a security center and prison at Hodeida, resulting in
64 killed, also is produced in Italy. – And thus, this is not only “Italy’s
dirty war”, but “Germany’s dirty war” as well – as this bomb factory in
Sardinia is a part of the German Rheinmetall company. Shame
on them all.
1.11.2016 – Almanar (**B K)
122 Israeli, US Officers Stationed in Saudi
Faisal Air Base
Leader of the
Zionist party Meterz, Zahava Gal, said that 122 US and Zionist officers and
pilots are stationed in Faisal bin Abdul Aziz air base in Saudi Tabuk, Israel
in Arabic website reported.
The deployment
of these officers comes under a US-Saudi agreement and indicates the extent of
the development of military relations between the Saudi regime and the Zionist
entity.
Leader of Meretz
revealed that the agreement includes the installation of the Zionist “iron
dome” air defense system, hoping to catch up with what the American Patriot system
has failed do.
Zahava Gal
explained that the area is being under the custody of the Americans and the
Zionists, while Saudis are not allowed to enter, stating that the Zionist
entity has no problems with the Saudi authorities, but the problem lies within
the extremist ideas in the Saudi society.
Gal disclosed
the agreement because she objects the dispatch of Zionist officers to the Saudi
air base, saying: “Given that Saudi Arabia decided through a secret agreement
with Israel to hand over the islands of Sanafir and Tiran to Israeli army soon,
we do not have the need to send our specialized officers to the King Faisal air
Base in Tabuk. I declare that this reckless decision by Benjamin Netanyahu will
drag us to the trap of Saudi terrorism sooner or later.”
The leader of
Meretz party has published the names of the 122 officers operating in Tabuk air
base.
http://english.almanar.com.lb/84291
and
1.11.2016 – Almrasel (** B K)
Israeli politician reveals the names of 122
Israeli and US officers in King Faisal Base in Tabuk (see article for names)
Leaked Israeli
positions including site "Israel Arabic," quoting the leader of the
party "Meretz" leftist liberal list of more than 100 Israeli air officer present at the base of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
And describes
the Israeli party leader said the presence of Israeli officers at King Faisal
Air Base in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia said a Saudi agreement US requires the presence
of the Israelis and the Americans at the air base and the non-existence of the
Saudis were agreed on 20 April, one year after the start of the Saudi war on
Yemen.
They security
and Israeli media sources that Israeli and US officers, air traffic controllers
are actually running the process of aerial bombing in Yemen are participating
in the flights and the implementation of a large number of raids, Israeli and
American pilots from King Faisal base in Tabuk.
Site "here
with you always," the Israeli squadron finally signing a memorandum of
understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the field of
monument advanced systems for air interceptor missiles and radar systems in the
modern King Faisal Air Base in Tabuk.
According to the
document leaked by Zahava Gal-On, leader of the party "Meretz"
leftist liberal in Israel was signed this agreement with the Saudi authorities
after Obama's visit to Riyadh in the (April 20 / April 2016) target to cover
the Iron Dome system.
The information
was leaked by Gal-On, indicates that the management of this process will be
under the auspices of the two sides are not allowed to be present where the
Saudis According to these statements are not Israel's problem with the Saudi
authorities, but the problem lies in the extremist ideas in Saudi society.
He said Gal-On:
Given that Saudi Arabia decided through a secret agreement with Israel to hand
over the islands of Sanafir and Tiran to Israeli army soon we do not have the
need to send our officers who are specialized to the King Faisal Air Base in
Tabuk, I declare that this decision reckless on the part of Benjamin Netanyahu
Saoukana into the trap of Saudi terrorism sooner or later.
And it published
the leader of the party "Meretz" the names of 122 officers from the
Israelis and Americans working at King Faisal Air Base in Tabuk [Arabic;
translated by Google Translator]
[following list of 122 names]
http://www.almrasel.net/?p=11028 and also here: http://israellinarabic.com/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%B6%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83-%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B5%D9%84/
Comment by
Judith Brown: This article written in Arabic lists the names of Israelis (the
names are written in English) that the article claims are working in the
military command in Riyadh. The first few of these names sound Jewish names but
most of the later names don't sound Jewish so I'm not sure how accurate this
report is.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154868172828641
Comment: The
list is both Israelis and Americans. Thus definitely many names won’t be Israelian.
12.7.2015 – Plymouth Institute for Peace
Research (*** B K P)
Britain’s Secret War in Yemen: A Background to
the Houthi Crisis and How UK Policy Crushes Socialism
The carnage in
Yemen is exacerbated by hitherto unreported British foreign policy interests,
including the crushing of socialist elements and the killing of civilians in
anti-Huthi operations.
BRIEF HISTORY
AFTER “AL-QAEDA”
From 1962,
Britain ran a covert mercenary war in Yemen, in which a staggering 200,000
people died in an eight year period, many from chemical weapons, such as
phosgene, produced by the tax-funded Porton Down laboratories (the UK’s
biochemical warfare plant). The operations were run by MI6 head Dick White, and
former MI6 vice chief turned banker George Young via the latter’s Mossad-allied
proxy, Neil McLean
By the
late-1970s, the CIA and MI6 were training fascistic Yemeni collaborators to
‘draw the Russians into the Afghan trap’, in the words of US President Jimmy
Carter’s National Security Advisor Brzezinski.
For the
advocates of financial neo-liberalism, it is necessary to counter socialism in
Yemen, and indeed everywhere, especially as ‘There are an estimated 100,000
military and civil employees in the south who were forcibly retired after 1994,
and their pension arrangements were at the core of the original protests in
2007’,
COUNTER-REVOLUTION
The Southern
secessionist movement is a loose association of interests, including the Yemeni
Socialist Party, local branches of the Islah party, Nasserites, and Baathists,
using ‘grassroots networks to mobilize support for the movement … Since 2007’,
HRW continues
Since 2007, the
security forces and especially the Central Security, one of the organisations
trained directly or indirectly by the UK MoD, ‘have carried out widespread
abuses in the south—unlawful killings, arbitrary detentions, beatings,
crackdowns on freedom of assembly and speech, arrests of journalists, and
others’.
In the UK, we
hear a lot about China’s use of State-internet censorship, including its persecution
of bloggers. When it comes to the UK elite’s allies, however, we have our own
media blackout, as little of the above has been reported in the UK.
NORTHERN CIVIL
WAR
In the North, a
civil war has been fought intermittently since 2004 against Huthi ‘rebels
The ‘Huthis
object to what they say is the government’s failure to end Saudi-inspired Sunni
Islamic missionary activities in Sa’da, which they say clash with traditional
Zaidi doctrine’. In the 1990s, the ‘Believing Youth’ established schools to teach
the Zaidi code. However, the Yemeni Government, ‘which originally supported
these schools[,] decided around [the year] 2000 that
they represented a Zaidi revival that might threaten its power base’
In 2006, Britain
exported £7.5 million-worth of weapons to Yemen, which, as we shall see, were
used to deadly effect.
Since 2007,
international aid agencies have sought access to the northern Sa’da
governorate. As the military operations intensified, the Yemeni authorities
‘severely restricted humanitarian access to tens of thousands of civilians in
need’. Over the years, the war has intensified. ‘After a fifth round of
fighting erupted in May 2008’, HRW continues, ‘the government blocked the
movement of all commercial goods, including staple foods and fuel, an act that
appears to constitute an illegal collective punishment’
On the civil war
issue and the human rights abuses, the British media were largely silent, and
on the issue of Britain’s involvement, totally silent.
Violence erupted
around Hasama, near Malahit and Razih on the border with Saudi Arabia, and in
Saqain, south of Sa’da town. The Yemeni Armed Forces attacked Huthi rebels by
‘using fighter jets, artillery, and tanks.
After August
2009, the start of the war’s ‘sixth round’, shelling by both sides, coupled
with Government aerial bombing resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians
and the razing of ‘entire villages’.
On 12 February
2010, Saleh and the Huthis ‘agreed on a truce
HRW also reports
that in November 2009, Saudi Arabia, which receives the biggest arms shipments
in the region from the UK, including pathogens, nuclear-grade materials,
aircraft, and tanks, entered the war by sending jets into Yemen’s airspace to
bomb Huthi-held positions. In that month, ‘following what it said was a cross-border
raid on its territory, Saudi Arabia engaged the Huthis in sustained
hostilities, including airstrikes, and established a “buffer zone” inside Yemen
along the Saudi border’. In addition to the above admission considering UK MoD
training of Yemen’s Minister of the Interior, the MoD noted its ‘Training
support to Saudi Armed Forces’, which has been going on since at least the
1960s
After the
invasion of Northern Yemen, Liam Fox, Britain’s then-Secretary of State for
Defence, ‘visit[ed] the Kingdom … [H]is programme included an insight into the
training given to Saudi pilots by the [UK] RAF’. The MoD further reported that
the Saudi regime ‘signed an agreement in 2007 for the supply of 72 Typhoon
aircraft to the Royal Saudi Air Force worth £4.43bn’.
CONCLUSION
The dilemma for
Britain’s elite in Somalia and Yemen alike is the strategic importance of the
Gulf of Aden, and thus the prevention of socialist development in either
country. Analysts understand that if foreign policy has to be presented to the
public, it must be framed as if Britain is responding to threats to national
security – by By T.J. Coles
Comment: Superb
article.
cp2 Allgemein /
General
3.11.2016 –
Shoa.org (B P)
The Tragedy in Yemen
Imagine if the
Islamic Republic of Iran, complaining that its regional rival Saudi Arabia was
meddling in a neighbor’s politics for sectarian reasons, led a coalition to
invade that country. As a result, after 18 months, at least 10,000 civilians
had been killed or wounded, more than half the country’s people needed food aid
and three million people had been displaced.
Sanctions would
be leveled. Pundits would write agonized essays comparing the country to Nazi
Germany. Sabers would be rattled. War would likely follow. However, when these
roles are reversed and the Saudis and their Gulf allies are the aggressors,
it’s a different story.
Why the double
standard? Because the US is allied to the Saudi royals and the US was evicted
from Iran. When a friend commits a war crime, excuses are made.
http://www.shoah.org.uk/2016/11/03/the-tragedy-in-yemen/
3.11.2016 – The
Majority Report with Sam Seder (* A K P)
Film: Juan Cole:
Taking Back Mosul From ISIL & War Crimes in Yemen
- MR Live - 11/3/16
Good morning
everyone! On today’s show, Professor Juan Cole (@jricole) of Informed Comment
joins us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZInLFIl0d0
3.11.2016 – The
Nation * B K)
The United
States May Be Guilty of War Crimes in Yemen
Rather than
concede the failure of their strategy or agree to a negotiated settlement with
the rebels and other key actors in Yemen, such as former president Ali Abdullah
Saleh (who has sided with the Houthis, his former enemies), they chose to
escalate the air campaign—much as the Syrian government (with strong Russian
assistance) has done in Aleppo and other rebel-held areas of that country. Much
as in Syria, moreover, the Saudi campaign seems to be aimed at undercutting
popular support for the rebels by attacking civilian targets.
Despite Saudi
claims that they are striking military targets only, civilians appear to be the
main victims of the air war.
This is reason
enough to command our concern and attention. But what sets this apart from the
similar horrors in Aleppo is the fact that many (if not all) of the bombs being
dropped on these civilians were provided by the United States and that the planes
used to deliver them were in many cases guided there by US-supplied target data
and refueled mid-air by US tanker planes. If Saudi Arabia is eventually found
guilty of war crimes, the United States, at the very least, is an accessory to
the carnage.
What explains
this reprehensible and possibly felonious behavior? The most likely explanation
is that the White House sought to mollify the Saudis after Washington signed a
nuclear accord with the Iranians.
If Washington’s
involvement in the Saudi intervention has been largely invisible to people in
this country, quite the opposite is true to people in Yemen.
That US support
for the Saudi air campaign is fostering anti-Americanism in Yemen became
painfully evident in mid-October.
There is no
compelling reason to assist Riyadh in this bloody and foolhardy misadventure,
and every reason to disassociate ourselves from the resulting carnage. From a
purely practical perspective, continued support for the Saudis will only breed
more anti-Americanism and terrorist violence in the Middle East. But it is the
ethical dimension that should concern us the most: Continued neglect of US
complicity in war crimes in Yemen will blight our moral authority for years to
come and undermine our efforts to persuade others—for example, the Russians—to
discontinue air attacks on civilians in Syria and other heavily populated areas
– by Michael T. Klare
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-united-states-may-be-guilty-of-war-crimes-in-yemen/
Comment: May Be? Bombing schools, homes,
markets, funeral, roads, bridges, water tanks, food silos with US intelligence
is 'MAY BE'??
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1153910184662010
3.11.2016 –
Ahmad Alghobary (B K)
A horrible
situation in #Taiz city,I
visited Aljahmlia area ,I took some photos of houses destruction #Yemen . displaced
ppl r suffering (photos)
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/794206954583367680
3.11.2016 – Time
(* B K P)
What You Need to
Know About the Crisis in Yemen
[Overview
article]
Yemen’s 18-month
civil war has killed
about 10,000 people, and now it is pushing the country to the brink of
famine. More than 21 million Yemenis — 80% of the population — are in urgent
need of humanitarian assistance, according
to the U.N.
Drowned by the
noise of the U.S. presidential election and overshadowed by the conflict in
Syria and Iraq, war and hunger have quietly ravaged Yemen. Like those of
drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, face down in the surf, or
Aleppo boy Omran Daqneesh in the back of an
ambulance, the images of emaciated 18-year-old Yemeni woman Saida
Ahmad Baghili beg a neglected question: How did we get
here?
1. A
humanitarian crisis waiting to happen
2. The immediate
roots of the conflict date back to the Arab Spring
3. It’s a messy, brutal war, and the U.S. has weighed in
Yemen’s conflict
has been characterized as a proxy war between Shi’ite Iran and Sunni Saudi
Arabia, but the situation is more nuanced. Iranian policy analyst Mahan Abedin
describes Iran’s conduct as “high
on rhetoric but low on decisive action.”
4. Experts
foresee a protracted conflict
The collapse of
U.N.-sponsored peace talks in August, October’s escalation and a recent cholera outbreak that added stress to
Yemen’s already failing health care system have led to speculation that the
country could become “the
next Syria.”
Alexander
Corbeil, lead analyst for Ottawa-based think tank the SecDev Group, told TIME
that Yemen is unlikely to become a realm for regional power plays in the way
that Syria has, in part because Washington and Riyadh have a vested interest in
keeping other actors out. At the same time, he forecast “a grinding, protracted
conflict with huge humanitarian implications.”
Naji Hussein, a
police officer who lives in U.A.E. and had just returned from visiting family
in Al Bayda, Sana’a, told TIME in an email Tuesday that most local farms and
fields in the area had been destroyed or abandoned. Food prices have also
soared: beans that used to cost 60 Yemini Riyal ($0.24) now cost $1.04.
“It’s difficult
to live,” Hussein wrote. “We live in fear. We hear the airplanes and we don’t
know when the next attack is going to be.”
http://time.com/4552712/yemen-war-humanitarian-crisis-famine/?xid=fbshare
1.11.2016 – The
Antimedia (* B K P)
Media Silent as
US-Backed Coalition Purposely Starves Yemeni Civilians
As reports repeatedly surface regarding Saudi
Arabia’s deadly actions in Yemen, the media continues to largely ignore the
blatantly horrific aggression being launched on Yemeni civilians by a U.S.
ally. Instead, it perpetually hypes up Russia’s actions in Syria.
The United
States and its so-called allies are playing a dangerous game of torture with
the Yemeni people. Where high-level bombs (including
British-made banned munitions) that have directly targeted
civilians are unable to do the job, the coalition has launched a widespread
attack on the basic needs of Yemeni civilians, which has now resulted in
widespread famine.
The U.S. is well aware that the Saudis’ current
procedures, even with American and British assistance, are woefully inadequate
at avoiding hospitals. Rather, they are adept at causing mass civilian death —
and these Western powers continue to support the onslaught. The lack of
compassion towards the Yemeni people was captured brilliantly by
newly-appointed U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson — Britain’s version of
Donald Trump — when he stated someone else will
“happily supply arms” to the Saudis if the U.K. stops doing so.
Further, the
fact the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition is striking a country that is home to both
ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but have
not attempted to hit these two groups at all within a 19 month
period, tells one all they need to know about the phony war on terror – by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
http://theantimedia.org/coalition-starves-yemeni-civilians/
2.11.2016 – RT
(* A P)
Film:
‘Outstanding abuser:’ Saudi Arabia appoints notorious lawyer to probe its own
airstrikes in Yemen
Yemen has been
devastated by a wave of deadly strikes from the Saudi-led coalition lately. In
light of recent attacks, Saudi Arabia has appointed a military lawyer to
investigate the possible human rights violations caused by coalition bombing in
Yemen. But Bahraini, Colonel Mansour Al-Mansour's involvement has been questioned
- along with his reputation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKtXPE5mgFU
Comment: See
earlier reporting in YPR 222.
2.11.2016 –
Press TV Iran (* A K P)
Saudi attack on
Sana'a funeral, war crime: Human rights lawyer
“The attack
itself in my views was a war crime because it was largely an attack method
involved mass deaths of civilians,” Edward Corrigan, an international human
rights lawyer, said in an interview with Press TV.
He went on to
say that Saudi Arabia violated international humanitarian law by attacking
civilians, the wounded, and medical personnel using a vicious "double-tap
attack tactic."
The human rights
attorney also stressed that Saudis and their American backers are deliberately
using the double bombing tactic in Yemen and elsewhere in order to terrorize
civilians, adding, “The CIA has been using the double tactic in Yemen and other
countries in order to terrorize people and prevent people from going in and
looking for survivors. But this clearly is a war crime.”
Elsewhere in his
remarks, the expert stated that unconditional support by the US and some other
countries has helped Saudi Arabia escape justice and accountability for war
crimes.
He also strongly
denounced mass arms sales to Saudi Arabia by Washington and its Western allies.
“The
accountability is vital that unfortunately is not being enforced in this
instance. The trouble is that the United States, Britain, Germany and France
have sold mass amounts of arms to Saudi Arabia and its [Persian] Gulf
Cooperation Council allies.”
The analyst
suggested that judicial proceedings at the International Criminal Court should
be commenced in order to condemn Saudi war crimes.
http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/11/02/491827/Yemen-Sanaa-Saudi-Arabia-US-Edward-Corrigan-Press-TV and full interview in
film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Br4QJleNNk
2.11.2016 – SRF (* B K)
Jemen: 20 Millionen Menschen sind von
Hilfslieferungen abhängig
SRF News befragte den
Islamwissenschafter und Terrorismusexperten Guido Steinberg zur Lage im
Konfliktgebiet.
SRF News: Der Jemen soll kurz vor dem
Kollaps stehen, ist das wirklich der Fall?
Guido Steinberg: Ja, das ist tatsächlich
der Fall. Schon vor diesem Krieg war die Lage im Jemen katastrophal, vor allem,
weil der Wassermangel immer dramatischer wird. Das hat sich verstärkt, weil das
Land von der Versorgung durch der Aussenwelt
abgeschnitten ist. Die Saudis und ihre Verbündeten haben eine Seeblockade und
eine Luftblockade verhängt, so dass mittlerweile mehr als 20 Millionen Einwohner
des Landes von Hilfslieferungen abhängig sind. Die kommen aber viel zu selten.
Was müsste geschehen, damit die
Kriegsparteien im Jemen Frieden schliessen können?
Eigentlich sieht die Lösung ganz einfach
aus, weil beide Kriegsparteien sich nicht gegeneinander durchsetzen können.
Eine militärische Lösung zeichnet sich
in dem Konflikt also nicht ab. Weshalb lenkt Saudi-Arabien trotzdem nicht ein?
Saudi-Arabien hat andere Kriegsziele.
Sie gehen sehr weit über das hinaus, was bis jetzt erreicht wurde.
Die USA fordern Saudi-Arabien dazu auf
die Luftangriffe einzustellen, wird der Druck der Amerikaner Friedensgespräche
beschleunigen?
Ja, der Druck der Amerikaner ist schon
wichtig. Doch sie spielen eine zumindest dubiose Rolle.
http://www.srf.ch/news/international/jemen-20-millionen-menschen-sind-von-hilfslieferungen-abhaengig
2.11.2016 – City
(* B P)
Journalism
alumna gives inspiring talk about Yemen reporting
You would think
that someone reporting in the midst of the ongoing Yemeni Civil War would be
terrified. Twice, Iona Craigthought she would die. But
never has she regretted her goal – to be the voice of the Yemeni people.
“I’m not that brave, but I'm stubborn,” she says. “The danger doesn’t put me
off.”
Returning to City, freelance journalist Iona Craig took time out of her busy
schedule to deliver a well-received talk about her experiences reporting in
Yemen.
Iona arrived in Yemen in October of 2010, just
in time for the Arab Spring. Despite initially working for the Yemen Times,
as the revolution brewed, she left to focus on her freelance work and wrote for The Times as
their Yemen correspondent. When the civil war began in March of 2015, she was
the first journalist to get into the country. From systematic bombings of
civilian villages and a dire humanitarian crisis fuelled by political
instability and corruption, Iona has seen unforgettable images and scenes
during her time in Yemen. “It became clear that there was no regard for
civilian life,” she says.
However, Iona’s
dedication exceeded her worries. Despite being smuggled into Yemen’s eastern
port city of Aden from Djibouti by boat, making countless trips across the
country in the dreadful heat and coming face to face with Al Qaeda, she does it
because she is “passionate about it”.
With her burka and her vigorous heart, Iona
continues to report in the third deadliest country for journalists. “I’m banned
from Saudi Arabia and I’ve gotten the rise out of the Yemeni government. But my
job is to be critical of them,” she says. “It’s not an easy job, but
being able to give back to those who’ve helped me and the country I love makes
it rewarding.”
Iona has contributed to over 20 publications
during her time in Yemen, including The Times, USA Today, Foreign Policy and VICE. She was awarded the Martha
Gellhorn Prize in 2014, the Orwell
Prize for Journalism in May this year, and the Kurt
Schork Memorial Award for freelance reporters in September – by
Naomi Schanen
http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2016/october/journalism-alumna-gives-inspiring-talk-about-yemen-reporting
2.11.2016 – RT
(* B K P)
Saudi Arabia
working overtime to 'disappear' Yemen as a political entity
What you are
witnessing today in Yemen is a religious and cultural genocide, Catherine
Shakdam, Director of Programs at Shafaqna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies,
told RT.
RT: Leading politicians may call for Saudi
strikes to be reined in, but then arms firms are funding get-togethers like
these. How concerned are you at the proximity of weapons-makers to the
decision-makers?
Catherine Shakdam: Very concerned. This is
a concern that has been ongoing since the beginning of the war since March
2015. The closeness of the war lobby in the US and other capitols in the West
and Saudi Arabia is a political reality that we have had to deal with from the
very beginning of this onslaught on Yemen. And this goes further to prove that
Saudi Arabia has no interest in stopping the wanton murder of civilians. Just
as much as I would say the war lobbies don’t have an interest in stopping the
flow of weapons to Saudi Arabia. They are making billions of dollars. Why would
they stop?
RT: The Saudi ambassador's comment that the
air strikes in Yemen will continue 'no matter what'. Does that level of hubris
surprise you?
CS: No, not at all. I think that is the
thing. For a very long time now we have been told by Riyadh that this war on
Yemen was a war of political restoration. That what they wanted to do was to
restore the real legitimate power of Yemen through President Abd Rabbuh Mansur
Hadi. Quite clearly it was never an issue; this is not why this war has been
waged. If anything this war has been waged against Yemen
because Riyadh wants to destroy a potential enemy, a potential contender in the
region in terms power, in terms of military power, in terms of economic power.
Even though Yemen is very poor, it has a great potential. And this is something
that the Saudis have tried to rein in and have tried to prevent Yemen to rise to its full potential (with interview in film)
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/365114-saudi-arabia-yemen-war/and the film on youtube also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDAOkcCLuRI
2.11.2016 –
Laura Silverman (A K)
Number of times
Trump has been in the media in the past year: 1,984,162 versus Yemen: 233,665.
My piece in @StylistMagazinewith @Nawalf
https://twitter.com/lauraclemency/status/793770249564917760
1.11.2016 – Der Freitag (* B K)
Beide Länder [stehen] als Synonym für
Leid, Tot und das Versagen der Weltgemeinschaft. Und werfen zudem ein
schlechtes Bild auf die zwei Weltmächte unserer Zeit, die in beiden Fällen
umstrittene Positionen einnehmen.
Die Rede ist von Syrien und Jemen.
Jemen und Syrien wurden beide nach den
Revolutionen zerrissen und sind in den Strudel internationaler Politik geraten.
Russland und die USA nahmen jeweils die Position der Regierungsseite ein und
unterstützten diese im Kampf gegen die Revolten.
Während Syrien viel präsenter in den
deutschen Medien behandelt wird, ist die Nachrichtenlage über Jemen deutlich
überschaubarer.
Ähnlich ist es mit der Rollenverteilung
der beiden Unterstützer der Regierungen. Russland ist deutlicher im Kreuzfeuer
der Medien, während die USA für ihre Rolle weniger Kritik hinnehmen müssen.
US-Regierungsdokumente, die Reuters zugespielt
wurden, belegen die Befürchtungen von Beamten, dass die USA als Unterstützer
der Regierungskoalition im Jemen für die Rechtsverstöße ebenjener mit verantwortlich
gemacht werden können – von Abraham Garcia.
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/abrahangarcia/des-beiden-schuld-der-anderen-leid
Kommentar: Der Autor formuliert sehr
vorsichtig.
26.10.2016 –
Secular Talk (* B H K)
Film: Saudi
Arabia Is Deliberately Starving Yemen - With Help From
The West
The Yemen war
uniquely combines tragedy, hypocrisy and farce. First come
the casualties: around 10,000, almost 4,000 of them civilians. Then come those
anonymous British and American advisers who seem quite content to go on
“helping” the Saudi onslaughts on funerals, markets and other obviously (to the
Brits, I suppose) military targets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9kmy2k8BrM
29.10.2009 – The
Interpreter (* B K P)
Yemen: An
Iranian under every bed?
The northern
rebellion would largely go unnoticed in the West were it not for the fact that
the al-Houthis are Zaydi Shi'a and, as all Arab states would have us believe,
there is no Shi'a opposition movement that doesn't have the fingerprints of
Tehran all over it. While there is more than a grain of truth in this assertion
(Hizbullah being the prime example), Shi'a Islam, like Christianity, contains a
broad range of denominations and Zaydism differs significantly from mainstream
Shi'ism.
Zaydism is above
all about local leadership rather than a centralised authority resident in
Tehran, Qum or Najaf, so the likelihood of them dancing to Tehran's tune is
remote. Still, the possibility of Iran supporting the Houthis as part of a
larger anti-Saudi campaign can't be entirely discounted.
It suits Arab states to draw connections between the al-Houthis and Iran
without providing proof because it supports the argument that Iran is an
expansionist state that uses Shi'a minorities as stalking horses for Persian
interests. Accusations by Sunni states of Iranian complicity in any Shi'a-led
protest or uprising is also designed to internationalise the conflict by taking
the focus off local grievances which are often the real reason for the
conflict.
Last week President Saleh managed to accuse Iranians
(though not the Iranian Government) of funding the al-Houthis with a view to
creating a Shi'a zone along both sides of the Saudi border. Which makes this story about the seizure of
Iranian arms bound for northern Yemen a case of particularly good timing.
Naturally, the Iranians deny the reports – by Rodger
Shanahan
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/yemen-iranian-under-every-bed
Comment: In
2009, the Houthis rebelled and fought against the then president Saleh, and
also the Saudis interfered and bombed Saada province, the Houthi stronghold.
Already at that time, the Saudis played the tune of Iranian support for the
Houthis – and, at that time, president Saleh also did. Already in 2009, the
Iran story did not sound credible.
cp3 Humanitäre Lage
/ Humanitarian situation
3.11.2016 – Tagesschau (* A H K)
Jemen im Krieg: Reportage aus Sanaa
Seit 2014 kämpft der jemenitische
Präsident Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi gegen die Huthi-Rebellen im Land. Seit 2015
erhält Mansur Unterstützung durch eine von Saudi-Arabien angeführte Koalition
von Staaten, welche Luftangriffe ausführt. Der Kampf zwischen den verfeindeten
Parteien hat zu einer Hungerskatastrophe im Land geführt. ARD-Korrespondent
Thomas Aders (SWR) berichtet in einer Reportage aus der Stadt Sanaa über die
Auswirkungen des Kriegs auf die Menschen im Jemen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QXBrISJJs8
Kommentar: Relativ harmlose Bilder aus
Sanaa. Und der Krieg ist KEIN Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen den Saudis und dem
Iran.
3.11.2016 –
European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and
Humanitarian Aid Operations (A H)
“Forgotten”
Yemen Crisis Requires Robust and Sustained Support
Jean-Louis De
Brouwer, the director for Europe, Eastern Neighbourhood and the Middle East for
EU Humanitarian Aid recently returned from a fact-finding mission in war-torn
Yemen. The first high-level visitor from an international donor organization
since the escalation of the conflict in March 2015, De Brouwer met with de
facto authorities and representatives from the humanitarian aid community in
Sana'a, the Yemeni capital. Below are a few of his impressions.
Q: How would you describe the humanitarian
situation in Yemen right now?
Q: What is the EU doing to help?
A: Across Yemen, EU humanitarian aid is
assisting people who are affected by the conflict. Through our numerous
humanitarian partners we provide food, shelter, water, health, cash assistance
and other life-saving emergency help. The needs are massive and the EU recently
allocated an additional €40 million in assistance to Yemen. This brings the
total EU humanitarian funding to the country to €120 million since the
beginning of the conflict.
Q: What are the specific challenges of bringing
humanitarian aid to those in need?
A: Access to populations in need remains a
major challenge, according to the EU's humanitarian aid partners. Yemen is
extremely volatile with a range of active armed factions, including Al Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula and elements affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS).
Fighting between the Houthi and Yemeni government troops is still ongoing on
many fronts. All of this puts humanitarian workers at severe risk and hampers
the delivery of humanitarian supplies.
Q: The Yemeni health system is on the brink of
collapse. What are your observations?
http://ec.europa.eu/echo/field-blogs/stories/forgotten-yemen-crisis-requires-robust-and-sustained-support_en = http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/forgotten-yemen-crisis-requires-robust-and-sustained-support
Comment: Just
remember the EU states fueling the war and disaster by selling arms to Saudi
Arabia: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and others.
3.11.2016 –
World Food Programme (A H)
Yemen Market
Watch Report, Issue No. 6, October 2016
Prices of food
and fuel commodities largely kept their stabilizing trend in October, but
continued to be significantly higher than the pre-crisis levels.
The cost of the
minimum food basket has slightly increased in October compared to that in
September and was 24% higher than the pre-crisis level.
Consumers
reportedly changed their buying behavior as many of them purchasing small
quantities and requesting traders for buying on credits due to lack of money
caused by absence of salaries and loss of income resulted from disruption of
their livelihoods. Consequently, despite purportedly better supply of goods
through informal cross-border overland imports during the past few months,
consumers’ reduced demand for commodities led to lower/stable prices.
According to
Alert for Price Spikes (ALPS) methodology, in October 2016, normal situation
prevailed for wheat flour, vegetable oil and red beans while sugar continued on
a crisis status. The ALPS indicator for the cost of the minimum food basket
remained at normal level.
http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-market-watch-report-issue-no-6-october-2016 and in full: http://www.wfp.org/content/yemen-monthly-market-watch-2016 = http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/wfp288335.pdf
3.11.2016 – Red
Cross (* A H)
30% of the
overall needed medical supplies are entering Yemen. No matter how hard we try,
we'll never be able to cover the country's needs
https://twitter.com/ICRC_ye/status/794125493368979456
Comment: It
means that 7 out of 10 people might not even get medical assistance. It means
that your disease might get only 30% cured.
It means that some areas will not even be reached.
It means so many things but it comes down to two: life vs death
Lift the blockade on #Yemen
2.11.2016 – Tagesschau (* B H K)
Film: Ein Land kurz vor dem Kollaps
Angesichts der katastrophalen Lage im
Bürgerkriegsland Jemen schlagen Hilfsorganisationen Alarm: Millionen Menschen
fehle es an Nahrung und Medikamenten, Kliniken und Schulen seien zerstört. Doch
ein dauerhafter Waffenstillstand ist nicht in Sicht. Matthias Ebert über
ein Land vor dem Kollaps.
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/jemen-525.html
2.11.2016 – Tagesschau (* B H)
Film: "Die Reserven sind
aufgebraucht"
Im Jemen spiele sich derzeit eine der
größten weltweiten Krisen ab, doch die Welt bekomme zu wenig davon mit, sagt
Robert Lindner von der Hilfsorganisation Oxfam im Gespräch mit tagesschau24.
80 Prozent der Bevölkerung - rund 21 Millionen Menschen - seien auf Hilfe
angewiesen.
Nach eineinhalb Jahren Krieg im Jemen
haben die Menschen ihre Reserven aufgebraucht. "Sie sind verzweifelt und
ausgezehrt", sagt Robert Lindner von der Hilfsorganisation Oxfam. 80
Prozent der Bevölkerung seien auf Hilfe angewiesen, rund drei Millionen Menschen
seien in ihrem eigenen Land auf der Flucht.
Oxfam und andere Hilfsorganisationen
versuchten, Trinkwasser sowie Sanitäreinrichtungen zur Verfügung zu stellen.
Doch zunehmend fehlten Nahrungsmittel. Und das, was auf den Märkten angeboten
werde, sei kaum mehr bezahlbar. Viele Menschen seien lebensbedrohlich
unterernährt.
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/jemen-oxfam-101.html
2.11.2016 – Save
the Children (* B H)
Jemen: Cholera-Ausbruch bestätigt,
Masern auf dem Vormarsch
Die Kinderrechtsorganisation Save the
Children bestätigt neue Cholera-Fälle im Jemen. Kinder im Jemen sind einer
dreifachen Bedrohung ausgesetzt: Cholera, Masern und Mangelernährung.
Medikamente sind derart knapp und teuer, dass Eltern gezwungen sind, zwischen
ihren Kindern zu entscheiden.
7,6 Millionen Menschen sind durch den
aktuellen Cholera-Ausbruch im Jemen gefährdet – darunter 3,8 Millionen Kinder.
Die Nachricht fällt in eine Woche intensiver Kämpfe im Jemen, nachdem eine
72-stündige Waffenruhe letzte Woche tatenlos verstrichen ist und nicht zu einem
Friedensabkommen führte.
1,5 Millionen Kinder sind nach 19
Monaten der Gewalt im Jemen akut mangelernährt. Die Immunsysteme dieser Kinder
sind durch die Mangelernährung geschwächt und für Infektionskrankheiten
besonders anfällig.
Im al-Sabeen Kinderkrankenhaus in der
jemenitischen Hauptstadt Sana’a werden unter anderem Yasmine, sieben, sowie
ihre Schwestern und ihre drei Brüder (Drillinge) gegen Cholera behandelt.
Yasmines Vater Bashir (38) erzählt:
«Ihre Grossmutter zeigte Symptome und drei Tage später waren unsere sechs
Kinder krank. Sie hatten starken Durchfall. Yasmine fiel ins Koma, ich hatte
solche Angst.»
Weil das al-Sabeen Krankenhaus, wie alle
medizinischen Einrichtungen im Jemen, selber kaum mehr Zugang zu Medikamenten
hat, müssen Patienten diese ausserhalb des Krankenhauses selber besorgen. Die
Medikamente sind, wenn überhaupt auffindbar, stark überteuert.
Bashir fährt fort: «Mein Cousin lieh mir
Geld für die Medikamente. Ich fuhr die ganze Nacht durch die Stadt.
Schliesslich fand ich eine einzige Flasche Kalium – doch wir bräuchten
eigentlich zwei. Ich gab meiner Tochter Yasmine die Medizin, weil ihr Zustand
sehr ernst war.»
Dr. Najat, der für Yasmines Behandlung
zuständig ist, sagt: «Yasmine leidet an Nierenversagen, eine Folge der starken
Dehydrierung durch ihre Cholera-Infektion. Sie braucht unbedingt intensive
Pflege. Uns fehlt es an allem: Medikamenten, Ärzten, Löhnen für die
Angestellten.»
Zwei Drittel aller Menschen im Jemen
haben keinen Zugang zu sauberem Wasser und sanitärer Versorgung, besonders in
den Städten. Eine Cholera-Epidemie wird damit noch wahrscheinlicher.
Save the Children Mitarbeitende haben
ausserdem mindestens fünf neue Masern-Fälle registriert. Dr. Najat sagt: «Uns
wurden fünf Masern-Fälle aus Sa’dah überwiesen. Masern sind hoch ansteckend,
die Krankheit könnte sich in Sana’a ausbreiten.»
Edward Santiago, Länderdirektor von Save
the Children im Jemen, sagt: «Die de fakto Blockade Jemens führt zu einem
extremen Mangel an Nahrung, Medikamenten und medizinischem Zubehör. 600
Gesundheitseinrichtungen mussten aufgrund des Konflikts geschlossen werden.
Viele weitere wurden schwer beschädigt.»
Save the Children fordert eine sofortige
und anhaltende Waffenruhe im Jemen sowie die grossangelegte Lieferung von
Nahrung, Benzin und Medikamenten ins Land.
Save the Children bereitet derzeit ein
Cholera-Präventionsprogramm vor, das bald anlaufen und während mindestens drei
Monaten andauern wird.
2.11.2016 – Middle
East Eye (* B H)
'To beg or to steal?' Starving Yemenis turn to
crime to feed families
Jails in
war-stricken Taiz overcrowded with prisoners driven to steal by poverty and
hunger following collapse of government welfare system
Languishing in
the overcrowded cell that he shares with 11 other prisoners, 'Mohammed' said
that the worst thing about being locked up was not knowing
whether his wife and four children were starving.
“I lost my job
at the beginning of the war,” said the 35-year-old construction worker, who has
been held in the prison at Taiz’s al-Turbah police station since late August
Unable to afford
the family’s monthly rent of 15,000 rials ($60) and threatened with eviction by
their landlord, Mohammed, not his real name, described to Middle East Eye how
weeks before his arrest he had been faced with a dismal choice.
"I’d sold
most of the equipment and furniture in my house, including the bottle of
propane [a gas cannister used for cooking] and the beds. My children were
starving to death so I had only two choices: either to beg or to steal. I
preferred to steal to keep my dignity."
At midnight on
20 August, Mohammed stormed into a local shop and stole mobile phone cards
worth 50,000 rials ($200).
He proceeded to
sell the cards to other shops in the same area and used the money to pay his
landlord and feed his family.
By the time he
was caught by the police he was penniless again
Faisal Mahyoub,
an officer in al-Turbah police station said there were currently about 20
prisoners being held who had admitted stealing from homes and shops to buy food
for their families.
Many other
prisons in Taiz province were filled with inmates driven to crime in similar
circumstances, he added.
Similar cases
have also been reported in several other provinces controlled by both
pro-government forces and the Houthis.
Yemen is facing
a humanitarian catastrophe as a consequence of the war with more than half of
the country’s population in dire need of aid and more than one million children
at risk of dying from starvation, according to United Nations figures.
One factor that
has further contributed to the plight of many poor Yemenis has been the
collapse of the country's welfare system.
Even if he does
get out of prison, he said he and his family had nothing left and would be
force to join the millions displaced from their homes by Yemen's war.
"I am
longing for my children," he said, despairingly. "I appeal to
charitable people to pay my debt, and then we will leave our house and head to
the nearest camp." – by Nasser Al-Sakkaf
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/beg-or-steal-starving-yemenis-turn-crime-feed-families-1791761087
2.11.2016 – Red
Cross (A H)
"I am a
physician- not a magician. I can't save lives if I don't have the supplies
needed to do so", said one doctor to us in #Taiz
https://twitter.com/ICRC_ye/status/793767404505554944
How do children
in your country spend their day? Yemen's children spend their day fetching
water for their households (photo)
https://twitter.com/icrc_ye/status/793830915399180288
1.11.2016 –
Living in Yemen on the Edge / Reuters (A H) K)
Photo: Starved
and injured. It's a war on our #Children. Reuters photo
1.11.2016 –
Fatik Al-Rodaini (A H)
Footage taken
today during food distribution by @monareliefye's ground crew in al-Qarashia
area of Hodeidah in western #Yemen @monarelief
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/793583754061152256 and https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/793525325242175491 and https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/794185232849272833 and https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/794187098349772800 and https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/794194312426913792 and https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/794197041748447232
1.11.2016 –
Twitlonger (A H)
#Yemen survival
tips
Water collection
techniques Cluster munitions Health Communication
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sp8m7m
1.11.2016 –
Ahmad Alghobary (* A H K)
Heartbreaking . Photos by
me in my city Dhamar hospital #Yemen .
the story is in the photo No 1.
https://twitter.com/ahmadalgohbary/status/793471508232310785
Comment by
Judith Brown: This is part of the ongoing story of Yemen. I have a very close
friend who pregnant close to where bombs were falling and her baby too has
problems. I have heard that there are more and more babies being born with
deformities. Difficult enough in a stable country, but so challenging in a
country like Yemen with its infrastructure destroyed
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154868244248641
1.11.2016 – Red
Cross (A H)
Something as
simple as bread is hard to afford for many Yemenis. We @ICRC are helping 35, 000 ppl
in Taiz get bread every day.
https://twitter.com/icrc_ye/status/793449251556720640
Comment by
Judith Brown: Simple things are do difficult in Yemen. The reality is that
there is not enough money to cope with the need.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154868238973641
1.11.2016 – WHO
(A H)
WHO has trained
43 doctors and nursing staff from Al-Thawra & Al-Olofi hospitals in #Hudaydah, #Yemen, on #choleraoutbreak management.
https://twitter.com/whoyemen/status/793521551639449600
1.11.2016 –
Doctors Without Borders (A H)
Photo: An MSF
nurse in the nursery department takescare of a new baby who was born in the
Al-Salam hospital in Amran. His mother Yousra says “I delivered my baby in Al-Salam
hospital in Khamer. I suffered a lot to reach the hospital. My house is in
Gorban, which is a rugged area. When I started feeling the delivery pain, my
husband began to look for a car to take me to the hospital. He found a car
after searching for five hours, but I had to walk for half an hour to reach the
main street where the car was waiting. We reached the hospital four hours later
and I delivered once I arrived; I had a baby boy. I am still tired after all I
went through.”
1.11.2016 –
Almasdar (* A H K)
Mass
displacement among intense fighting southwest Yemen’s Taiz
Tens of families
have been displaced seeking shelters and safety as battlefields intensified on
Tuesday southwest Yemen’s Taiz city.
A local source
said that over a hundred families have left their houses in Al-Selw district of
Taiz as shelling by Houthi gun men and forces of former president Ali Abdullah
Saleh on villages increased.
Fierce clashes
have been ongoing in the area between forces of Houthi-Saleh and government
forces backed by popular resistance fighters. Added the
source.
http://almasdaronline.com/article/85953 and:
1.11.2016 –
Judith Brown (* A H K)
Photos: More
displaced this time from Taiz. There are 3.5 million Yemenis displaced - from
all parts of Yemen but especially in the northwest Saada region. Many of the
people of Taiz had left the city a long time ago. The ground war in Taiz is
particularly fierce and brutal, with fighters from Islah militias, Abu Abbas's
militias, Al Qaeda, plus fighters from the Houthi-Saleh alliance. It must be
intolerable living there.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154868192463641
1.11.2016 –
Press TV Iran (* A H)
Film: UN warns
of ‘catastrophic situation’ in Yemen
A top UN
official has warned of a catastrophic situation in Yemen if the warring sides
do not reach a peace agreement at the earliest. UN humanitarian chief, Stephen
O'Brien, says more than 21 million Yemenis are in need of protection and
humanitarian aid. He says over two million people, including 370,000 children
are suffering from malnutrition. Meanwhile, United Nations envoy to Yemen
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has said that the people of Yemen are being held
hostage to personal and reckless political decisions. Interviewy: Hisham
Al-Omeisy, Sanaa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2lgfi2Djk
31.10.2016 –
Press TV Iran (* A H)
Film: Hunger,
malnutrition, airstrikes continue to plague Yemen
The already dire
humanitarian crisis in Yemen is growing at an alarming rate. Over 80 percent of
the population is in need of assistance with about 14 million people suffering
from food insecurity.
Our correspondent Mohamed al-Attab has gone among the people and sent us this
report on their hardships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FwSOsL3qI
3.11.2016 – Dr.
Ahmed Farhan (A H)
Film: Mother and
killed son in the morgue.
https://twitter.com/abrahama999/status/794151555620540416
cp5 Nordjemen und
Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
2.11.2016 – Ministry
of Industry and Reade (A P)
The Ministry of
Industry and Trade staff condemns the destruction of all the productive and
industrial activities by the aggressor
In the protest
at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the ministry staff strongly condemned
the targeting of American and Saudi aggression of all productive and industrial
activities in the country, demanding the neutralization of all commercial and
industrial activities.
The employees
who participated in the protest confirmed in the statement for them their
condemnation since the early days all acts of destruction and siege by the
Saudi aggression.
http://www.moit.gov.ye/moit/node/2621
2.11.2016 –
Tasnim News (B K)
Yemeni Army’s
Missiles to Reach Riyadh: Analyst
A senior Yemeni
political analyst praised the growing military might of his country’s army and
Popular Committees in confrontation with a Saudi-led coalition, saying that the
range of Yemen’s missiles will grow to reach Riyadh and even beyond it.
“As you have
seen since the beginning of the war, the Yemeni nation has always increased its
military capabilities and expanded the scope of operations against the enemy,”
Seyyed Sadiq al-Sharafi said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.
“The Yemeni
forces have also enhanced their missile power,” he said, adding that the army
and Popular Committees’ missiles now can reach Jeddah.
The Yemeni
analyst went on to say that in the future, the range of the army missiles will
grow further and they could reach Riyadh and beyond it as well as places like
Dubai.
The forces of
the Arabian Peninsula country have already hit Saudi positions with various
homegrown ballistic missiles, including “Qaher-1”, which has a range of 500
kilometers, and “Borkan-1”.
The solid
propellant and Scud-type Borkan-1 missile reportedly has a range of more than
800 kilometers.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/11/02/1229091/yemeni-army-s-missiles-to-reach-riyadh-analyst
Comment: That is
no news. The missile at Jiddah airport had a range of ca. 800 km.
Comment: Iranian
media. Putting fuel on fire. Instead
of bringing sides, again, at the peace table.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1152545558131806
2.11.2016 –
Sputnik News (* A H K)
Houthi Rebels
Displace Over 150 Families in Southwestern Yemen
Houthi militias
have forced more than 150 families out of their homes in a number of towns and
villages in Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz, media reported on Wednesday.
Since clashes escalated between government forces and Houthi militias on
Monday, more than 100 families from the As Silw District, east of Taiz, have
been displaced, Al Arabiya reported, citing human rights organizations sources.
According to local sources, over 50 families from the towns of al-Dayh and
al-Rawd, west of Taiz, were forced to leave their homes after threatening at
gunpoint by Houthi rebels on Monday.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201611021047002406-yemen-displacement-houthis/
and
2.11.2016 –
Hussam Almolaiki (* A H K)
Selw area is
empty now after force displacement of innocents people
by Houthis forces in #Taiz (photos)
https://twitter.com/hussam25173474/status/793782997296250881
and
2.11.2016 –
Hisham Al-Omeisy (A H K)
Also local reps
that male villagers were detained by Houthis on suspicion are members/aiding
Taiz resistance
https://twitter.com/omeisy/status/793835201612898304
2.11.2016 –
Nasser Arrabyee (A P)
Salaries handed
2Yemenis from Sat After President Samad met with
chiefs of 3 State powers Saudis failed 2 starve humans as it failed by bombing
(photo)
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/793856476829941760
2.11.2016 –
Nasser Arrabyee (A P)
#End_impunity_Day Yemen Media Union calls
for holding accountable US-backed Saudi war criminals who
killed more than 30 journalists
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/793766221569265664and http://www.epa.eu/politics-photos/citizens-initiative-recall-photos/international-day-to-end-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists-in-yemen-photos-53101111 (EPA seems to downsize 50
% the figure of the journalists killed by the Saudi coalition).
1.11.2016 –
Nasser Arrabyee (A K)
Yemen armed
tribesmen Keep sending their fighters to support army against US-backed Saudis
who kill under US-UK cover (photos)
https://twitter.com/narrabyee/status/793516349179981824
cp6 Südjemen und
Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
3.11.2016 – Gulf
News (A T)
Government
officials in the port city of Al Mukalla told Gulf News yesterday that a
suicide bomber driving a small van laden with explosives was killed when his
car exploded before reaching military sites on the city’s eastern outskirts.
The officials
said that the car exploded on the main road close to the
headquarter of the 2nd Military Region and the governor’s temporary
office in the city’s Khalef area. No one was hurt in the botched attack.
2.11.2016 –
Yemen Updates (A P)
Parents and
mothers of detainees in Aden demand fair trial or their immediate release
(images)
https://twitter.com/yemen_updates/status/793844916334067712referring to https://twitter.com/Anees2200/status/792868940020084741
Comment: We
always are told of people detained by the Houthis – the Hadi / Saudi side seems
not to be different in this matter.
2.11.2016 –
Resumen Mediooriente (* B P)
El separatismo
retrasa los esfuerzos por la paz en Yemen
El conflicto ha
llevado a la división de facto de Yemen, creándose ejércitos rivales e
instituciones tanto en el norte como en el sur. Todo
esto podría significar el tener que dibujar de nuevo el mapa del Medio Oeste.
La tregua de
tres días para permitir la entrada de más ayuda humanitaria y preparar una
solución política se rompió la semana pasada, reflejando la incapacidad de
llegar a acabar con la inamovible guerra.
Pero, detrás de
los desacuerdos de los combatientes sobre cómo distribuir el poder, el futuro
de Yemen como un Estado unido parece cada vez más
improbable.
La llegada al
poder de los hutíes en el norte ha provocado el resurgimiento del separatismo del sur, un movimiento que ve la fractura del
poder del Estado como su momento para alzarse.
Al mismo tiempo,
el sur y su mayor ciudad, Aden, sirven de base para el gobierno reconocido
internacionalmente, el cual trata de recuperar el control del
país, incluso si supone hacer una difícil alianza con los separatistas – by
Noah browning
2.11.2016 –
Yemen Updates (A P)
While Yemen is
bankrupt and suffering from severe financial crisis, Prz Hadi appoints more
officials, diplomats and ministers.
https://twitter.com/HadiPresident/status/793774429402718209 (Arabic)
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and
peace talks
3.11.2016 –
Aljazeera (*A P)
Yemen: Thousands
protest UN envoy's peace plan
Rallies take
place in Aden and elsewhere, with protesters saying UN envoy's plan would
legitimise the Houthis' "coup".
Thousands of
Yemenis protested against a new peace proposal to end the conflict submitted by
the UN envoy to the war-torn country, saying the plan would legitimise the
rebels' power grab.
The
demonstrations in the southern city of Aden and other locations took place on
Thursday shortly before UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived in the
capital Sanaa for peace talks with Houthi rebels.
"We reject
the plan of Ould Cheikh," read one of the banners carried by protesters in
Aden - the government's temporary base - who responded to a call by authorities
in the city to rally.
"No to an
initiative that legitimises the coup," said another.
President
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday rejected
the envoy's peace plan, saying it would reward the Houthis for seizing
the capital and "opens a door towards more suffering and war".
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/yemen-thousands-protest-envoy-peace-plan-161103140021988.html and also http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/un-yemen-envoy-s-visit-to-sanaa-sparks-protests/678159
Comment: Peace
agreement means compromise, they seem to forget that. – What do the
demonstrators await Hadi will do? He is no supporter of southern separatism, wants to hold on a unified Yemen, but you see a
lot of former Southern Yemen’s flags in the photo.
3.11.2016 – Gulf
News (A P)
In Riyadh, Hadi
said on Wednesday that his government will keep extending its hand of peace if
the rebel movement honours previous peace initiatives. At a meeting with US and
UK envoys, Hadi said he urges the international community who has stood by his
government since the beginning of the transitional period, to cast blame on Al
Houthis and the ousted president for their attempts to destabilise the country.
Comment:Nothing new. Hadi rejected the latest peace plan; does he
really think the Houthis would go back to the past and “honour previous peace
initiatives” (which were more favorable for Hadi)?
3.11.2016 –
Anadolu (A P)
UN envoy to
Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived in capital Sanaa on Thursday, a week
after unveiling a plan for ending the country’s two-year-old conflict.
An official
source at Sanaa’s international airport, who spoke to Anadolu Agency
anonymously due to restrictions on speaking to media, said Ahmed had arrived
from Djibouti.
The source did
not elaborate further.
While in Sanaa,
the UN envoy is expected to discuss his peace plan with representatives of both
the Shia Houthi militia and allied forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali
Abdullah Saleh.
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/un-yemen-envoy-s-visit-to-sanaa-sparks-protests/678159
3.11.2016 – UN
Envoy to Yemen (A P)
Back to Sana'a
for the second time in less than a week to discuss the details of the roadmap
and security plan
https://twitter.com/OSESGY/status/794186489915654144
3.11.2016 –
Reuters (* A P)
Yemen peace
hopes flicker as Saudi studies U.N. plan - diplomats
Diplomats
promoting a U.N. plan to end Yemen's war detect cautious support for its ideas
from Saudi Arabia, raising hopes the proposals might unlock stalled efforts to
end the 19-month-old conflict and a worsening humanitarian disaster.
While both
parties unofficially rejected the proposal last week, a senior diplomat at the
United Nations told Reuters that Saudi Arabia appeared broadly to accept the
initiative and had encouraged Hadi to deal with it.
"As far as
I'm aware the Saudis have accepted the roadmap ... they have certainly done a
very good job behind the scenes of encouraging Hadi to get closer on the
spectrum of accepting it than he previously was," said the diplomat, who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
The United Arab
Emirates, another key country in the coalition, said last week that it
supported the plan.
Neither the
Saudi nor Yemeni governments immediately responded to a Reuters request for
comment.
A Yemeni
diplomatic source, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said that most, but
not all, of the Saudi leadership had agreed to the plan.
The source added
that concerns by the kingdom and Houthi officials about a withdrawal by the
group from Yemen's population centres were being addressed by Oman, a neutral
party in the regional power struggle.
"The Saudis
are worried that the Houthis won't comply, while the Houthis fear it could
expose them to attack. Oman told the Saudis it would use its influence with the
Houthis to guarantee a withdrawal according to the U.N. plan," the source
said – By Noah Browning and Michelle Nichols
http://in.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-idINKBN12Y1I5
Comment: Already
a prominent article by important Saudi commentator Al-Rashed (see YPR 222, cp7)
indicated that the Saudis would accept the UN plan. – Anyway, asking for a
unilateral retreat only by the Houthis cannot work, as I pointed out in my
comments in YPR 222, cp7. A new, better, neutral UNSC resolution on Yemen also
would be very helpful for achieving piece (see cp1 above).
2.11.2016 – AFP
(* A P)
UN envoy seeks
Yemen peace deal in coming weeks
The UN envoy for
Yemen said he will immediately return to the region to try to clinch a peace
deal in the coming weeks, even though both sides have rejected his proposals.
“The ball is in the court of the Yemeni parties,” Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told
the Security Council which met to discuss the 19-month war in Yemen.
The council is seeking to turn up the pressure on both the Houthi rebels and
the Saudi-backed government to end the war that has killed thousands and
brought the country to its knees.
“What are the parties waiting for to sign a political agreement? Have they not
understood that there are no winners in wars?” asked the envoy.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed has presented a roadmap to the Houthi rebels and their allies
and the Yemeni government to revive political talks, but he acknowledged to the
council that his proposals had been rejected.
http://www.gulftoday.ae/portal/dceabe45-159e-49fd-becb-995a250a7286.aspx
2.11.2016 – AP
(* A P)
PROPOSED UN
RESOLUTION DEMANDS YEMEN CEASE-FIRE AND TALKS
A proposed U.N.
resolution would demand that all parties in Yemen immediately honor an April
cease-fire and resume peace negotiations.
The draft
Security Council resolution, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, also
calls for transparent and timely investigations of alleged violations of
international humanitarian and human rights law - and accountability for those
responsible for violations and abuses.
Britain's U.N.
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said Tuesday he expects to circulate the draft to
the council "in the coming days." It was first published by Inner
City Press.
The U.N. special
envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has drafted a roadmap covering
political and security issues. It was immediately rejected by President
Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi of Yemen's internationally recognized government who
would lose power under its provisions – by Edith M. Lederer
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UNITED_NATIONS_YEMEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-11-02-18-32-02 = http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/proposed-resolution-demands-yemen-cease-fire-talks-43257449 = https://www.yahoo.com/news/proposed-un-resolution-demands-yemen-cease-fire-talks-223133375.html
Comment: Britain
in any way is one of the main Saudi supporters and inadequate as peace dealer
in the Yemen war. – A new UNSC resolution which really would help to bring
peace to Yemen must be really neutral – the former resolution 2216 (as the
British playing the role of peace broker here) are very far apart from that.
2.11.2016 –
Hussam Al-Sanabani (A P)
UN Envoy to
Yemen will arrive 2 Sana'a tomorrow, in the same time activists raisng voices
oppose his bias role. Demanding UNSG 2 replace him
https://twitter.com/HussamSanabani/status/793883790275780608
2.11.2016 – Al
Arabiya (A P)
Houthis accuse
UN envoy of fueling war in Yemen
Houthi militia
leaders slammed the UN special envoy for Yemen, accusing him of being biased
and not impartial, the Arabic
website of Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
A spokesman for
the Houthi militias, Mohammed Abdul Salam accused the UN envoy of fabricating
evidence against them, specifically when he condemned their attempted attack on
Makkah – stating that the allegation was false.
Salam’s comments
came a day after Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council at a briefing on the situation in the
country that the deterioration of the economic situation threatens to worsen
the humanitarian crisis, calling on Yemeni actors prioritize national interest.
1.11.2016 –
Inner City Press (*A P)
On Yemen, Draft
Resolution Demands Cessation of Hostilities, Envoy Would Report Back in 15 Days
The Saudi led
coalition bombed the funeral of the father of Yemen interior minister Jalal
al-Roweishan in Sana'a on October 8, the same day the UN Security Council met
about airstrikes in Syria.
Inner City Press
asked Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UN Abdallah Yahya A. Al-Mouallimi to
confirm it was an Saudi strike and explain it. He
said, "I am not aware of it." Vine video here.
After Saudi
Arabia was re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council on October 28, with the
votes of 152 of the 193 member states, the Saudi-led Coalition's bombing of
Yemen picked up pace, including killing detainees in Al Hudaydah.
Much has been
said about the Yemen draft resolution being worked on by the penholder the UK,
without circulation to the 15 Security Council members. On November 1 UK
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told the Press about the draft; at 5 pm Council
president for November Fode Seck of Senegal also referred to it.
Now a draft has
been obtained by Inner City Press and is exclusively published below: it does
not condemn the airstrikes but demands a cessation of hostilities,
and for the envoy to report back in 15 days.
On October 31
outside the UN Security Council, envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed came out to
take questions. But Ban Ki-moon's deputy spokesman said he would only take two
questions because he had to meet Ban -- strange, given that Ban's scheduled
only listed him at 4 pm, three hours in the future.
Inner City Press
asked, quite audibly, if weapons sales to Saudi Arabia by the
UK and US is helpful to his mandate. Ban Ki-moon's deputy spokesman cut
in, awarding the question to another. After that, Inner City Press asked again,
if US fueling of Saudi warplanes helps the envoy's mandate. He did not answer. Video
here.
He walked down
the hall where Inner City Press under Ban's censorship order can't go without a
minder but others can. But where was he headed, with three hours until his
listed meeting with Ban?
The next day
November 1, Ansar Allah's spokesman mocked Ban's envoy, full
Arabic statement obtained and published by InnerCityPro.com here. – By Matthew Russell Lee
http://www.innercitypress.com/yemen219fishy110116.html = http://innercitypress.blogspot.de/2016/11/exclusive-nov-1-on-yemen-draft.html
1.11.2016 –
Sputnik News (* A P)
Pardon Me Gov!
Churkin Calls Out UK for Getting Rich Off War in Yemen
Russian UN
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin issued a blistering criticism of the UK on Monday,
suggesting that Britain has little business overseeing questions on Yemen at
the Security Council, given that it is also one the largest suppliers of arms
to the Gulf states bombing the country.
Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the situation in
Yemen on Monday, Churkin pointed out that British weapons have been used by the
Saudi-led coalition.
"It's
known, for example, that the UK is one of the largest suppliers of all sorts of
weapons in the region, which are then used against Yemenis," the
ambassador stressed. "Since March 2015, The Guardian and The Independent
have reported that London had sold weapons worth more than 3 billion pounds, or
over $5 billion [to Gulf countries]. Pretty good money to line one's pockets
with from a war, no? Civilians are being killed by these weapons."
In this context, Churkin asked Security Council members to consider "how a
country that has a clear material interest in the continuation of the conflict
can oversee the Yemeni dossier to the Security Council?"
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201611011046972523-churkin-slams-uk-on-yemen/
1.11.2016 –
Human Rights Watch (* A P)
How Saudi Arabia
Kept its UN Human Rights Council Seat
How did Saudi
Arabia, which has been indiscriminately bombing Yemeni civilians for 18 months,
just get re-elected to the Human Rights Council, the United Nations' premier
human rights body?
Why? Because it had no competition. Seats on the Human Rights
Council are shared among five regional groups. This year, the Asia group put
forward just four candidates for their four open seats on the council,
effectively guaranteeing their election. Unsurprisingly, Saudi Arabia, China,
Iraq, and Japan all won.
Saudi Arabia’s
pre-cooked victory raises a serious question – is the integrity of the Human
Rights Council compromised if some countries don’t even have to compete for a
seat on the body? This was one of the reasons its predecessor, the UN
Commission on Human Rights, was shut down and replaced with the council 10
years ago.
Had Saudi Arabia
faced a competitive slate, other countries could have closely scrutinized its
numerous violations of the laws of war in Yemen, as was apparently the case for
Russia’s actions in Syria. In fact, Saudi Arabia was the least popular
candidate in its group, receiving the smallest number of votes. Had there been competition,
this could have meant defeat for the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia’s
election follows its successful blackmail
campaign to have its coalition removed from the UN secretary-general’s “List
of Shame” for killing and maiming children and attacking schools and hospitals
in Yemen. Saudi Arabia got its way, though at the cost of its outrageous
tactics being made public.
Candidate
countries that run without competition cannot possibly face proper scrutiny of
their human rights records.
If Russia’s loss
teaches us anything, it is that at least some competition is crucial to the
credibility of the election process. It is time to put an end to backroom deals
and make all countries earn their seat on the Human Rights Council. – by Joyce Bukuru
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/01/how-saudi-arabia-kept-its-un-human-rights-council-seat
cp8 Saudi-Arabien /
Saudi Arabia
Siehe / See cp
12
3.11.2016 –
Human Rights Watch (* A P)
Saudi Arabia:
Sentence Over, Activist Still Held
8 Years for
Protesting 2008-2009 Gaza War
Saudi authorities are still
holding a Saudi activist even though his eight-year sentence for protesting the
war in Gaza expired on October 5, 2016. Saudi activists said that the man,
Khalid al-‘Umair, began a hunger strike in al-Ha’ir prison, south of Riyadh, on
October 6 to protest his continued imprisonment.
Saudi Arabia
bans all forms of public protest throughout the country, and has prosecuted
dozens of people for protest-related crimes since 2011, sentencing over 25 to
death.
“Saudi Arabia’s
inexplicable move to hold Khalid al-‘Umair, even though he completed his unjust
sentence, points up just how arbitrary the country’s criminal justice system
is,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at
Human Rights Watch. “Saudi authorities should immediately release Khalid
al-‘Umair so he can go on with his life.”
A person with
direct knowledge of al-‘Umair’s case told Human Rights Watch that Saudi
authorities arrested al-‘Umair and approximately 14 others, among them Saudis
and Palestinian residents of Saudi Arabia, on January 1, 2009, as they were
approaching al-Nahda street in central Riyadh to begin a protest march against
the Israeli bombing of Gaza at that time.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/03/saudi-arabia-sentence-over-activist-still-held
2.11.2016 –
Ekurd (* B P)
Redrawing Maps:
Is Saudi Arabia next in line?
The map of the
Middle East drawn by Gertrude Bell, Winston Churchill, Lawrence, Mark Sykes,
General Edmund Allenby, Arthur James Balfour, Reginald Wingate and Harbert
Samuel at the beginning of the 20th Century has brought nothing but conflict to
the region for the last one hundred years. Obviously, however, people have yet
to draw a lesson from this tragic mistake.
The map drawn by
Robin Wright and published in The New York Times newspaper in 2013 revealed
another imminent danger. According to this map, the Middle East’s biggest and
wealthiest country, Saudi Arabia is to be divided into five parts.
Immediately
after the introduction of the map, developments in this direction began to
occur one after another.
The 250-year
history of Saudi Arabia is fraught with civil wars, political assassinations,
and tribal conflicts of varying intensity. Since the 18th century, three
kingdoms have been founded and destroyed; the currently existing Saudi Kingdom
is the fourth one in the same region.
The artificial
borders drawn up at the Cairo Congress of 1921 were dictated to Saudi Arabia by
means of military and economic coercion. Although Saudi Arabia was founded in
1932 under the guidance of Sultan Abdulaziz, the internal strife within the
country has seen no end.
The Shiite-Sunni
conflict is yet another destabilizing factor endangering the Arabian Peninsula.
For 200 years,
the cartographers of the Middle East have intricately shaped the region in
accordance with their plans. They imposed their own policies upon the region by
holding sway over states, armies, clans, and political or religious leaders.
Today, every state whose borders are in question is faced with a grave danger –
by Harun Yahya
http://ekurd.net/redrawing-saudi-arabia-2016-11-02
Comment: These
cards exist – US plans according to “Divide and rule”. Whether this really can
come true, for my opinion is rather doubtful.
2.11.2016 – RT
(* A P)
‘Like asking if
you’ll stop beating your wife’: Saudi ambassador dodges Yemen cluster bomb
question
The Saudi
ambassador to the US has dodged a journalist’s question on the use of cluster
bombs in Yemen, saying it’s like asking, “Will you stop beating your wife?” He
also said the Saudi-led coalition will continue bombing Yemen, “no matter
what.”
Prince Abdullah
Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, was confronted by a
reporter from the Intercept, the publication said on
Tuesday.
“Will you
continue to use cluster weapons in Yemen?” the reporter asked the diplomat.
Al-Saud laughed
before answering: “This is like the question, ‘Will you stop beating your
wife?’”
After the reporter repeated the question, the
ambassador again dismissed it, saying “You are political operators. I’m
not a politician.”
Speaking at the
Annual Arab-US Policymakers Conference last week, al-Saud insisted that the
Saudi-led coalition will continue its bombing campaign in Yemen, the Intercept
reported.
“If anyone
attacks human lives and disturbs the border, in whatever region, we’re going to
continue hitting them, no matter what,” said al-Saud.
https://www.rt.com/news/365096-yemen-cluster-bombs-question/ with film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql8RXwCPTfI
Comment: Earlier
reported by Inner City Press. Here again to show Saudi elite’s mental insanity.
And he thins it is a good joke to tell he beats his wife.
1.11.2016 –
Quartz (* A P)
The Saudi
government has made the trip to Mecca nearly 500% more expensive
A nearly
six-fold hike in visa fees to Saudi Arabia has been met with heavy criticism,
with many Muslim countries voicing concerns that the plan will be an added
burden to pilgrims visiting Islam’s holiest sites.
As part of the proposed
plan, a single entry visa now costs $533, an increase from the previous fee of
$93. A multiple entry, 6-month visa would
cost $800 and a one-year visa would cost $1333. The revised visa fees
affect all tourists, religious or business visitors, but exempts those
traveling for the first time to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage or the
lesser, non-mandatory pilgrimage known as the Umrah.
The plan, which
was based on a recommendation from the Saudi ministries of finance and economy,
came into effect on Oct. 2 and coincided with the beginning of the new Islamic
year. The new rules are seen as part of a wider campaign to
lessen the kingdom’s dependence on oil and to increase revenues in other
areas, including immigration fees.
The trip carries
considerable costs for visitors, especially for transportation and lodging, and
depending on your geographic location, could
cost from as low as $800 to
upwards of $7,000. A 2012 Pew Research found that the pilgrimage to Mecca was
a rare
and expensiveevent for many Muslims across the world – by
Abdi Latif Dahir
http://qz.com/823978/the-saudi-government-has-made-the-trip-to-mecca-nearly-500-more-expensive/
1.11.2016 – Noto
Wahabism (A H)
Film: Filipino
worker from #Saudi_Arabia, crying and asking for help.
ROSALINA EUGINIO says she is raped by brother of her employer in Riyadh , she's crying while asking for help.
Foreign workers are not more than slaves in the eyes of Saudi monarchy.
https://www.facebook.com/NotoWahabism/videos/1009421205853128/
cp9 USA
Siehe / See cp1
3.11.2016 – The
Hill (* A P)
Dem presses
administration on US role in Yemen conflict
A Democratic
congressman who has been critical of U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led
campaign in Yemen is demanding details on the U.S. role in the conflict, saying
the United States could be violating the law of war.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) asked Defense Secretary
Ash Carter and Secretary of State John Kerryin a letter to explain a
senior administration official’s recent comment that U.S. support for the
coalition does not include target selection and review.
“I find it
deeply troubling that the U.S. apparently has no advanced knowledge of what
targets will be struck by jets that are refueled by U.S. personnel with U.S.
tankers,” wrote Lieu, an Air Force veteran who taught the law of armed conflict
(LOAC) while serving.
“The U.S. would
appear to be violating LOAC and international standards by engaging in such
direct military operations if U.S. personnel are not aware if targets are
civilians or military, if the loss of life and property are disproportional, or
if the operation is even militarily necessary.” – by Rebecca Kheel
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/304150-dem-presses-administration-on-us-role-in-yemen-conflict
1.11.2016 – Hintergrund (* B K T)
Vom Terror der Todesengel
Seit 15 Jahren setzen die USA Drohnen im Kampf gegen mutmaßliche Terroristen
ein – worunter vor allem Zivilisten zu leiden haben. Mit einem „Who the fuck
did that?“ begann vor fünfzehn Jahren mit dem westlichen Militäreinsatz in
Afghanistan auch die Geschichte des Drohnen-Krieges der USA. An jenem Tag – dem
7. Oktober 2001 – hatten US-Piloten im Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in
Saudi-Arabien eine Menschenmenge im südafghanischen Kandahar, dem Machtzentrum
der damaligen Taliban-Regierung, im Visier. (…) Drohnen-Angriffe gehören
seitdem zum Alltag in vielen Ländern – vor allem in Afghanistan. Laut dem
Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), einer in London ansässigen
Organisation, ist das Land am Hindukusch das am häufigsten von Drohnen
bombardierte Land der Welt. Laut den bekannten Daten, unter anderem
zusammengestellt vom TBIJ sowie von der US-Denkfabrik „New America“, fanden im
Zeitraum 2001 bis 2013 mindestens 1.670 US-amerikanische Drohnen-Angriffe in
Afghanistan statt. Wie viele Menschen bei diesen Einsätzen getötet wurden, ist
unklar. Vor allem in Bezug auf Afghanistan ist die Datenlage sehr beschränkt.
Vor einiger Zeit wurde bekannt, dass insgesamt mindestens sechstausend Menschen
Opfer des Drohnen-Krieges wurden. Die Zahl bezieht sich auf Einsätze in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syrien, Somalia, Jemen, Libyen, Irak und den Philippinen
– von Emran Feroz
http://www.hintergrund.de/201611014138/globales/kriege/vom-terror-der-todesengel.html
1.11.2016 – ABC
News (* A P)
US Call for End
to Airstrikes in Yemen Faces Backlash From Advocacy
Group
After Samantha
Power, the United States ambassador to the United
Nations, demanded Saudi Arabia end its
devastating airstrikes in Yemen, advocacy groups were quick to point out that
the U.S. has been largely complicit in the carnage in Yemen by supplying the
Saudi-led coalition with arms and support.
"Ambassador Power's remarks, calling for an
end to unlawful strikes that kill civilians and hit protected civilian objects,
are certainly welcome. But the U.S. has repeatedly failed to
acknowledge its own role providing vital support to those airstrikes by
refueling coalition planes and continuing to supply Saudi Arabia with U.S.
weapons," Priyanka Motaparthy, senior emergencies researcher at Human
Rights Watch, told ABC News today.
"We've
repeatedly called on the U.S. government to stop selling arms that could be
used in unlawful strikes to Saudi Arabia. Members of Congress have also tried
to stop these sales. It's time for the government to go beyond just statements
and suspend their support," Motaparthy added – by Catherine Thorbecke
1.11.2016 –
Huffington Post (* A P)
Congressman
Trolls Obama Administration Over Yemen Waffling
Rep. Ted Lieu
(D-Calif.) thinks it’s silly to simultaneously call for an end to Saudi-led
bombing and enable it to continue.
A lawmaker
critical of the United States’ role in enabling
mass slaughter in Yemen is using an Obama aide’s statements to
highlight problems with the administration’s narrative of the war.
After Samantha
Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, urged the Saudis and their
Iran-backed opponents, the Houthis, to stop
fighting, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) issued a statement on Tuesday saying Power
was on the right track.
“I commend U.S.
Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power for calling for an end to airstrikes by
the Saudi-led military coalition (which includes the United States) in Yemen,”
Lieu said.
“The logical
consequence of this apparent change in U.S. policy is that our nation must stop
aiding and abetting the military coalition by pulling out of the coalition
immediately,” he added. “The U.S. must stop refueling Saudi jets that have
struck civilian targets over 70 times in Yemen; stop transferring vast amounts
of arms to the Saudi military; and demand an independent investigation into
allegations that multiple war crimes have been committed against Yemeni women,
men and children by the Saudi-led coalition.”
Washington is
not actually changing its policy, officials were quick
to clarify after
Power made her remarks Monday at a U.N. Security Council meeting.
But Lieu’s
statement underscored how ludicrous it can sound for the U.S. to both call for
strikes to end and keep enabling them with refueling, logistical support and
weapons sales.
Power’s critique
of the Saudis seemed unusually direct, but it matches the Obama
administration’s broader approach to the coalition’s missteps: be loudly
critical without actually doing anything to stop them.
Lieu’s statement
suggested that the war’s critics are becoming increasingly aggressive in
holding the Obama administration directly responsible for the more than 10,000
deaths in Yemen since the full-on fighting started last March.
Speaking of the
U.S. as a member of the Saudi-led coalition represents a break from previous
rhetoric from the congressman and other lawmakers. Even as they have blasted
U.S. assistance for the coalition, they have mostly stayed loyal to the Obama
administration’s argument that the president has not forced the U.S. to become
a combatant in the conflict.
Denying
combatant status is one way the administration has tried to distance itself
from the scores of war crimes allegedly carried out by the coalition – by Akbar
Shahid Ahmed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congressman-trolls-obama-administration-over-yemen-waffling_us_5818df9ce4b0f96eba96495d and rep. Lieu’s statement: https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-lieu-statement-us-call-end-airstrikes-yemen
1.11.2016 – The
American Conservative (* B P)
How the U.S.
Should Handle Its Reckless Clients
Aaron David
Miller and Richard Sokolsky offer the next president some
suggestions on what not to do in the Middle East.
U.S. support for
the indefensible war on Yemen has often been explained as a way of appeasing
the Saudis and their allies in response to the nuclear deal with Iran, but this
has always struck me as more of a lame excuse than a real reason. The nuclear
deal imposes significant restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, which clearly
benefits Iran’s regional rivals. Even if the Saudis and the other Gulf states
don’t see it that way, the U.S. didn’t need to placate them to conclude the
nuclear deal, and their opposition to it would not have prevented the deal from
being completed. The U.S. didn’t need to placate them, and it still doesn’t
need to do that, but for other reasons has chosen to do so. The Obama
administration backed an unnecessary war as part of an unnecessary bargain with
bad clients, and it continues to do so nineteen months after the start of the
Saudi-led intervention.
The trap that
Miller and Sokolsky describe is one that the U.S. repeatedly falls into with
its clients, especially those in that part of the world. When a client state
wants the U.S. to do what it wants and to align its regional policies
completely with theirs, the correct response is to refuse to cater to their
preferences and to pursue U.S. goals even when they may conflict with what the
client wants. When our interests and the interests of clients diverge, the U.S.
shouldn’t privilege the latter or subordinate U.S. priorities to theirs. If
that prompts a round of whining about being “abandoned,” there should be no
rush to “reassure” them that the U.S. will always support them. Instead,
Washington should use that as an opportunity to remind them that the client is
the one that needs to prove its usefulness to us and not vice versa. The U.S.
should never find itself in a position where it indulges destructive behavior
from clients in order to demonstrate that it can be relied on – by Daniel
Larison
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/how-the-u-s-should-handle-its-reckless-clients/ is referring to:
31.10.2016 –
Politico (* B P)
Memo to the Next
President: Avoid the ‘Vision Thing’ in the Mideast
America has made
too many promises there and must pare down its involvement to a minimum, say
two long-time State Department Officials
here is our list of ten things the
next administration should not do or say if it is to have any chance of
navigating its way out of the landmines, traps, hopeless causes, and impossible
missions that dot the region.
Sixth, do not
get swept up in the cause of democratic evangelism, however noble and uplifting
it is in the abstract. The region is not ripe for the spread of American
values; that is the distressing lesson of the 13 years since the Iraq invasion
and the failure of the 2011 Arab Spring. It requires a unique mix of arrogance
and ignorance to assume that Middle Eastern elites and publics are somehow
ready and willing to receive Washington’s advice on how they should govern
themselves. The American form of governance is unique to our history, location
and political culture. It is not for export.#
Seventh, don’t
let our allies and friends “guilt” us into deepening our security commitments
in the region and using force to solve what are essentially political
problems—and problems that can only be solved by Arab governments—by raising
doubts about America’s credibility. What these countries really want is for
Uncle Sucker to take care of problems that are either of their own making or
that do not implicate U.S. core interests in the region. Saudi Arabia should
have been thanking the Obama administration for eliminating the threat of a
nuclear Iran for at least the next 10-15 years. Instead, to reassure the Saudis
of the credibility of the American security commitment and mollify their anger
over the Iran agreement, Washington allowed itself to become the Kingdom’s
enabler-in-chief for their woeful misadventure in Yemen – By AARON DAVID MILLER
and RICHARD SOKOLSKY
cp10 Großbritannien
/ Great Britain
Siehe / See cp1
2.11.2016 –
Huffington Post (*A P)
Labour
Discontent As 100 MPs Abstain From Party’s Own Vote On
Yemen Civil War
Labour’s Shadow
Defence Secretary Emily Thornberry championed the motion in the Commons - but
it was defeated by 283 votes to 193.
It means 102
Labour MPs abstained or were not around to vote - a highly unusual number for a
so-called Opposition day debate - which represents around half of the
Parliamentary Labour Party.
One Labour MP
told HuffPost UK it was a “shambles” to lose and then have the rival Government
motion approved without a vote.
Throughout the
debate, Thornberry was interrupted by her own MPs expressing disquiet with the
motion.
Their unease
stems, it appears, not from a refusal to want to do anything to end the
conflict that has resulted in famine and thousands, more that the proposal
would not lead to fewer casualties - and that the Labour leadership was
over-reaching in its intentions – by Graeme Demianyk
Comment:
detailed reporting YPR 222, 221.
1.11.2016 –
Socialist Worker (A P)
Labour activists
furious after MPs’ vote on Yemen
Labour Party
members and activists were outraged last week as more
than 100 Labour MPs refused to vote for their party’s motion
on the war
in Yemen.
The motion
called on the government to suspend support for Saudi Arabia in the war.
Labour activist
Stephen Barnes asked, “If I do a Labour doorstep, how to I explain the PLP’s
policy on bombing children in Yemen?”
Swansea Labour
councillor Nick Davies said, “Labour rebels either back Tories’ support for
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen war, or they just pretend to just weaken Corbyn. Contemptible shower.”
John Woodcock
led the attack. He suggested that Britain’s support for Saudi Arabia would
“create fewer civilian casualties” because it was “focused on training Saudis
to be better able to be in compliance with international humanitarian law”.
He earlier
accused Labour’s leadership of “dangerous anti-West posturing”. – by Nick Clark
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/43622/Labour+activists+furious++after+MPs+vote+on+Yemen
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
Siehe / See cp1
1.11.2016 – Auswärtiges Amt (A H P)
Humanitäre Krise in Jemen: Deutsche
Hilfe unter schweren Bedingungen
Die humanitäre Krise in Jemen spitzt
sich weiter zu. Mehr als 21 Millionen Menschen im Land benötigen dringend
Hilfe. Das Auswärtige Amt unterstützt in diesem Jahr mit 28 Millionen Euro die
Betroffenen mit humanitären Hilfsprojekten.
Schwerpunkte der deutschen Hilfsprojekte
sind die Versorgung mit Nahrungsmitteln, Wasser, medizinischer Betreuung,
Hygieneartikeln sowie Schutzmaßnahmen für Flüchtlinge.
http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Aussenpolitik/HumanitaereHilfe/7_Aktuelles/161101_Jemen.html
Kommentar: Man soll ja nicht meckern und
die Helfer tun sicher ihr Bestes, aber… Das Auswärtige Amt übt sich in
Heuchelei. Deutschland könnte mehr für den Jemen tun und endlich konsequent
sein, wenn es die Waffenlieferungen an Saudi-Arabien und die Unterstützung für
Saudi-Arabien sowie für die ständig neue Kriege und neues Leid produzierende
US-Interventionspolitik im Nahen Osten klar beenden würde. Jetzt gibt es also
zur Beruhigung des eigenen Gewissens 1 Euro im Jahr pro Jemenit(in) – danke für
die 3 Brötchen im Jahr, Herr Steinmeier, teilen wir uns das gut ein, ein
Viertel Brötchen pro Monat – oder, anders gerechnet, der Gegenwert von 3
Stunden 20 Minuten saudischer Luftkrieg gegen Jemen – rund um die Uhr seit über
590 Tagen. Woran Deutschland ja mit verdient (siehe in cp13a).
And English version:
2.11.2016 –
German Foreign Office (A P)
Humanitarian
crisis in Yemen: German aid provided under difficult conditions
The humanitarian
crisis in Yemen is getting ever worse. More than 21 million people in the
country are in urgent need of assistance. The Federal Foreign Office has
provided €28 million this year to pay for humanitarian aid for those affected.
One of the biggest
humanitarian crises worldwide
Difficult
conditions for humanitarian workers
German
assistance increased fourfold
The Federal
Foreign Office has significantly increased humanitarian assistance to Yemen
this year to around €28 million – more than four times the amount donated in
2015. The Federal Foreign Office works closely with German and international
NGOs, members of the Red Cross Movement and UN aid organisations to implement
aid projects.
German-funded
projects focus on supplying food, water, medical care and hygiene items, and on
protecting refugees.
German
assistance is focused in those regions of Yemen that have taken in particularly
large number of displaced persons.
Comment: A
document of Western hypocrisy if you take into account the whole story: Germany
closely allied to the main responsibles for this disaster, Saudi Arabia, US,
UK. Germany supplies arms to Saudi Arabia. And now announcing humanitarian
help: 1 dollar for every Yemeni. Great.
cp12 Andere Länder /
Other countries
2.11.2016 –
Lobelog (* A P)
Algeria in
Yemen: Combatant or Mediator?
The GCC has
reportedly turned to Algeria for help in
Yemen. Last month, Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s deputy ministers for defense contacted their Algerian
counterpart to request that Algiers deploy a “peacekeeping operation” in Yemen.
An Algerian diplomat said that his government
responded that it would “consider the proposal, but for the time being, the
general feeling is one of refusal.” Although rather dismissive of the
possibility of Algeria’s armed forces engaging in military operations in Yemen,
the country’s foreign affairs minister, Ramtane Lamamra, stated that Algiers could
perhaps “provide logistical support.”
As a large and
gas- and oil-rich Arab state with a well-trained and experienced military,
Algeria may appear at least on paper to be an ideal country to help Riyadh and
Doha achieve their goals in Yemen. Yet having failed to bring Algeria on board
last March, the Arab Gulf monarchies will have a hard time convincing the North
African country to join their coalition in Yemen.
A key pillar of
Algeria’s approach to international affairs, rooted in the North African
country’s struggle for independence from French rule, is non-intervention in
the affairs of foreign countries. This has often distinguished Algiers from
other Arab states and at times placed it at odds with the West.
Moreover, as
Algeria finds itself in a greater financial squeeze in this era of cheap oil,
it has little appetite for investing in a war in southwestern Arabia
Finally, and
arguably most importantly, Algeria’s partnership with Iran is deepening.
This growing
bilateral relationship has geopolitical as well as economic dimensions. In
recent years, the Algerians have highlighted their breaking ranks with Saudi
Arabia and other GCC states on key issues pertaining to Tehran.
Although highly
unlikely to join the military campaign against Houthi rebels, Algiers could
prove useful as a potential mediator between the GCC and Iran, not only
vis-à-vis Yemen but also in other parts of the region.
As an Arab
League member in good-standing and a partner of Iran, Algeria could use its
“neutrality” in the Saudi-Iranian geo-sectarian rivalry to help Riyadh and
Tehran begin a necessary dialogue aimed at cooling tensions between Sunni and
Shi’ite Muslims and finding solutions to regional crises – by Giorgio Cafiero
http://lobelog.com/algeria-in-yemen-combatant-or-mediator/
1.11.2016 – The
Intercept (* A P)
Report: Arab
Gulf States Are Surveiling, Imprisoning, and Silencing Activists for Social
Media Posts
Dissidents, journalists, and activists in
the Gulf face retaliation, from censorship to imprisonment, for posting their
beliefs on social media, argues Human Rights Watch in a new campaign and report
called “140 Characters.”
“Gulf States are
intimidating, surveilling, imprisoning, and silencing activists as part of
their all-out assault on peaceful criticism, but they are seriously mistaken if
they think they can indefinitely block gulf citizens from using social and
other media to push for positive reforms,” Sarah Lee Whitson, Middle East
director at Human Rights Watch wrote.
Social media’s
popularity is expanding in the Middle East; over 17 million people opened up
new Facebook accounts in the first quarter of 2014, according to a study
conducted by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government. Use of Twitter,
WhatsApp, YouTube, and other platforms is also on the rise.
“Hundreds” have
been jailed or worse in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the
United Arab Emirates as a result of their social media use, Human Rights Watch
writes.
In addition to
condemning Gulf leaders for cracking down on social media activism since the
Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, the human rights group draws attention to their
use of often highly advanced surveillance tools to track them down.
The UAE
government, however, has already purchased equipment like Internet
monitoring tools from BAE Systems, and been linked to using
hacking exploits from Israeli company NSO
Group. These types of tools have also been
discovered in Saudi Arabia — including software that
hacks into mobile phones giving total access, including control of the camera
and microphone – by Jenna Mc Laughlin
1.11.2016 – Human Rights Watch (** A P)
140 Characters
Introduction
Intrusive
Government Surveillance
Abusive GCC Laws
Curtailing Online Speech and Other Rights
Laws Prohibiting
"Insulting" Rulers, States, and Religion
Counterterrorism
and Emergency Laws
Laws Limiting
Freedom of Assembly
Cybercrime Laws
Revocation of
Citizenship
International
Legal Standards
Recommendations
To the
Governments of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE
To Social Media
and Surveillance Technology Companies Operating in GCC Countries
To the
Governments of Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and Other Countries Where
Companies that Sell Intrusive Surveillance Technologies are Based
Bahrain
Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab
Emirates
GCC governments
have responded to political challenges and peaceful online criticism with
repression. Hundreds of dissidents, including political activists, human rights
defenders, journalists, lawyers, and bloggers, have been imprisoned across the
region, many after unfair trials and allegations of torture in pretrial
detention. GCC rulers' sweeping campaigns against civil society activists and
political dissidents have included threats, intimidation, investigations,
prosecutions, detentions, torture, and withdrawal of citizenship.
The 140
individuals profiled in this report come from different sects and viewpoints.
Some are political dissidents, others are human rights activists, while still
others are GCC citizens who have no background in activism or political
activity yet faced government retribution for views expressed online or in
public. The 140 cases represent the most prominent individuals in the Arab Gulf
states who have faced government retaliation for exercising their right to free
expression, but dozens of other individuals not included in this report have
faced similar harassment and repression. Human Rights Watch does not endorse
all of the views expressed by individuals profiled in this report. These views,
which in some cases may be offensive or objectionable, nevertheless do not
amount to speech that GCC governments can lawfully restrict without violating
international human rights standards.
Intrusive
Government Surveillance
Human Rights
Watch has not documented clear evidence of intrusive surveillance of GCC
citizens and residents by their governments. However, leaked corporate
documents and reports from independent security researchers reveal that that Western companies have sold intrusion software to GCC
governments that can be used to violate citizens' privacy rights. Research
conducted by Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab has found evidence that
intrusion software from Italian firm Hacking Team has been used by governments
in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the UAE, while Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
and the UAE may have purchased other intrusion software from FinFisher/Gamma
International.4 FinFisher/Gamma
International and Hacking Team suffered data breaches in 2014 and 2015
respectively, where internal emails and documents from each company were leaked
online.5 These leaked documents
corroborated many of Citizen Lab's findings and also identified additional
customers, including the use of Hacking Team in Bahrain.6
Hacking Team and
FinFisher/Gamma International sell intrusion software that allows a government
to hack into laptops and mobile devices. Once such software is installed on a
device, it can enable a government to access emails, text messages, call
histories, contact lists, files, and potentially passwords. This software also
allows authorities to turn on a phone or laptop's camera and microphone to take
pictures or record video and conversations without the owner's knowledge. Both
companies state that they only sell their tools and services to governments.
From the
introduction:
Since the
beginning of the Arab uprisings in 2011 all GCC states have expanded existing
legislation and promulgated abusive new laws with a view to further curtailing
free expression and punishing speech deemed "criminal" by GCC
governments, particularly online and via social media networks. In addition to
new penal code provisions, GCC governments have enacted repressive new laws and
practices on counterterrorism, cybercrimes, peaceful assembly, and citizenship
that aim to limit and deter peaceful expression and punish political dissidents
and activists who criticize not only their own leaders but those of other GCC
states and their policies. The various laws promulgated since 2011 have had a
chilling effect on freedom of expression, in some cases branding government
critics as "terrorists," or granting authorities the right to strip
peaceful protesters and dissidents of their nationality.
https://features.hrw.org/features/HRW_2016_reports/140_Characters/index.html#
cp13a Waffenhandel /
Arms trade
2.11.2016 –
MbKS15 (A K)
Training aircraft Hawk T.165 # Arabia, No. ZB112 / ST012, during her
return from a test flight (photo)
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/794018832465752064
Comment: One
more fighter jet from Britain for Saudi Arabia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Hawk). This photo of the Saudi
fighter jet is definitely not made in Saudi Arabia, but certainly in Britain,
look at the trees and buildings in the background. Saudi aircraft test flight
in Britain.
1.11.2016 –
MbKS15 (A K)
Closer look at the #RSAF Hawk T.165 (7901 &
7902) transiting through Heraklion while on delivery to #SaudiArabia — by: Maria Doulgeraki
(photos)
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/793526117844021248
Comment: One
more fighter jet from Britain for Saudi Arabia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Hawk) – on its way for bombing
Yemen
and also this one:
1.11.2016 – Gary
Claridge (A K)
ZK620 CS051
Typhoon at Warton today. Shouldnt be long before this takes its first flight
(photos)
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/793526787728965632 and also https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/793526787728965632
30.10.2016 –
Hispan TV (* A K)
Revelado: Arabia
Saudí planea comprar armas a Ucrania
Arabia Saudí
tiene previsto ampliar sus cooperaciones con Ucrania y comprar armas y equipos
militares a este país europeo.
"En el
marco de las cooperaciones militares con otros países, el régimen de los Al
Saud ha decidido comprar armas a Ucrania", han
mostrado los documentos revelados este domingo por el diario libanés Al-Akhbar.
Según los
documentos infiltrados, Ucrania ha propuesto recientemente a Arabia Saudí la
venta de misiles de largo alcance, los misiles balísticos, así como los motores atmosféricos, y de este modo Riad se ha
convertido en uno de los socios principales de la industria de defensa de Kiev.
En el marco de
las cooperaciones militares con otros países, el régimen de los Al Saud ha
decidido comprar armas a Ucrania", han mostrado
los documentos revelados este domingo por el diario libanés Al-Akhbar.
Asimismo, han evidenciado la colaboración de Riad y Kiev en otros
campos como la tecnología misilística y el sistema espacial.
http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/arabia-saudi/312804/comprar-armas-ucrania
Comment: In
Spanish: Saudi Arabia plans to strengthen its ties with Ukraine.
How? In the only way it knows: buying arms.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1153662524686776
Comment: Ukraine
still has an important arms industry. Two ugly American allies unite on arms
sales. Part of the deal: Missiles (for use in Yemen, presumably).
cp13b Flüchtlinge /
Refugees
31.10.2016 – UN
High Commissioner for Refugees (A H)
Yemen Situation
- 2016 Funding Update as of 31 October 2016
172.2 required for 2016
70.6 M contributions received, representing
41% of requirements
101.6 M funding gap for the Yemen situation
http://reporting.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/Yemen%20Situation%20Funding%20Update%2031%20October%202016.pdf= http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Yemen%20Situation%20Funding%20Update%2031%20October%202016.pdf
Comment: Still
needed: The equivalent of 12 hours Saudi aerial war against Yemen – all around
the clock, since more than 590 days.
31.10.2016 –
International Organization for Migration, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (*
A H)
Yemen: Task
Force on Population Movement | TFPM - 11th Report Executive Summary, October
2016
CONFLICT
RELATED: The 11th TFPM identifies, in connection with the ongoing conflict,
2,179,278 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who remain in a situation of displacement
across 21 governorates; the majority, 51%, are displaced in Hajjah, Taizz, and
Sana’a. The TFPM has identified 1,010,016 returnees in 20 governorates; the majority, 68%, have returned to Aden, Amanat Al Asimah and
Taizz.
NATURAL DISASTER
RELATED: The 11th TFPM Report also provides figures on displaced and returnee
populations in relation to displacement due to natural disasters
Through August
and September 2016 the TFPM has observed a minor decrease in the
conflict-related displacement of 25,824 individuals (-1.12%).
The dynamics of
displacement in Yemen continue to shift, with new displacement continuing to
occur in areas of prolonged and escalating hostilities, while simultaneously
the emergence of return pockets have been observed.
The needs of
IDPs, returnees, whether conflict or disaster related, and by extension members
of the non-displaced host community remain high. Indicative data collected by
the TFPM at the community level through key informants show that the following
needs were identified as the number one priority among IDPs: food (66%), WASH
(11%) and Shelter/Housing (7%). Access to income is reported as the fourth most
commonly mentioned need, with 5% of the key informants expressing it as the top
priority need.
With respect to
shelter, the majority of IDPs are living in hosted situations (55%), while the
next largest category are those that reside in rented accommodation (22%),
followed by those residing in collective centres or spontaneous settlements
(19%).
http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-task-force-population-movement-tfpm-11th-report-executive-summary-october-2016 and in full: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/tfpm_11th_report_october_2016.pdf
30.9.2016 –
International Organization for Migration (A H)
Yemen Crisis:
IOM Regional Response - Situation Report, 1 - 30 September 2016
IOM is providing
psychosocial support activities to children and their parents in the Child
Friendly Spaces (CFSs) in Sana’a and Aden.
IOM continued
providing healthcare assistance to Third Country National (TCN) migrants in
Sana’a, Al-Hodaidah, Aden, Lahj, and Shabwah governorates. Health assistance to
TCNs included; primary health care, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
(MHPSS), and health promotion services.
Mobile Emergency
Units have been providing assistance along the Southern Coast of (Aden and Khor
Omer, Lahj). The staff encountered 549 new arrivals with 337 men and 212 boys;
all received water and dates.
Humanitarian
workers face insecurity and movement restrictions. Access has been further
restricted following the intensification of conflict.
http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-crisis-iom-regional-response-situation-report-1-30-september-2016 and in full: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/IOM_Yemen_Crisis_Sitrep_September_2016.pdf
15.–30.9.2016 –
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN High Commissioner
for Refugees (A H)
Map: Yemen: Task
Force on Population Movements 11th Report, September 2016
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/11th_report_maps.pdf
Yemen: Task
Force on Population Movement | TFPM - 11th Report Abyan Governorate, September
2016
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/11th_report_governorates_profiles.pdf
cp14 Terrorismus /
Terrorism
3.11.2016 – Noto
Wahabism (A T)
Killed #ISIS fighter in Tlul al-Baj
south #Mosul has forgotten his #Saudi passport,
he is going to need it on his trip to hell! (photo)
https://www.facebook.com/NotoWahabism/posts/1011409762320939
cp15 Propaganda
3.11.2016 – CNN
(A P)
Saudi general
reacts to photo of starvation in Yemen
Christiane
Amanpour presents Saudi Military Spokesman General Ahmed Asiri with a photo of
the starvation conditions that have arisen during the war in Yemen.
Comment:
Everything is used to make anti-Houthi propaganda. And, this was asked: The
photo was not taken at Taiz, but in Hodeidah province.
3.11.2016 –
Middle East Eye (* A P)
Few regrets:
Saudi major general justifies 'ugly face' of Yemen war
In a wide
ranging conversation, Saudi's military spokesperson describes a country with
few regrets for its bombardment of Yemen.
When the general
spoke to an invitation-only audience at London’s Royal United Services
Institute on 1 November, he said that the Saudi-led coalition of 11 nations was
“acting on behalf of the international community”.
Describing the
rebel Houthis and the armed supporters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh
as militias, al-Asiri commented that the coalition “supports the legitimate
government (of Yemen) and we do not want the militias to succeed and become a
model” that would cause more instability in an already very unstable region.
“The Houthis
took the country by force," he said. "They say they want to be part
of the government but keep their armed militias. If that were to happen, we
would end up like Lebanon and that is not an acceptable situation.”
Al-Asiri
insisted that the coalition forces are not systematically targeting civilians:
“From day one, there were no attacks on infrastructure, no urban
(bombing)," he continued. "We use precision weapons in support of
troops on the ground.” He acknowledged that there has been “collateral damage
but war has an ugly face and we have to deal with it”.
The major
general's comments stand in stark contrast to numerous
documented incidents of coalition bombs striking hospitals,
schools, markets and essential infrastructure.
The coalition
has accepted responsibility for the Sanaa attack but the major general insisted
that the prison bombing had been misreported: “It was not a prison, it was the
headquarters for the (rebel) security forces," he said.
Washington is already
on record as wanting the bombing campaign to end. Here in the UK, a recent
parliamentary opposition motion, though it failed, called for a halt to arms
sales to Saudi Arabia.
But the major
general was unperturbed, citing the longstanding relationship between his
country and what he called “our friends”.
And, he said, in
the unlikely event that some form of arms embargo did emerge either from
America or Britain “the kingdom will find something in the open market but we
hope that is not the case". The general noted that the arms industry was a
big employer in the UK. “It serves the interest of UK factories,” adding that workers and their families benefitted.
Speaking without
notes in a detailed and methodical presentation, he strongly denied claims that
the Saudis were responsible for a naval blockade of humanitarian aid.
“It is
misleading to speak of a blockade. All the ports are open, even those
controlled by the Houthis. We control the movement (of ships) and screen to
check for weapons. We want the goods to get to the people.”
He said that at
ports controlled by the Houthis, humanitarian aid was seized by them to sustain
military operations or to be sold on the black market or used to pressure
rebel-besieged cities such as Taiz.
“Despite that,
we work to get the goods to the people,” he said. The Saudis point to the King
Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre established in 2015 as proof of their
commitment, arguing that Yemen is the centre’s top
priority for aid.
He blamed the
Houthis and Saleh for the collapse of peace talks earlier this year: “We
engaged with the Houthis in three rounds of talks, we called them to get back
(to the table) and to observe the ceasefire.” As far as the general was
concerned, the conditions set by the coalition and the legitimate government of
Yemen - including that the Houthis surrender their weapons - were reasonable:
“We have to set conditions on the ground to ensure that the solution of today
does not become the problem of tomorrow.”
He claimed Iran
had 60,000 militiamen in Syria, a Hezbollah army in Lebanon,
it was backing Shia militias committing atrocities in Iraq and was “supplying
criminals in Bahrain”.
But pointing a
finger of blame at Tehran does not erase an inescapable reality.
Thus far, none
of those objectives [of Saudi Arabia for the Yemen war], by the major general’s
own accounting, have been achieved. And the Yemeni people continue to pay a
terrible price for “the ugly face of war" – by Bill Law
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/saudi-major-general-yemen-and-ugly-face-war-1010695355
Comment:
Repeating his well-known propaganda, which I already commented so often.
2.11.2016 –
Saudi Press Agency (A P)
Wide
condemnation of missile launched by Houthis towards Makkah
A number of Arab
and Islamic organizations, councils and figures have condemned a ballistic
missile launched by the Houthi militia and their supporters towards Makkah.
They stressed
Saudi Arabia’s ability to protect and maintain the security and stability in
the country and the holy sites.
They were
Scholars Association in South Africa; Tunisian religious, political and media
figures; Egyptian scholars and head of the Islamic center in Washington.
Comment: Still
effects of this sectarian propaganda, enraging inter-Muslim strife. Look at the
photo to see what the Saudis had made of Mecca. See article by Catherine Shakdam
more below.
2.11.2016 – 5
Pillars (* A P)
Did Yemen’s
Houthis really attack Makkah?
This past week
has seen a significant media row in the Middle East over accusations by Saudi
Arabia that Yemen’s Houthi movement targeted Makkah in a rocket attack. But
what is the truth behind these accusations?
After Saudi
Arabia made the accusation its regional allies, like Bahrain and Turkey,
immediately began denouncing the “attack,” indicating the Houthis deliberately
targeted the Islamic world’s holiest site. Some also instantaneously connected
the attack to Iran who support the Houthis – a claim
that has strongly been denied by both the Houthis and Tehran who say the target
of the ballistic missile was a military base in Jeddah.
Nevertheless,
Islamic scholars and prestigious organisations like Al Azhar University and the
Organisation of Islamic Conference continued to condemn the attack with some
even going so far as to call it an attack on the Islamic faith.
Over the course
of the next few days, the story really picked up traction with mainstream media
outlets such as Al Jazeera, The New York Times and The Independent all running with the
story.
It also appears
that by invoking the image of Makkah being attacked there has been a
re-invigoration of support for the Saudis and their war against the Houthis in
Yemen. Indeed, Golam Moshi, Bangladesh’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
said that his country would be willing to send troops “to protect the holy
cities of Mecca and Medina.”
Some even
claimed that the Houthis attacked Makkah because they are Zaydi, a branch of
Shia Islam. Others said they have “no religion” and that is why they had no
hesitation in attacking the holy site.
However, some
have begun to question the validity of the Saudi claims. Why would the Houthis,
an ultra-conservative Islamic political movement, attack the holiest site in
Islam? Surely they must have been aware that such an action would draw
widespread criticism from the Muslim world?
Also, the
doubters pointed to the lack of proof the Saudis came up with, aside from an
accusation in a statement.
The truth of the
matter entirely depends on who you believe and perhaps where your political
alliegances lie. – by Ahmed Kaballo
http://5pillarsuk.com/2016/11/02/did-yemens-houthis-really-attack-makkah/
Comment: The
last sentence cited here simply does not make sense, as the whole allegation of
this attack does not at all. The author himself states this by himself. Earlier
reporting in YPR 222, 221, and read the following:
1.11.2016 –
Shafaqna (* A P)
Lies, lies and
more lies over fabricated Mecca attack – the opportunism of religious
politicking is shameful!
Saudi Arabia’s
propaganda machine has hit over-drive … Mecca the world has been warned was
almost hit by a treacherous missile, and Islam’s holiest of sites were almost
disappeared.
Wait a minute …
I’m confused here! Who is doing the disappearing? I thought Riyadh was in
charge of Islam’s grand cleansing campaign. You know all those pesky buildings
and monuments Islam’s most venerable personalities rose with their two hands …
Who needs those? Who needs museums, shrines, cemeteries and other reminders of
what once was, and what stood at the birth of Islam?
Such
trivialities are distractions from the true interpretation of Islam: Wahhabism.
True believers should not bow, kneel or otherwise revere … except of course if
veneration is spent in the worship of al-Saud monarchy.
Reciting Duas
(supplications) at al-Baqee cemetery where members of the family of the Prophet
Muhammad are buried is an act of apostasy under Wahhabism. But humiliating
oneself before the majesty of al-Saud monarch is a duty none should EVER challenge,
question, or otherwise dare to omit.
So here is a
question: since the kingdom clearly could not care less about Islam’s religious
heritage, why the sudden cahoots over a
would-be-did-not-happen-invented-missile-attack the Houthis did not launch against
Mecca? Why the sudden grand-standing?
When a crane
fell during Hajj crushing to death dozens of pilgrims, Saudi Arabia commanded
the world to hail the efforts its authorities exercised in keeping Mecca open
to millions of Muslims.
When Saudi
Arabia’s moral police was accused of sectarianism as its men beat and
humiliated Shia Muslims on account their faith is a heresy under Wahhabism, the
kingdom cried lèse majesté, arguing fabrication and ill-intended political
manoeuvring,
When Saudi
Arabia clergy called for the demolition of Mecca’s religious heritage, the
world was told Mecca authorities had to make space for new fancy shopping malls
Notice a pattern
here? No?
What
manipulation? What the fact that Saudi Arabia happens to be blatantly and
openly hypocritical as far as Islam’ sanctity is concerned?
Over 98% of the
Kingdom’s historical and religious sites have been destroyed since 1985.
So NO when Saudi
Arabia’ satellite countries rise
in outrageover the phantasmagorical threat Yemen poses to
the holy city of Mecca WE do buy it.
Saying something
does not make it so!
Islam is not a
commodity which can be waved around for political gain.
Islam does not
belong to any one nation – by Catherine Shakdam
http://en.shafaqna.com/news/38940
Comment: The
author is right when showing Saudi hypocrisy on Mecca – I believe the same when
thinking of the bad taste Las Vegas copy into which the Saudis had changed
Mecca.
2.11.2016 –
Saudi Gazette (A P)
Khamenei ordered
Makkah attack: Iranian opposition
President-elect
of the Iranian Resistance “strongly” condemned the targeting of the holy city
of Makkah with rockets launched from inside Yemen on Oct. 29.
Maryam Radjavi
said the strikes were under the supervision of Quds Force, and ordered by
Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.
She referred to
the attack as a “declaration of war to all Muslims around the world”.
She called for
the expulsion of the “anti-human” and “anti-Islamic” regime from the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and requested Islamic countries to
cut relations with the current Iranian regime.
“Even earlier
the mullahs’ regime spared no effort to conduct crimes and desecration of
Makkah and the sacred House of Allah. Among others were sending explosives to
Saudi Arabia in 1986, and causing riot and chaos in Makkah in 1987 that took
the lives of more than 400 pilgrims. This is the very same regime that did not
even hesitate to explode the shrines of Shiite Imams in Mashhad and Samarra in
a bid to maintain its infamous reign,” Radjavi said.
Earlier, the
Iranian Resistance revealed transferring arm shipments by the mullah’s regime
to Yemen.
http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/khamenei-ordered-makkah-attack-iranian-opposition/
Comment:
Propaganda about the alleged Mecca attack still does not stop and is getting
still more absurd. Now even Ayatollah Khamenei should have ordered this – well,
this lady either will be able to show the documents showing his order or she
must have a good contact to Khamenei if he has told her.
Comment: Fact is
that Houthis launched the missile on Jeddah. Now everyone is using a lie making
up a different story to serve personal agenda
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1152019684851060
1.11.2016 –
Anadolu (A P)
Yemeni vice
president praises Turkish support for Yemen
Meeting with
Turkish Ambassador to Yemen Levent Eler in Riyadh, VP touts 'historic' ties
with Turkey
Yemen’s vice
president on Tuesday praised Turkey’s attitude supporting the nation’s
government and its efforts to end the turmoil there.
"Our relations with Turkey are historic and greatly appreciated by Yemeni
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi," Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the vice
president, said during a meeting with Turkish Ambassador to Yemen Levent Eler
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
"We praise Turkey's attitude supporting the efforts of the Saudi-led
coalition which backs the legitimacy in our country," Yemen’s SABA news
agency quoted him as saying.
He added, "We express our thanks to the Turkish people, who stood against
conspiracies that targeted legitimacy in both our countries, Turkey and
Yemen."
For his part,
Turkish Ambassador Eler stressed that his country would “continue its
supportive role for constitutional legitimacy in Yemen, as we encourage all UN
efforts to end the conflict and to stop the bloodshed in the country.”
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/yemeni-vice-president-praises-turkish-support-for-yemen/676715
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe
/ Saudi air raids
3.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Saudi barbaric
aggression air raids Bani Matar, Hamdan
Saudi aggression
warplanes launched 13 raids against two districts of Sanaa province overnight,
officials told Saba on Thursday.
The barbaric raids targeted Bani Matar and Hamdan, damaging agricultural lands
and properties of citizens.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445645.htm
3.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
US-backed Saudi
barbaric airstrikes hit Saada, Najran
US-backed Saudi
lethal aggression launched a series of airstrikes on Saada and Najran provinces
overnight, a security official told Saba on Thursday.
The Saudi assault hit the area of al-Hasmah in shada district and launched
three raids against Thaaban area, as well a raid against the Mandabah region in
Saada.
The barbaric aggression also air raided several border areas in Najran.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445649.htm
3.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Saudi aggression
warplanes target truckload of food
US-backed Saudi
aggression warplanes targeted a truck loaded with food in the area of Bani
Rabia of Razih district in the northern Saada province on Thursday morning, a
security official told Saba.
The Saudi barbaric planes launched two raids on the truck, setting it on fire
and killed its driver on the spot.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445659.htm
3.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Saudi airstrikes
kill 3 citizens when targeting desalination plant in Mokha
US-backed Saudi
barbaric aggression warplanes killed three citizens and injured nine others in
an initial toll when targeted desalination plant in Mokha city early morning of
Thursday, residents and official told Saba.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445662.htm and
photos here: https://www.facebook.com/SaudiArabia.war.crimes.against.Yemen/posts/1598899187072736
Comment: Again
and again: Willingly targeting main structures intending to starve the people
out.
3.11.2016 –
Legal Center (* A K PH)
Wednesday
2/11/2016
Targeting and bombing civilians by the warplanes of Saudi Arabia and its
alliance.
Casualties and
damages (full list):
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=717114851772216&id=551288185021551
2.11.2016 –
Ahmad Alghobary (A K)
3 #Saudi air strikes targeted the
main road in Sadaa city #Yemen Houses in Sadaa main
road r completely destroyed by #KSA jets.
https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/793842449365872641
2.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Saudi aggression
fighter planes waged 4 strikes on Nehm
Saudi aggression
war jets launched four strikes on Nehm district of Sanaa province overnight, a
security official told Saba on Wednesday.
The strikes targeted Bani Baraq and al-Madfon areas in the same district,
causing destruction to citizen`s houses, properties and farms
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445583.htm
2.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Saudi barbaric aggression launch series air strikes on Saada, targeting
farms
Saudi aggression
fighter jets waged a series of strikes on Saada province early on Wednesday, as
the enemy artillery and missile mercenaries fired on several districts in the
same province, an official told Saba.
Five strikes targeted Maltah and al-Thoubat areas, as well four air raids hit
Mandabah area in the province.
Moreover, the enemy war jets fired two strikes on al-Zawkal area and three
other strikes on several areas of al-Dhahir district, burning farms.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445576.htm
and
2.11.2016 –
Almasirah TV (A K PH)
Film: Najat
family of raids Saudi American aggression in the province of Saada Razih
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2saHNcUwVI
and 2.11.2016 – Yemen Today TV (A
K PH)
Film: Bombing
Razeh, Saada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z9faV_IgMk
2.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
US-Saudi spy
drone downed in Asir: army
The army and
popular forces shot down a Saudi aggression spy drone in Alb area of Asir
region late on Tuesday, a military official said.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445577.htm and https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthi-forces-shoot-saudi-drone-asir-province/
2.11.2016 – Legal
Center (* A K PH)
1-11-2016
Targeting and bombing civilians by the warplanes of Saudi Arabia and its
alliance
Casualties and damage (full list):
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=716530608497307&id=551288185021551
1.11.2016 –
Fatik Al-Rodaini (A K)
Massive
explosions were heard loudly minutes ago following intense Saudi jets flying
over the sky of Hodeidah province in western #Yemen
https://twitter.com/Fatikr/status/793578841847369729
1.11.2016 –
Hussam Al-Sanabani (A K)
A thirst war. This week Saudi air strikes
targeted Al-Salef, Al-khamlwa & Al-Sharaf water infrastructures in Hodidah.
A new crises in #Yemen
https://twitter.com/hussamsanabani/status/793458612920279040
A thirst war, Hunger/thirst? Human can survive 3 weeks
without food, but without water & exposeed 2 sunlight?
(image)
https://twitter.com/HussamSanabani/status/793526998937300993
and
1.11.2016 –
Almasirah TV (A K PH)
Film: Saudi air
raid at water pump, Hodeida province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybglW2GZ3ik = https://www.facebook.com/881240811966559/videos/1149027371854567/
1.11.2016 –
Saudi Arabia war crimes (* A K)
More photos from
the Hodeidah prison air raid.
https://www.facebook.com/SaudiArabia.war.crimes.against.Yemen/posts/1598367357125919and https://www.facebook.com/SaudiArabia.war.crimes.against.Yemen/posts/1598375450458443
2.11.2016 –
Judith Brown (A K)
I have been told
that this dear little girl was killed by a bomb on my 70th birthday. You can
see her body on the right hand picture. This was a house in Taiz bombed by
Saudi Arabia. Can you think of one good reason why she deserved to die? (photos)
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
3.11.2016 – Katehon (A K PH)
Advances in
Sana'a, Ma'rib and Ta'iz
Commanders of
the Houthi alliance announced that they advanced in different parts of Sana'a,
Ma'rib and Ta'iz provinces against the Saudi coalition’s terrorists and
mercenaries. They have have taken control of the Qaran heights in Sana'a. They
have also taken control of villages in southeastern Ma'rib province, killing 16
mercenaries and wounding dozens in this operation. They have dismissed reports
that the terrorists entered the Western parts of Ma'rib.
The Houthi
alliance assisted by local tribes has also seized territory in the eastern and
central parts of Ta'iz, managing to cut the important terrorist supply routes
between Ta'iz and Yemen's Southern provinces.
Meanwhile,
hundreds of Yemeni tribal fighters have joined the Houthi alliance in their
fight against the Saudi invasion and deadly air campaign since the funeral
massacre in Sana'a.
The Houthi
alliance targeted military bases and camps in the Saudi provinces of Najran,
Jizan and Asir with artillery and missiles – by Abel Kotze
http://katehon.com/article/war-yemen-saudi-crimes-confirmed
3.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
The rocket and
artillery units of the enemy Saudi mercenaries targeted the town of Haradh.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445649.htm
3.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Artillery unit
hit enemy Saudi military camp, al-Kirs in Jizan
The army and
popular forces' artillery unit pounded enemy Saudi al-Kirs military site in
Jizan.
An army official spoke to Saba saying the attacks occurred late on Wednesday in
retaliation for Saudi aggression air strikes at Yemeni civilians.
The attacks inflicted heavy losses among the enemy troops and equipment
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445672.htm
2.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Aggression
mercenaries attacked in Najran
The army and
popular committees targeted on Wednesday a grouping for the Saudi-American
aggression at Al-Khadra’a border outlet in Najran.
A military source told Saba that the army and popular committees fired katyusha
missiles against a grouping for the aggression mercenaries close to Al-Khadra’a
border outlet in Najran.
The source pointed out that the army and popular committees also foiled an
attempt by the aggression mercenaries to advance towards Al-Buqa’ desert and
burnt the vehicle which they were onboard.
The source also said that a Saudi soldier was snipped in Muth’in location.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445635.htm
Comment: Najran
is a Saudi province at the Yemeni border, in the south occupied by Houthi /
Saleh forces.
2.11.2016 –
Hussam Al-Sanabani (A K PH)
Saudi withdraw National Guard force from Najran. Non predictable step. But why?
https://twitter.com/HussamSanabani/status/793936340480126976referring to https://twitter.com/NajranToday/status/793882358290219008
2.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Enemy Saudi
missile and artillery mercenaries fired shells on various areas in Monabah,
Shada and al-Dhahr districts of Saada, targeting the residents
farms and homes
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445576.htm
2.11.2016 –
MbKS15 (A K PS)
16 #Houthi leaders & 528 of
their fighters were killed in Oct 2016 in #Yemen & at the #Saudi borders. All names are
documented by @SyLvsT_R
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/793895919196536832
2.11.2016 –
Yemen News (A K PH)
Film: Wars and
battles took place in the Saudi-Yemeni border - Saudi-Yemeni border Najran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALxwl4V8mGI
2.11.2016 –
Anadolu (A K)
Yemen: pro-Hadi
forces say 15 of Houthis killed
Large numbers of
residents displaced Taiz because of ongoing battles
At least 15 Shia Houthi militia were killed in clashes
Tuesday in the provinces of Taiz and Al-Jawf, according to the pro-government
Information Center.
The center said
one of the fighters loyal to President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi was killed in the
clashes and Houthis rebels are evacuating residents from a village in Taiz in
order to convert it into a military zone.
Separately, a
military source told Anadolu Agency that Houthis and forces that support exiled
President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Monday managed to retake sites south of Taiz
that were controlled by pro-Hadi forces.
The source, who
was not authorized to speak to the media and wanted to remain anonymous, said
pro-Hadi forces "were not able to maintain their military gains they had
achieved in Monday’s battles."
Large numbers of
residents had displaced from their homes because of the ongoing battles in
Taiz, he added – By Murad al-Arifi
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/yemen-pro-hadi-forces-say-15-of-houthis-killed-/676750
and, also on Jawf, so much
different:
2.11.2016 – Saba
Net (A K PH)
Army secures
areas in Jawf
Dozens of
US-backed Saudi mercenaries were killed and others injured, and many were
arrested in unique operation carried out by the army and popular forces in
al-Ghaile district of Jawf province, a military official told Saba on
Wednesday.
During the operation, the national forces secured al- Kawaihsh area and
neighboring hilltops in al-Ghaile district, after the fierce battles drove the
mercenaries to flee, the official said.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news445581.htm
2.11.2016 –
Islamic Invitation Turkey (A K)
PHOTOS: Yemen
Hezbollah capture zionist Saudi Coalition positions in
Ta’iz Province
The Houthi
forces, backed by the Yemeni Republican Guard, continued their military
operations inside the Ta’iz Governorate Tuesday, capturing several sites from
the Hadi loyalists and Saudi-led Coalition.
According to the
Yemeni Republican Guard’s official media wing, the anti-regime forces managed
to seize several enemy positions in the Al-Salo area of the Ta’iz Governorate.
This powerful
attack attack on Tuesday led the Houthi forces to seize more ground in the
villages of Al-Seed and Al-Hasab.
The images above
show the enemy weapons captured, along with the fighters killed by the Houthi
forces in the Ta’iz Governorate on Tuesday.
Comment: Neither
the Houthis is a “Yemen Hezbollah” nor the Saudis are “Zionist”. Interesting
photos, the documents in a photo show that those who were repelled at that
place were Yemeni fighters, Saudi mercenaries or any other anti-Houthi group.
cp18 Sonstiges /
Other
2.11.2016 –
UNESCO Doa (* B K P)
Film: End
Impunity for Violence against Journalists in Yemen
UNESCO and its
partners stand together with Yemeni journalists saying “No to Impunity” - the
key message several international press freedom and media development groups
and Yemeni journalists share on 2 November, the International Day to End
Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrNTjB0ISVQ
2.11.2016 – M.
Alwadei (* B K)
Stop killing Journalists in Yemen #StopKillingJournalists
https://twitter.com/M_Alwadei4/status/793889090978492416
more than25Journalist killed
witnesses of truth in Yemen since the start of the US-Saudi aggression against
Yemen
https://twitter.com/M_Alwadei4/status/793888493667651584
Journalist Sami
AbdelDayem was injured by Saudi airstrikes on funeral ceremony in Sana'a
https://twitter.com/M_Alwadei4/status/793889211933872128
Film: Mohammed
Hamran news photographer, his son killed during the filming of a crime
committed by the Saudi alliance Saada
https://twitter.com/M_Alwadei4/status/793889953386156032
and more at Hashtag https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopKillingJournalists?src=hash
2.11.2016 –
Reuters (A T)
Yemeni money
exchange, owners sanctioned for aiding AQAP - U.S. Treasury
A currency
exchange business suspected of supporting al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP) and the its two owners have been added to the U.S. Treasury Department's
list targeting those who aid U.S.-designated terrorist groups, the department
said on Tuesday.
Said Salih
Abd-Rabbuh al-Omgy and Muhammad Salih Abd-Rubbuh al-Omgy were placed on the
Treasury Department's specially designated nationals list along with their
firm, the Al Omgy Exchange, which has been used by AQAP for financial
transactions for several years, the department said in a statement.
The Treasury
Department said AQAP uses accounts at the Al Omgy Exchange to disperse funding
throughout Yemen and receive deposits, including extortion payments from Yemeni
businesses.
It said AQAP earlier
this year ordered a Yemeni petroleum firm in Hadramawt province to transfer $1
million to the Al Omgy Exchange to support the al Qaeda affiliate's activities.
The Treasury
Department statement said Said al-Omgy owned an unknown number of money exchanges
or money transfer organizations known as hawalas in Aden, Yemen, and used those
institutions to conduct financial activity for AQAP – by David Alexander
http://in.reuters.com/article/mideast-crisis-usa-terrorism-idINKBN12W4UP
Comment by
Judith Brown: Well the Yemeni currency exchange may be sanctioned but what
about Hillary Clinton's emails that showed that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also
supporting Al Qaeda. As well as the pictures of the Saudi led coalition
fighting alongside ISIS and Al Qaeda.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10154868219898641
1.11.2016 – US
Department of Treasury (A T)
Treasury
Designates Financial Supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
Today, the
United States, in close partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), took
action to disrupt the operations and support networks of al-Qaida in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Specifically, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) designated the Al Omgy and Brothers Money Exchange (Al Omgy
Exchange) and the company’s two owners Said Salih Abd-Rabbuh al-Omgy and
Muhammed Salih Abd-Rabbuh al-Omgy pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224,
which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of
terrorism. As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in
property of Al Omgy Exchange, and Said and Muhammed al-Omgy subject to U.S. jurisdiction
are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in
transactions with them.
Acting under its
authorities, the Central Bank of the UAE recently took swift action to
eliminate any access to the UAE financial sector by Al Omgy Exchange in advance
of today’s OFAC action.
“Today’s action
reflects the strength of the U.S. partnership with the United Arab Emirates to
degrade AQAP's capabilities to execute violent attacks and to identify and
disrupt its financial and support networks,” said Adam
J. Szubin, Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “Al
Omgy Exchange and its owners are responsible for financially facilitating and
supporting AQAP and its violent attacks. Treasury will continue to work with
our allies to protect the international financial system by exposing and taking
action against AQAP supporters.”
https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0601.aspx?src=ilaw
Comment: What
about Hillary Clinton??? See: BOOM: Wikileaks Confirms Hillary Sold Weapons To ISIS, http://endingthefed.com/boom-wikileaks-confirms-hillary-sold-weapons-to-isis.html
2.11.2016 – AFP
(A T)
Blacklisted
Yemen firm denies helping al-Qaeda
A Yemeni money
exchange firm Wednesday denied being involved in funneling money to Al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula, a day after Washington slapped it with financial
sanctions.
Al-Omgy and
Brothers Money Exchange issued a statement dismissing the accusations as
"false" and mere "rumors."
In the
statement, Said al-Omgy urged the Yemeni government to "demand a
clarification from the UAE and the U.S. Treasury" over the measures taken
against the company.
1.11.2016 – „Die Anstalt“ im ZDF (* B K)
Film: "USA vs. RUS, Jemen vs.
Syrien"
Die Verteidiger der beiden Großmächte
USA und Russland stellen bei dem Versuch eines Verfahrensdeals fest, dass sich
ihre Mandanten gar nicht so unähnlich sind ...
https://www.zdf.de/comedy/die-anstalt/usa-vs-rus-102.html