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2 Children Killed and 10 Others Injured in a Landmine Explosion in Daraa
ARABI SOURI JANUARY 12, 2021
Two children were killed on the spot and ten other children were injured in a landmine explosion in the city of al-sheik Maskeen (Maskin), northern Daraa countryside.
The victims and the injured children were rushed to the National Hospital of Daraa and the National Hospital of Izraa.
A spokesman for the Daraa Police Department stated that 'a landmine was detonated in the Eastern Neighborhood in al-sheik Maskeen in the northern Daraa countryside yesterday, January 11, 2021, in a group of young children killing two of them and injuring ten others.' The police spokesman added that most of the victims are from the same family.
Syria is suffering massively from the tens of thousands of landmines and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) planted by the NATO-sponsored 'freedom fighters' of Al Qaeda FSA and of ISIS in all the areas they infested. In addition to planting a large number of military-grade landmines, gifted by the generous US and European taxpayers, the terrorists were making their own explosive devices in different shapes and sizes, some of which are like the usual household items. The terrorists would then spread their killing tools in its designated areas before they flee in order to continue killing and maiming Syrians, especially children who many of them were killed or lost limbs when picking up toys that were stuffed with explosives.
The task of demining and cleaning the regions newly liberated from NATO-sponsored 'freedom fighters' is overwhelming, to say the least, and it's overwhelming for capable countries let alone a country that is still fighting terrorist groups in different parts of its territories, while it's under a blockade and under inhumane draconian sanctions by the USA and its European minions preventing the Syrian state from acquiring needed tools to clear areas of the explosives and also impeding the procurement of medicine and medical tools and equipment.
Friendly civilized countries have been helping the Syrian state to clear the liberated areas from the explosives but those same countries are under attacks and sanctions as well by NATO and stooges.
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Idlib Terrorists Plot Chemical False Flag after US Diplomat Chirps about 'Mass Graves'
Posted on July 10, 2020 by martyrashrakat
July 9, 2020 Miri Wood
A new false flag chemical attack plan in the al Qaeda haven of Idlib has been uncovered, days after American diplomat Kelly Craft warned of (threatened?) "mass graves" in Syria, unless UNSCR 2504 was extended by the Security Council, and one day after part of the new Sykes-Picot project was vetoed by Russia and China.
Security Council Resolution 2504 (2020) was a 6-month extension on 2449 (2018) which was an extension on 2165 (2014).
Trump's top diplomat at the Security Council of the UN was threatening with an outbreak of COVID 19 in the areas the terrorists control (link above), seems there is also a plan B, and maybe more for false flags; 'all options on the table' as the US warlords prefer to say.
Via 2165 (2014), poisoned vaccines were brought into Syria from Turkey.
As reported in SANA, the Russian Coordination Center in Hmeimim announced that under the direction of European special intelligence operatives illegally in Syria, terrorists "are preparing to stage a false flag chemical attack in a number of towns in Idleb countryside."
White Helmets and the UN – OPCW
Intelligence sources informed the Coordination Center that fifteen "explosive devices filled with unknown toxic materials" were produced in a laboratory in Sarmada, with plans to explode them in Sfouhen, Fatira, and Flaifel in order to blame the Syrian Arab Army and the government of using chemical weapons.
Is it some stunning coincidence that a new false flag chemical attack comes on the heels of Craft's warning/threat of imminent mass graves, given that the previous false flag — thwarted when the incompetent al Qaeda terrorists injured themselves — was in early March, when Craft, Raab, Jeffrey, and Lowcock were in Turkey, to give moral support to Madman Erdogan, for his war crimes against Syria?
How utterly bereft of human decency is the United States' ambassador to the United Nations, practically salivating over the fantasy of "mass graves." One might wonder if she enjoyed "The War of Terror Through Forensic Medicine."
How utterly bereft of human decency is this diplomat, sadistically implying that the UN's NATO Klan has a backup plan to unleash COVID into the Syrian Arab Republic — because burning wheat fields, and attempting to starve the population via criminal Caesar and stealing Syrian oil is not enough war criminal activity.
This is a precarious time for another false flag chemical attack against Syria. The world's human garbage that has been dumped into the Levantine republic are at each other's throats. Foreign terrorists in Idlib are now kidnapping each other and someone has just released pervy nude selfies of the American illegal Bilal Abdul Kareem, the degenerate who legitimized the beheading of 12 year old Syrian-Palestinian Abdullah Issa by the al Zinki division of the FSA, and who has glorified the butchery of savages on the US Treasury SDN list.
Such a false flag would also give Trump a bit of respite from ongoing media attacks. After all, the transatlantic warmongering NATO stenographers did give him a standing ovation when he bombed Syria for al Qaeda, on 7 April 2017.
— Miri Wood
On cue for another false flag to legitimize another war criminal bombing of the SAR by NATO colonialists, the contemptible OPCW has entered with another round of vicious Goebbels Lies. As Syria News has meticulously dissected several of its previous propaganda missives, this author refers our readership to them.
The organization betrayed its noble cause when it ejected Jose Bustani per the demand of Dick Cheney, via his lapdog, the neocon's neocon, John Bolton — now deified by Operation Mockingbird liberals.
Trump Threatens Syria for al-Qaeda Occupiers of Idlib
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On Tuesday's Massive Criminal Chemical Weapons Lies against Syria
https://www.syrianews.cc/tuesdays-criminal-chemical-weapons-lies-syria/embed/#?secret=GoiFtgQ7f9
Nobody Noticed Trump Followed CNN against Syria?
https://www.syrianews.cc/nobody-noticed-trump-followed-cnn-against-syria/embed/#?secret=vshQgBy8Bz
True History of FSA Chemical Weapons Threats against Syria
https://www.syrianews.cc/true-history-fsa-chemical-weapons-threats-syria/embed/#?secret=RP3jP0wTsC
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COVID-19 HYPE AND HORRORS OF DEEP STATE
Posted on April 8, 2020 by martyrashrakat
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the hysteria it carried with it is without precedent in modern history, with a massive share of the global population under lockdown, and specifically that of Europe and the United States.
It is customary, furthermore, that every crisis presents opportunities to speculate, and provide alternative narratives (or even conspiracy theories) of what specifically is going on, how and why it was initiated and where it would all lead.
A crisis without precedent, however, creates the opportunity for massive-scale speculation, especially when it's as polarizing as the COVID-19, with the entire situation having no exact clarity of what the mortality rate is, how many people are and were, in fact, infected, how many are actually dying and so on.
Of course, every respectable conspiracy theory blames a "force" (or a group, individual) that has an interest at stake and there is much to gain from organizing it.
One of them is the following:
In a short summary, the "narrative is the following" and it is a popular QAnon conspiracy theory, that's being shared by influencers (such as Rose Henges who spread "awareness" for "holistic living", but she is one of many), on Instagram and other social media.
Supporters of the completely unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory believe that President Donald Trump and the American military are waging a secret war against the deep state, which they believe is a global cabal of pedophiles. They get their updates from off-shoots of the anonymous message board 8chan and a website called QAlerts, which they comb through for barely coherent secret messages from a person they believe has Q-level security clearance within the US government.
Starting from the week beginning on March 30th, thousands (and even hundreds of thousands) of hungry and terribly abused children have been found dead, or in captivity in an underground tunnel in New York.
This tunnel, allegedly, connects between the Clinton Foundation Building and the port of New York, with a length of approximately 4 kilometers.
It is through the end of the tunnel that comes out into the port of New York that children and corpses are loaded onto the USNS Comfort medical vessel.
It should be reminded that a man was arrested for attempting to derail a train and collide with the USNS Mercy, docked near Los Angeles, because he believed that the U.S. government was planning some sort of takeover.
Thus, according to the conspiracy theory, the USNS Mercy is docked near Los Angeles to provide the same service – care for kidnapped children and the victims of horrible abuses saved from the tunnels, because there's also apparently tunnels under L.A.
These rescue activities are under the patronage of the "Pentagon Pedophile Task Force," which is another quite popular conspiracy theory.
This conspiracy theory, however, goes one step further – some of the corpses had bitemarks on them, maybe by rats, but it even claimed that the starving children ate the corpses of the dead ones.
The makeshift field hospital in the middle of Central Park in New York, also, is there to treat the children, rather than to fight COVID-19.
And it is estimated that New York needs 100,000 body bags.
And it is expected that between 4 and 6% of these children would die, because they were too weak. They were tortured and sexually abused. Many of these children were raised for this specific purpose and have never seen the light of day, and so on.
Furthermore, there's also an explanation of the urgent need of respirators – the air in the tunnels is stagnated, thus they need help breathing.
Finally, police officers who entered the tunnels were traumatized, and they were even given bags in which to throw up if it's too much.
Furthermore, in addition to that, global celebrities began providing all sorts of entertainment, to presumably keep people away from seeing the truth.
These include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Antonio Banderas, Robbie Williams, and many more, who have began releasing videos, and what not, in order to entertain the quarantined masses.
Then, the conspiracy theory went even deeper – Madonna was quoted in Vogue magazine that she "would kill for pasta" and most would think its because panic buying left shelves empty and restaurants and bars are closed far and wide.
But no, "pasta" apparently is some sort of pedophile slang for the murder of a young boy.
And that's also done for a purpose – apparently it all connects to also the, now deceased, Jeffrey Epstein who presumably killed himself used to take celebrities on a private island for that sort of entertainment.
It was to produce Adrenochrome was used by celebrities as a drug and an elixir of immortality. It is derived from a child's body at the time of terrible fear and pain.
So, apparently, the synthetic adrenochrome produced in Wuhan, China, was intentionally infected with a special type of coronavirus.
Thus, a person who has taken some of this substance could easily be tracked.
And quarantine served as a cover for the largest ever secret U.S. intelligence operation, which will arrest 158,000 people and "remove all the villains" – politicians, celebrities and company heads, bankers such as George Soros, the heads of the United Nations, the founders of GRETA and more.
Indirectly, this wild theory, according to its followers, is proved by the US statistics, according to which in the USA annually, according to the official version alone, about 460,000 children disappear each year.
In short, people began to seriously discuss that Jeffrey Epstein on his island treated his influential friends not only to young girls, but also to children. And everyone who flew in private jets to his island will face arrest and a military tribunal.
The list of people who have visited Epstein's island is long and is no secret and it includes many influential politicians, entertainers, film and music celebrities and what not.
And all sorts of stories such as this are being propagated by the entire quarantine that keeps everybody at home, generally alone with themselves or with likeminded individuals who can spiral their ideas out of control.
Gone are the times when the most illogical, weird and "disturbing" thing was the ending of Game of Thrones.
Now, there's surely very little truth to the general idea of the conspiracy theory, but what's interesting is who it's aimed at and why it appears now, of all times.
More than likely, what's described above is a well-planned (albeit hastily, since the timeline with the COVID-19 was a bit short) campaign to discredit the entire "neoliberal elite" group that's quite popular in recent times.
It is no secret that many of the faces behind some of the major global capital, or some of the leaders of entertainment and media are associated with some very large-scale scandals (such as Harvey Weinstein, for example, or maybe George Soros' heart transplants, there's numerous other cases), and these are generally related to things that the "common folk" would find disturbing.
The general concept is to get some facts, such as the quarantine, the field hospital (as if out of M*A*S*H) and the UNSN Mercy and the USNS Comfort, and such, glue them together with a very questionable, horror-filled content and try to pass it as a possible version that sounds at least "slightly reasonable."
Who could stand behind the propagation of such narratives, however?
There are several options.
The pro-Trump lobby, and his team (not directly Donald Trump himself), are, at least partially, responsible for starting the "versions" since they discredit his direct opponents quite apparently, and it is not a bad timing for the diffusion of such information, after all his entire handling of the COVID-19 situation is turning into a fiasco.
It could be China – and why not, these "neoliberal elites," are, to a very large degree, in charge of global affairs – globalism is a narrative that they push forward, in a way. China isn't interested in a US-oriented global order, or a West-oriented one, it has little interest in a group of people pushing the narrative. Beijing wants to be the sole super power, for its own reasons and to achieve its own goals. Discrediting its direct "competition" and also by maintaining that US soldiers brought the coronavirus to Mainland China is one way to do so.
It could be Russia – but, it makes no sense, since some of these theories slam traditional Russian "allies" (in very broad terms) as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is willing to "look the other way" from the Western-propagated narrative for the greater (economic) wellbeing. Furthermore, the "Great Russian propaganda machine" is much more a myth than a reality, as it has been proven time and again. Finally, a large part of the current Russian elite is very much integrated with the Western elite, there's little (if any) interest in undermining it, after all it works to their benefit.
There's always "rogue actors" those who are conditionally "patriotic" or conditionally "conservative" since the current climate doesn't specifically play into their field, this could relate to capital, political interest, various lobbyist interests.
There's other QAnon versions, as the "movement" has seen increased activity on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter since the outbreak of COVID-19. Some Q followers baselessly claim the virus is a human-made bioweapon, which they believe was created by either the Chinese government or Bill Gates, depending on which Twitter account you read.
One thing is certain, during a crisis, conspiracy theories are abound, and truth, sometimes, comes around, factual stories are few and far between.
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Israel detained 5,500 Palestinians in 2019
Posted on January 1, 2020 by martyrashrakat
Israeli police officers arrest a Palestinian youth in Issawiya, Jerusalem, 4 January 2017 [Mahfouz Abu Turk/Apaimages]
MEMO | December 31, 2019
Israeli occupation forces detained over 5,500 Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territories in 2019, including 889 children and 128 girls and women, Quds Press reported rights groups saying yesterday.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Commission, Palestinian Prisoners' Club and Addameer for Human Rights, there are approximately 5,000 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, including 40 girls and women, 200 children. Some 450 are under administrative detention.
The groups said that five Palestinian prisoners passed away while in detention this year, citing medical negligence and torture. They were named as: Faris Baroud, Awni Youses, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Al-Sayeh and Sami Abu-Dayyak. Israeli authorities withheld the bodies of four Palestinian prisoners.
During 2019, Israeli occupation forces issued 1,035 administrative detention orders, including four against women and four against children.
The rights groups said there are currently 700 prisoners who are in need of medical attention inside Israeli jails, including ten who suffer from cancer and more than 200 who have chronic diseases.
More than 50 prisoners went on hunger strike in protest against the policies of the Israeli prison services, as well as against the policy of administrative detention.
"Israeli occupation authorities violate all the rules of international and humanitarian laws, and reinforce their flagrant violations through the judicial system," the rights groups said.
They called for local, regional and international bodies to put pressure on the Israeli occupation in order to stop its violations of Palestinian prisoners.
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A Generation Deleted: American Bombs in Yemen Are Costing an Entire Generation Their Future
Posted on October 7, 2019 by martyrashrakat
Feature photo | A child injured in a deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike rests in a hospital in Saada, Yemen, Aug. 12, 2018. Hani Mohammed | AP
As a new school year begins in Yemen, Ahmed AbdulKareem investigates the impact that American weapons have had on the war-torn country's schoolchildren.
by Ahmed Abdulkareem
SADAA, NORTHERN YEMEN — Third-grader Farah Abbas al-Halimi didn't get the UNICEF backpack or textbook she was hoping for this year. Instead, she was given an advanced U.S bomb delivered on an F-16 courtesy of the Saudi Air Force. That bomb fell on Farah's school on September 24 and killed Farah, two of her sisters, and her father who was working at the school. It will undoubtedly have an irrevocable effect on the safety and psyche of schoolchildren across the region.
Over the course of Yemen's pre-war history, which locals fondly refer to as the happy Yemen years, never has an entire generation been subjected to the level of disaster and suffering as that levied upon Farah's generation by the Saudi-led Coalition, which has used high-tech weapons supplied by the United States and other Western powers to devastating effect since it began its military campaign against Yemen in 2015.
Last week a new school year in Yemen began, the fifth school year since the war started, and little has changed for Yemen's schoolchildren aside from the fact that the Coalition's weapons have become more precise and even more deadly, leaving the futures of the country's more than one million schoolchildren in limbo.
"I want to go to school, I can't wait any longer," a relative of six-year-old Ayman al-Kindi told MintPress, recalling how Ayman, surrounded by proud family members, waited impatiently to leave for his first day of school. Ayman would never make it to school; in fact, he never even made it outside. "Ayman wanted to become a doctor but a bomb took him away from school. What these American bombs do to our children is terrifying," his relative told us.
In late June 2019, Coalition aircraft targeted Ayman's family home located on their farm in the Warzan area, south of Taiz province in southwestern Yemen. Six of Ayman's family members were killed, including three children aged 12, nine and six. According to Amnesty International, the laser-guided precision weapon used in the attack was made by Raytheon. Amnesty's arms experts analyzed photos of the remnants of the weapon recovered from the scene of the attack by family members and identified it as a U.S.-made 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway II.
The use of a U.S.-made weapon in the attack on the al-Kindi home was no anomaly: most of the weapons possessed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which between them have carried out a quarter of a million raids on Yemen since the beginning of the war, are American-made. This week, families who lost loved ones in Coalition airstrikes held an exhibition called "Criminal Evidence" in the city of Sana`a. The event was an opportunity to consolidate evidence of potential war crimes and prompted hundreds of Yemeni civilians to attend the event with remnants of U.S.-made weapons in tow, remnants recovered from the rubble of the attacks that killed their loved ones.
Photos from an Amnesty investigation show the Al-Kindi home and the Raytheon bomb that destroyed it.
The airstrike on the al-Kindi home was one of nearly a dozen carried out by Saudi Arabia using U.S. weapons that were included in a recent UN report. A team of investigators appointed by the UN Human Rights Council found numerous cases of Saudi airstrikes that violated international humanitarian law and, for the first time, directly implicated the United States, Britain, France and Australia for supplying the weapons used in the attacks.
Charles Garraway, a former military lawyer and one of the experts behind the report, recently told PBS, "We have a war that's going on. It's causing immense suffering and frankly most of that suffering is caused by arms." Garraway continued, "The tragedy in Yemen is so awful at the moment that somehow one has got to reach some form of settlement to stop the war."
Despite the abundance of evidence proving that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have routinely targeted schools and other civilian facilities, the United States continues to replenish the Coalition's arsenal. Earlier this year, the Trump administration tried to force through an $8.1 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan; and, despite growing opposition within his own government, President Donald Trump seems determined to maintain the flow of U.S. weapons to Saudi Arabia and its allies.
Not your normal "back-to-school" day
Eleven-year-old Mohammed AbdulRaham al-Haddi is one the few schoolchildren to have survived the horrific August 9, 2018, Saudi airstrike on a school bus on the outskirts of Dahyan in Yemen's northwestern province of Saada. The attack killed more than 35 of his classmates, but Mohammed miraculously survived. Today, he returns to school for the first time since the deadly attack, but to an underserved school and without his classmates. Al-Faleh, Mohammed's new school, lies nestled in a dusty valley near Yemen's northeastern border with Saudi Arabia
Mohammed al-Haddi, a survivor of an August 2018 airstrike on a school bus, returns to school for the first time since the attack. Ali al Shurgbai | MintPress
The attack on Mohammed's school bus was carried out using a Mark 82 (MK-82) bomb, jointly manufactured by U.S. weapons companies Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. The MK-82, along with other general-purpose MK-series bombs, has been sold to the Saudi-led Coalition by the United States through a series of contracts made in 2016 and 2017. In addition to last year's atrocity, the Coalition has used the MK-82 to target Yemeni civilians in the past, such as its bombing of a funeral in 2016 that left over 140 dead and 525 wounded.
As the war in Yemen enters its fifth year, the tragic consequences of these weapons deals are difficult to describe, but their effects are noticed everywhere. Some 3,526 educational buildings have been at least partially destroyed by bombs since the war began, with most yet to be rebuilt. Of those, 402 were completely destroyed, according to a new field survey conducted by the Ministry of Education. Approximately 900 of Yemen's schools are still being used as shelters for the internally displaced. And 700 schools have been closed as a result of ongoing clashes.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that two million children are out of school in Yemen. "A fourth of the two million Yemeni children have dropped out since the beginning of the Saudi war in March 2015," UNICEF representative in Yemen Sara Beysolow Nyanti said in a statement released last Wednesday.
Beysolow raised concerns about the future of Yemeni children, saying:
[They] face increased risks of all forms of exploitation including being forced to join the fighting, child labor and early marriage. They lose the opportunity to develop and grow in a caring and stimulating environment, ultimately becoming trapped in a life of poverty and hardship."
According to the Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization, SAM, four hundred thousand schoolchildren in Yemen suffer from acute malnutrition, exposing them to the risk of sudden death, 7 million schoolchildren face hunger, and more than 2 million do not go to school.
Even before the war began, the education system in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, was not in good health; a lack of equipment, unqualified teachers, and a shortage of textbooks plagued the country's schools, which were bursting at the seams with overcrowding. Coalition bombs and a blockade supported by the United States have effectively destroyed what was left, just as schools were beginning to show signs of recovery.
Many of Yemen's teachers have not received a paycheck in years and some, unable to eke out a living, have sought work as soldiers-for-hire on Yemen's battlefields, leaving millions of children without prospects for education and the country as a whole with a 70 percent rate of illiteracy. Beysolow warned that the education of a further 3.7 million Yemeni children is at risk, as teachers have not received their salaries for over two years, adding that one fifth of schools in Yemen can no longer be used as a direct result of the conflict. "Violence, displacement and attacks on schools are preventing many children from accessing school," she said.
In a bid to stop teachers from leaving schools, the Ministry of Education, based in Sana`a, has imposed a fee on students of $2 per month to pay teacher salaries, but that seemingly nominal fee has added a huge burden to families with more than one child, many of whom are living in extreme poverty as a result of the war and siege. "I have six students, meaning that I need to pay $12 a month; I can't save that amount," one mother told us. She lost her husband in the clashes that erupted between the former president Ali Saleh and opposition tribes on Hasabah Street in 2011. Now, her only source of income is begging and it is not enough to feed her six children, let alone send them to school.
To make matters worse, just weeks before the new school year began, the Saudi-led Coalition prevented 11 oil tankers from entering Yemen. The move sparked an acute shortage of fuel, which meant that school buses could no longer run, leaving even those with the means to pay school fees unable to send their children to school.
The severe psychological toll
The effect of U.S.-made weapons upon Yemen's children does not end there. Children who have survived the fighting are often left with physical disabilities and severe and chronic psychological symptoms, turning their environment into the worst place in the world, according to UNICEF.
Beyond the direct casualties from airstrikes, the largely unnoticed and unrecorded (by the world) sounds of explosions and buzzing warplanes are leaving Yemen's children with irreversible psychological damage.
Terrified children take cover at the entrance of a cave used as makeshift shelter in the Maran border area, September 30, 2019. Taha al Shurgbai | MintPress
Like other students, Mohammed often gets distracted while at home or sitting in class, unable to focus and laden with severe anxiety. While students the world over occupy their minds with the day-to-day matters that should accompany adolescence, Yemen`s students, especially those who live in border districts, are filled with an ever-present fear of an impending airstrike.
Since the school year began on September 15, the Saudi-led Coalition has reportedly dropped more than a thousand bombs and missiles in 400 separate airstrikes targeting border districts including Sadaa, Hajjah, Sana`a, Amran, Dhali, and Hodeida. The hundreds of sorties are accompanied by frightening whizzing noise and have left great panic in the hearts of civilians, especially Yemen's schoolchildren.
"Before the war, the sound of planes meant happiness for families who were expecting loved-ones returning [from abroad], but now the sound of planes mean destruction, death, blood," Dr. AbdulSalam Ashish, a consultant for psychological and neurological diseases, told MintPress. Dr. Ashish continued, "Now, the planes bring nothing but fear and panic and are a reminder of tragedies and crimes that were committed with U.S., British, and French weapons."
"It was 1:45 p.m., when we heard a missile strike; we were able to calm the students down but when the third strike hit we lost control of the students as they began to scream and chaos spread throughout the school," Hana Al Awlaqi, a school agent at the "Martyr Ahmed Abdul Wahab Al Samawi" School, said, recounting the moment a Saudi attack took place just tens of meters away from the school. "The sound of the fourth bomb made matters worse, as the school was being broken into by panicked parents and many teachers were fainting."
School children react to bombs dropped outside of the Martyr Ahmed Abdul Wahab Al Samawi school on Nov 11, 2017. Mohammed al Alkabsi | Yamanyoon
Al Awlaqi went on to say that many students convulse into spasms when they hear the sound of airplanes, while others have refused to come back to school. "The sound of an explosion or the buzz of the aircraft stays in the mind. The sound of an aircraft can send these children into severe panic attacks and anxiety," Dr. Ashish confirmed.
Jalal Al-Omeisi, a pediatric nurse at the Psychiatric and Neurological Hospital in Sana`a told MintPress that most of the cases that arrive at the hospital are from areas subjected to intensive Saudi Coalition raids, such as Sana`a, Hodeida, and Saada, as well as the border areas. Al-Omeisi went on to say that most medics lack the training to deal with the complex psychological issues that these children are developing.
Such experiences in children go well beyond the temporary impact on their education and, without proper care and the knowledge necessary to address treat these psychological issues, many will suffer life-long consequences that hinder their ability to obtain an education. This is especially true in light of the lack of programs, centers or hospitals for the rehabilitation of war-affected children in Yemen.
Asking Americans to open their eyes
Schoolchildren living along Yemen's porous border with Saudi Arabia and throughout its southern districts face a reality even more grim than that faced by their peers. Many are recruited or even forced to join the fight to defend the Saudi border via local trafficking networks, which funnel children into training and recruitment camps in the southern Saudi provinces of Jizan and Najran, as well as to Yemen's southern districts.
According to a recent report by SAM, Saudi Arabia has been enlisting thousands of Yemeni children to fight along its southern border with Yemen over the past four years. Those have who died as a result of the fighting at the border are often buried in the Kingdom without their families' knowledge. At least 300 had to have their limbs amputated as a result of their military injuries.
A 17 year-old boy holds his weapon in High dam in Marib, Yemen, July 30, 2018. Nariman El-Mofty | AP
MintPress managed to speak to dozens of school-aged Yemeni children who were captured in a recent Houthi operation that saw thousands of militiamen, including dozens of schoolchildren, and Saudi officers taken into captivity. Fifteen-year-old Adel was among those captured. He left his home in the southern city of Taiz, chasing promises of a regular paycheck of up to 3,000 Saudi riyals ($800). Adel told MintPress:
We were left alone in Wadi Abu to face our destiny. Older recruits were fleeing on pickup trucks and armored personnel carriers; Saudi airstrikes hit us as we were surrendering to the Houthis."
Saudi warplanes targeted the captured mercenaries in Wadi Abu Jubarah, killing more than 300 of their own recruits.
Adel, who left school for the promise of a paycheck, went on to say, "Me and the others were recruited to wash the clothes of Saudi soldiers but they gave us rifles and forced us to go to battlefields." When asked what he would do when freed, Adel said simply, "I want to go back to my mom and school. I don't want to fight."
The recruitment of Yemeni children by Saudi Arabia is not without precedent. Although the Kingdom signed the international protocol banning the involvement of children in armed conflict in 2007 and again in 2011, it was accused of recruiting Sudanese children from Darfur to fight in Yemen on its behalf as late as 2018.
Mohammed, who often visits the memorial to his classmates located only a few hundred meters away from his new school, said he will continue to attend school every day, regardless of how much bombing there is. He asked that Americans open their eyes to see what their weapons are doing to Yemen's children.
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Children Of Our World In Trauma — Rebel Voice
Posted on October 5, 2019 by Zara Ali
Originally posted on Rebel Voice: This short but haunting piece of video highlights the ways in which the children of the Earth are being failed by humanity. There are no words sufficient to describe the horrors that children face in an increasingly callous and selfish global society. Rebel Voice strongly recommends that everyone watch this…
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Axis of Resistance.The West and its Allies Support al Qaeda and ISIS Globally
By Mark Taliano
The real Axis of Evil consists of Washington-led NATO and its allies. The magnitude of the human and environmental catastrophe is unimaginable in scope. Western governments and their agencies send strong delusion to North Americans, who remain largely ignorant to the reality of the catastrophe being committed in their names.
The Western War Of Terror, to which our governments remain committed, loots public treasuries to commit and sustain an overseas holocaust, wherein the West and its agencies support, command and control the very same terrorism that they proclaim to be fighting.
Dr. Gideon Polya notes in "An Iraqi Holocaust/ 2.7 Million Iraqi Dead From Violence Or War-imposed Deprivation" that the West's supremely criminal war against Iraq alone
"led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.2 million)," and that, "the West has now commenced its Seventh Iraq War since 1914 in over a century of Western violence in which Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation have totaled 9 million. However Western Mainstream media have resolutely ignored the carnage, this tragically illustrating the adage 'History ignored yields history repeated'."
The West and its allies support al Qaeda and ISIS globally. They are the proxies, the "boots on the ground" that destroy sovereign, independent countries for their Western permanent-state masters. They are the essence of barbarism and evil, shrouded in torn veils of "plausible deniability" that deceive only those who willfully choose to be deceived.
Happily, the Axis of Resistance is becoming stronger. Each victory for those countries that oppose Western barbarism (including Yemen, Syria and Iraq) is a victory for nation-state sovereignty and territorial integrity, a victory for international law, a victory for dignity and civilization, a victory for truth, justice, peace, and a livable planet.
A multi-polar world order will impose restraints on the lunacy of the U.S-led New World Order, its global war, its predatory, anti-Life political economies, its poverty, and its growing holocaust. Stripped of its war propaganda, the US-led monster is a global dictatorship that extracts disproportionate wealth from the world to a minute, transnational oligarch class.
Syria, Iraq, Iran, Russia, China, Yemen are all on the front lines against the West's cancerous foreign policies of normalized Supreme International war crimes, of criminal blockades, of widespread, genocidal mass-murder, and the on-going destruction of a livable planet.
The crimes and their consequences are pre-planned and monstrous. The West murdered almost 600,000 Iraqi children when it intentionally destroyed water plants in Iraq through economic blockades. They bombed water infrastructure in Libya and Syria, and they are using the same tactics in Yemen, as well. Civilian deaths are intended, planned for, they are mass murder. The predicted diseases, the cholera, are also anticipated. The UN itself has condemned the cholera epidemic in Yemen as a "man-made disaster."
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Journalist David Pear notes in "The US-Led Genocide and Destruction of Yemen":
"Since 2015 the cholera epidemic has been spread by biological warfare against Yemen. US bombs dropped by Saudi pilots destroyed Yemen's public water and sewage systems. The parts, chemicals and fuel to operate Yemen's water purification and sewage plants are blockaded. Potable water, cholera vaccine, and even individual water purification tablets cannot get in ….
The sewage from non-working treatment plants overflows into streams that run onto agricultural land, thus contaminating vegetables before they go to market. Sewage flows into the cities, residential areas and the refugee camps. Flies swarm over the sewage and spread cholera everywhere. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and Doctors Without Borders; hospitals, clinics and disaster relief organizations, and human rights workers have been deliberately bombed."
Yemen, like its counterparts in the Resistance, seeks its own sovereign political economy, free from externally-imposed "neoliberal" diktats, the privatizations, the international financing and impoverishing "Structural Adjustment Programs".
Yemen seeks to use its resources for the social uplift of its peoples, as guaranteed by the UN Charter and International law. Yemen seeks justice and truth and peace, as it fights the West's al Qaeda terrorists, as it withstands the bombs furnished by the West, delivered by Saudi planes, commanded and controlled by the West. And Yemen is winning the war.
Shortly after the Aramco attacks, falsely blamed on Iran, Houthi forces defeated a large Saudi force in the Najran province, capturing 1000's of soldiers, and littering the battlefield with light armored vehicles (LAVs) – manufactured by General Dynamics Lands Systems in London, Ontario, Canada.
(Instead of making environmentally-friendly fast trains, successive Canadian governments chose instead to manufacture LAVs for their Saudi and al Qaeda allies.)
In Phase Two of the offensive, Yemeni Armed Forces reportedly overtook three Saudi military bases and now control more than 150 square kilometers of Saudi territory.
These victories, as with Syria's on-going victories over international terrorism, are ushering in a new era of multipolarity, an era that promises to be more resistant to the West's terrorism, more resistant to the shackles of globalizing "neoliberal" parasitism, and more resistant to Washington's unipolar agenda of permanent war and poverty – a cancerous agenda , toxic to humanity and toxic to a livable planet.
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Mark Taliano is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and the author of Voices from Syria, Global Research Publishers, 2017. Visit the author's website at https://www.marktaliano.net where this article was originally published.
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CHILDREN ARE KILLED BY AMERICAN WEAPONS IN YEMEN EVERY YEAR. THEN A REFINERY BLOWS UP, AND AMERICA SUDDENLY PAYS ATTENTION | OPINION
Posted on September 22, 2019 by martyrashrakat
ANTHONY HARWOOD , FORMER FOREIGN EDITOR OF THE DAILY MAIL
ON 9/20/19 AT 12:32 PM EDT
It's like the start of a bad joke.
What's the difference between 10,000 people being killed in air strikes and a bunch of missiles taking out an oil processing facility for a few days?
The answer is no laughing matter.
The difference is that only the one which threatens the markets will "not be tolerated" by the Trump administration.
For more than four years, the people of Yemen have been relentlessly bombed back to the Dark Ages by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition, reckless, to put it charitably, about where its aircraft drop their payloads.
Forty-seven fishermen here, 137 funeral mourners there, a 20-strong wedding party and, in one year alone, 443 children.
Four hundred and forty three children.
Forty-four of these children were on a bus on a summer school trip into Saada when their vehicle was hit by a stray missile in August 2018.
A video taken by one of the boys showed them laughing and playing on the bus shortly before it was hit.
When, a week later, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo found himself meeting the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, no mention was made of the day the children died.
Their deaths were not deemed important enough for America's top diplomat to bring up with the de-facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, whose planes were responsible.
Fast forward a year, to the missile strikes on Saudi oil fields last weekend, attributed by many to Iran or its proxies.
At the time it was said that 18 drones and seven missiles had knocked out half of Saudi Arabia's oil production and the world should brace itself for soaring fuel prices in the wake of an anticipated fall in supplies.
The loss of 5.7 million barrels a day—about fifty percent of Saudi's output and five percent of the world's daily production—was said to have caused the "biggest oil disruption in history."
Sure enough, Monday saw the biggest hike in the price of oil for a decade, 14 per cent, and a miserable future for travellers was predicted with rises in air fares of 15 per cent expected.
Step forward the same Mike Pompeo to declare the drone-strikes an "unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply" and an "act of war."
"The Iranian regime's threatening behaviour will not be tolerated," he stormed.
Not one person dead, no one injured. Not even a scratch. And, lo and behold, by Wednesday the Saudi energy minister was saying that half the oil production which had been knocked out had been recovered.
Not only that, but production capacity at the plants would be fully restored by the end of the month.
Global crisis handsomely averted, in other words.
Now, I'm not going pretend that an attack on the Saudi-Aramco oil refineries should not be condemned. Of course it should.
But what's shameful and depressing is how the prospect of the world's energy market being thrown into disarray for a few days counts for so much more than a four-year war which has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
The knock-on effects of the conflict have left millions, including 85,000 children, facing disease and on the brink of starvation.
Where is America's condemnation of that? Where is the outrage? What is the world coming to when a wobble on the oil markets is deemed so much more important than thousands of men, women and children being killed as they innocently go about their daily lives?
And yet these are the priorities of leaders in the West as demonstrated by their use of words, by what they choose to condemn and what they're happy to let pass.
An analysis of debris from the school bus site showed that the 227kg laser-guided bomb used in the attack was made by Lockheed Martin and sold to Saudi Arabia as part of billions of dollars of US weapons exports.
That is one reason that Pompeo would not criticise the Saudis and why, just a few months later, President Trump, by his own admission, was so soft on the Riyadh leadership in the wake of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
But while America, to safeguard jobs and political capital at home, continues arming Saudi Arabia with weapons that are used to killed children, there will be people prepared to say what Pompeo should have said.
Even it's a lone protestor, Bryce Druzin, 34, who spray painted the word 'Yemen' in blood red across Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, alongside the date of the slaughter.
Human life should always matter more than the price of oil.
Anthony Harwood is a former foreign editor of the Daily Mail.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own.
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Syria News Briefs: SDF Child Soldiers, Landmines, and Economy
Posted on August 24, 2019 by martyrashrakat
August 22, 2019 Miri Wood
US-run 'SDF' continues to kidnap Syrian children to make them 'soldiers.'
In Syria news briefs today, two children were injured in another landmine blast; a child fleeing from US 'SDF' criminal militia was shot to death; Reconciliation continues; an increase in olive production is expected.
Two children were injured by shrapnel from another exploding landmine left behind by terrorists in al Swaiaa, Deir Ezzor. They are expected to recover. Despite the UN Mine Action Service has signed an MoU to assist the Syrian government more than a year ago, terrorists' buried landmines continue to kill and maim.
Also on 21 August, Syria continued with its Reconciliation program. In Homs, 115 men had their legal statuses settled, upon turning themselves in, and handing over their weapons, so they could "return to their normal lives."
Syria's Ministry of Agriculture announced the expectation of olive and olive oil production to be increased this year. Since last year, when crops were decreased because farmlands were injured by terrorists, the Ministry has engaged in rehabilitation and ongoing maintenance to return to normal production. The expected output is 830,000 tons of olives, and 150 tons of olive oil.
The vilest of news from Syria, on 21 August, will never be reported in NATO media. The US-run 'SDF' murdered a Syrian child who attempted to escape kidnapping. Three of his family members were also shot by these separatist-terrorists, trying to protect him.
The murdered child was 13 years old Osama Obeid, who lived in the village of al-Gharb in Hasaka. The 'SDF' stormtroopers have been raiding homes in Hasaka countryside, to kidnap young men and children to incarcerate them in "coercive recruitment camps" — brainwash centers to force Syrian children to become armed terrorists.
The YPG precursor to the 'SDF' criminals promised to end their war criminal activity of creating 'child soldiers,' back in 2014. NATO media swooned, then, and swooned again late June, when an 'SDF commander' was invited to the UN to sign an agreement to end the destruction of children's psyches.
How utterly shameless that that which should be considered normal among civilized human beings should be lauded, instead.
Another UN breach of its own charter? Signing an agreement with an agent of the US in Syria.
Colonial media normalizing the existence of armed terrorists in Syria.
NATO media supporting the US-sponsored 'SDF' against Syria has a two-pronged effect: The ability to subsequently ignore more war crimes, and to feed into the wretched western colonial mindset, attracting the Lilliputian serfs to support the attempted destruction of the sovereignty of Syria.
This insidious propaganda permits western media to ignore the murder of Osama Obeid, 13, who tried to escape kidnapping, as they have ignored the 'SDF' torching thousands of hectares of wheat and barley farmland in Syria, and as they have ignored the attempt of 'ethnic cleansing' of Syrians in Qamishli.
Do an internet search, "Syria news," and you will not find a single western medium to report on Tuesday's murder of the Syrian child, nor anything except ongoing, anti-Syria war propaganda.
The time is past overdue for westerners to stop being colonial serfs, to stand upright, on hind legs, and to acknowledge that Syria continues to fight terrorism on behalf of humanity.
NB: Today is the anniversary of the Ghouta massacre, committed by the FSA moderate terrorists who admitted having received their chemical weapons from "Prince Bandar [who should have instructed the killers in their proper usage so as not to have slaughtered some of their own, also]."
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Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Posted on July 28, 2019 by michaellee2009
85% of cases involving settler violence against Palestinians are never pursued by law. Of the remaining cases, only 1.9% led to a conviction.
By Ramzy Baroud
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq's photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking.
Tariq's innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen, we are morally obliged to understand the nature of Jewish settler violence, which cannot be viewed in isolation from the inherent racism in Israeli society as a whole.
We are all often guilty of perpetuating the myth that militant Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories are a different and distinct category from other Israelis who live beyond the so-called "Green Line".
Undoubtedly, the violent mentality that propels Israeli society, wherever it is located, is not governed by imaginary lines but by a racist ideology, of which disciples can be found everywhere in Israel, not just in the illegal Jewish colonies of the West Bank.
Israel is a sick society and its ailment is not confined to the 1967 Occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
While Palestinians are imprisoned behind walls, fences and enclosed regions, Israelis are a different kind of prisoners, too. "A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness," wrote the late anti-Apartheid hero and long-time prisoner, Nelson Mandela.
It is this racism and bigotry that makes Tariq invisible to most Israelis. For most Israelis, Palestinian children do not exist as real human beings, deserving of a dignified life of freedom. This callousness is a defining quality, common among all sectors of Israeli society – right, left and center.
Tariq Zabania
An example is the terrorist attack carried out by Jewish settlers against the Palestinian Dawabshe family in the village of Duma, in the northern West Bank in July 2015, resulting in the death of Riham and Sa'ed, along with their 18-months old son, Ali. The only member of the family spared that horrific death was Ahmad, 4, who was severely burned.
This cruelty was further accentuated in the episodes that followed this criminal incident. Later that year, Israeli wedding guests were caught on tape while dancing with knives, chanting in celebration of the death of the Palestinian baby.
Three years later, as the Dawabshe family members were leaving an Israeli court, accompanied by Arab parliamentarians, they were greeted by a crowd of Israelis chanting "Where is Ali? Ali's dead" and "Ali's on the grill".
The passing of time only cemented Israelis' hatred of a little child whose only crime was his Palestinian identity.
The only survivor, Ahmad, was punished thrice: when he lost his whole family; with his severe burns and when he was denied compensation. The then Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, simply resolved that the boy was not a "terror victim." Case closed.
Although the Dawabshes were killed by Jewish settlers, the Israeli court, army and political system all conspired to ensure the protection of the killers from any accountability.
This was no different in the case of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who, on March 24, 2016, killed an unconscious Palestinian man in Hebron. In his defense, Azaria insisted that he was following army manual instructions in dealing with alleged attackers, while top Israeli government officials came out in droves to support him.
When Azaria was triumphantly released following only nine months in jail, he was hailed by many Israelis as a hero. Possibly, he will have a successful career in politics should he decide to pursue that route. In fact, he was courted by Israeli politicians to help them garner more votes in April's general elections.
Condemning solely Jewish settlers while sparing the rest of Israeli society is equivalent to political whitewashing, one that presents Israel as a healthy society prior to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. This view presents Jewish settlements as a cancerous disease that is eating up at the otherwise proud and noble achievements of early Zionists.
It is convenient to classify Jewish settlers as rightwing extremists and to link them with Israel's ruling right-wing political parties. But history proves otherwise.
Ahmad Dawabsheh, the sole survivor of an Israeli settler arson attack in Duma is dressed at Tel HaShomer Hospital, July 22, 2016. Tsafrir Abayov | AP
It was Israel's Labor Party that created the settlement projects originally, soon after the colonization of the West Bank. Some of Israel's largest, and most militant colonial enterprises, in occupied East Jerusalem – Ramat Eshkol, Gilo, Ramot and Armon Hanatziv – are all the creation of the Labor Party, not the Likud.
Neither is the 'settler' a new phenomenon. Historically, the early settlers who preceded the establishment of Israel in 1948 were idealized as true Zionists, celebrated as "cultural heroes" – the Jewish redeemers, who eventually ethnically cleansed historic Palestine from its native inhabitants.
"The original Labor movement," wrote Amotz Asa-El in The Jerusalem Post, "never thought settling beyond the Green Line was illegal, much less immoral." If there was any debate in Israel regarding settlements, it was never truly concerned with the issue of legitimacy or legality, but practicality: whether these colonial projects can be sustained or defended.
Protecting the settlements is now the overriding task of the Israeli occupation army. The Israeli human rights organization, B'Tselem, which monitors the conduct of the Israeli army and Jewish settlers in the West Bank, explained the nature of this relationship in a report published in November 2017.
"Israeli security forces not only allow settlers to harm Palestinians and their property as a matter of course – they often provide the perpetrators escort and back-up. In some cases, they even join in on the attack," B'Tselem wrote.
Another Israeli organization, Yesh Din, concluded in a report published earlier that 85% of cases involving settler violence against Palestinians are never pursued by law. Of the remaining cases, only 1.9% led to a conviction, which is likely to be inconsequential
Jewish settler violence should not be analyzed separately from the violence meted out by the Israeli army but seen within the larger context of the violent Zionist ideology that governs Israeli society entirely.
This violence can only end with the end of the racist ideology that rationalizes murder, like that of little Tariq Zabania.
Feature photo | Jewish settlers point their guns at unarmed Palestinians protesting the confiscation of their land by the Jewish settlers in the West Bank village Burin, near Nablus, Aug. 7, 2009. Majdi Mohammed | AP
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His last book is 'The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story' (Pluto Press, London). Baroud has a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and was a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. His website is www.ramzybaroud.net
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Saudi Arabia on UN's list of child-killing regimes for 3rd year
A child suffering from malnutrition caused by the Saudi aggression lies on a bed at a treatment center in al-Sabeen Maternal Hospital in the Yemeni capital Sana'a on June 22, 2019. (Photo by AFP)
The United Nations has for the third year put Saudi Arabia and its allies in their military campaign against Yemen on the world body's blacklist of child killers,
According to a report by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in 2018, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed or injured 729 children, nearly half the total child casualties of the year.
The UN chief's report, which was presented to the Security Council on Friday, also states that Palestinian casualties caused by the Israeli regime, mainly its military, hit a four-year high in 2018.
The report shows that 59 Palestinian children were killed – 56 by Israeli forces – and another 2,756 were injured last year.
PressTV-'54 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces since Jan.'
A report shows the Israeli regime's forces have killed 54 Palestinian children and arrested over 900 during this year.
Guterres urged "Israel to immediately put in place preventive and protective measures to end the excessive use of force".
"I condemn the increasing number of child casualties, which are often a result of attacks in densely populated areas and against civilian objects, including schools and hospitals," Guterres said in the report, produced by UN Children and Armed Conflict envoy Virginia Gamba and issued in Guterres' name.
The report does not subject those listed to action; however, it shames parties to conflicts in the hope of pushing them to stop killing children.
Diplomats say Saudi Arabia and Israel both have exerted pressure in recent years in a bid to stay off the list, but no to avail.
In reaction to the Friday report, Saudi Ambassador to the UN Abdadllah Al-Mouallimi claimed that "every child's life is precious" to Riyadh, and questioned the sourcing and accuracy of the report, describing the numbers as "exaggerated."
His claims come as over 80,000 Yemeni children under five years have died as a result of severe malnutrition caused by the Saudi-led coalition's aggression against the people of Yemen, Guterres cited a report as saying earlier this year.
PressTV-Over 80,000 Yemeni kids have died of starvation: UN
The UN chief says over 80,000 kids under the age of five have died of starvation in Yemen ever since the Saudi-led aggression on the country began in March 2015.
The war that began in March 2015 has so far killed thousands of Yemeni women and children and destroyed Yemen's infrastructure.
The Yemeni Health Ministry announced in a report on Friday that one Yemeni child is dying of malnutrition every 10 minutes. The report, cited by al-Mayadeen TV, said malnutrition has affected 2.3 million children in Yemen during the past five years.
It also pointed to the outbreak of cholera as a result of the Saudi-led coalition's aggression, saying that children account for 40 percent of the 3,700 people diagnosed with the disease in the war-torn country.
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Children main victims of Saudi war on Yemen: Activists
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Aleppo: New Atrocities by Erdogan, Qatar, & NATO Terrorists
July 25, 2019 Miri Wood
Another savage attack against Aleppo by terrorists supported by Erdogan, Qatar, US, EU — and now also officially by the Holy See — murder 3, injured 15, and destroyed cars and property, 24 July. Two of the martyrs are children. This carnage follows the terror attacks of Monday.
The Nusra faction of al Qaeda against Syria — Qatar's faction of wahhabi savages — fired rockets into Aleppo from al Rashidin, causing death and destruction in al Hamadaniyah and Seif al Dawlah neighborhoods.
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In April 2017 a deal brokered with Qatar by Iran to exchange imprisoned terrorists for civilian kidnap victims ended in a massacre of upwards of 130, and the kidnapping of dozens of Syrian children. Qatar subsequently offered security to OPCW investigators to enter Khan Sheikhoun, but they declined.
The Syrian Arab Army responded by destroying rocket launch pads and an undisclosed amount of human garbage.
It is unlikely Pope Francis has been able to send another diplomatic letter to President Assad at this time.
Also on 24 July, Syrian sappers inspecting liberated areas of Deir Ezzor discovered an underground cache in al Mayadeen Bayida desert area, of more than 1,000 (one thousand) mortars left behind by retreating terrorists.
Aleppo continues to rebuild its infrastructure.
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Syria Eight Years Later
Posted on March 16, 2019 by martyrashrakat
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on MARCH 16, 2019
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96% of Syrian territory is under the control of the Armed Forces and the national government. One and a half million of those who had to leave the country due to the war, have now returned and begin normal life and the colossal task of reconstruction in a nation devastated by shrapnel, both from the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State and Al Nusra Front, and from the US air force that still continues bombing operations and maintains troops at illegal bases in the Arab state.
That is the situation until this March 15, the eighth anniversary of an externally imposed war.
Preliminary accounts of the injuries caused there indicate that more than 360 000 people have died and several million have been displaced or have had to emigrate. An estimated 1 106 children died in 2018 alone, according to UNICEF data.
A report from the UN agency said: "People believe that the conflict is ending, but many children remain as exposed to danger as at any time in the past eight years".
Material losses in excess of $400 billion and a reconstruction of the country, which, according to the UN, will need $250 billion, is part of the Arab nation's landscape today.
But the international community must be aware that there are two wars against Syria: that of the terrorists of the Islamic State and Al Nusra Front, supported by the United States with money and weapons, and the bombing of U.S. planes that continue to cause deaths of hundreds of civilians, mostly children and women, as well as major material destruction.
On the eve of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the war, units of the Syrian Army discovered and exposed before the world the most varied armaments that have been seized and that have the label of origin of the United States and Israel.
This week also saw the deaths of 50 Syrian civilians in a new massacre by U.S. fighters in the Deir Ezzor region.
In late January, the U.S. Department of Defense admitted that some 1,190 civilians lost their lives in coalition attacks in Syria and Iraq over the past three and a half years; however, human rights bodies report a much higher number.
It is curious that, while Trump talks about the triumph of his forces against the "terrorists", the only territories where the few remaining pockets are grouped together are located in areas protected by US military and aviation bases, which illegally entered Syrian territory.
And although Trump had recently announced that his troops would leave the Arab nation, the opposite has happened. Even John Bolton, Donald Trump's national security adviser, told ABC News that "he hoped that the British and French allies would join Washington's efforts".
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13-year-old Gaza Artist Shot by israeli (apartheid state) Soldiers While "Calling for Our Basic Right to Live a Decent Life"
Posted on December 8, 2018 by michaellee2009
By Wafa Aludaini,
"Living under occupation and siege, imposed since I was born, inspired me and affected my paintings."
Majd al-Madhoun, a young, 13-year old Palestinian artist, was shot for the second time by an Israeli soldier while protesting peacefully in the Great March of Return protest near the fence which separates Gaza from Israel. Majd's first shot was in his leg. The second was a rubber bullet in his head. Majd has been hospitalized, but that didn't stop him from doing what he loves to do the most.
"I posed no threat to Israeli forces," Majd said. "I was only standing, looking at our occupied homeland and imagining that I was painting the trees over there."
I go to every the protests every Friday and Monday and participate with my family and friends, calling for our basic right to live a decent life," Majd added.
Majd is well-known among his colleagues and relatives for his inspiring art. He has participated in several local exhibitions inside the Gaza Strip.
Video: Murder in Gaza
"My wish is travel across the world and participate in international exhibitions," he said.
The young artist painted a picture of Razan Al-Najjar, the iconic Palestinian medic shot dead by Israeli gunfire while treating the injured in the Great Return March. He also painted several pictures of Palestinian leaders and martyrs.
Source: Just World Educational
His grandfather discovered his talent when he was only five years old.
"Living under occupation and siege, imposed since I was born, inspired me and affected my paintings," Majd said.
Since March 30, Palestinians have protested peacefully, every Friday, at the separation fence east and north of the Gaza Strip to break the blockade Israel has imposed on Gaza since 2006, and call for their right to return to their occupied homeland.
The also protest the naval blockade by demonstrating near the maritime fence every Monday.
According to Ministry of Health spokesperson Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, around 219 Palestinians have been killed and over 20,000 injured with live ammunition.
Majd is not the only child shot during the Great Return March. Many others had their legs amputated. 12-year-old Abdur Rahman Nofal is an example. He lost his leg when an Israeli sniper shot him with a live bullet. It's been nine months, and Palestinians insist on continuing their peaceful marches until the Israeli blockade is lifted and the people of Gaza can live like the rest of the world.
Wafa Aludaini, a Gaza-based activist and journalist, is the manager of the 16th October Group.
The original source of this article is Just World Educational
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Migrant Children At Risk – New Study Shows Shocking Statistics — Rebel Voice
Posted on December 8, 2018 by Zara Ali
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For the Bony Bodies of Yemeni Children… You'd Never Become Poor by Giving!
Zeinab Daher
In Yemen, people get up early in the morning because of war, death and famine…
Although Yemen occupies a large noticeable area on the world map, it can barely go noticed in the hearts and minds of the entire people.
{The example of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah is like a seed [of grain] which grows seven spikes; in each spike is a hundred grains. And Allah multiplies [His reward] for whom He wills} – Holy Quran, Surat al-Baqarah, verse 261
It is not only Save the Children, Islamic Relief and other few charitable organizations that are helping Yemen and its inhabitants. There is a humble association in Lebanon that drew the country's people's attention to the tragedy happening in the forgotten spot of the world.
The Beirut-based Seven Spikes (7 Sanabel) association was founded in 2012.
According to its chief, Ms. Zahra Badreddine, the association tends to serve poor and needy people.
"Since one of our goals is to help those in need, as the Yemen crisis broke out, one volunteer within the association suggested that we help them. We publicized an advertisement to start raising funds for Yemen, and we provided the text with the official phone numbers of the association. People were suspicious in the beginning, even the close ones… they wondered how could we deliver such aid to the blockaded country. But they were also happy that there is side capable of delivering their donations. Money is transferred through special channels to the safe areas, where the amounts are used to buy necessary foods such as rice, sugar, other nutrients, in addition to medicines to the deprived families," she explained.
We have delivered three batches of aid, and now we are fundraising for the fourth one. People donated gold coins during the third batch. And we, as an association, demanded to document the aid delivery in a video to assure donors that the help is destined to its people. And indeed, there was a report that documented the process with a banner raised in the targeted area with a thank you message to the association, Badreddine told al-Ahed News.
"Many people thanked us for opening them a door to help. They said that they are feeling the pain and suffering but don't know how to help."
She further elaborated that
"Due to the blockade, we couldn't deliver food from here, we just send the money there and they take charge of buying food to those in need. An amount of $7000 helped feed 180 families."
"We stressed that the donations target the most needy areas; those who are starving," Badreddine concluded.
She closed her words by urging other associations and campaigns to open their hands and make every effort to help the Yemeni people.
And for those wishing to give a helping hand, the (7 Sanabel) association's hotlines are as follows:
It is worth mentioning that the aid group restricted gathering the donations to its representatives, and for those found outside the capital city or even outside the country, the group is open to receive them via Online Money Transfer service [OMT].
Hereby, it is an invitation for all schools, universities and any other sides to take the initiative in solidarity Yemen.
Although the association's capabilities only cover small areas, its people in charge harbor hopes that their initiative help widen the scale of aid given to the starving people, and lift the suffering there are struggling to end in the face of the years-long brutal war imposed on them.
In this respect, the latest UNICEF estimates reported that the total people in need are 22.2 million, 11.3 million of them are children.
In further details, the UN agency warned that Yemen has become one of the world's largest and most complex humanitarian crises. Almost 80 per cent of the population is in dire need of humanitarian assistance. The war has led to the internal displacement of 2 million people, left over 1 million public sector workers without pay for two years, and undermined access to ports and airports, obstructing essential humanitarian and commercial deliveries.
The crisis has led to many problems among the following:
Growing food insecurity, poor water and sanitation, and the spread of preventable diseases threaten millions more. The caseload of outbreaks of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD)/cholera has reached over one million. The strain on an already weakened health system has been further compounded by the diphtheria outbreak in early 2018, with over 2,200 cases, so far
In addition, 16 million people lack access to safe water
Children are the primary victims: more than 6,000 have been verified as killed or maimed since the conflict began
Almost 394,000 children under 5 currently suffer from severe acute malnutrition [SAM] and require treatment
The damage and closure of schools and health facilities threaten children's access to education and health services
Although the bony faces of Yemeni children can say it all, people should notice that famine is not caused by a shortage of food, it is rather caused by a shortage of sympathy and giving, and you cannot feel the hell they are suffering from unless you are in their shoes.
But if you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. You would never become poor by giving a small amount of the entire blessings you enjoy.
And always remember that we can't help everyone, but for sure everyone can help someone.
So, this platform is meant to open your eyes to the fact that any one of you can give a helping hand. Borders are not a barrier. When you want' to make something happen, then you'll definitely find a way to do.
Source: Al-Ahed News
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The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia's War on Yemen
Posted on November 2, 2018 by martyrashrakat
Declan Walsh
Chest heaving and eyes fluttering, the 3-year-old boy lay silently on a hospital bed in the highland town of Hajjah, a bag of bones fighting for breath.
His father, Ali al-Hajaji, stood anxiously over him. Mr. Hajaji had already lost one son three weeks earlier to the epidemic of hunger sweeping across Yemen. Now he feared that a second was slipping away.
It wasn't for a lack of food in the area: The stores outside the hospital gate were filled with goods and the markets were bustling. But Mr. Hajaji couldn't afford any of it because prices were rising too fast.
"I can barely buy a piece of stale bread," he said. "That's why my children are dying before my eyes."
The devastating war in Yemen has gotten more attention recently as outrage over the killing of a Saudi dissident in Istanbul has turned a spotlight on Saudi actions elsewhere. The harshest criticism of the Saudi-led war has focused on the airstrikes that have killed thousands of civilians at weddings, funerals and on school buses, aided by American-supplied bombs and intelligence.
But aid experts and United Nations officials say a more insidious form of warfare is also being waged in Yemen, an economic war that is exacting a far greater toll on civilians and now risks tipping the country into a famine of catastrophic proportions.
Under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi-led coalition and its Yemeni allies have imposed a raft of punitive economic measures aimed at undercutting the Ansarullah revolutionaries. But these actions — including periodic blockades, stringent import restrictions and withholding the salaries of about a million civil servants — have landed on the backs of civilians, laying the economy to waste and driving millions deeper into poverty.
Those measures have inflicted a slow-burn toll: infrastructure destroyed, jobs lost, a weakening currency and soaring prices. But in recent weeks the economic collapse has gathered pace at alarming speed, causing top United Nations officials to revise their predictions of famine.
"There is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great, big famine engulfing Yemen," Mark Lowcock, the undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council on Tuesday. Eight million Yemenis already depend on emergency food aid to survive, he said, a figure that could soon rise to 14 million, or half Yemen's population.
"People think famine is just a lack of food," said Alex de Waal, author of "Mass Starvation" which analyzes recent man-made famines. "But in Yemen it's about a war on the economy."
The signs are everywhere, cutting across boundaries of class, tribe and region. Unpaid university professors issue desperate appeals for help on social media. Doctors and teachers are forced to sell their gold, land or cars to feed their families. On the streets of the capital, Sana, an elderly woman begs for alms with a loudspeaker.
"Help me," the woman, Zahra Bajali, calls out. "I have a sick husband. I have a house for rent. Help."
And in the hushed hunger wards, ailing infants hover between life and death. Of nearly two million malnourished children in Yemen, 400,000 are considered critically ill — a figure projected to rise by one quarter in the coming months.
"We are being crushed," said Dr. Mekkia Mahdi at the health clinic in Aslam, an impoverished northwestern town that has been swamped with refugees fleeing the fighting in Hudaydah, an embattled port city 90 miles to the south.
Flitting between the beds at her spartan clinic, she cajoled mothers, dispensed orders to medics and spoon-fed milk to sickly infants. For some it was too late: the night before, an 11-month old boy had died. He weighed five and a half pounds.
Looking around her, Dr. Mahdi could not fathom the Western obsession with the Saudi killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
"We're surprised the Khashoggi case is getting so much attention while millions of Yemeni children are suffering," she said. "Nobody gives a damn about them."
She tugged on the flaccid skin of a drowsy 7-year-old girl with stick-like arms. "Look," she said. "No meat. Only bones."
The embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington did not respond to questions about the country's policies in Yemen. But Saudi officials have defended their actions, citing rockets fired across their border by the Ansarullah…
The Saudis point out that they, along with the United Arab Emirates, are among the most "generous donors" to Yemen's humanitarian relief effort. Last spring, the two allies pledged $1 billion in aid to Yemen. In January, Saudi Arabia deposited $2 billion in Yemen's central bank to prop up its currency.
But those efforts have been overshadowed by the coalition's attacks on Yemen's economy, including the denial of salaries to civil servants, a partial blockade that has driven up food prices, and the printing of vast amounts of bank notes, which caused the currency to plunge.
And the offensive to capture Hudaydah, which started in June, has endangered the main lifeline for imports to northern Yemen, displaced 570,000 people and edged many more closer to starvation.
A famine here, Mr. Lowcock warned, would be "much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives."
When Ali Hajaji's son fell ill with diarrhea and vomiting, the desperate father turned to extreme measures. Following the advice of village elders, he pushed the red-hot tip of a burning stick into Shaher's chest, a folk remedy to drain the "black blood" from his son.
"People said burn him in the body and it will be OK," Mr. Hajaji said. "When you have no money, and your son is sick, you'll believe anything."
The burns were a mark of the rudimentary nature of life in Juberia, a cluster of mud-walled houses perched on a rocky ridge. To reach it, you cross a landscape of sandy pastures, camels and beehives, strewn with giant, rust-colored boulders, where women in black cloaks and yellow straw boaters toil in the fields.
In the past, the men of the village worked as migrant laborers in Saudi Arabia, whose border is 80 miles away. They were often treated with disdain by their wealthy Saudi employers but they earned a wage. Mr. Hajaji worked on a suburban construction site in Mecca, the holy city visited by millions of Muslim pilgrims every year.
When the war broke out in 2015, the border closed.
The fighting never reached Juberia, but it still took a toll there.
Last year a young woman died of cholera, part of an epidemic that infected 1.1 million Yemenis. In April, a coalition airstrike hit a wedding party in the district, killing 33 people, including the bride. A local boy who went to fight for the Houthis was killed in an airstrike.
But for Mr. Hajaji, who had five sons under age 7, the deadliest blow was economic.
He watched in dismay as the riyal lost half its value in the past year, causing prices to soar. Suddenly, groceries cost twice as much as they had before the war. Other villagers sold their assets, such as camels or land, to get money for food.
But Mr. Hajaji, whose family lived in a one-room, mud-walled hut, had nothing to sell.
At first he relied on the generosity of neighbors. Then he pared back the family diet, until it consisted only of bread, tea and halas, a vine leaf that had always been a source of food but now occupied a central place in every meal.
Soon his first son to fall ill, Shaadi, was vomiting and had diarrhea, classic symptoms of malnutrition. Mr. Hajaji wanted to take the ailing 4-year-old to the hospital, but that was out of the question: fuel prices had risen by 50 percent over the previous year.
One morning in late September, Mr. Hajaji walked into his house to find Shaadi silent and immobile, with a yellow tinge to his skin. "I knew he was gone," he said. He kissed his son on the forehead, bundled him up in his arms, and walked along a winding hill path to the village mosque.
That evening, after prayers, the village gathered to bury Shaadi. His grave, marked by a single broken rock, stood under a grove of Sidr trees that, in better times, were famous for their honey.
Shaadi was the first in the village to die from hunger.
A few weeks later, when Shaher took ill, Mr. Hajaji was determined to do something. When burning didn't work, he carried his son down the stony path to a health clinic, which was ill-equipped for the task. Half of Yemen's health facilities are closed because of the war.
So his family borrowed $16 for the journey to the hospital in Hajjah.
"All the big countries say they are fighting each other in Yemen," Mr. Hajaji said. "But it feels to us like they are fighting the poor people."
Yemen's economic crisis was not some unfortunate but unavoidable side effect of the fighting…
At the Sabeen hospital in Sana, Dr. Huda Rajumi treats the country's most severely malnourished children. But her own family is suffering, too, as she falls out of Yemen's vanishing middle class.
In the past year, she has received only a single month's salary. Her husband, a retired soldier, is no longer getting his pension, and Dr. Rajumi has started to skimp on everyday pleasures, like fruit, meat and taxi rides, to make ends meet.
"We get by because people help each other out," she said. "But it's getting hard."
Economic warfare takes other forms, too. In a recent paper, Martha Mundy, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, analyzed coalition airstrikes in Yemen, finding that their attacks on bridges, factories, fishing boats and even fields suggested that they aimed to destroy food production and distribution in Ansarullah-controlled areas.
Saudi Arabia's tight control over all air and sea movements into northern Yemen has effectively made the area a prison for those who live there. In September, the World Health Organization brokered the establishment of a humanitarian air bridge to allow the sickest Yemenis — cancer patients and others with life-threatening conditions — to fly to Egypt.
Among those on the waiting list is Maimoona Naji, a 16-year-old girl with a melon-size tumor on her left leg. At a hostel in Sana, her father, Ali Naji, said they had obtained visas and money to travel to India for emergency treatment. Their hopes soared in September when his daughter was told she would be on the first plane out of Sana once the airlift started.
But the agreement has stalled, blocked by the Yemeni government, according to the senior Western official. Maimoona and dozens of other patients have been left stranded, the clock ticking on their illnesses.
"First they told us 'next week, next week,'" said Mr. Naji, shuffling through reams of documents as tears welled up in his eyes. "Then they said no. Where is the humanity in that? What did we do to deserve this?"
Only two famines have been officially declared by the United Nations in the past 20 years, in Somalia and South Sudan. A United Nations-led assessment due in mid-November will determine how close Yemen is to becoming the third.
To stave it off, aid workers are not appealing for shipments of relief aid but for urgent measures to rescue the battered economy.
"This is an income famine," said Lise Grande, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen. "The key to stopping it is to ensure that people have enough money to buy what they need to survive."
The priority should be to stabilize the falling currency, she said, and to ensure that traders and shipping companies can import the food that Yemenis need.
Above all, she added, "the fighting has to stop."
One hope for Yemenis is that the international fallout from the death of the Saudi dissident, Jamal Khashoggi, which has damaged Prince Mohammed's international standing, might force him to relent in his unyielding prosecution of the war.
Peter Salisbury, a Yemen specialist at Chatham House, said that was unlikely.
"I think the Saudis have learned what they can get away with in Yemen — that western tolerance for pretty bad behavior is quite high," he said. "If the Khashoggi murder tells us anything, it's just how reluctant people are to rein the Saudis in."
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Murdering a Generation: One Million More Children at Risk from Famine in Yemen
Local Editor
More than five million children are at risk of famine in Yemen as the ongoing war causes food and fuel prices to soar across the country, charity Save the Children has warned.
Disruption to supplies coming through the embattled Red Sea port of Hodeida could "cause starvation on an unprecedented scale", the British-based NGO said in a new report.
Save the Children said an extra one million children now risk falling into famine as prices of food and transportation rise, bringing the total to 5.2 million.
Any type of closure at the port "would put the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in immediate danger while pushing millions more into famine", it added.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International, said: "Millions of children don't know when or if their next meal will come. In one hospital I visited in north Yemen, the babies were too weak to cry, their bodies exhausted by hunger.
"This war risks killing an entire generation of Yemen's children who face multiple threats, from bombs to hunger to preventable diseases like cholera," she added.
The United Nations has warned that any major fighting in Hodeida could halt food distributions to eight million Yemenis dependent on them for survival.
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'Save the Children' Warns 5 Million Children at Risk of Famine in Yemen
British charity 'Save the Children' has warned that 5 million children are at risk of famine in Yemen as the Saudi-led coalition continues its devastating war on the impoverished country.
On Tuesday, the coalition launched a campaign to control Yemen's port of Hodeidah, according to state media in the United Arab Emirates, a partner in the coalition.
'Save the Children' has said that damage to the port or its temporary closure would increase food and fuel costs, putting 1 million more children at risk of famine.
'Save the Children' International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the "nutrition crisis… has serious implications" for the country's young.
"Millions of children don't know when or if their next meal will come. In one hospital I visited in north Yemen, the babies were too weak to cry, their bodies exhausted by hunger. This could be any hospital in Yemen," Thorning-Schmidt said.
"What happens in Hodeidah has a direct impact on children and families right across Yemen. Even the smallest disruption to food, fuel and aid supplies through its vital port could mean death for hundreds of thousands of malnourished children unable to get the food they need to stay alive," she said.
'Vital lifeline'
The port is a "vital lifeline" for goods and aid for 80% of the country's population, the organization estimates.
"Even the smallest disruption to food, fuel and aid supplies through its vital port could mean death for hundreds of thousands of malnourished children unable to get the food they need to stay alive," said Tamer Kirolos, 'Save the Children's' country director for Yemen.
"It could drive up the price of fuel — and as a result transport — to such an extent that families can't even afford to take their sick children to hospital."
The United Nations has said an assault on the port city could, in the worst scenario, could kill up to 250,000 people. Around 70% of humanitarian aid passes through the Red Sea port.
The military offensive in the province started in June but fighting stalled, especially in Hodeidah, as the UN tried to bring warring parties to the negotiating table.
The latest attempt was in Geneva earlier this month but the Houthis didn't travel as all sides blamed each other for obstructing the peace talks.
'I could see her bones'
'Save the Children' provided testimony from Yemenis struggling to provide for their families.
A woman identified by the pseudonym Manal said that her infant daughter turned skeletal after she suffered from malnutrition.
"When Suha was six months she became sick," she told Save the Children, which also changed the name of her daughter.
"I could see her bones; I could not do anything for her. I had no money for transportation. I had to borrow some money to take Suha to the hospital far away from our village," she said. "Most of the time we eat two meals a day. In the morning we eat bread with tea and for lunch it's potatoes and tomatoes. Usually, I don't eat. I keep it for my children."
Epidemic looming
Famine is just one humanitarian crisis facing the country's beleaguered civilians. Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the war-ravaged country is teetering on the brink of a third cholera epidemic.
Cases are increasing near the capital, Sanaa, and Hodeidah, where the recent Saudi-led assault has hindered WHO's efforts to prevent the disease.
"We've had two major waves of cholera epidemics in recent years, and unfortunately the trend data that we've seen in the last days to weeks suggests that we may be on the cusp of the third major wave of cholera epidemics in Yemen," Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told a UN briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
More than 1.1 million suspected cholera cases have been recorded in Yemen since April 2017, according to the latest WHO figures, with more than 2,300 associated deaths.
Children killed in airstrikes
The Saudi-led coalition has also been involved in killing civilians, some of them children, including in a devastating attack on a school bus in August.
The bomb used in that attack was a 500-pound (227 kilogram) laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin, sold as part of a US State Department-sanctioned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, munitions experts told CNN.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition, in a bid to restore power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
However, the allied forces of the Yemeni army and popular committees established by Ansarullah revolutionaries have been heroically confronting the aggression with all means, inflicting huge losses upon Saudi-led forces.
The Saudi-led coalition – which also includes UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait – has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country's ports and airports as a part of the aggression.
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Starving Yemenis Forced To Eat Vine Leaves to Stay Alive
Posted on September 15, 2018 by michaellee2009
In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. International aid agencies have been caught off guard by the extent of the suffering there as parents and children waste away.The main health center in Aslam district was flooded with dozens of emaciated children during a recent visit by the Associated Press.
Excruciatingly thin toddlers, eyes bulging, sat in a plastic washtub used in a make-shift scale as nurses weighed them one by one. Their papery skin was stretched tight over pencil-like limbs and knobby knees. Nurses measured their forearms, just a few centimeters in diameter, marking the worst stages of malnutrition.
At least 20 children are known to have died of starvation already this year, more than three years into the country's ruinous civil war, in the province that includes the district.
The real number is likely far higher, since few families report their children's deaths when they die at home, officials say. In one nearby village, a 7-month-old girl, Zahra, cries and reaches with her bony arms for her mother to feed her. Her mother is undernourished herself and is often unable to breastfeed Zahra.
She can't afford formula for her baby. "Since the day she was born, I have not had the money to buy her milk or buy her medicine," the mother said. Zahra was recently treated at the heath center. Now at home, she's dwindling away again.
With no money, her parents can't afford to hire a car or motorbike take her back to the clinic. If they don't, Zahra will die, said Mekkiya Mahdi, the health center chief.
"We are in the 21st century, but this is what the war did to us," Mahdi said. After she tours villages and sees everyone living off the leaf paste, "I go home and I can't put food in my mouth."
The worsening hunger in Aslam is a sign of the gaps in an international aid system that is already overwhelmed and under pressure from local authorities. Yet outside aid is the only thing standing between Yemen's people and widespread death from starvation.
The conditions in the district may also be an indication that the warnings humanitarian officials have sounded for months are coming true: In the face of unending war, hunger's spread is outstripping efforts to keep people alive.
When AP approached U.N. agencies with questions about the situation in Aslam, they expressed alarm and surprise. In response to the AP's questions, international and local aid groups launched an investigation into why food wasn't getting to the families that need it the most, a top relief official said.
As a response in the meantime, the official said, relief agencies are sending over 10,000 food baskets to the district, and UNICEF Resident Representative Dr. Meritxell Relano said the organization is increasing its mobile teams in the district from three to four and providing transportation to health facilities.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of issues involved in operating in the war-ravaged country.
In first six months of this year, Al-Hajjah province, where Aslam is located, recorded 17,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition, higher than in any full year on record, said Walid al-Shamshan, head of the Health Ministry's nutrition section in the province.
Malnourished children who were previously treated return to clinics in even worse condition – if they make it back at all.
"Deaths happen in remote villages where people can't reach the health units," Shamshan said.
"It's a steady deterioration and it's scary," he said.
Yemen's civil war has wrecked the impoverished country's already fragile ability to feed its population.
The war pits Iran-backed rebels known as Houthis, who hold the north, against an Arab coalition, armed and backed by the United States. The coalition has sought to bomb the rebels into submission with an air campaign in support of Yemeni government forces.
Around 2.9 million women and children are acutely malnourished; another 400,000 children are fighting for their lives only a step away from starvation.
The number of people nationwide who would starve if they didn't receive aid grew by a quarter over the past year, now standing at 8.4 million of Yemen's 29 million people, according to U.N. figures. That number is likely to soon jump by another 3.5 million because the currency is losing value, leaving growing numbers of people unable to afford food, the U.N. warned this month.
Aslam is one of the poorest districts in the country, with hundreds of small villages, some isolated in the high mountains in the Houthi heartland. Its population of 75,000 to 106,000 includes both local residents and accelerating numbers of displaced people who fled fighting elsewhere. In terms of hunger, Aslam isn't alone.
Health officials say that other districts closer to war zones may not be getting food aid at all. But Aslam did see one of the province's highest jumps in the number of reported children suffering from severe acute malnutrition: From 384 cases being treated in January, an additional 1,319 more came in over the next six months, according to local health records. That comes to around 15 percent of the district's children.
"Aslam is just another picture of Somalia," said Saleh al-Faqih, a worker in a mobile Health Ministry clinic, comparing it to the Horn of Africa nation often hit by famines.
Aslam's main health center has no pediatricians, no electricity, no oxygen cylinders. At night, medics use flashlights because there is no fuel for generators. Fathers beg in the nearby market for 300 riyals – around 50 U.S. cents – to buy a diaper for their child going into the center.
Before the war, the center would see one or two malnourished children a month. In August alone, it received 99 cases, nearly half of them in the most severe stages, the center's nutrition chief Khaled Hassan said. Even after treatment, children often deteriorate once again when they go home to villages with no food and contaminated water.
There appeared to be multiple reasons why aid was not reaching some of the starving, beyond the rapid increase in those in need.
The lion's share of assistance goes to displaced people, while only 20 percent goes to the local community, said Azma Ali, a worker with the World Food Program. Agencies' criteria give priority for help to the displaced and households without a breadwinner, even as local residents also struggle to find food.
Under heavy pressure from Houthi authorities, international agencies like WFP and UNICEF and their Yemeni partners are required to use lists of needy provided by local officials.
Critics accuse those officials of favoritism. That especially works against the local population in Aslam, where many belong to the "Muhammasheen," Arabic for the "Marginalized," a community of darker-skinned Yemenis shunned by the rest of society and left to work as garbage collectors, menial laborers or beggars.
The Marginalized have no weight with officials to ensure aid goes their way. One humanitarian coordinator in Al-Hajjah said local Houthi authorities distribute aid unfairly.
"The powerful hinder the work of the humanitarian agencies and deprive of aid those people who are in most need," he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of problems with the authorities.
Some residents said local officials demand small bribes to get on food lists – the equivalent of around 15 U.S. cents, but still too much for many people here. U.N. agencies have insufficient capacity to oversee many distribution centers.
Food deliveries that do make it to Aslam come irregularly or are too small or are missing items, residents and aid workers said.
People in Aslam have become increasingly reliant on leaves from the local vine, known in Yemeni Arabic as "halas" or in English as Arabian Wax Leaf. It used to be eaten only occasionally but now it's all many residents eat for every meal.
Mothers spend hours picking the leaves, then washing and boiling them. Too much of it causes diarrhea. The water it's washed in – well water often tainted with sewage – is also a constant cause of diarrhea.
In the village of al-Mashrada, Zahra's mother feeds her whole family with halas mush. She has seven other children, including two boys with mental disorders who are kept chained inside their shack so they don't wander away.
The children's father roams the town, looking for food.
Zahra's mother said only "the big heads" – the better-off and well-connected – end up with international aid. "We only have God. We are poor and we have nothing."
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SANCTIONS ON SYRIA: THE CRIMINAL, SILENT, KILLER
In 2016, I visited the centre depicted in the linked RT news report on the effect of western sanctions on children with cancer. At the time, the director told me they were trying to help 240 children, were underfunded and in debt, the people working there were volunteers, and (at that time) were facing constant power outages, as was the norm in Aleppo due to terrorists outside of Aleppo controlling the power plant.
Formerly, cancer patients in the north of Syria had excellent treatment at the Kindi Hospital, a massive complex that was respected throughout the region. It was truck-bombed by terrorists in late 2013, completely destroyed. In November 2016, I met and interviewed the former director of Kindi, Dr. Ibrahim Hadid. He emphasized how he tried to get the attention of international organizations both when the hospital was initially occupied by terrorists, and later when it was destroyed. He was met with silence.
Yet another obstacle for cancer patients needing treatment was the fact that for years, the road out of Aleppo would be cut by terrorists, meaning the 1.5 million or more civilians within greater Aleppo were under siege. Aleppo residents told me there were times where the siege lasted for weeks, and more.
The director of this centre rightly insisted there should not be sanctions on medicine. This is criminal. As noted in the RT report, 30 children had died of cancer in that area, due to western sanctions, according to the director.
I previously wrote about the issue of these criminal western sanctions on Syria, quoting Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, who I interviewed in December 2015. I noted:
In terms of how to provide actual relief to the Syrian people, Dr. Shaaban stated:
"The first thing the West should do in this battle against terrorism is to lift the sanctions from the Syrian people. The sanctions are helping terrorists against the Syrian people, who are suffering doubly from the terrorists and from Western measures against the Syrian people."
Stephen Gowans recently wrote about the US government's long-time plans to topple the Syrian government, sanctions being one part of the plot.
"Documents prepared by US Congress researchers as early as 2005 revealed that the US government was actively weighing regime change in Syria. …As an alternative to direct military intervention to topple the Syrian government, the United States chose to pressure Damascus through sanctions and support for the internal Syrian opposition."
The advocacy website, End The Sanctions on Syria, notes: "Similar sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s were shown to have caused the deaths of more than half a million Iraqi children."
The site went on to report that (as of May 2014), "701 of 1,921 Syrian health centres have been 'completely gutted' by the terrorist attacks. Yet rehabilitation of these centres is retarded by the US-EU sanctions, which have already left 'a deep mark on the healthcare system'… including by blocking access to medicines, medical equipment, transport and communications."
A May 27, 2015 article in The Lancet reports: "The cost of basic food items has risen six-fold since 2010, although it varies regionally. With the exception of drugs for cancer and diabetes, Syria was 95 percent self-sufficient in terms of drug production before the war. This has virtually collapsed as have many hospitals and primary health-care centres.
Economic sanctions have not removed the President: …only civilians are in the line of fire, attested to by the dire state of household and macro-economies. Sanctions are among the biggest causes of suffering for the people of Syria."
Recall that last April, when the US and allies illegally bombed Syria on false pretext of Syria having used a chemical or nerve agent in Douma (didn't happen), one of the targets was a facility in densely-inhabited Damascus which was involved in the local production of cancer treatment components.
As I wrote:
Regarding the actual nature of the buildings bombed, Syrian media, SANA, describes the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries Research Institute as "centered on preparing the chemical compositions for cancer drugs." The destruction of this institute is particularly bitter, as, under the criminal western sanctions, cancer medicines sales to Syria are prohibited.
Interviews with one of its employees, Said Said, corroborate SANA's description of the facility making cancer treatment and other medicinal components. One article includesSaid's logical point: "If there were chemical weapons, we would not be able to stand here. I've been here since 5:30 am in full health – I'm not coughing."
Of the facility, the same SANA article noted that its labs had been visited by the OPCW, which issued two reports negating claims of any chemical weapons activities. This is a point Syria's Ambassador al-Ja'afari raised in the April 14 UN Security Council meeting, noting that the OPCW "handed to Syria an official document which confirmed that the Barzeh centre was not used for any type of chemical activity" that would be in contravention to Syria's obligations regarding the OPCW.
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