Car Bomb Hits Yemen Hospital

[Sally]

I thought there was supposed to be some peace there now after an agreement was reached.

Car bomb hits Yemen hospital September 29, 2014 Print Send to Friend [TBODY] [/TBODY] [TBODY] [/TBODY] SANAA: A car bomb exploded at a hospital used as a base by Yemen’s Shiite Huthi movement on Sunday, killing or wounding dozens of people, tribal and local sources said. The attack took place in Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, the sources said. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal told the UN General Assembly on Sunday that the situation in Yemen posed a threat to international security, and said the agreement to form a new government had been wrecked by the Huthis’ failure to give up control of the capital. [TBODY] [/TBODY] Continue reading at: gulftoday.ae Car bomb hits Yemen hospital? [TBODY] [/TBODY]

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[Sunni Man]

Oy vey!! ..

 

[waltky]

Children in Yemen suffer the tolls of war...

Yemen's children starve as war drags on
Jan 2,`17 -- As the first light of dawn trickles in through the hospital window, 19-year-old Mohammed Ali learns that his two-year-old cousin has died of hunger. But he has to remain strong for his little brother Mohannad, who could be next.

He holds his brother's hand as the five-year-old struggles to breathe, his skin stretched tight over tiny ribs. "I have already lost a cousin to malnutrition today, I can't lose my little brother," he says. They are among countless Yemenis who are struggling to feed themselves amid a grinding civil war that has pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of famine. The family lives in a mud hut in northern Yemen, territory controlled by Shiite Houthi rebels, who are at war with government forces and a Saudi-led and U.S.-backed coalition.

The coalition has been waging a fierce air campaign against the rebels since March 2015, trying unsuccessfully to dislodge them from the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country's north. A coalition blockade aimed at preventing the Houthis from re-arming has contributed to a 60-percent spike in food prices, according to an estimate used by international aid groups. During the best of times, many Yemenis struggled to make ends meet. Now they can barely feed themselves. Mohammed's father works seasonal farming jobs that pay only a few dollars a day. Mohammed dropped out of school after the war began and scrapes by on occasional construction and farming work. Before the war, they could afford to eat beef or chicken once a week, but now they are lucky to have some fish with lunch. Their diet mainly consists of bread, rice and tea.

Earlier this month, Mohammed and his brother made the hour-long journey, over a bumpy and unsafe road, to the nearest hospital, in the town of Abs. Mohannad's condition, which began with diarrhea, had been worsening for the past two years, but they couldn't afford treatment. Some 2.2 million children suffer from malnutrition across Yemen, according to the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF. That includes 462,000 who, like Mohannad, are afflicted with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), which makes them especially vulnerable to otherwise preventable illnesses like diarrhea and pneumonia.

UNICEF is supporting the treatment of 215,000 children suffering from SAM and has provided vitamin supplements to millions more, said Rajat Madhok, the agency's spokesman in Yemen. But "this lifesaving work remains hindered by the shortage of funding and limited access to areas caught in the fighting," he said. The war has taken a heavy toll on the country's health facilities. A number of hospitals and clinics have been bombed, while others have had to close their doors because of the fighting. Less than a third of Yemen's 24 million people have access to health facilities, according to UNICEF, which says at least 1,000 Yemeni children die every week from preventable diseases. Mohammed hopes his brother won't be next. "I can see that my brother's condition is worsening day after day," he says. "There's nothing I can do."

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Yemen's would-be model, Aden plagued by bombs, instability
Dec 24,`16 -- On a rocky hill overlooking the Arabian Sea in the city of Aden sits the palace of Yemen's internationally recognized president. It's one of the few safe places in the country for him and his government, protected by troops at the gates, artillery and truck-mounted machine guns in the surrounding mountains and ships at sea.

The rest of the southern city remains unstable. Only a 10 minute drive from the palace, a suicide bomber struck days ago at the Sawlaban military base, killing 52 soldiers. It was the fourth time militants have hit the base in the past six months. The last strike was only about a week earlier. All told, the attacks have killed more than 180 people. The bombings underscore how President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his main backer, the Saudi-led coalition, have failed to bring stability to the southern territories that his government controls in the civil war with Shiite Houthi rebels. Yemen's second largest city and once its commercial hub, Aden was intended to be a model of Hadi's legitimacy.

Instead it has become a sign of Yemen's woes. Multiple armed groups compete for influence, chief among them a force known as the Security Belt, created and funded by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and their allies. Commanded mainly by Muslim ultraconservatives, it has been accused by critics of heavy-handed methods, abusing opponents and resisting Hadi's authority. On Friday, the governor of a neighboring province said fighters from the groups fired on his car as he tried to visit Hadi's palace for prayers. Aden was where Hadi's government made its last stand after the Houthis and allied troops loyal to a former president overran the capital Sanaa in 2014, took over much of the north and stormed south. Hadi was forced to flee the country, and a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched its intervention in March 2015, preventing Aden from falling. By July of that year, coalition-backed southern fighters pushed the rebels out of much of the south.

Soldiers gather the site of a suicide bomb at a base in the southern city of Aden, Yemen. On a rocky hill overlooking the Arabian Sea in the southern city of Aden sits the heavily fortified palace of Yemen’s internationally recognized president. It’s one of the few safe places in the country for him and his government, protected by troops at the gates and artilleries and truck-mounted machine guns in the surrounding mountains while naval forces guard him from the sea.​

Hadi's government hoped the restoration of Aden would mark the beginning of the end for the Houthis. But 18 months later, the rebels still control Sanaa and much of the north, while security remains elusive in the south. Hadi moves back and forth between Aden and the Saudi capital Riyadh, most recently arriving in the Yemeni city in late November. Suicide bombings and assassinations, mostly by al-Qaida and the Islamic State group's local affiliate, regularly target top military and government officials, army recruits and senior Muslim clerics. Aden's governor and security chief were assassinated last year. In October 2015, the then-prime minister and his entire Cabinet came under attack by suicide bombers at a five-star hotel in the heart of the city.

Aden residents have burned tires and blocked roads in protests against fuel shortages, power cuts, delayed salaries and a lack of services. Others hold demonstrations demanding that southern Yemen, which was independent until 1990, secede again. "The general scene is foggy and we live in fear," said Shakeb Rageh, a reporter at Aden's radio station. "The explosions are terrifying people here." Hadi relocated the Central Bank to Aden in September, enabling his government to pay salaries for the first time in nearly four months.

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Yemen War results in Death, Destruction, Cholera, Famine...

Yemen War Brings Multiple Disasters: Death, Destruction, Cholera, Famine
June 28, 2017 — More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate. The economy has been bombed into ruins. Hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: the world's biggest current outbreak of cholera, with more than 200,000 cases.

The south, meanwhile, has seen the growing power of the United Arab Emirates, which is part of a coalition meant to protect the internationally recognized government in the war with Shi'ite rebels while also fighting al-Qaida. But at the same time, the UAE has set up its own security forces, running virtually a state within a state and fueling the south's independence movement. An Associated Press investigation last week documented 18 secret prisons run by the UAE or its allies, where former prisoners said torture was widespread. The UAE denied the allegations and said all security forces were under the authority of President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi. The Emirati role reflects how the Yemen conflict has been regionalized from the start.

Members of the Higher Council for Civilian Community Organization inspect a destroyed funeral hall as they protest against a deadly Saudi-led airstrike six days earlier in Sanaa, Yemen​

With U.S. backing, Saudi Arabia launched its coalition, contending that Iran was behind the rebels, known as Houthis, who overran the north and the capital, Sanaa. The coalition's air bombardment averted the complete fall of the Hadi government and prevented the Houthis from taking over the south. But now both sides are locked in. The north remains in the hands of the Houthis, backed by army units loyal to Hadi's predecessor, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was removed by a 2011 uprising. The south is ostensibly under the authority of Hadi, but he spends most of his time in exile in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Here is a look at the multiple levels on which the war has devastated the country of 26 million, which even before the conflict was the Arab world's poorest nation.

Humanitarian disaster

In May, a senior U.N. humanitarian official declared that Yemen was site of "the world's largest food security crisis." More than 17 million desperately needed food, and nearly 7 million of those were "one step away from famine." Last week came the newest horrible superlative. The World Health Organization said Yemen faced "the worst cholera outbreak in the world." More than 1,400 people, a quarter of them children, have died of cholera the past two months. Those nightmares come on top of other intertwined effects of the war. More than 3 million people have been driven from their homes. More than 10,000 people have been killed. There are major fuel shortages caused by a coalition blockade. Health services have collapsed. One million civil servants have not been paid for months, including 30,000 health workers. The cholera outbreak spread with startling speed after two months of heavy rains in the north, exacerbated by the pileup of garbage in streets — trash collectors are among those who have gone unpaid — and the lack of access to clean water for millions of people.

Yemeni loyalist forces and onlookers gather at the scene of a suicide attack targeting the police chief in the base of the Saudi-backed government in Aden, Yemen​

Around 5,000 new cholera cases are reported daily. Aid officials fear it could pass a quarter-million people by September. The U.N. is sending 1 million doses of vaccines, the largest since Haiti's outbreak in 2010. Dealing with cholera is pulling away resources and food meant to go to battling famine, warned the U.N. humanitarian chief in Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick. Yemen long struggled with malnutrition. But the coalition embargo and the fighting have wrecked distribution systems and tipped the country into near famine. A child under the age of 5 dies every 10 minutes of preventable causes, and 2.2 million babies are acutely malnourished, with almost half a million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, a 63 percent increase since late 2015, according to Stephen O'Brien of the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance.

Devastated north

 

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Doctors should be protected like the Geneva Convention protects wartime medics...

Name, Shame Countries That Don’t Protect Doctors in War, Expert Tells UN
August 17, 2017 - The United Nations should name and shame countries that fail to protect health workers in war zones and audit what steps they take to keep medics safe, an aid expert said on Thursday.

International law bounds all warring parties to respect and protect medical personnel, but the provision is largely disregarded, with hospital and medics often deliberately targeted in conflict areas, aid agencies say. Last year, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for an end to impunity for perpetrators, but little has been done to implement it, said Leonard Rubenstein, head of Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, a network of aid groups. “Since 2016, we have had complete international paralysis,” he told an event in London, blaming the stalemate on divisions between Russia and other members of the Security Council.

The ruins of a hospital in Idlib province in northern Syria are seen in this image provided by Doctors Without Borders​

At least 80 people were killed in attacks on health facilities in 14 countries in the first three months of 2017, according to the World Health Organization. More than half the attacks were in Syria. Rubenstein said impartial investigations and reforming both military training and practice could improve safety for health workers — but nations had to be pushed into adopting them. “The only way to get them to do it is to shame them,” he told a panel at the Overseas Development Institute via video link, ahead of World Humanitarian Day on Aug 19.

In order to do so, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights should issue annual reports highlighting what steps countries have taken to implement resolutions made the year before, Rubenstein said. “It's not the most powerful mechanism that we have — but it is the only one that we (have) really got at the moment, and I think that would go a long way to forcing the states to take the actions that they have committed to do,” he said.

Name, Shame Countries That Don’t Protect Doctors in War, Expert Tells UN

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Medical Charity MSF Reopens Clinic in Afghanistan
July 22, 2017 — Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reopened a small medical clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, their first facility there since the American airstrikes that destroyed a hospital in 2015. “The opening of this clinic is the first step toward providing more medical assistance in Kunduz,” Silvia Dallatomasina, head of programs for MSF in Afghanistan, told Reuters. “And for us it’s an important step.”

Since the air attack by American special forces in 2015, which killed 42 patients, medical staff, and caregivers at the MSF trauma center, the medical aid group has been trying to secure assurances from American and Afghan military officials that their medical facilities would be respected and protected. “We are still finalizing commitments but we believe we were able to reach an agreement,” Dallatomasina said. The new clinic in Kunduz, which is not situated at the site of the destroyed hospital, will only provide outpatient treatment of minor or chronic injuries, she said.

Doctors Without Borders Staff in shock in part of the international medical charity's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that wasn't destroyed by an apparent airstrike​

Patients who need more advanced care including X-rays will still need to go to the government-run regional hospital, which has been overworked amid heavy fighting in the province. “The regional hospital is quite overwhelmed, so we want to try to reduce that burden by treating less serious injuries,” Dallatomasina said. While no final plans have been confirmed, MSF hopes to begin building a new trauma center in Kunduz as early as 2018, although likely on a smaller scale than the previous facility, she said.

Christopher Stokes, the general director of medical charity Doctors Without Borders, stands at the gate of the organization's hospital, after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike, in Kunduz, Afghanistan​

The MSF trauma center was destroyed during a period in 2015 when Taliban militants briefly overran the city. An American military probe concluded that the attack was the result of human error and equipment failure, among other factors. At least sixteen U.S. military personnel were disciplined for their role, but MSF has criticized the lack of independent investigation into the incident.[ While Afghan troops, still backed by U.S. warplanes and special forces, have prevented the Taliban from seizing the city again, fighting has continued. “The security in Kunduz is still quite volatile, and we know that the needs are really dire,” Dallatomasina said.

Medical Charity MSF Reopens Clinic in Afghanistan

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Aid Group Opens Clinic at Afghan Site of Deadly US Airstrike
July 22, 2017 - The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has opened an outpatient clinic in northern Afghanistan.

The new facility in Kunduz province opened almost two years after a U.S. airstrike demolished the group's hospital there, killing more than 40 people, including patients and staff members. "We decided to restart medical activities in Kunduz because the needs are big...," said Silvia Dallatomasina, head of Doctors Without Borders programs in Afghanistan.

Medical personnel treat injured civilians at the MSF hospital in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. MSF announced Saturday that it hopes to reopen the bombed hospital next year.​

Dallatomasina said the organization plans to open a hospital in Kunduz next year and has been seeking assurances from various sides in the conflict in Afghanistan to guarantee the safety of patients when the facility opens. The United Nations human rights chief said the 2015 bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital could be considered a war crime. The U.S. military has called the bombing "a mistake," with then president Barack Obama issuing an apology and promising compensation for the victims.

Aid Group Opens Clinic at Afghan Site of Deadly US Airstrike

 

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Yemen is the world's largest humanitarian crisis...

Yemen is the world's largest humanitarian crisis: UN
Wednesday 6th September, 2017 - The United Nations calls suffering endured by millions of people in Yemen after more than two years of civil war an entirely man-made catastrophe.

The world body reports there have been more than 11,700 civilians killed or injured in Yemen since the Saudi Arabian coalition began air strikes against Houthi rebels in support of the government in March 2015. It blames more than 8,000 of the casualties on the coalition and more than 3,700 on the Houthis. The report says conflict, cholera and severe food shortages have made Yemen the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

The U.N. Human Rights Agency's Chief of Middle East and North Africa, Mohammad Ali Ainsour, says Yemen's 18.8. million people need humanitarian aid and more than 10 million are in acute need of health care."The catastrophe is entirely man made and a direct result of the behavior of the parties to the conflict, including indiscriminate attacks," said Ainsour. 'We have seen attacks on markets, residential areas, hospitals, schools, funeral gatherings and even fishermen and small civilian boats at sea."

The report says civilians may have been directly targeted in some cases. The report documents a wide range of continuing human rights violations and abuses. It expresses concern at the increasing number of arbitrary or illegal detentions and forced disappearances of human rights defenders, religious leaders, journalists, and political opponents.

Ainsour says there are at least 1,700 cases of child recruitment, most by Houthi forces and 20 percent by pro-government forces. "OHCHR (the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) monitors frequently observed children as young as 10, who were armed and uniformed and manning Houthi ... checkpoints," said Ainsour. U.N. Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein is repeating his call for an end to the fighting and for an independent, international investigation to be established. He says it is crucial to hold to account perpetrators of violations and abuse.

Yemen is the worlds largest humanitarian crisis UN

 

[irosie91]

IRAN
da HOOOTHIS are proxys of IRAN----Iran has also INFECTED YEMEN
with HISBULLAH PIGS. Russia is delighted as is ASSAD

 

[irosie91]

Oy vey!! ..

That's what the SUNNI Yemenis are saying. They are under siege by Iranian proxys -----
DA HOOOTIS, The conflict is a continuation of the HATFIELDS / McCOYS
(aka friends of ali vs friends big bad ABU BAGHDADDY
nuskharahallah is giggling

 

[irosie91]

Does Linda Sarsour know?