(HRW) – The Saudi-led coalition’s investigations into alleged war crimes in Yemen have lacked credibility and failed to provide redress to civilian victims, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 90-page report, “Hiding Behind the Coalition: Failure to Credibly Investigate and Provide Redress for Unlawful Attacks in Yemen,” analyzes the work of the coalition’s investigative body, […]
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(The Independent) -The scrubby hospital room in a former al-Qaeda stronghold in Yemen is filled by the tortured cries of a baby whose wizened face is drawn taught across his skull. Mohamed is nearly three months old, but looks simultaneously like a premature newborn and a grandfather. Hunger has ravaged his tiny frame and given him a bulbous […]
(Norwegian Refugee Council) – Sana’a International Airport has been hit with an average of one bomb every fortnight, in the two years since it has been shut to all commercial traffic. Restrictions imposed on Yemen’s airspace by the Saudi-led coalition led to the official closure of Sana’a International Airport to commercial flights on 9 August […]
(UN News) – Early reports suggest multiple deaths and injuries after Yemen’s largest hospital, Al Thawra, was hit on Thursday, said Dr. Peter Salama, who is in charge of Emergency Preparedness and Response at the World Health Organization. “We’re particularly saddened at WHO by the attack on one of the major hospitals in the country yesterday, Al Thawra in […]
(Save the Children) – At least one explosion went off Thursday evening in the vicinity of the main hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen, where Save the Children runs a diphtheria treatment center. Save the Children staff, some of whom were near the area when the blasts occurred, reported chaos and captured videos of smoke rising up from […]
(Al Jazeera) – More than 121,000 people have recently fled Yemen‘s port city of Hodeidah due to fierce attacks by Saudi-led coalition forces, according to a new UN report. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a report on Wednesday reporting that humanitarian partners have verified more than 17,350 households (over 121,000 people) have been displaced since […]
(Al Jazeera) – The United Nations decried on Tuesday the impact that the war in Yemen has had on children where about 2,200 minors have been killed in instances where they were being forced to fight or died of preventable diseases. “Since 2015, more than half of health facilities have stopped working, and 1,500 schools have been damaged due to […]
(Human Rights Watch) – Today, like many days, my cell phone was flooded with photos of children recently killed in Yemen by Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes. But also today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres released his report only gently censuring the coalition for the Yemeni children it had killed and maimed in 2017. Every year, the secretary-general […]
(The Washington Post) – The boy was motionless on an operating table, his life slowly fading away. His eyes were closed, his face was half-covered by an oxygen mask, and an IV was connected to his limp right arm. His father was standing next to him, refusing to give up. He waved at the flies […]
(Amnesty International) – Millions of lives are at risk because the entry of essential goods such as food, fuel and medical supplies into war-torn Yemen is being restricted by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition and their distribution then delayed by the country’s Huthi de facto authorities, Amnesty International warned in a new report released today. The report, Stranglehold, […]
