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2015-07-05 Arabia
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Saudi-US Air Strikes Kills 23 Yemenis As Houthis Discuss Humanitarian Pause
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[ALMANAR.LB] A Saudi-led air strike on southern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
killed 23 people early on Saturday in Saqayn region, near Saada province.
The warplanes of the Saudi-US aggression also bombed the capital Sanaa, targeting the Yemeni air defense headquarters, witnesses said.
In separate development, Ansarullah group said on Saturday that a pause in fighting to last until the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan was under discussion with the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid.
Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
front man Mohammed Abdul Salam said in a post on his Facebook page he had met UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Friday to discuss the matter.
The U.N. envoy is also holding discussions with the pro-Hadi government in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to push for a pause, sources said.
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
said on Friday it supported UN efforts to secure a lasting, predictable and sustainable humanitarian ceasefire and demanded that Saudi-led forces ease restrictions on entry of ships to Yemeni ports.
More than 2,800 people have been killed since the Saudi-US military campaign began on March 26. The United Nations says more than 21 million people, over 80 percent of the population, are now in need of some form of humanitarian aid.
The UN on Wednesday designated the war in Yemen as a Level 3 humanitarian crisis, its most severe category.
Nationwide fuel shortages have spread disease and suffering in arid Yemen, where access to water usually depends on fuel-powered pumps and more than 20 million people, 80 percent of the population, needs some form of aid, according to the United Nations. 
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