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2021-10-18 Arabia
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Yemen’s Houthis accused of committing ‘genocide’ with blockade on key district
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[IsraelTimes] Cutting off humanitarian aid and halting movement of its 37,000 people, rebels aim to take power in the energy-rich city of Marib and complete their control of the country’s north.
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...
’s rebels continued their weeks-long blockade of a district in the central province of Marib, cutting off humanitarian aid and halting movement of its 37,000 people, officials and UN aid workers said Sunday.
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The Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels have advanced in the district of Abdiya south of the city of Marib in recent weeks, forcing troops of the internationally recognized government to retreat, military officials from both sides said.
The Houthis "are committing genocide" in Abdiya, preventing food, medicine, and other basic needs from reaching the district, said Marib provincial governor Sheikh Sultan al-Aradah.
The attack on Abdiya is part of the Houthis’ offensive to capture the government-held city of Marib, which the rebels have been trying to seize for years. They intensified their offensive in February, apparently emboldened by a decision by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan...
’s administration to end support to the Saudi-led coalition. However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
they have faced stiff resistance from government and tribal forces aided by the coalition.
Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war since 2014, when the Houthis captured the capital, Sanaa, and forced President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his internationally recognized government to flee to the south, and then later to Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
. A Saudi-led coalition entered the war the next year to try to restore the government to power. The war has tanked largely into a stalemate and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Thousands of fighters, mostly Houthis, have been killed in festivities and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s around the city of Marib. The Houthis usually attack with waves of fighters charging government lines, thereby becoming easy targets in the open desert for coalition warplanes.
Children recruited by the Houthis are among those killed in the fighting. Placards with photos of child soldiers are commonplace on the streets in rebel-held areas, including the capital, Sanaa.
Dozens of civilians, including women and kiddies as young as 2 years old, have also been killed in Houthi attacks on Marib city, using ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones.
The rebels want to wrestle the energy-rich Marib from the government to complete their control of Yemen’s north, a move that would strengthen their position in any future negotiations to end the devastating conflict. They have so far defied repeated international calls for a nationwide cease-fire and engagement in negotiations to settle the conflict.
Two UN aid workers said the Houthis have blocked humanitarian aid to the district and restricted people’s movement there for around three weeks. They said several thousand people have been displaced amid indiscriminate shelling and missile attacks on residential buildings and infrastructure in Abdiya.
The blockade also prevented the transfer of maimed and other patients out of the district, the workers said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because they were not authorized to brief media.
On Friday, a ballistic missile hit the Ali Abdel-Mughni Hospital, the main health facility in Abdiya that provides urgent medical care to the district’s people, said the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian organization.
The rebels entered the district’s center, but fierce fighting has remained in several areas amid heavy coalition airstrikes, said military officials from both sides, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
The Saudi-led coalition said it launched dozens of airstrikes on the Houthis to stop their advances in the district.
Mohammed Abdel-Salam, the rebels’ chief negotiator and front man, claimed that the rebels were battling forces of Evil linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group. He also claimed that humanitarian corridors were available in Abdiya, "but the UN is not serious in finding humanitarian solutions."
Abdel-Salam did not offer evidence supporting his claim and did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.
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