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हूती विद्रोहियों ने नमाज पढ़ते हुए सैनिकों पर बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल और ड्रोन से हमला किया, 70 की मौत

सना (यमन))। मारिब प्रांत में ईरान: हूती विद्रोहियों ने शनिवार को बैलिस्टिक मिसाइलों और ड्रोन से हमला किया। इसमेंयमन के 70 सैनिक मारे गए। सऊदी अरब के मीडिया ने बताया कि यह हमला उस समय हुआ, जब सैनिक मारिब प्रांत के एक मस्जिद में शाम की नमाज अदा की जा रही थी।

हुती विद्रोहियों के हमले के बाद यमन की राजधानी सना में विद्रोहियों केठिकानों पर सऊदी हमलों ने जवाबी हमला शुरू कर दिया।स SL अरब यमन में ईरान…

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Yemen court sentences President Trump, Saudi king, and Crown prince to death for alleged war crimes BosnatatvOct 8, 2020 A Yemeni court has issued death sentences against ten defendants including President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud for alleged war crimes. The case against the defendants was held in their absence at Houthi-run Specialised Criminal Court in the Yemeni governorate of Saada over the Saudi-led coalition’s attack on a bus full of young boys in Dahyan in the Majz district The Houthi-owned Yemen News Agency (SABA) confirmed that the court issued death sentences to Donald Trump, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and Norton Schwartz for their alleged roles in the attack. Commander of the Saudi Air Force, Turki bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, Yemen's Vice President Ali Mohsen Saleh Al-Ahmar, Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher, Defence Minister Muhammad Al-Maqdishi, and former US Defence Secretary James Norman Mattis were also sentenced to death. The news agency indicated that the defendants are also required to pay a $10 billion fine to families of those killed in the 2019 airstrike. The charges related to an airstrike which reportedly hit a school bus, killing 51 people including 40 children The news agency reported that: “The prosecution has registered its partial appeal to the fifth paragraph of the verdict, regarding the right of those included in the indictment. Thus, the court has not decided on it yet. Private prosecution attorney, Hamdan Shani, joined his appeal to the prosecution’s appeal, while the defence attorney, Abdel Wahab Al-Fadhli, reserved the right to appeal on behalf of the defendants.” #trump2020 #donaldtrump (at USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGF1oL0nvvz/?igshid=10f7z9sb63z1d

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Yemeni forces make gains against Houthi militia in several areas

A Yemeni tribesman from the Popular Resistance Committee, supporting forces loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, raises weapons during clashes with Shiite-Huthi rebels in the country’s third-city of Taez on December 19, 2016.

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Houthi missiles targeting Saudi cities intercepted, destroyed

Yemeni rebel missiles targeting cities in Saudi Arabia have been intercepted, the region's Riyadh-led military coalition said, in the latest cross-border attack by insurgents. The missiles were fired by the Iran-aligned Houthi militant group, the coalition said in a statement released Thursday by the official Saudi Press Agency. "They were launched in a systematic, deliberate manner to target cities and civilians, which is a flagrant defiance of international humanitarian law," coalition spokesman Turki Al Maliki said, according to SPA. "The capital (Sanaa) has become a Houthi militia assembly, installation and launching hub for ballistic missiles that target the kingdom," he added. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying sophisticated weapons to the Houthis, a charge Tehran denies. The coalition intervened in support of the Yemeni government in 2015 when President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled into Saudi exile as the rebels closed in on his last remaining territory in and around Aden. Read the full article

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Air strike kills 26 in Yemen:...

Aden (AFP) – An air strike by a Saudi-led Arab coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said.The aircraft tried to target rebels at a roadblock on the southern outskirts of the Red Sea port of Khokha, but the fighters fled to a market where they were attacked, the sources said.The raid took place at the entrance to the market that sells the mild narcotic leaf qat, which is very popular among Yemeni men.A military source close to Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said that by fleeing to the market, the rebels had used civilians as “human shields”.The rebel… Read Full Story

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Saudi Arabia has intercepted missiles fired towards its cities by Houthis in neighbouring Yemen, the Riyadh-led military coalition said, in the militant group’s latest cross-border attack.

A Houthi spokesman quoted by the Al-Masirah TV said Friday the group had targeted oil installations in the kingdom with 12 Sammad-3 drones, two cruise missiles and a ballistic missile.

The Saudi-led coalition said the projectiles “were launched in a systematic, deliberate manner to target cities and civilians, which is a flagrant defiance of international humanitarian law.”

Yemen’s capital Sanaa “has become a Houthi militia assembly, installation and launching hub for ballistic missiles that target the kingdom,” said coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki, in a statement released Thursday by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

The Hputhi spokesman said an attack targeted Saudi oil giant Aramco’s facilities in Yanbu, north of Jeddah in the west of the kingdom, and stressed that the targets “were hit with precision”.

He promised further attacks against Saudi Arabia in “case of continued aggression and economic blockade”.

The coalition intervened in support of the Yemeni government in 2015 when President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled into Saudi exile as the rebels closed in on his last remaining territories in and around Aden.

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UAE says it's decreasing troops in war-torn Yemen, 4 years after becoming a member of Saudi-led intervention, in shift to 'peace-first' plan

http://tinyurl.com/y2k8np29 Dubai: The United Arab Emirates mentioned Monday it was redeploying and decreasing troops throughout war-torn Yemen and transferring from a “military-first” technique to a “peace-first” plan. The UAE is a key companion in a Saudi-led army coalition which intervened in Yemen in 2015 to again the internationally recognised authorities of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in opposition to Iran-aligned Huthi rebels. “We do have troop ranges which are down for causes which are strategic in (the Pink Sea metropolis of) Hodeida and causes which are tactical” in different components of the nation, a senior UAE official, who requested anonymity, advised reporters. Representational picture. AP “It is rather a lot to do with transferring from what I’d name a military-first technique to a peace-first technique, and that is I feel what we’re doing.” The official nevertheless reiterated the UAE’s dedication to the Yemeni authorities and the Saudi-led coalition, saying discussions on redeployment have been ongoing for greater than a yr. “This isn’t actually a last-minute choice. That is a part of the method and naturally a course of throughout the coalition that is been mentioned extensively with our companions, the Saudis,” he mentioned. In response to a Yemeni army authorities official, UAE troops combating the Huthis have “completely vacated” the army base in Khokha, about 130 kilometres south of Hodeida. The UAE withdrew a part of its heavy artillery from Khokha however was — together with the Saudi-led coalition and the federal government — nonetheless overseeing the army scenario in Yemen’s western coast, he mentioned on Monday. West Asia professional James Dorsey has mentioned a redeployment displays “long-standing delicate variations” within the Saudi and UAE approaches in the direction of Yemen. The pullback “highlights the UAE’s long-standing concern for its worldwide standing amid mounting criticism of the civilian toll of the conflict”, he has mentioned. Tens of hundreds of individuals, lots of them civilians, have been killed in Yemen for the reason that Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015, aid companies say. The combating has triggered what the United Nations describes because the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, with thousands and thousands of individuals displaced and in want of support. In March 2018, rights group Amnesty Worldwide accused Western international locations of supplying arms to Riyadh and its allies, who might stand responsible of conflict crimes in Yemen. And in August final yr a UN professional mission concluded that every one fighters had probably dedicated “conflict crimes”. In response to Dorsey with the pullback “the UAE might enable variations with Saudi Arabia to grow to be extra seen however is not going to put its alliance with the dominion in danger”. Moreover, Emirati-trained native troops will “proceed to do its (UAE) bidding” on the bottom, he mentioned. The Yemeni official advised AFP the UAE has educated tens of hundreds of Yemenis to battle in opposition to jihadists from Al-Qaeda within the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State group in southern provinces — primarily Aden, Mukalla and Shabwa. The UAE announcement comes amid a standoff between the US and Iran, which spikes in June when Iran shot down a US drone over strategic Gulf waters following a collection of tanker assaults that Washington blamed on Iran, which denied involvement. The UAE official mentioned the Emirates’ redeployment choice was not linked to the rise of regional tensions however it was not “blind to the general geostrategic image”. The official burdened the redeployment was according to the settlement reached in Sweden in December between Yemen’s fighters. US-ally Saudi Arabia has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying subtle weapons to Huthi rebels, a cost Tehran denies. Your information to the most recent cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, studies, opinions, reside updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. 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Saudi-Backed Coalition Admits Mistakes In Yemen's School Bus Bombing - MIDDLE EAST

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Saudi-Backed Coalition Admits Mistakes In Yemen's School Bus Bombing

The Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates (UAE) stated that a bus bombing in Yemen last month that killed 51 (40 of whom were children) could not be justified. Both countries admit a mistake in the attack.

The Joint Incident Assessment Team (JIAT), the Saudi-UAE military alliance investigation body, conducted an investigation related to the airstrike that hit a school bus in Yemen. The strike occurred on August 9 in the province of Saada. The probe was started soon after the attack and ended on Saturday.

The JIAT said there was a mistake in the attack and vowed to punish whoever was responsible for the bombing.

“The Joint Forces Command of the Coalition expresses regret over the mistakes, extends its sympathies, condolences and solidarity to the families of the victims,” the statement released by the Saudi agency SPA said.

According to Mansour Ahmed al-Mansour, coalition lawyer, there was an error made prior to the airstrike. He added that the bus should  have not been bombed, but the order came late.

But he added that there were other incidents which the coalition was not fully responsible for.

The Yemen war erupted in 2015 when Houthi rebels expelled the elected president President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government from the capital Sanaa and took control of most of the country.

The conflict has become worse after Saudi Arabia and its allies invaded one of the poorest countries in the Middle East to contain the influence of Iran, allegedly spread by the Houthi rebels, a claim that many considered “absurd’ after former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in December 2017.

As of mid-January, more than 5,000 children were killed or injured and another 400,000 suffered from a severe malnutrition from the impact of the war, the UNICEF report said.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims the Saudi-led coalition commits a war crime

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the attack targeting the school bus last month was an apparent war crime.

“The Saudi-led coalition’s attack on a bus full of young boys adds to its already gruesome track record of killing civilians at weddings, funerals, hospitals, and schools in Yemen,”  Bill Van Esveld, senior children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch said.

The international rights watchdog interviewed 14 witnesses related to the airstrike that damaged the bus in Saada. According to them, the attack occurred before 8.30 am local time. An air bomb was dropped by the coalition in the market in Dhahyah, 20 kilometers from Saada.

The air bomb landed a few meters from the school bus filled with children and teachers. When the explosive material was dropped, the bus was parked in the front of a grocery store. Those witnesses said, there was no apparent military target in the area.

HRW also urges countries to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia

Based on information obtained by several witnesses, the HRW supports the United Nations (U.N) independent investigation of human rights violations conducted by all conflicting parties in Yemen. Also, the rights organization urged other countries to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and its allies.

“Countries with knowledge of this record that are supplying more bombs to the Saudis will be complicit in future deadly attacks on civilians,” Esveld continued.

In April, the Pentagon announced that the U.S agreed to sell weapons worth $1.3 billion to the oil rich nation. The Guardian reported on October 24, 2017, that the Riyadh administration bought weapons from the U.K worth £1.1  in the second quarter of that year.

According to munition experts, a bomb used to kill 40 Yemeni children in the school bus attack was a 500-pound (227kg) laser-guided MK 82 bomb manufactured by Lockheed Martin, one of the most reputed defense companies in the U.S

The U.N will host a peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland on September 6 involving all conflicting parties in Yemen. Despite the pessimism voiced by the government and rebel groups, a Yemen minister hopes that the upcoming meeting will provide an opportunity to build a trust that can lead to peace.

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Exiled Yemen president orders troops to Sanaa after predecessor killed

Yemen's exiled president ordered troops to advance on Sanaa hours after his predecessor was killed by Huthi rebels, while his son called for revenge.  President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi called on Yemenis to unite against the Iran-backed insurgents who shot Ali Abdullah Saleh dead as he fled the city following the collapse of their alliance. "Let's join hands to end the control of these... criminal gangs and... open a new chapter to rid our beloved Yemen of this nightmare," Hadi, leader of the internationally recognised government, said in a televised address late Monday from Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile. The gruesome images from the previous day of Saleh, with a gaping head wound, sent shockwaves among his followers - a grisly end recalling that of his contemporary, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, in 2011. Saleh's son Salah said on Facebook on Tuesday that he would not receive condolences for his father's death until "after avenging the blood" of the longtime strongman. Healso urged his father's followers to fight their former allies, the Shia rebels known as Houthis. "I will lead the battle until the last Houthi is thrown out of Yemen ... the blood of my father will be hell ringing in the ears of Iran," he said.  Saleh, who ruled Yemen for three decades, had joined forces with the Shia Houthi rebels in 2014 when they took control of large parts of the country, including the capital, Sanaa. Former Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed on Monday But that alliance unravelled over the past week, with dozens reported dead in heavy clashes as the former leader reached out to the Saudi-led coalition that has waged devastating air strikes against the Huthis since September 2015. Clashes in the capital Sanaa have killed at least 234 people and wounded 400 since December 1, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Hadi has ordered Vice President Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar to "activate military units and advance towards the capital," a presidency official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP. Military and government sources said the army would advance on Sanaa from the east and northeast, with at least seven battalions ordered to move forward. Saleh was forced to step down in 2012, after his forces waged a bloody crackdown on peaceful Arab Spring-inspired protests calling for his ouster. The 75-year-old had survived civil war, rebellion in the north, an Al-Qaeda insurgency in the south and a June 2011 bomb attack on his palace that wounded him badly. Malnourished boy lies on a bed in a treatment centre in Sanaa Credit: UN The Huthis announced Saleh's death on the rebels' Al-Masirah television station, declaring in a statement the "end of the crisis of militias" - referring to Saleh's armed supporters, to whom the government have offered an amnesty. There were reports of further clashes and coalition strikes against Huthi-controlled government buildings and around Sanaa airport on Monday evening. The Saudi-led coalition warned the city's residents to evacuate rebel-controlled areas, as international aid groups warned Monday they were losing the ability to reach civilians in Sanaa. A video provided to AFP by the rebels showed what appeared to be a dead Saleh with a severe head injury, his body wrapped in a floral-print blanket. A military source said the Huthis had stopped their four-car convoy about 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Sanaa and shot dead Saleh and two other officials. Faiqa al-Sayyid, a leader in Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party, said Saleh "was martyred in the defence of the republic". The Saleh-Huthi alliance had been fraught since its inception in 2014, when the two ended decades of enmity and joined ranks to capture Sanaa from Hadi's government. Saudi Arabia, accusing Iran of backing the rebels, intervened in Yemen on behalf of the government the following year. The ensuing conflict has claimed more than 8,750 lives. Saleh on Saturday announced he was open to talks with Saudi Arabia and its allies on condition they ended their crippling blockade of Yemen's ports and airports - dealing a serious blow to his already fragile alliance with rebel chief Abdul Malik al-Houthi. In a televised speech on Monday, Houthi made no mention of Saleh's death but expressed his satisfaction at the day's events. "Today marked the failure of the conspiracy and treason, a black day for the forces of aggression," he said on Al-Masirah.

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Yemen PM: Iranian ship seized near the coast of Socotra

Yemen PM: Iranian ship seized near the coast of Socotra

Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr said the ship was caught by fishermen on the island of Abdul Kuri

:: The Yemeni government announced on Saturday that it had seized an Iranian ship carrying 19 sailors off the coast of the Socotra archipelago, east of the country.

“The Iranian ship was seized on the coast of Hadibu, the capital of the Socotra archipelago between the Indian Ocean and…

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Yemen's exiled president ordered troops to advance on Sanaa hours after his predecessor was killed by Huthi rebels, officials said, as heavy fighting continued in the capital. President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi called on Yemenis to unite against the Iran-backed insurgents who shot Ali Abdullah Saleh dead as he fled the city following the collapse of their alliance. "Let's join hands to end the control of these... criminal gangs and... open a new chapter to rid our beloved Yemen of this nightmare," Hadi, leader of the internationally recognised government, said in a televised address late Monday from Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile.

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Yemen's exiled president ordered troops to advance on Sanaa hours after his predecessor was killed by Huthi rebels, officials said, as heavy fighting continued in the capital. President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi called on Yemenis to unite against the Iran-backed insurgents who shot Ali Abdullah Saleh dead as he fled the city following the collapse of their alliance. "Let's join hands to end the control of these... criminal gangs and... open a new chapter to rid our beloved Yemen of this nightmare," Hadi, leader of the internationally recognised government, said in a televised address late Monday from Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile.

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Saudi-led strikes hit defence ministry in Yemen capital: Witnesses

The Saudi-led coalition carried out two air strikes on the defence ministry in Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa late today, witnesses and rebel media said, without reporting casualties.

Warplanes continued to circle in the skies above Sanaa after the strikes, the witnesses added.

The Huthi rebel media outlet Al-Masirah also reported the two air strikes. There was no word of any casualties.

The coalition has targeted the defence ministry in the past, leaving it heavily damaged, but the fresh strikes come amid a ratcheting up of tensions between Saudi Arabia and its rival Iran, which backs the Huthi rebels.

The coalition shut down Yemen's borders earlier this week after Saudi forces on Saturday intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Huthis near the Riyadh airport.

The rebels have threatened additional attacks on Saudi Arabia and its coalition partner the United Arab Emirates in response to the blockade.

The United Nations said today that the coalition is still blocking desperately needed UN aid deliveries to Yemen despite the re-opening of the Yemeni port of Aden and also a land border crossing.

This week, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock warned the Security Council that, unless the blockade was lifted, Yemen would face "the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims".

The world body has listed Yemen as the world's number one humanitarian crisis, with 17 million people in need of food, seven million of whom are at risk of famine.

More than 2,000 Yemenis have died in a cholera outbreak now affecting nearly one million people.

Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in neighbouring Yemen in March 2015 with the stated aim of rolling back Huthi rebel gains and restoring the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to power.

The Huthis continue to control the capital Sanaa and much of Yemen's north.

The conflict has left more than 8,650 people dead, including many civilians. (AFP)

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Missile from Yemen intercepted over Saudi capital

Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile over Riyadh after it was launched from conflict-torn Yemen, with debris landing inside the capital’s international airport, officials said. The missile attack claimed by Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels was the first aimed at the heart of the Saudi capital, underscoring the growing threat posed by the raging conflict in Yemen. Residents in Riyadh reported a loud explosion near the King Khalid International Airport just north of the city after the missile was shot down, but authorities reported no major damage or loss of life. "This evening a ballistic missile was fired from Yemeni territory towards the kingdom," the Saudi Press Agency quoted coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki as saying late Saturday. "The missile was launched indiscriminately to target the civilian and populated areas. Shattered fragments from the intercepted missile landed in an uninhabited area of the airport and there were no injuries," he added. Huthi rebels, who fired the missile from Yemeni territory more than 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) from Riyadh, said they were targeting the airport, according to the Huthis’ Al-Masirah television channel. Civil aviation authorities said the airport was functioning normally and that flights were operating as scheduled, though residents said security vehicles had closed off some roads. Who rules Saudi Arabia? Saudi forces have shot down Huthi missiles before with Patriot surface-to-air missiles purchased from the United States, but few have come so close to a major population centre. In July, a ballistic missile fired from Yemen was shot down close to Mecca, a month before the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest site. The attacks highlight how the war in Yemen is increasingly spilling across the border since a Saudi-led coalition began its military intervention in 2015. Saudi Arabia led the intervention to prop up the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Huthi rebels forced him into exile. But two years later, the kingdom appears to be in a quagmire. Hoping for a quick victory against what it saw as Iranian expansionism in its back yard, Riyadh has so far been unable to remove the Huthis from Yemeni capital Sanaa. At a glance | Yemen Aside from occasional missiles, Saudi territory has also been hit repeatedly by the rebels’ cross-border incursions, raising fears the conflict could drag out yet further. In the frontier provinces of Jizan and Najran, thousands of mortar rounds and crude rockets have hit schools, mosques and homes. Thousands of residents have been evacuated from border towns across the southwest to create a buffer zone. Saudi Arabia does not officially disclose military fatalities, but state media has frequently featured funeral notices for "martyred" soldiers. United Nations-backed talks have failed to broker a political settlement to end the fighting in Yemen, which has left more than 8,600 people dead since the coalition intervened. A cholera outbreak has claimed more than 2,100 lives in Yemen since April as hospitals struggle to secure supplies amid a coalition air and sea blockade. The UN has warned that Yemen now stands on the brink of famine.    

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TAEZ: Once overflowing with handicrafts, the old Al-Shinayni market in Yemen’s third city of Taez is now bursting with Kalashnikovs and bullets as traders scramble to scratch out a living in the war-wracked country.

Yemen has been plunged into a devastating war since the Iran-aligned Huthi rebels swept into the capital Sanaa in a late 2014 offensive, sparking a military intervention months later by a Saudi-led coalition.

The southwestern city of Taez is controlled by government forces but under siege by the Huthis, who have repeatedly bombarded the city of 615,000 people.

Many civilians in tribal Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished country, carry personal arms even under normal circumstances and weapons trade is common.

But the war has seen the arms market surge, and traditional trades pushed aside.

“In the past, the city’s old souk (market) used to sell mainly handicraft items made by blacksmiths, potters and tailors,” said merchant Abu Ali.

“When the war erupted, most merchants turned to selling weapons,” the tailor-turned arms trader told AFP.

“Some sell (Yemen’s highly popular mild narcotic leaf) Qat, and others have fled. Half of the shops have shut down,” he added.

‘Bullets and weapons’

Armed men on motorcycles whizz in and out of the market, once a hub for selling clay pots and jugs.

Fatigues, tactical vest and helmets are on display outside the shops. Inside, AK47 assault rifles hang on the walls, with bullets and mortar shells neatly lining the shelves.

“It’s an arms market,” said Abu Ali.

Different weapons carry different price tags. An AK47 rifle is sold for $1,090, a pistol for $818, and a bullet for half a dollar.

Like Abu Ali, the war forced Mohammed Tajer, a handicraft merchant, to turn to the arms trade to make ends meet.

“We used to work well” before the war, Tajer told AFP.

“But once the war started, we had to resort to selling bullets and weapons. If the conflict ends, we will go back to our previous professions.”

In front of one shop, a young boy in a yellow T-shirt sits on a cushion as he bangs away on a piece of metal. An older man next to him stands near a forge hammering a sharp object.

The conflict in Yemen has triggered what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 24 million Yemenis — around two-thirds of the population — in need of aid.

Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed since March 2015 when the Saudi-led military coalition intervened in support of the internationally recognised government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

‘Arms trade flourished’

Taez has not been spared from the violence.

Dozens of people, including children, were killed earlier this year in battles between the rebels and forces loyal to the government, as well as infighting among rival pro-government groups, according to local and medical sources.

Abid al-Rashdi, who still sells handmade goods at Al-Shinayni, said he struggles to keep up his line of work amid a conflict that shows no sign of abating.

“In the past five years, the blacksmith and pottery professions have been greatly impacted while arms trade flourished,” he told AFP.

Shuttered shops secured with padlocks lie on either side of an open storefront that says “tailoring for men”.

Inside, on the shelves where threads and fabrics were once placed, bullets and guns now sit, some locally produced and others smuggled into the country.

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1 Lifeless, A number of Injured In Saudi Airport Assault By Yemen Rebels

http://tinyurl.com/y35b4g5d The coalition didn’t present particulars on how Abha worldwide airport was attacked. (Representational) Riyadh:  A Yemeni insurgent assault on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia killed a Syrian nationwide and wounded seven civilians Sunday, a Riyadh-led coalition mentioned, the most recent in a sequence of strikes on the positioning. “A terrorist assault by the Iranian-backed Huthi militia occurred at Abha worldwide airport, by means of which 1000’s of civilian passengers… move every day,” the army coalition mentioned. “A Syrian nationwide died and 7 civilians have been wounded,” it added, in an announcement carried by the official Saudi Press Company. The coalition didn’t present particulars on how the airport was attacked, however Iran-aligned Huthi rebels have repeatedly struck the civilian facility this month with drones and missiles. Earlier on Sunday, the rebels’ Al-Masirah TV mentioned that they had focused Abha and Jizan airports within the south of the dominion with drones. Abha airport authorities mentioned on Twitter that air visitors had resumed and was functioning usually, with out providing additional particulars. On June 12, a insurgent missile assault on the worldwide airport within the southwestern metropolis of Abha wounded 26 civilians, drawing guarantees of “stern motion” from the coalition. Human Rights Watch denounced final week’s strike as an obvious “warfare crime”, urging the Huthis to right away cease all assaults on civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. The assaults come amid heightened regional tensions with Iran, which Saudi Arabia has repeatedly accused of supplying refined weapons to the rebels. Tehran denies the cost. Saudi state media have reported an intensification of coalition air raids on insurgent positions within the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah and the Huthi-held capital Sanaa. The coalition intervened in assist of the Yemeni authorities in 2015 when President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled into Saudi exile because the rebels closed in on his final remaining territory in and round second metropolis Aden. Since then, the battle has killed tens of 1000’s of individuals, lots of them civilians, reduction companies say. It has triggered what the UN describes because the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, with greater than 24 million Yemenis — greater than two-thirds of the inhabitants — in want of assist. On Thursday the Saudi marketing campaign in Yemen suffered a double blow as US lawmakers voted to dam Trump’s arms gross sales to Riyadh, simply hours after Britain briefly suspended comparable gross sales. (Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.) (function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=213741912058651";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Source link