The Saudi-led coalition, unable to secure control of the strategic port city of Hodeida, has recently flooded the cities and towns surrounding Hodeida with foreign and indigenous mercenaries, hoping to bring the port city to its knees by taking control of the surrounding region.
Amid mounting losses, international pressure and a departure of Malaysian troops from the conflict, the UAE announced a ceasefire on Sunday to allow UN-brokered peace talks in Yemen, by Monday they were carrying out fresh airstrikes.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, announced on Sunday a pause in the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led attacks against Yemen’s port city of Hodeida. He claimed the halt is intended to allow United Nations efforts to resolve the conflict to take place. Despite the announcement, however, the Saudi-led
Well-known Yemeni activist and journalist Rand Al-Adimi told MintPress that dozens of journalists and outlets have been blacklisted, adding that “the Saudi-led coalition blacklisted my name, adding it to a list of journalists who threaten their genocide.”
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA -- “That was the last time I saw Hashem,” recounted Mohammed Al Humran, a local Yemeni journalist, as he told MintPress how his 21-year-old son Hashem was killed in a double-tap
Thousands of Yemenis have fled the port city of Hodeida amid a deadly Saudi/UAE invasion causing a mass exodus of internally displaced people in the already war
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Mohammed Mousa, 31, has sharp wide eyes. Enthusiastic and angry, he shouts slogans against Yemen’s latest invaders while in the midst of a huge rally in Hodeida. Mousa was one of the thousands of Yemeni residents of the Tihamah region to take to the streets on Friday to protest the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition’s assault on their
Saudi-led coalition warplanes and battleships targeted several densely populated neighborhoods in Hodeida, including Southern Hodeida and areas adjacent to the airport, killing civilians and displacing others.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Lying in torn, blood-stained clothing on a bed in Hodeida Hospital’s emergency room, 25-year-old Mabkhout, who refused to provide his last name for fear of retaliation, recounted the events which led him there: I got up early this morning for this chance to work, we were transporting tires and oil from a shop to a tanker and
Citing the war, lack of medicines, frequent electrical outages, and crumbling transportation infrastructure, Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights in March attributed more than 1,200 deaths over the last three years to a lack of treatment for patients in the advanced stages of renal failure.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- For two years now, 28-year-old Hafedh Hassan has made the wearying trip -- 80 miles each way, on bad roads -- from his village in the coffee-growing Haraz region to this city on Yemen’s west coast, where a brilliant red sun meets the dazzling Red Sea. Hafedh’s kidneys are failing him, and medical staff at the Hemodialysis
The more than three-year war on Yemen waged by a Western-backed Saudi coalition has been arguably genocidal from the outset.
With the United Nations warning that millions of civilians could die from violence or starvation from the ongoing military siege of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, there is no other way to describe what is happening except as “genocide”. The more than three-year war on Yemen waged by a Western-backed Saudi coalition has been arguably genocidal
