Dozens of people killed in plane crash in Yemen prison: MSF | Issues of Humanitarian Relief

Dozens of people have been killed in a plane crash at a prison in northern Yemen, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers, or MSF) has said, following a night of bombings that saw a sharp increase in violence in the country. running arguments.

The Saudi-led military alliance has escalated airstrikes on what it calls the allied forces with Houthi militants, after the Houthis carried out an unprecedented attack on a United Arab Emirates alliance member on Monday and added more artillery and drones. in Saudi cities.

Pictures released by Houthis on Friday show rescue workers removing their bodies from the rubble, following dawn raids on temporary shelters in Saada.

At least 70 people have been killed and 138 injured in the attack, an MSF spokesman told AFP.

The figures came from another hospital in Saada, a spokesman said, “Two others in the city have also received more casualties and stuttering is still under investigation.”

A spokesman for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, Basheer Omar, said the numbers were still rising following the attack on Saada, home of the Houthi militant group.

“More than 100 people have been killed and injured … the numbers are rising,” he said, referring to two Saada hospitals supported by the ICRC.

To the south of the key port city of Hodeidah, a video released by the Houthis showed the remains of the wreckage and survivors who were stunned after a night raid from a Saudi-led coalition pulled out a telephone connection. Yemen faced a global internet crisis, an internet analyst said.

NetBlocks said the cyberbullying began around 1 p.m. (22:00 GMT Thursday) and affected TeleYemen, the state’s largest internet regulator.

We will not be able to reach any of our loved ones in Yemen afterwards #saudi/#UAE airstrikes hit the Telecom company in #hudah. This has to do with the fact that air raids are increasingly common in the last days targeting civilians including. ana mu #Sana #udada

– Sarah Alareqi (@SarahAreqi) January 21, 2022

The San Diego-based Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis and San Francisco-based Internet company CloudFlare also looked at the problem that has plagued Yemen since then.

More than 12 hours later, the internet was still in its infancy. The Norwegian Refugee Council has described the attack as “a terrorist attack that could affect our aid.”

According to the UK-based charity Save the Children, at least three children have been killed in a plane crash in Hodeidah.

The agency said at least 60 people had been killed in a shooting in Saada and that more than 100 people had been injured, many of them migrants, added.

“The first report of casualties from Saada is alarming,” said Gillian Moyes, head of Save the Children in Yemen, in a statement.

“The refugees are looking for a better life for themselves and their families, the injured Yemeni civilians and many people are a picture we did not expect to wake up in Yemen.”

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Mohammed al-Attab of Al Jazeera said thousands of Houthi and their supporters demonstrated in Sanaa and other cities across Yemen, condemning Saudi violence.

“This attack, according to a Houthi government spokesman, will not undermine the courage of the Yemenis,” al-Attab said in a statement from headquarters. They have threatened to attack the Khalifah tower [in Dubai] if the UAE continues to take part in the Saudi-led war. “

The airstrikes came five days after the Houthis reported that a drone-and-missile attack in the United Arab Emirates killed three people and warned of retaliation.

According to Save the Children, the escalation of the war has seen the civilian population increase by 60 percent in the last three months of 2021, and 2022 is about to have a devastating effect on civilians.

The United Nations Security Council was due to convene at 15:00 GMT on Friday for an emergency meeting on Houthi attacks against the UAE, a Gulf request, which has taken one of the most volatile seats on the council since then. January 1.

A statement from the UN before the summit condemned the recent incident in Yemen.

“We are very concerned … it is not acceptable,” Mona Juul, Norway’s ambassador to the UN, said.

Juul called for “slowness and restraint” in the war, and also condemned the killings in Abu Dhabi earlier this week which the Houthis described as “dangerous terrorists” and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

The UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting terrorists since 2015, in an unchanging war that has displaced millions of Yemenis and left them on the brink of starvation.

The alliance blamed Hodeidah, a survivor of the devastated country, but did not say whether it was a terrorist attack in Saada.

The Saudi media reported that the alliance had “staged a plane crash … to the detriment of the Houthi military in Hodeidah”.

The civil war in Yemen began in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa, prompting Saudi-led troops to intervene to support the government the following year.

Tensions have escalated in recent weeks as the UAE-backed Giants Brigade launched an insurgency in the Shabwa region, disrupting their months-long campaign to seize the capital Marib to the north.

On January 3, the Houthis stole a submarine carrying the United Arab Emirates flag at the Red Sea, which prompted the alliance to warn of a terrorist attack on ports.

Eleven crew members were arrested.

And on Monday, they spoke of a far-reaching attack worked oil operations and an airport in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, killing two Indians and a Pakistani, and injuring six others.

The invasion – the first UN-sanctioned assassination within its borders by the so-called Houthis – opened the way for a new war in Yemen and sparked tensions.

In retaliation, a coalition carried out a plane crash in the fight against Sanaa terrorists who killed 14 people.

The UN says the war killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021, directly and indirectly due to famine and disease.

UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash has warned that the country will exercise its right to self-defense in the aftermath of the Abu Dhabi coup.

“The Emirates have the legal and moral right to protect their territories, populations and authority, and will use that right to protect themselves and prevent the terrorist activities of the Houthi group,” he told US special envoy Hans Grundberg, according to WAM. media organization.