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Human Rights Network Accuses Houthis of Committing Dozens of Crimes in Marib Last Week

A Yemeni man sits next to his belongings in a camp in southern Marib after being displaced by Houthi attacks. (Reuters)
A Yemeni man sits next to his belongings in a camp in southern Marib after being displaced by Houthi attacks. (Reuters)
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Human Rights Network Accuses Houthis of Committing Dozens of Crimes in Marib Last Week

A Yemeni man sits next to his belongings in a camp in southern Marib after being displaced by Houthi attacks. (Reuters)
A Yemeni man sits next to his belongings in a camp in southern Marib after being displaced by Houthi attacks. (Reuters)

A human rights report by the Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms revealed that the Iranian-backed Houthi militias have, in the last week, committed dozens of violations against residents and private property in the Al-Amoud area of Al-Joubah district in the Marib governorate.

Thousands of forcibly displaced Yemenis in southern Marib are facing tragic humanitarian conditions.

According to the report, the Houthis indiscriminately bombed populated areas with ballistic missiles, drones, mortars, howitzers, tank shells, and heavy and medium weapons, which caused the death of 20 civilians and the injury of 30 others, including women and children.

Houthi attacks have damaged and destroyed nine houses and more than ten civilian vehicles. More so, the militias destroyed a Salafi mosque in al-Joubah, where Houthis have laid siege to over 21,000 civilians.

The rights network said the intense Houthi attacks had uprooted more than 10,000 families.

Around 1,500 students from the Dar Al-Hadith Al-Salafi Center were displaced alongside their families after the militias targeted the center in the Al-Amoud area with two missiles.

The total shutdown of education facilities in Al-Joubah has deprived about 6,000 students from continuing their education.

Al-Joubah is suffering from a severe shortage in all basic needs, especially food and medicine, because of the stifling siege imposed by the Houthis.

The rights network called on all international and local organizations and the international community to exercise all means of pressure on the Houthis so that they can lift the suffocating siege on the people of the Abdiya district in Marib.

It also urged clearing the mines planted by the militias at the entrances of the district.

The network also called on the International Red Cross to condemn the siege in Abdiya and all the crimes committed by the militias against civilians. It encouraged running an urgent humanitarian relief convoy to the villages of Abdiya.

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In Besieged Sudan’s El-Fasher, Neighbors Improvise First Aid for Wounded

FILE - A Sudanese evacuee carries her son as they leave the USNS Brunswick at Jeddah Port, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
FILE - A Sudanese evacuee carries her son as they leave the USNS Brunswick at Jeddah Port, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
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In Besieged Sudan’s El-Fasher, Neighbors Improvise First Aid for Wounded

FILE - A Sudanese evacuee carries her son as they leave the USNS Brunswick at Jeddah Port, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
FILE - A Sudanese evacuee carries her son as they leave the USNS Brunswick at Jeddah Port, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

For a week, eight-year-old Mohamed has suffered the pain of shrapnel stuck in his arm. But he is one of the lucky ones in Sudan’s western city El-Fasher, which is under paramilitary attack.
“One of our neighbors used to be a nurse. She helped us stop the bleeding,” Mohamed’s father, Issa Said, 27, told AFP via satellite connection under a total communications blackout.
Like an estimated one million more people trapped in the city under a year-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Said cannot get to a hospital for emergency care.
With only the most meagre supplies remaining in El-Fasher, his family is among those whose only medical help has come from neighbors and family members who improvise.

In its quest to seize the North Darfur state capital — the only major Darfur city it has not conquered during two years of war with Sudan’s army — the RSF has launched attack after attack, which have been repelled by army and allied forces.

Even if people were to brave the streets, the Saudi Hospital is the only partially functioning one now, according to a medical source there, and even that has come under repeated attack.
Mohamed, an aid coordinator who fled to El-Fasher after getting shot in the thigh during an RSF attack days ago on the nearby famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp, estimates hundreds of injured civilians are trapped in the city.
According to aid sources, hundreds of thousands have fled Zamzam for the city, which is already on the brink of mass starvation according to a UN-backed assessment.
Yet the people of El-Fasher have “opened their homes to the wounded,” Mohamed told AFP, requesting to be identified by his first name for safety.
“If you have the money, you send someone to buy clean gauze or painkillers if they can find any, but you have to make do with what you have,” said Mohamed, whose leg wound meant he had to be carried the 15 kilometers from Zamzam to the city, a journey that took hours.

In crowded living rooms and kitchens, civilians with barely any medical training cobble together emergency first aid, using household items and local medicinal plants to treat burns, gunshot wounds and shrapnel injuries.
Another victim, Mohamed Abakar, 29, said he was fetching water for his family when a bullet pierced his leg.
The limb immediately broke underneath him, and a neighbor dragged him into his home, fashioning him a splint out of a few pieces of wood and cloth.
“Even if it heals my broken leg, the bullet is still inside,” Abakar told AFP, also by satellite link.

By Monday, the RSF’s recent attacks on El-Fasher and surrounding displacement camps had killed more than 400 people, according to the UN.
At least 825,000 children are trapped in “hell on Earth” in the city and its environs, the UN children’s agency UNICEF has warned.
The people of El-Fasher have suffered a year of RSF siege in a city the Sudanese military has also bombed from the air.
Residents have taken to hiding from the shelling in makeshift bunkers, which are often just hastily dug holes topped with bags of sand.

But not everyone makes it in time.

On Wednesday, a shell broke through Hanaa Hamad’s home, shrapnel tearing apart her husband’s abdomen before they could scramble to safety.
“A neighbor and I treated him as best we could. We disinfected the wound with table salt and we managed to stop the bleeding,” the 34-year-old mother of four told AFP.

But by morning, he had succumbed to his injuries, too severe for his wife and neighbor to handle.