Do you want to know what #Saudi did in #Yemen backed by #US & #UK for 5 years? thread:
-Yemen is now the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
-People are facing the world’s largest food security crisis.
-7 Million people do not know where their next meal will come from!
-More than 8M people lack access to safe drinking water &sanitation.
-Risk of disease outbreaks, such as cholera, dengue ,scabies &Coronavirus.
-Economic and institutional collapse.
-Two thirds of the population now need humanitarian assistance or protection in order to survive.
-2 million people are internally displaced, Many have taken refuge in schools with limited access to essential services.
-Stocks of medical supplies are dangerously low and many doctors and nurses are working for free. #yemencantbreathe
-No salaries, no electricity, no access to health care, malnutrition, no gas for cooking and prices are doubled.
-Education is under threat as war shuts schools, teachers unpaid for 4 years, students are the victims of this war. #Yemen.
-Hospitals are closing or totally over whelmed.
-Doctors have not been paid 4 almost 3 years.
-It is a matter of time before disease like measles, polio and #COVID19 begin spreading rapidly.
-A horrifying outbreak of #COVID19.
-Air, land&sea blockade by the Saudis has choked off supplies of food, fuel&medicine.
-The economy has deteriorated since war broke out.
-The #US is supplying the aircraft to #Saudi, the precision munitions they’re dropping, intelligence &mid-air refuelling of the war planes.
-The #US continue to carry out military operations directly, with its own special forces and air strike.
-Migration is difficult for Yemenis, poverty prevents them from leaving the country.
-The #US support for the #Saudi bombing is getting more critical attention.
-The already dire humanitarian situation is being exacerbated by the coalition attack on the lifeline port of #Hodeida, which is threatening to disrupt what little aid is trickling into the country.
-#Saudi Arabia & the #UAE have been accused of human rights abuses & war crimes.
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-#Yemen has suffered 5 years of war, poverty, cholera and now #COVID19!
-Our country is on the brink of collapse.
-The "death" has become normal!
-Hospitals have refused to take in infected people, because there is a lack of protection equipment.
-Fuel crisis.
-Doctors and nurses can't work without personal protective equipment.
-people are afraid of going to hospitals and they die in their houses.
-People can't bury their loved ones because of the high prices of
burial.
-A lot of #COVID19 cases in Sana'a and double in #Aden!
-No Salaries for 5 years, no electricity, no jobs, no access to health care, no access to clean water, famine, destruction, Cholera, dengue fever, bombardment and now #coronavirus.
-High number of infections and deaths among Doctors, nurses and helpers. #YemeniLivesMatter.
-#Yemen is in clear danger of mass deaths from starvation.
-It could become one of worst in living memory.
-War&economic collapse have driven around 10 million people to the brink of famine.
-The non-payment of government worker salaries has left many households without incomes.
-Half of the Yemeni population could soon be entirely dependent on aid to survive.
-War is blocking shipments from getting into the country.
-Food prices have also doubled in the country.
-Thousands of civilians have been caught in the middle by airstrikes
-Huge numbers are hungry and vulnerable to infectious diseases.
-Cholera outbreak has become the worst in history.
-Aid and commercial shipments of vital food and fuel are unloaded at Hodeidah, clashes has blocked roads and damaged infrastructure.
Living in my country #Yemen is like a journey into a nightmare war. Thread:
-I saw and heard things that I will never forget.
-I don't sleep well at night.
-14 million people are hungry while nearly 19 million (70% of the population) are in need of humanitarian assistance.
-It broke my heart to see so many undernourished children. Their skin worn thin and barely covering their bones, they could only make their distress known with thin. They were so weak they could barely stand.
-I saw people with their limbs blown off, & worse.
-I can't forget the expressions of sadness on the faces of poor people,
-I have realized that there is no one and nowhere to run to if something bad happens like #Saudi bombardment.
-I have lost 6 of my best friends.