BREAKING: US officials confirm US & UK military strikes in Yemen, hitting over a dozen targets including training and drone storage sites. Yemeni media reports violent explosions in Sana'a, Hodeidah, and Saada. My wife @JasminAbduljale is hearing heavy, frightening bombing in Sana'a. #Yemen.
#Breaking : Yemeni local sources report hearing loud explosions and the sound of warplanes in the coastal city of Hodeidah on the Red Sea. #Yemen.
#US #UK
Receiving updates from friends in my city Dhamar about heavy bombing by US and UK warplanes, with planes also reported over Sana'a, Hodeidah, and Saada. The situation is escalating. #Yemen
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the #Saudi coalition’s intervention in #Yemen. After 6 years of war:
1-The coalition hasn't succeeded in achieving any of its goals, most notably the restoration of Hadi government after the Houthis control of Sanaa in 2014. (THREAD)
2-The first crack in the coalition was when #Saudi exempted #Qatar from continuing with the alliance.
3-During this period, many countries withdrew from it, and the coalition failed to maintain the cohesion& strength of its legitimate justification.
4-The most prominent was the full Emirati withdrawal, according to what Abu Dhabi announced on February 8, which was clearly in order to preserve economic interests after the Houthi drones arrived at Abu Dhabi airport in 2018&were followed by Iranian understandings with the UAE.
My wife @JasminAbduljale said that today was a very heavy and intensive bombardment by #Saudi warplanes next to her house in Alhasabah area, Sana'a. #Yemen. Windows shattered and my baby girl Razan was crying!😥
They left the house and now they live with relatives!
My wife @JasminAbduljale sent videos to me shows that the bombardment today by #Saudi warplanes was next to her house.
Sana'a. #Yemen.
I am not in Yemen with them and I am so worried. 😥
They were eating lunch when the bombardment by #Saudi warplanes started. It was like hell today!
Sana'a. #Yemen.
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
Thread,
-#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.