US-Saudi weapons cause deformities defects among Yemeni children.
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During the past six years of the aggression, the air, water, and food were polluted by weapons, germ bombs, toxic gases, and other prohibited weapons that the US-Saudi warplanes dropped 1/2
The Yemen witness at the present time a very dangerous situation of the birth of congenitally deformed children, and the terrifying spread of cancers of various kinds among children, mostly leukemia, amid a tragedy of the lack of chemotherapy for the treatment of 1/3
these diseases.
They caused the spread of epidemic diseases, fetal deaths and congenital malformations for newborns, constituting the worst epidemiological disaster threatening the fetuses.
The Secretary-General of the Yemeni Pediatric Society at the September 21 University 1/4
of Medical and Applied Sciences, Dr. Noura Nour Al-Din, said: "#Yemen has become like a field of experiments for using the prohibited weapons that have caused cases of fetal death and congenital malformations among newborns."
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unable to treat their children because of the low economic situation, in addition to their being killed by air raids and with various weapons while in their homes," she added.
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The al-Sabeen Maternity and Child Hospital in the capital, Sana’a, has seen an increase in babies being born prematurely and with deformities, which doctors say is a result of the war and the Saudi-led coalition’s bombs.
These cases of deformities have drastically increased 1/6
over the past years, due to the assault on #Yemen, the rockets and the cluster bombs,” Doctor Abdulkarim al-Najjar said Wednesday.
#YEMEN #Yemen’s medics: Saudi-led coalition using biological weapons in war.
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Doctors and medical experts in Yemen believe that Saudi Arabia and its coalition forces are using biological weapons which 1/2 presstv.ir/Detail/2023/01…
are believed to be the reason for the increased cancer and birth defect cases in #Yemen. Yousef Mawry has the special story.
Sana is dying. She was born just a few days ago, but because of a rare birth malformation, doctors believe she only has a few days to live.
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Sana is one of the thousands of Yemeni babies facing similar fate. Here is the Sabeen Hospital in the Yemeni capital Sana’a; and doctors say they have been receiving birth defect cases at an alarming rate since 2015. That's when the Saudi-led coalition launched its war on
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#Yemen
Doctors here are convinced that biological weapons were employed by the Saudis.
Cancer cases are also on the rise. The spokesperson for Yemen’s Ministry of Health says the data and statistics recorded since the war started indicate that biological weapons used
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by the #Saudi-led coalition are the main cause of the steady increase in cancer and birth defects.
We visited the registration office at Yemen’s only oncology center. It was packed with people pushing their way to register for cancer treatment.
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According to Yemen’s Ministry of Health, the number of cancer patients increased by more than 50% since the war was launched in 2015.
The Yemeni Ministry of Health says it will form a committee to officially investigate the main cause for the increase in birth defects and
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cancer cases in the areas that have been hit the most by Saudi airstrikes. Even if it’s evident that prohibited weapons were utilized by Saudi Arabia and its coalition forces, it is unlikely they will face prosecution since most of the weapons used in the war are supplied
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by the American and British governments.
Doctors and medical
experts say the increase in cancer and birth defect cases is rooted in the eight-year Saudi-led war that has polluted #Yemen’s air, water and food. They blame the
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Saudi-led coalition’s use of prohibited weapons such as biological weapons, cluster bombs and toxic gases.
#Yemen’s medics: Saudi-led coalition using biological weapons in war
Yemeni Children’s Tragedy: Birth Defects Caused by Internationally-prohibited Saudi Weapons
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It is almost seven years on the brutal Saudi war on #Yemen, in which the bloodthirsty kingdom has committed the most heinous crimes in history.
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“Among the most recent massacre is depicted in the form of birth defects caused by the use of the internationally-prohibited weapons used by the coalition of aggression on #Yemen in general, and in al-#Hudaydah Province in particular, leading to a systematic disorder 1/3
in the nation’s environment,” according to the head of Sanaa government, Abdel Aziz bin Habtoor.
The official held the “US-Saudi coalition of aggression legal and ethical responsibility for the tragedy the children of #Yemen are being through, 1/4
الاتحاد العام للغرف التجارية والصناعية: تفاجأنا بقيام حكومة المرتزقة بخطوة جنونية برفع سعر الدولار في المنافذ الجمركية إلى 750 ريال للدولار وهذه زيادة تمثل 50% عن السعر الحالي
-الاتحاد العام للغرف التجارية والصناعية: نحذر حكومة المرتزقة من هذه القرارات ونؤكد اعتراضنا وبشدة على هذا التصرف اللاإنساني الذي سيزيد من معاناة الملايين من الأسر اليمنية نتيجة ارتفاع أسعار السلع والبضائع المستوردة ومنها المواد الغذائية
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-الاتحاد العام للغرف التجارية والصناعية: هذا القرار ليس الأول بل سبقه قرار لحكومة المرتزقة قبل أقل من شهر برفع ما يسمى "ضرائب تحت الحساب"على السلع والبضائع المستوردة بنسبة تصل إلى ما بين (300%-500%) من اجمالي قيمة البيان والرسوم الجمركية
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أقال الرئيس البرازيلي الجديد #لويس_إيناسيو لولا دا سيلفا سفير بلاده لدى الكيان الصهيوني جيرسون فيرينتس الذي كان الرئيس السابق جايير بولسونارو عينه في هذا المنصب عام 2020 في خطوة داعمة للقضية الفلسطينية.
قرار الإقالة بالمفاجئ لحكومة بنيامين نتنياهو وبأنه يعكس تغييراً في سياسة البرازيل تجاه الكيان الصهيوني.. مشيرة إلى أن الرئيس بولسونارو غير خلال فترة ولايته السياسة الخارجية لبلاده بشكل كبير واتخذ موقفاً أكثر تأييداً لـ”للعدو” من أسلافه، كما قام بتغيير نمط تصويت بلاده حينها
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في مؤسسات الأمم المتحدة بشأن القضية الفلسطينية.
وكان الرئيس البرازيلي لولا دا سيلفا أكد خلال لقائه وزير الخارجية الفلسطيني رياض المالكي على هامش حفل تنصيبه أن بلاده ستقف بقوة مع نصرة الحق الفلسطيني، وستعمل من أجل استعادة فلسطين حريتها واستقلالها ضمن دولة ذات سيادة على خط
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The U.S. is presently waging another criminal war mercilessly attacking civilians in #Yemen, but this time the U.S. is on the side of the one-party state that is the lead aggressor, Saudi Arabia. Few, if any, American media have made the ironic 1/2 dissidentvoice.org/2016/09/us-clu…
connections between #Laos and #Yemen, but the Hong Kong based Asia Times nailed it despite running a half-wrong headline:
“U.S. apologizes to Laos over cluster bombs,
then sells them to pound #Yemen”
The story that followed, by 1/3
Johns Hopkins Fellow Christina Lin, does not mention the apology that never happened. She reports on President Obama’s speech in Laos this way:
Obama said, “Given our history here, I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal.” This gesture of 1/4
#YEMEN:A diplomatic source in #Sanaa reveals the scenes of the second Omani visit and the papers it carried.
A diplomatic source in Sana'a revealed, on Wednesday, what the #Omani delegation said, which visited the capital for the second time in less than two weeks, saying 1/2
that it aims to mediate to stop Sana'a forces targeting oil ports, reaffirming Sana 'a's adherence to its conditions for extending the armistice.
The source explained that Sana'a is under widespread international pressure on Sana'a to allow the resumption of the export 1/3
of Yemeni oil, stressing that Sana'a "adheres to its conditions in paying the salaries of all employees and lifting the blockade and the air embargo in return for resuming oil pumping," according to Al-Mayadeen channel.
He pointed out that the Omani mediation is making 1/4
#YEMEN:General Strike and Civil Disobedience in Aden. #Aden city is witnessing a general strike and civil disobedience by merchants against the background of unfair decisions against them, which negatively affected the lives and livelihood of 1/2 alkhabaralyemeni.net/2023/01/11/204…
citizens.
The merchants announced the suspension of their business activity and the suspension of work on exporting and importing to and from Aden, for various commodities, including consumer and food.
This comes against the background of the decision of the Economic
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Council in Aden’s government to raise the customs exchange rate for imported goods from 500 to 750 per dollar.
The decision sparked widespread controversy and societal indignation on social media.
Yemeni activists called for demonstrations of anger in the areas
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Oxfam Study: At Least 87 Yemeni Civilians Killed by UK and US Weapons from January 2021-February 2022.
Oxfam unveiled that “At least 87 civilians were killed by airstrikes from the #Saudi-led coalition in #Yemen using weapons supplied by the #UK and #US between January 1/2
2021 and February 2022.”
The charity accused the #UK government of ignoring an identifiable “pattern of harm” caused by the indiscriminate bombing – and argues it amounts to legal grounds for #Britain to end elements of its lucrative arms trade with #Riyadh.
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Martin Butcher, a policy adviser at Oxfam, said that there had been 431 airstrikes in the period monitored, roughly one a day, and that the “intensity of these attacks would not have been possible without a ready supply of arms.”