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<h1 class="reader-title">Nearly All of Yemen Demonstrates
Against 4 Full Years of US-Saudi Attacks<br>
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<div class="meta-data"><a class="url fn n"
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/author/randi">Randi Nord</a><a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/2019/03/29"> - March 29,
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<h5><font size="+1"><em>Sanaa</em> (GPA) – Tuesday marked
the fourth anniversary of the US-backed Saudi-led war
against Yemen. Millions of Yemenis filled the streets
of major cities in almost every province to protest
the violence, invasion, and blockade while showing
support for four years of resistance.</font></h5>
<p>According to Yemen’s <a
href="http://www.lcrdye.org/language/en/2019/03/27/statistics-of-civilian-victims-as-a-result-of-saudi-led-coalitions-raids-during-four-years-of-war-on-yemen/">Legal
Center for Rights and Development</a>, an organization
tracking civilian casualties due to airstrikes, 39,856
people have been killed or injured over the past four
years. Women and children make up over 31% of all
civilian casualties. 7,438 children and 5,103 women were
killed or wounded.</p>
<h2>Notable Terror Attacks in Yemen Last Year</h2>
<p>It’s important to call the coalition’s attacks on
civilians exactly what they are: terror attacks.</p>
<p>With the military intelligence technology and access to
precision-guided smart weapons, it’s clear that all
airstrikes on markets, funerals, hospitals, buses,
homes, and other civilian areas are, in fact, terror
attacks.</p>
<p>In one unfathomable attack, Saudi warplanes ordered
airstrikes on a <a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/hospital-market-yemen-0802">school
bus full of children</a> heading to summer camp.
Riyadh used US-supplied precision-guided missiles in the
attack leading the UN to conclude that the school bus
was an intended target. Saudi Arabia initially defended
the attack as a legitimate military action as well. 50
children and a few shoppers in the nearby market died in
the massacre.</p>
<p>In another mass killing just one week prior, US-backed
Saudi warplanes attacked a <a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/hospital-market-yemen-0802">crowded
fish market</a> in Hodeidah province. Double-tap
airstrikes subsequently targeted the hospital entrance
as paramedics rushed the wounded inside for treatment.
55 people were killed and over 130 were wounded.</p>
<p>Attacks using US-supplied weapons as well as logistical
and intelligence support are commonplace in Yemen. Some
terror attacks appear to serve no other purpose than
deteriorating morale. In <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/randi.nord/videos/10104391083470578/">February</a>,
Saudi warplanes destroyed an impoverished man’s home,
killing his family, as he was out collecting water. He
returned in shock to find his home and family had ceased
to exist. Attacks on homes like this happen on a daily
basis.</p>
<p>As Yemenis marched on Tuesday, warplanes attacked a
hospital in rural Saada province killing seven and
injuring eight, including many children.</p>
<p>Additional mass terror attacks this year targeted
weddings — including raids on the bride’s tent — <a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/saudi-coalition-bombs-yemen-refugee-camp">refugee
camps</a>, buses of civilians fleeing airstrikes in
Hodeidah, markets, and countless homes. Airstrikes have
destroyed over <a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/war-in-yemen-1200">400,000
homes</a> as well as vital civilian infrastructure
like factories, water treatment facilities, government
buildings, farms, livestock, and ancient archeological
sites. This demonstrates the <a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/yemen-genocide">genocidal
behavior</a> of the US-backed Saudi coalition.</p>
<h2>Using Starvation and Disease as a Weapon</h2>
<p>This figure does not include deaths from disease and
famine due to the ongoing illegal and weaponized
blockade. Hundreds of thousands more have lost their
lives from starvation and lack of access to appropriate
medical care. Pregnant women, children, the elderly,
cancer patients, diabetics, and patients with kidney or
liver diseases are the most at risk. Yemen’s Ministry of
Health estimates that the blockade has impacted about
4,900,000 patients across the country.</p>
<p>All but eradicated diseases like cholera and
diphtheria have made a come back in Yemen from lack of
access to potable water, taking the lives of thousands.
Diagnoses in <a
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190102140745.htm">what
scientists call</a> “the worst cholera outbreak in
modern history” have skyrocketed again over the past few
months with the Ministry of Health recording between
2,000 and 10,000 new cases each week since January. In
2017, over one million people contracted cholera.</p>
<h4>RELATED: <a
href="https://geopoliticsalert.com/yemen-cholera-epidemic-072018">The
US-backed Coalition in Yemen is Trying to Trigger
Another Massive Cholera Epidemic</a></h4>
<p>According to a report Geopolitics Alert received from
the Republic of Yemen, the Ministry of Health has
documented a rise in fetal abnormalities citing toxicity
from the Saudi coalition’s missiles, artillery, and
internationally banned weapons as the main culprit.
Similar to Iraq, Yemen faces developmental and
cancerous risks from depleted uranium exposure.</p>
<h2>Millions of Yemenis Demonstrate Across the Country</h2>
<p>Yemenis in nearly every major city filled the streets
to protest this violence against their country as the
war entered its fifth year on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Although the Saudi coalition and <a
href="https://www.deeproot.consulting/single-post/2018/08/16/Caught-in-the-Middle-A-Conflict-Mapping-of-Taiz-Governorate">affiliated
organizations claim</a> Yemen’s resistance government
led by Ansarullah does not have popular support in
Hodeidah and Taiz, Yemenis filled the streets in these
provinces, holding placards and chanting resistance
slogans.</p>
<p>The president of Yemen’s National Salvation Government,
Mahdi al-Mashat, addressed crowds of supporters.
President Mashat expressed pride over four years of
resistance, citing Yemen’s growing missile and military
capabilities in the face of aggression. During the past
four years, Yemen has developed long-range and mid-range
ballistic missiles while improving its naval and special
forces with attack drones and other missiles.</p>
<p>President Mashat assumed office last year after
coalition warplanes assassinated President Saleh
al-Sammad while he visited troops in Hodeidah province.</p>
<p>Mashat mourned the ongoing chaos in provinces facing
attacks from the Saudi-led coalition and reiterated his
country’s support to liberate its land from occupying
forces and their mercenaries. He also called on the
states of aggression to make 2019 the year of peace by
supporting political resolutions and initiatives.</p>
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