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of the campaign waged by the Gulf States are over-reliant on Houthi sources for their information about the nature of Saudi air attacks.Which is not really true. Basmah Almolaiki, an activist who has been distributing food in Ibb for the past two years, warned that people in the city are facing starvation: The humanitarian situation in Ibb is very bad, 80% of people are suffering from lack of food and they are starving, she said.Its not only internally displaced people who need humanitarian aid, others who have been living in Ibb need that too. [But] 20% of people in Ibb feel shy to ask for food because they are used to not asking from others, they are dying in silence without anyone knowing. We started to know these people, we give them food at night so that no one finds that out. The situation is exacerbated by the increasing number of people who come here. The simplest daily life support does not exist in many houses. Humanitarian organisations left Ibb when the war began, and now only Unicef is distributing blankets, but no food.Oxfams head of Yemen programme, said: Urgent action is needed to get food into the country and move it from port to plate, along with vital fuel and medicines. All parties to this crisis must understand that the real enemy is famine. Efforts to avert a famine need to be backed up by political action to help end the fighting.The matter of the fact it that the coalition of Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia and armed and supported by the U.S created what the United Nations has characterized as one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in the world.And it was the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia that has further exacerbated this crisis, pushing hunger-stricken Yemen to the brink of famine. An entire generation could be crippled by hunger, a World Food Program official warned this month. No matter what Saudi Arabia and the US say, it is happening because the coalition went out of its way to target food sources in the desperate country - in its battles to topple Yemens Houthi movement, which seized power in late 2014 - in order to restore to power the former pro-Saudi leader Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who had been appointed president in 2012 after an ostensible election with no opposition candidates.In the first three months of the war the targets were largely military, but when surrender did not result, the pattern of targeting changed, deliberately targeting Yemens tiny agricultural sector in a campaign which, if successful, would lead a post-war Yemeni nation not just into starvation but total reliance on food imports for survival.Yemeni government statistics and the Yemen Data Project lists show that roads and trucks carrying food were repeatedly targeted by the coalition. A degree of targeting that cant be accidental comes through both the data sets on targets of coalition bombing.On Aug. 12 2016, the coalition bombed and destroyed the main bridge to Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, on a road where roughly 90 percent of U.N. food and
- Thousands flee to north following crackdown on dissidents. Armed groups formed in bid to overthrow government. 1972 - Border clashes between two Yemens, ceasefire brokered by Arab League. 1978 - Ali Abdallah Saleh becomes president of North Yemen. 1979 - Fresh fighting between two Yemens. Renewed efforts to unite the two states. 1982 - Earthquake kills 3,000. 1986 - Thousands die in south in political rivalry. President Ali Nasser Muhammad flees the country and is later sentenced to death for treason. New government formed. 1990 May - North and South Yemen unite as Republic of Yemen with Mr Saleh as president, as Soviet bloc implodes. Tension between former states endures.1992 - Food price riots in major towns. 1993 April - Coalition government formed, made up of ruling parties of former north and south. 1993 August - Vice-President Ali Salim al-Baid withdraws to Aden, alleging that south is being marginalised and southerners are being attacked by northerners.Attempted split. 1994 May-July - Saleh declares state of emergency and dismisses al-Baid and other southern government members following political deadlock and sporadic fighting. Former armies that failed to integrate square off on old border. Al-Baid declares independence of Democratic Republic of Yemen. Northern forces capture Aden, southern leaders flee abroad and are sentenced to death in absentia. 1995 - Yemen, Eritrea clash over disputed islands in Red Sea. Al-Qaeda attacks2000 October - US naval vessel USS Cole damaged in al-Qaeda suicide attack in Aden. Seventeen US personnel killed. 2001 February - Violence in run-up to disputed municipal polls and referendum, which back extension to presidential term and powers. 2002 February - Yemen expels more than 100 foreign Islamic clerics in crackdown on al-Qaeda. October - Al-Qaeda attacks and badly damages oil supertanker MV Limburg in Gulf of Aden ,killing one and injuring 12 crew members and costing Yemen dear in lost port revenues. 2003 April - The 10 chief suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole escape from custody in Aden. Two are re-captured in 2004.2004 June-August - Hundreds die as troops battle Shia insurgency led by Hussein al-Houthi in the north. Current war starts.August - Court sentences 15 men on terror charges, including bombing of Limburg tanker in 2002.September - Government says its forces have killed dissident cleric Hussein al-Houthi, the leader of a revolt in the north.2005 March-April - More than 200 people are killed in a resurgence of fighting between government forces and supporters of the slain rebel cleric Hussein al-Houthi. May - President Saleh says the leader of the rebellion in the north has agreed to renounce the campaign in return for a pardon. Minor clashes continue. July - Police and witnesses say at least 36 people are killed across the country in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting about a cut in fuel subsidies. December - More than 60 people are killed when a landslide destroys a mountain village around 20km from Sanaa. 2006 March - More than 600 followers of slain Shia cleric Hussein al-Houthi who were captured following a rebellion he led in 2004 are released under
Max Blumenthal: Is Trump Rescuing Al-Qaeda's 'Heartland' in Syria?Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israels White Supremacy PALESTINA Schedule of Events: Actions around the world for Palestinian Prisoners Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 2017 Khalil Jahshan - The Fake Peace Process Hanan Ashrawi:Ilan Pappe Below, in a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestines Hebron City. Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid. Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalized, as well as how systematic the oppression against Palestinians really is in a war of conquest that will no-doubt be accelerated under the Trump Administration. Israel "has lost" the bodies of 250 Palestinians....Second Palestinian boy dies weeks after soldiers shot up car. . Trading with Israeli settlements is against the law. . Crowdfunder for Gaza writer's library gets support from Pollitt, Chomsky. .Amnesty International: Israel must end 'unlawful and cruel' policies towards Palestinian. OCHA: Concern about collective punishment. Foto:Belem/Bethlehem. Man known as Behimish (which means I dont care) blocks an Israeli military jeep from reaching protesters. Palestinos conhecido como "Behimish" (que significa "Nao to nem ai) bloqueia veiculo militar da IDF para que este nao ataque uma passeata pacifica. OCHAPCHR: Weekly Report - One Palestinian dead; 71 abducted by Israeli troops last week.International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. FreedomB'TselemBreaking the SilenceBRASILDIRETAS, JA! Caros Amigos PIAUI The Intercept Brasil Golpista Michel Temer, com imunidade, e alvo de uma das acusacoes mais graves da Lavajato
An Israeli soldier shot dead one more unarmed Palestinian, Saba Abu Ubeid, 23, on Friday afternoon during a demonstration to express support for the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, now in its fourth week.IDF's snipers are trained to aim at the legs of Palestinian youths and children to incapacitate them for life. The soldiers ostensible goal is to break a knee or a femur that can't be mended. They are lethal when they hit the upper body, as was the case of young Saba. Fatima Hjeiji, a 16-year-old Jerusalemite had been "executed in cold blood" two days before for an alleged knife attempt, although she did not pose any danger for the soldiers. Her body has not been returned to her family as many others Palestinians murdered by IDF soldiers.And in the northen Gaza sea, fisherman Mohammed Bakr, 25, (cousin of the boys murdered on Gaza beach during Operation Protective Edge in 2014), succumbed to his wounds after the Israeli naval soldiers opened fire from a distance fo 3 meters at the boat manned by him, his brothers and cousin. None of the fishermen posed any threat to the live of their assailers. This also emphasizes continuation of Israel's policy to target the fishermen and their safety and deny them from freely sailing and fishing within the allowed fishing area.Um soldado das forcas israelenses de ocupacao matou o palestino Saba Abu Ubeid, 23, em uma passeata de solidariedade com os prisioniros palestinos em sua quarta semana de greve.Os soldados da IDF sao treinados para atirar na perna, com o proposito de quebrar o femur ou o joelho a fim de incapacitar definitivamente jovens e criancas palestinas. As balas sao letais quando atingem o corpo, como foi o caso de Saba, foto acima.Na foto acima, Fatima, jerusalemita palestina de 16 anos executada a sangue frio no dia 10 de maio, embora nao representasse nenhum perigo para os soldados da IDF. Seu corpo nao foi devolvido a familia, como muitos palestinos assassinados em checkpoints. Military occupied Palestinians rightly deem Israel a terrorist state and the zionist ideology that has justified the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians and the occupation of their homeland a 'terrorist movement'.Such a view hardly registers in mainstream media.Despite the rising sympathy for Palestine and the Palestinians' ordeal in most part of the world, Europe and the USA included, regrettably, the media are still following the same line as in the past - with subjugated Palestinians ignored or demonised and militarily powerful Israel painted in the role of the civtim, and celebrated for its alleged moral triumph as a democracy among Muslin "hordes".Most journalists refuse to accept how "objectivity" is selectively applied on some nations, but excludes those who are perceived as "American allies", whether self-declared democracies, like Israel, Saoudi Arabia and other outright dictatorial regimes.It would have been far more productive, and humane, to sympathise with hunger-striking men and women in Israeli jails, mostly sentenced in kangaroo courts or held indefinitely with no trials at all or any due process.An inquisitive journalist should inquire as of why hundreds of prisoners are on
to be a Palestinian prisoner in Israel | | Al Jazeera"Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan managed to surprise us again. He descended even below his usual low level (arson campaign, terror attack at Umm al-Hiran), and down there he drags along everyone who like him takes pleasure in the trick. Its crowded down there, with Israelis who treat the Palestinian struggle for freedom like a series of boxing matches in which we can always win by a knockout, so why worry when we can brag?Erdan knows his people. The prisoners strike failed to permeate Israeli society and create a minimal understanding of rights such as a phone call (monitored and listened in on) of a Palestinian prisoner with his family, and regular family visits.This hunger strike, like its predecessors, didnt rouse senior figures in university and college law faculties from the comfort of their positions. It didnt make them remember that administrative detention as it is practiced in Israel wholesale detention of unlimited duration without even the semblance of a military trial is illegal. It didnt stir sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists (except for the usual suspects on the left) to warn loudly about what breaking the strike would do, like the other Israeli acts of oppression, to the collective Israeli character and to each oppressor individually.Its doubtful that Israeli history teachers took advantage of the strike to teach about the struggles of other peoples, near and far, for freedom and independence, even when they involved violent, bloody acts (which are always a weak response to the bloody violence of the oppressor). That didnt obliterate their just cause. Algeria, for example.And this is the place to recall once again. The deputy head of the prison service is Ilan Malka, who headed the Givati Brigade in the assault on Gaza in 2009 and ordered missiles fired at a house full of civilians from the Samouni family. His soldiers themselves had ordered those civilians to gather in that house as a safe place and marched them to it. That assault alone killed 21 people older people, women and children, fathers and young men just starting out in life. Many more were wounded, and all the rest continue to live in trauma.Its that cheap trick by Erdan and the prison service that shows how panicked they are by the strength of the strike. An almost unexpected strength, in fact, considering the deep internal Palestinian rifts. All the Israeli propaganda (hasbara) weapons against the strikers were to no avail. The strike became a unifying factor, even if only for a little while. And abroad as well, it provided another opportunity for solidarity campaigns in England, Scotland, Italy and France.It obligated the Palestinian Authority to skirt the attempt, before it was too late, to lock it into stopping salary payments to terrorists. It extracted from Ismail Haniyeh and the other Hamas leaders declarations of support, even though the strikes organizers are their rivals in Fatah. Even skeptics about the strikes motives couldnt but be amazed at the strikers determination. For example, transfers from one prison to another. Every
such transfer is physical and mental torture even when the prisoners are not on a hunger strike. The strikers are placed in isolation, their few personal belongings are taken from them. This severance from the world even more than usual can also break people. The complete cancellation of family visits is especially painful. High fines (that go to the treasury of the Jewish state) are imposed on the strikers. The families terrible worries about their sons only increase.And so, a willingness to enter such a battle with a clear head is enough for a society to recognize its prisoners as heroes and the strike as another important political step on the road of a people thirsting for freedom."Amira Hass, 10/05/17 in HaaretzHoje, com centenas de palestinos em greve de fome por mais de tres semanas, resolvi ceder a palavra a cinco palestinas; que elas defendam sua causa em verso e prosa com a paixao e a autoridade de sua nacionalidade. As poetisas Rafeef Ziadah, Farah Chamma, Hala Alyan - cidadas da diaspora da Nakba; a ativista Ahed Tamini e a jornalistinha Jenna Jihad - resistentes na Palestina ocupada.Talvez voce entenda melhor alguns porques da greve de fome que Marwan Barghouthi esta liderando por Dignidade e Liberdade.Today, I stand aside to let five brave Palestinian women/adolescent/child to tell their version of the Palestinian ordeal and resistance. The poets Rafeef Ziadah, Farah Chamma and Hala Alyan - citizens of the diaspora caused by the Nakba; the young activist Ahed Tamini and the little journalist Jenna Jihad.They might help you better understand some reasons for the hunger strike for Dignity and Freedom that Marwan Barghouthi is leading.Rafeef Ziadah The Palestine I knowPassport'We teach life, sir' We Teach Life Sir (music video)Farah Chamma The NationalityAtlasI am No PalestinianHala Alyan A adolescente Ahed Tamini revela a vida sob ocupacao em sua cidade natal, Nabi Saleh, na Cisjordania, onde o jovem Saba Abu Ubeid foi assassinado na semana passada.Ahed e a prova viva que uma nova geracao esta pronta para resistir ate ser livre.Ahed Tamini reveals life under occupation in her village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, where young Saba Abu Ubeid was killed last week.This video was screened as part of the FOSNA Living Resistance Tour when Ahed was effectively denied a travel visa to speak in person. The village of Nabi Saleh, the small palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh district in the central West Bank has been part of the popular resistance movement with each member of the community contributing to it, including a 10-year-old girl Janna Jihad - Twitter.The members of the community have taken different roles in their struggle against Israeli occupation, and the 9-year-old Jenna decided she would make small news reports to cover the crimes of IDF soldiers.Outra menina que se sobressai na regiao e a jornalistinha Jenna Jihad - Facebook, de duma maturidade incriveld para sua pouca idade - 10 anos - e uma determinacao inabalavel.Changing subjects, as Hamas' political leadership changes, herewith a few things to know about Khaled Meshaal successor, Ismail Haniya, or Abu al
Abed, as he is known in Palestine. Over the past two decades, Ismail has been a prominent figure in Palestinian struggle for statehood, autonomy and the end of a 70-year long Israeli occupation.Ismail Haniya was born in 1963 in Gaza's Shati refugee camp and is father to 13 children. His oldest son's name is Abed, which is the reason for this monike 'Abu el Abed' or 'father of Abed'.His parents were expelled from their home in Ashkelon, close to the Gaza Strip during the Nakba in 1948.He attented a UN refugee school and graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza in 1987 with a BA in Arabic literature. He joigned the First Intifada at the beginning, that year.Ismail was jailed several times because of his involvement in the Intifada and spent six months in Israeli prison in 1988, before he was expelled to Lebanon along with 400 Hamas members in 1989, only to return in 1993. During his exile, Ismail became close to former Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al Rantisi, assassinated by an Israeli air strike in 2004.Abu el Abed himself had survived an assassination attempt in 2003 when he served as an assistant to Hamas co-founder sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who guided him to prominence until his assassination by an Israeli helicopter missile strike on his car also in 2004.In 2006, Haniya led Hamas in its initial participation and success in legislative elections, becoming Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA). He imediately made several high level international visits to Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Qatar, Tunisia, Bahrain and Iran.In 2009, he also met former US president Jimmy Carter in Gaza.Ismail Haniya fell out with Mahmoud Abbas under pression of Israel and the US and refused to stepd down as prime ministar, taking over the PA's offices in the Gaza Strip after a long fratricide battle with Fatah members.Before assuming his new position, Ismail Haniya was Khaled Mesgaal's deputy in Hama's politburo. He was in charge of Hamas' Gaza police forces, but he does not directly oversee his party armed wing, the Izz al din Qassam Brigade.He is a moderate, is considered a more pragmatic voice than other leaders in his party and has stated that he would accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.His biggest challenge will be to continue "softening" Hamas international image, that has been an obstacle since its 2006 electoral victory. Political momentum was created for Ismail Haniya to fulfil his mission with Hamas' recently-announced charter which, refrains from controversial language, distances itself from the Muslim Brotherhood and recognises Palestinian statehood based upon the 1967 borders.Ismail Haniya will be tasked with tough coices in the near future, as Israel's occupying forces keep their illegal ground, naval and air blockade of the Gaza Strip and Mahmoud Abbas is willing to negotiated a "peace" deal that damages Palestinian soveignity.E para lembrar que a NAKBA de 1948 que continua ate hoje.Remembering the NAKBA: Lost cities of Palestine. An extraordinary insight into Palestinian city life before 1948 that reveals the loxx of a culture and lifestyle.Tambem para lembrar a
NAKBA, triste data que os palestinos marcam no dia 15 de maio, eis um documentario de Ayed Nabaa que conta a historia de cinco mulheres nascidas em 1948. Duas israelenses e tres palestinas. A historia e o destino das duas filhas de imigrantes judeus e as tres filhas de palestinos de dezenas de geracoes sao totalmente diferentes.A opulencia das primeiras e a Nakba das segundas, e impressionante. The creation of the state of Israel in May 1948 is referred to by Palestinians as AL NAKBA, the Catastrophe. The five characters in this film below, two Israeli and three Palestinian women, were born in 1948. But few events in history have determined such sharply contrasting outcomes for people who might otherwise have much in common as the founding of Israel has.For the Nakba continues today: "Every birthday I feel this catastrophe twice over", says a Palestinian.Born in '48 explores how decades on, starkly contrasting narratives persist, with very little, if any, common ground between them. By Ayed Nabbaa. Fort Apache: Debate em espanol sobre a ocupacao da PalestinaLast but not least, two weeks ago Roger Waters was invited to speak at the New York Times forum on the occasion of his new tour/album. After an hour of musical discussion, a man in the audience asked Roger about his endorsement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) aimed at Israel what is your end goal? and about the artists letter to Radiohead appealing to the band not to play Israel in July.The questions comes around 1:00:15"My end goal is the same as the end goal of anybody whos involved with BDS, which is as you know is a nonviolent movement, it was started by Palestinian civil society. And I became aware of it in 2006 when I went to Israel to play and I in consequence was approached by BDS and had to start negotiating with them and talking with them and entering into a conversation about the predicament of the Palestinian people. And this is such a long conversation that we will curtail it here a little bitEssentially I was convinced that all of the people who live in that region should have rights. They should have property rights, they should have the right to their religion, and they should have rights to self-determination. All of them. So thats all our Jewish friends who are in Israel, who live there, but also all our Palestinian and Arab friends who are living in the occupied territories and also in Israel. They should have equal rights. And that is my only beef. Just as all the people living in the United States of America should have equal rights, all of them, regardless of their color, creed, race or religion that is what I want for the Palestinians.Nothing more, nothing less. Im not trying to destroy Israel. I have nothing against Jewish people. They accuse me of being an anti-semite, because its the only way they can attack this position which is the basic position of BDS.BDS goes further, they want the right to return of the