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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Happy Easter folks......<br><br>Subject: [ufpj-activist] Yemen eyewitness: Saudi-led coalition's bombardment of Houthi rebels is hitting civilians too<br><br>
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<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">We hid in the basement, hoping the concrete would provide some protection against a rocket that may hit the building. Along with the other apartments’ residents, we huddled while children cried to the now-deafening explosions, thuds and rattling of anti-aircraft guns. That’s when the electricity abruptly went out and we simply hugged each other in absolute terror in the darkness.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">This has been going on for days now. At first the air strikes would only commence and bombard the city at night. Now air raids are taking place during the day as well. Although the targets are mainly military bases and Houthi positions in the capital, they are numerous, spread out and within heavily populated residential areas of the city. Many of the capital’s residents have left.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">Fear of being killed by an air strike or becoming a collateral causality isn’t the only thing Yemenis have to contend with. The coalition has sealed off the country by shutting down air and seaports and blockaded all inbound and outbound traffic.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">To a country which imports 90 per cent of its food, drugs, and supplies, this is, in effect, sentencing an entire nation to death by starvation, not just a single faction within it.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">Food is disappearing from shops’ shelves, while a black market has risen up where items in short supply are being sold at three times their original price.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">There are very long queues at the few, state-run food distribution centres where only some of the items sought are sold until supplies run out.</p>
<h5 style='margin: 0px 0px 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51) !important; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: normal !important; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px !important; font-weight: bold !important; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;' data-mce-style="outline: none; font-weight: bold !important; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: normal !important; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; color: #333333 !important; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; text-decoration: none !important; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">READ MORE:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-calls-an-emergency-un-council-over-yemen-crisis-10155392.html" target="_blank" data-mce-style="outline: none; text-decoration: underline !important; color: #000000; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;" data-mce-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-calls-an-emergency-un-council-over-yemen-crisis-10155392.html">RUSSIA CALLS AN EMERGENCY UN COUNCIL</a><br style="" data-mce-style="outline: none;"><a title="Yemen crisis: Aden's presidential palace and central districts fall despite week-long Saudi air campaign" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-crisis-adens-presidential-palace-and-central-districts-fall-despite-weeklong-saudi-air-campaign-10152692.html" target="_blank" data-mce-style="outline: none; text-decoration: underline !important; color: #000000; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;" data-mce-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-crisis-adens-presidential-palace-and-central-districts-fall-despite-weeklong-saudi-air-campaign-10152692.html">ADEN'S PRESIDENTIAL PALACE FALLS</a><br style="" data-mce-style="outline: none;"><a title="The battle for the Middle East's future begins in Yemen as Saudi Arabia jumps into the abyss" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-battle-for-the-middle-easts-future-begins-in-yemen-as-saudi-arabia-jumps-into-the-abyss-10140145.html" target="_blank" data-mce-style="outline: none; text-decoration: underline !important; color: #000000; border-bottom-width: 0px !important;" data-mce-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-battle-for-the-middle-easts-future-begins-in-yemen-as-saudi-arabia-jumps-into-the-abyss-10140145.html">ROBERT FISK: THE BATTLE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST'S FUTURE</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></h5>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">To add to the hardships of the average Yemeni citizen, state electricity supplies are minimal and sporadic. People compensate for this by using their own generators. With 80 per cent of petrol stations shut now, queues are again a common scene at those which remain open.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">My country has always been referred to in doomsday terms as being on the brink of collapse, on the verge of becoming a failed state, at risk of civil war, or taken over by al-Qaeda. Now, ours is a nation being held hostage to the current conflict, war, or whatever the coalition prefers to call it.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">Yemenis, barely with enough money in their pockets, queue for hours for food or fuel while in absolute fear of being killed by an air strike, explosion, rounds from anti-aircraft guns or bullets from one of the many armed men looking for any chance to unleash their anger.</p>
<p style="line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;" data-mce-style="outline: none; line-height: 23px !important; font-size: 16px !important;">We equally suffer regardless of whether we are pro or anti the Saudi coalition. We are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again.</p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________
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