In Yemen, Daily Massacres Do Not Exclude Even Displaced

YemenExtra

By: Shefa’a Abdullah

The US-Saudi Coalition carried out a horrific massacre in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, killing 17 civilians, including seven children.

According to local sources, coalition’s warplanes raided a house inhabited by displaced people from other provinces, which led to the destruction, killing 14 members of one family, Mostly women and children, as well as other 12 wounded.

“Details embody the magnitude of the suffering from the ground and the location of the massacre.”

The Yemeni citizen (Ali Yahya Ali) lost ten members of his family his wife, eight children, his wife and his son’s wife,while his second wife is still in serious condition.

He and his son survived (for their concern and searching for gas) on a street relatively close to the scene,”the sound of the shelling looked towards the compound and the idea of bombing the place that housed my family was expelled” Ali said.

The father Ali narration of what happened and when he said the names of the victims and their ages, he was barely drawing his voice from the depths of his heart,there were no tears in his eyes,he seemed to have dried up completely and would not cry again, while all around him stared at him for fear of him and compassion.

Neighbors of Father Ali who survived the bombing were trying to explain their attempts to rescue people, and some were telling him that he had lost some of his children in the bombing to ease his suffering.

“The suffering of the displacement of Ali’s family was over but did not end happily, and ended with the end of the family itself”

We also saw one of the neighbors, Mahmoud Hassan,and he said that his wife and two children were missing,he mentioned the names and ages of his missing family, Mayar-5 Y.O., and Mariah-2 and a half Y.O. ,and that he had only found his 7-year-old daughter.

He also was so horrified and looking for his wife,while i was woundering he could be the husband of the killed pergnant woman , but I begged his question and moved away enough and asked one of the workers in the hospital asked about the status of his wife,Is he the father of the six month killed empryo with his mother,while the father burst into tears and knew indirectly the answer.

The place is filled with sadness between the site of the massacre of the coalition and the hospital there are tears and hope can not be interrupted.

Abdulmalek is a three-year-old child who has both parents in a different hospital,both of them are trying to believe their relatives’ lie that Abdulmalek is still alive and laying in intensive care.

His mother has not been able to talk much,then when i talked with the father i failed in a miserable attempts to reassure his father about his family, when I told him I met your wife,and your sons and all of them are fine,he directly asked what about Abdulmaek,then i said he was in intensive care but his memory or sense seemed to tell him something else so he repeated his question 3 times until I lost my ability to answer and stopped the question.

The second morning of April – 2018 is a new tragedy that joins the list of tragedies in Yemen and it is not the first time that death hunted by miserable displaced who fled their skin from the squares of death and war to find them waiting for them.

In the same conext,”We are dealing with this report very seriously and will be thoroughly investigated,” the spokesman of the coalition repeated the usual words at the time of each massacre, calling for an independent international investigation into the crime, And other crimes committed by the coalition over three years ».

The ministry pointed out that «a number of countries in the world evaluate the minimum when the Yemeni people exercise their natural right to self-defense, but they turn a blind eye and do not move a finger when the most heinous crimes committed against the Yemenis».

The United Nations, for its part, declined to comment directly on the news of the Hodeidah massacre, but said that “these reports are a clear reminder that civilians are paying the price of the conflict”.