What going on in Yemeni provinces!
YemenExtra
Y.A
Armed factions held scores of citizens and stormed several houses of the coalition-held- areas in Taiz city on Thursday, a reporter told YemenExtra.
The reporter said that hundreds of people of coalition-held- areas of Jahmaliah went out to appeal the exiled Hadi authorities to intervene to protect them from the brutality and terrorism of the Saudi-paid armed groups ,belonging to Islah Party.
Earlier in the month, In the presence of senior political and military leaders, people of Taiz province held a meeting of extended consultation leaded by the governor of the province, Abdu Al-Jundi, against the flagrant violations and arrests by the paid fighters of the coalition towards Yemenis.
Since two weeks, Taiz has been witnessing the fierce clashes between the armed factions supported by the coalition under the full absence of local authority, which claims control over the city.
In a seperate context, in the capital Sana’a, under the control of Ansarallah movement, part of the Yemeni army forces ,the Foreign Minister, Hisham Sharaf, sent three letters to the United Nations, the Commission and the Security Council to put them in front of the true picture of the coalition’s violations against humanity in Yemen. Liza Grande, has received two letters, the first of which is to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Gubertes, and the second is to the President and members of the Security Council. The letters points out the importance of the United Nations and the Security Council to assume responsibility in accordance with the purposes of the Charter of the United Nations.
Yesterday, the President, elected by the Representitive Parliament, Mahdi Al-Mashat met Sana’a governor, Haneen Mohammad Qatina, Dhamar governor, Mohammed Hussein Al-Maqdashi, and parliament member Sheikh, Yahya al-Mutari. The meeting discussed the situation in Sana’a and Dhamar provinces, under the control of Ansarallah movement ,the efforts of the local authority and the executive offices to improve service and development performance, as well as the plans of local authorities in the two provinces to provide services to citizens and alleviate their suffering as a result of the constsnt war and siege.
The Supreme Political Council, headed by President Mahdi Al-Mashat, also discussed a number of issues and developments, foremost of which is the latest developments in the military situation. The Council condemned the massacres of the coalition in Hodeidah and the West Coast, specially the massacre of the children school bus in Dahyan and the targeting of civilians in Durahmi. The Supreme Political Council also expressed deep dissatisfaction with the failure of establishing an independent international commission of inquiry and the complicity and silence of many relevant international institutions and bodies.
In March 2015, the US backed –Saudi-led coalition started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.
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