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ah. ah i us any. okay. you're watching the stream. it has been over 7 years since a conflict broke out between healthy fighters and present hardy, supported by a coalition led by saudi arabia, united nations, for many years of describe the situation, the impact on civilians as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. and this january is shaping up to be the deadliest for civilians. earlier we spoke to jacob burns for medicine from frontier for his take on what is happening right now. we are dealing with the long term crises that 7 years of war produces covered

as an excellent example of this with the health care system, basically co ops in the country. more than 2 years after the virus became a reality. we still work most of the things that we even need to prevent or to treat covert needs at basically no testing in the country. vaccines are ever unavailable or not very widely used. and when people are very sick and need a good level of intensive care, it's, it's often simply not available. on today's episode of the stream, we are going to be looking at at the intensifying war in yemen, particularly its impact on civilians. and also dio, politics as well. of course, i can't do that without i to guess hello, serene hello. had deal. nice to have you cheering, please introduce yourself to our global audience and tell them your connection to

what is going on in yemen right now. thank me. my name is dr. sharina our, the me and i was born in the m and i was there for some time when i was a child. i'm in a professor in michigan state currently in the us. and since 2015, i've been playing an active role in trying to get my own government here in the united states to and there's support for the situation in one moment. thank you for being part of our discussion today. had to welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to you as tell them who you are, what you do and your connection to the conflict in yemen. yes, thank you for me. so, i'm a research fellow with the policy center i showing then the past year. and for, for the last year, i have been focusing on my research has been focusing on engaging in the civil society with the peace process as well as, you know, as a focus on the the wider crisis. so yeah. all right,

thank you for that. joining us life and you have and we have a summer, there is a delay before you will hear a summer and he's on the phone because of the connection. i'm sure you will appreciate it. it's difficult to connect with yemen right now, but a summer, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to our audience. tell them who you are and what you do. go ahead. yes. you got it start off, right then of meditation. that's that is on documenting validation. so, international law, thank you. all of you guys for being part of our program on youtube. if you've got questions, concerns about what is happening in yemen right now. use a comment section, but your questions or comments in that i will do my best include them in today's show. i'm actually gonna move away from youtube and actually start on twitter. as

we would prodding this show, have a look here on my laptop. said she also very simple question, simple and yet complicated. why the thanks las killing sharina. what would you say back to fetch g? it is a complicated question, but it is the killing has absolutely been senseless over the last several years. i think if we want to talk about the origins of the war, we can trace it back to him and use desire for a democratic society back in 2011 with the arab spring and had its own arab spring in january of 2011. which altered and turned into an armed struggle between various groups. there were a couple of years of hopeful transition when the long time dictator had stepped down at his interim president time he was elected in a one man, an election essentially. but he was given this post a temporary post to try to bring parties of the country together in some kind of

unity government at the end of 2014 the these took over and this is a group that had long standing battles with the former government and they took over essentially the capitals and led to civil upheaval and in many parts of yemen. and is essentially in march of 2015 and escalated into an all right, international conflict which we see playing out today when side area formed a coalition of several countries including the u. e. and with full backing and support from the united states and the united kingdom to launch this offensive in yemen. and that led to where we are right now with these forming and shakia lines initially with saw that to push back against this coalition. and now they are essentially only other the only group left to form some kind of arms struggle against the coalition. and the coalition continuing to mostly use air raids to and

the blockade to try to assert the high, the former president, heidi or the internal doesn't have the back to power. so we did have a compact explanation of how we got to this place. i deal with saying, hey, on the screen today that we are seeing this intensifying war happening to them, and i'll you seen that to what are the sites? yeah, so, so just so answer the question about the wifi to some las killing. and i think the main reason for that is the lack of in the accountability mechanism to, to hold all those axes accountable for their violations of human rights and further work crimes. and that's why every conflict party feels that they are at liberty to, to pursue their own interest regardless of the, the suffering that they have in place on the gemini population. and regarding your

2nd question, unfortunately, the conflict is escalating, especially talking this year when, when the note pack is moving, the conflicts away be any way by firing this all it's like there are for to be for example, on other areas. and in retaliation, we're seeing heavy air strike campaigns by default. the way you look coalition, on not only the 1st actually, but also on the territory under the control of both the of which have, you know, which have, you know, the volumes and civilian targets indiscriminately. and so, and all of the developments and the scene are in personally, you know, they are further derailing and or the still piece process. so civilians are being impacted and unheard and killed from the who the fight is. and

also from the saudi led coalition. i need to make that very, very clear. what i'm about to show you though, is a survivor from an attack on a santa detention center. and this man is called mohammed and he's got horrible wounds. i just want you to be ready for this. and he's can explain what happened to him. the satellite coalition have not said that they are responsible, they said they would investigate the attack. his mom, it fertile on but of the, with the messiah hit ward number 3. and i was in ward number 2, my mates and i was sitting and chatting about our release from prison and how our cases will stand with the judge and what would happen after we are released. then the plane struck at around 130 or 2 o'clock, suddenly piles of debris were on top of her uncle. the mother called the howl over the little on wood. i was trying to free my leg from under the pillar and the warplane continued to bombard us. i tried, i tried and i removed the debris from under my leg and i got out. i could not help

my friends because my leg was broken. i was crying to people for help as the war playing continued to strike and hit the rest of the wards completely gone over the big boys over on the water bottle. some a you are speaking to us from santa. if we ask you about why the conflict is escalating from your situation in santa, what would you tell us, how would you explain it to us? well, the, the operations integrated harmon different parts of the country. and it's clear and it's an indicator for that behavior. the wind marcie after contacting the mpg national community to

ensure accountability for the violations. i'm firms. i'm going to be different from the recent military commission on the in generally my feeling of more, my 100 civilian and more than 200 fathers, including women children. we documented 90 strikes, coronation, 7 on that tax id. this is activity for when there is no accountability the boarding for to try and give you so much for sharing that with us a summer. i want to bring him to spoke people, one from the who's the fighters, one from the saudi led coalition. it's ironic that they're both saying the same things. and what they're both saying is civilians be where have a look. have

a listen for in the auto just didn't dialogue, we renew our warning to citizens residence and companies to stay away from vital headquarters and facilities as they are vulnerable to targeting and the coming period. hey, la la, for thought the animal camila with unit into my system will animate any who these have to reconsider when using civilian locations. because under international humanitarian law, they forfeits immunity. for any person or organization that misuse is the legal immunity. under the international humanitarian law, the site will not be considered the civilian site, and thus it will be a legitimate military target. to see is that them at how far now it warnings that from both sides of this conflict, but how much care has been taken to look after civilians are showing the start. i mean, it's preposterous to think that the saudis have had any regard for civilian casualties

in yemen over the last several years. there, there was a un report several years ago, leak to and report that described their targeting civilians as indiscriminate and intentional. and so the idea that we are that they have any regard for civilians is mind boggling. and you know, it's just been a threat for the who used to not use civilian places is essentially to say that all civilian places in yemen are going to be targets just as we've seen. we've seen them target prisons in the most common in the most recent air strikes as well as telecommunication centers. there have been targets on schools. there have been targets on mosques and people in their homes, people and moving vehicles. i mean, a coalition that targets and moving school bus full of children knowing that they were, it was a school bus full of children, really has no red lines when it comes to civilian casualties or protecting civilian casualties in any way. early on in the war. they declared the entire governor, it upside that which quarterside arabia a military target,

the entire government with any, with everybody inside this government has been targeted as a military fighter essentially. and you know, whether it's the hokies or the saudis, the civilians are caught in between. and i think the spokesman, who you mentioned, the clip that you showed was zap, perhaps talking about in minority and savvy civilians. but when we look at the toll of civilian cash as frozen to say from a pick up, go ahead. yeah, i agree with what you said about the you know, targeting civilians and civilian targets in an indiscriminate way. or, you know, the targets are disproportionate to the, to the impacts and civilians. i absolutely agree with that, but i also would like to point out that you know who these are also known for using, you know, need civilian buildings or like you, i,

this is so there were sense, or, you know, they use school. they, you, is of use all of the facilities to further with, or for the military activities, which, you know, on personally, not only, you know, the 1000000000 target danger, but also, you know, the, the surrounding neighborhood, the people who live around those facilities. and we know that these, they are big on using the images or the you know, the images that come after the aftermath of the people dying or they're using that for their own advantage to kind of show people when you look, this is what the coalition is doing this is how they're throwing havanese cold bloodedly. and what they're doing with that is that they're, you know, they're using that to recruit more people, you know,

and more chosen battlefield. and that, that has brought that has got to be effective. let me just show you a headline. that is, is it's very disturbing here. this is from out as they were dot com, 2000 children, recruited by yelman's who sees died fighting that is from the you and, and the number of deaths in yemen from civilians. most of them are kate's, most of the mature drink a summer. you in yemen right now, i want to bring you into this conversation. we have a number of questions on youtube asking about what is happening yemen. i'm going to ask you very briefly to answer these if you can. andrew wants to know why would a prison in santa be targeted sorry, once again, i couldn't hear you. why would a prison in sada be targeted?

why not a more strategic or military target? i this is because it is to be addressed to be to the the warring parties to decide that is going to be attack they could explain why they targeted it or that's the case. i think that's a very good point. i have one more question for you for and on that we have a some i have one more question for you. and again, this is from youtube hums, wants to know how much support to the, who teach enjoy among ordinary yemenis. i need a few people in the streets. they are very restricted after the 7 years

are connected, when the has peddling for their daily needs, the situation has to be calling me no much support. i'm on the knees. i'm start up, so i have one box. you have documented many incidents where we have committed to how the parties are vision. okay, i thank you. some of which takes me on to how people are struggling, how ordinary civilians are struggling. maybe they may not even be getting direct. yes. had but food and access the food is very difficult because because they are being displaced. here is one family story who's been displaced and what food,

what food aid is getting to them? have a listen. have a look loudon at any canon law jack before we left our city food was affordable. we used to have meet fish chicken malo here and everything. there was everything. but now circumstances have imposed this on us are a little felicia had a, a doland and so every 2 months they gave us a sack and a half of the wheat, 2 cans of cooking oil, a bag of salt, a bag of sugar and a bag of lentils, that's it. my adela bus of lead a family that it is getting some fake. some. earlier we spoke to elliott, she is for the regional communications office of the world food program. and she was just very frank about the situation that they already have left and have a leg though. yes, he is waiting for it to prevent the food security situation from printed

interrogation of their biggest challenge now is funding the current funding crunch means we're taking food from the hungry to feed the starting. and since the beginning of a year, out of the $30000000.00 people were assessing the 100 years of food, rational progressions of $8000000.00 of them is cut, us come at the worst possible time for them. and people who are dealing with consequences of escalation fighting the urgency needs $800000000.00 for the next 6 months to maintain the current level of assistance. cheryl, it's good to have you back or with us it back connected with us on youtube. a very interesting question. why is no saudi or m a rattie protesting against this destructive pointless war? i mean, i think the question the question, the answer is obvious to people who live in a these are not democratic society. these are autocratic society,

where descent is punished quite heavily. we've all heard about the rich story of the us based journalist, your mouth hush of g a few years ago, who wasn't, by the way, anti monarchy or anti study monarchy. he happen to have different views from the current crown prince. mm hm. it's been said in mind and we know what happened very well. so the idea that descent is even possible public the centers even possible with the rest that we've seen in the u. e. and my, and the, and salary is, you know, it's not possible for people to dissent in those societies. i want to bringing them, but i'm, i'm gonna just preface it a little bit with i'm going to go to you via, i'll do a correspondent james base. he spoke recently to the u, a. e ambassador to the united nations, just after a couple of things had happened. so one was the who t fight is had attack of a daddy. 3 people died shortly after that there was an attack on

a detention center in sata and over 90. people were killed, mostly civilians. and then james bayes had this moment at the united nations. and i'm really interested in how you unpack, what is happening here. geopolitically. take a look your defense on the law has to be proportionate. does it not? and the president of the council, no way speaking in a national catholic capacity, said the attack that took place and saddam was on the accept what you have heard today. and you will know following the work of the council that this is rare. what you have heard today is the unanimous condemnation by the security council against the terrorist attack against the united arab emirates on monday, the 17th of january middle school. i'm asking about your response and whether it was proportionate given that at least 60 people have died, maybe as many as i'd like to refer to the coalition statement on that matter. but i also like to affirm here that the coalition undertakes to abide by international

law and proportionate response in all its military operations. so i think that her response talking about the united of the part of the international community through the u a. e and their condemnation of the park on the way as opposed to how they react to, you know, not only, you know, the coalition, the tax and the president in florida, but also all of the attacks that are happening. and then either by the coalition or by the food piece is it's, it's a sign of how the international community is treat. you know, they're not an in person conflict, not in parking country. parts over the. it's being treated as you know, in the back yards of the go see, particularly the ravia. and the problem is that there are in many people advocating for an international arena, not even the government,

the international recognize government of yemen is advocating for, you know, for the rights of the money. because it's, you know, so basically just fighting with the saudis, with the coalition, against interest of the citizen, you know, in the country. so it's, it is, it's frustrating to see the international community react this way. but i, and i think that, you know, part of why yemen is not getting enough attention of the international arena, because the media doesn't cover much of the conflict in yemen. and also because i feel that, you know, the impact of the war in yemen hasn't really reach the european like countries like us say, you don't see, for example, refugees knocking on the people in those countries. and so not enough attention being given to the conflict in the hence why it's called the forgotten war. to me

is that an end in sight for the i'm going to say for the civilians like for protecting the civilians in yemen? is that possible? i think the only possibility for a peaceful, young and guy were civilians can live a normal life in yemen is for international parties to exit this war i have led through to some awards and yemen. osama is living through a war right now. maybe he has to in yemen. and prior to this war, we have not seen yemen, turn into the world's worst humanitarian crisis. people when they're fighting one another. they don't blockade themselves and prevent food and medicine from and entering or fuel come entering the country. the job target, their heritage side or their, you know, food storage site. so i think the hope that we have is for international coalitions to exit this war. so that yemen, you can come together and form some kind of coalition and mentoring. i'm kind of coalition government that will work for them. all right, thinking my input and had dale and osama really appreciate it and for the questions

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