Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced from Yemen’s coastal province of Hodeidah, as pro-Saudi forces invaded the area with an eye toward eventually seizing the last port held by Shi’ite Houthi forces.
The civilians say they were facing terrifying mortar attacks, with rockets flying overhead and landmines ripping people to shreds. Amnesty International is reporting that the worst is yet to come, however, for the entire nation, as this offensive worsens.
That’s because as the last Houthi port, Hodeidah is the lone source of humanitarian aid for roughly half of the country. That makes it a “strategic target,” but the fall of the port also means that half of the country, the half already on the brink of starvation and recovering from a record large cholera epidemic, will be under even tighter siege.
A number of aid groups have warned against attacking Hodeidah, on the grounds it could lead to the deaths of millions. With the war largely stalemated elsewhere pro-Saudi forces have advanced into the area anyhow, expecting control of the port to tilt the war decisively in their favor.
It is a genocide — open and acknowledged. Nirth Yemen is targeted as it is inhabited by Shia populations. Both Israel and United States are targeting Shia population on ghe basis of having the same religion as Iran. Thus genocide is justified. Thus the fury eith Lebanese Hezbolah, open apartheid in Bahrain, hatred towards Assad, and unrelenting US insistence to stay in Iraq. And since nobody on this planet will help poor Yemen to survive — the weak one is targeted for extinction first.
It wont work. They’ll have to literally kill them all. They might as well call it Vietnam 2. So many will die but it wont work. You cannot defeat a people determined to be free. It quite simply cannot be done. In the end the Houthi will prevail.
Sad how Trump supports genocide of Yemen by backing the terrorist state of Saudi Arabia.