{"id":3489,"date":"2019-04-03T17:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:26:32","slug":"yemen-war-casualties-on-the-rise-since-ceasefire-agreement-agencies-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/04\/03\/yemen-war-casualties-on-the-rise-since-ceasefire-agreement-agencies-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen war: Casualties on the rise since ceasefire agreement, agencies warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/yemen-war-ceasefire-stockholm-agreement-death-toll-a8828866.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The much publicised Stockholm agreement, which was supposed to pave the way to end\u00a0the carnage of the\u00a0Yemen<\/a>\u00a0war, has had such little effect that the number of civilian casualties has actually gone up significantly in some parts of the country since the deal was signed three months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The much publicised Stockholm agreement, which was supposed to pave the way to end\u00a0the carnage of the\u00a0Yemen<\/a>\u00a0war, has had such little effect that the number of civilian casualties has actually gone up significantly in some parts of the country since the deal was signed three months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In just two areas, Hajjah and Taiz, the figures for those killed, 164 and 184 respectively, have doubled in that time. One attack this month, in the district of Kushar, claimed the lives of 12 children and 10 women<\/a>, and left 30 others, 14 of them children, wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 788 died across the country since the meeting in Sweden \u2013 318 of them through indiscriminate shelling. More than 1,600 homes, 385 farms, 47 businesses and 13 schools were hit in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statistics, compiled separately by Oxfam International and the Civilian Impact Monitoring Project, in conjunction with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), illustrate the extent to which the Stockholm agreement is being flouted, say welfare groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oxfam pointed out that, on average, one person is being killed every eight hours and that 56 of the dead since the signing of the deal were young girls and boys \u2013 \u201ca number that would fill two classrooms in an English primary school\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muhsin Siddiquey, the Yemen country director for Oxfam, said: \u201cEvery day that passes without concrete progress towards peace, more Yemenis lose their lives and the suffering deepens for those struggling to find food and shelter amid the world\u2019s worst humanitarian disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe backers of the warring parties are complicit in this manmade crisis; we call on them to stop arming the belligerents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamed Abdi, NRC\u2019s country director for Yemen, said that while international focus had been on a ceasefire on the port city of Hodeidah<\/a>, \u201cthe war is intensifying in other parts of the country with a devastating and deadly impact on civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The details of continuing suffering came as the warring parties, who pledged in Stockholm to push for peace, continued fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houthi forces claimed the coalition of Sunni states led by Saudi Arabia<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates they are battling is about to launch an offensive in breach of the Hodeidah truce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Houthis<\/a>, who have been backed in the conflict by Iran and the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah, threatened retribution, claiming they have a \u201cstockpile of missiles\u201d ready to be launched against Riyadh and Abu Dhabi if the Sunni states, and the government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi they back, carry out the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonel Yahya Sarea, of the Houthi forces, stated: \u201cWe have intelligence asserting that the enemy is preparing for an escalation in Hodeidah and we are following their movements closely. Our forces stand ready for any requested and adequate measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maged Al-Madhaji, executive director of the Sanaa Centre for Strategic Studies, commented that \u201cthe stockpile of Yemeni ballistic missiles is quite old. But the Houthis are getting expertise on them and they are being helped in this by the Iranians and Hezbollah\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut it is not just missiles, they are also developing drone technology \u2013 don\u2019t forget how close one came to Riyadh, a thousand kilometres from the border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking during a visit to the think tank Chatham House in London on Monday, he continued: \u201cThe Stockholm agreement is not working, it had no political chance, it is there to save the face of the UN. The people in Yemen blame both sides for this.\u201dVideo shows damaged buildings and homes in Yemen village hit by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn one side you have the Saudis killing civilians, bombing schools and hospitals, fighting a war in just the way it shouldn\u2019t be fought. But on the other side you have the Houthis, and the world does not really care what they are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have shelled civilian areas and when they leave an area they leave behind mines without any maps: so many people have died from these mines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd one of the most significant players in this war has been al-Qaeda, they have been successful, they have been able to recruit people, get more money, more weapons, become powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aysha Thawab, of the Abs Foundation in Hajjah, a welfare group, pointed out the terrible hardship faced by women. \u201cViolence against women has reached an unprecedented level in Yemen. So many men are away fighting or have fled that many women have to provide everything for their families from security to food, to water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are exposed to real danger and there are many, many victims. And this is going on months after Stockholm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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