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Ett undernärt barn på en klinik i Hodeidah, 27 september. (Hani Mohammed / TT NYHETSBYRÅN/ NTB Scanpix)

Rebeller militariserar sjukhus i Hodeidah

Huthirebeller i Jemen har omvandlat ett sjukhus i hamnstaden Hodeidah till en militär befästning med prickskyttar, varnar Amnesty enligt The Independent. Människorättsorganisationen uppger att rebellerna använder civila som mänskliga sköldar.

Flera hjälporganisationer har slagit larm om att ”katastrofala” konsekvenser av de uppblossade striderna mellan rebellerna och den saudiskt ledda koalitionen i staden.

Under dagen uppges även en klinik som drivs med stöd av Rädda barnen ha beskjutits, vilket tillintetgjort dess förråd av livsviktiga mediciner.

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The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing conflict that began in 2015 between two factions: the then-incumbent Yemeni government, led by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and the Houthi militia, along with their supporters and allies. Both claim to constitute the Yemeni government. Houthi forces controlling the capital Sana'a, and allied with forces loyal to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, have clashed with forces loyal to the government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, based in Aden. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have also carried out attacks, with AQAP controlling swathes of territory in the hinterlands, and along stretches of the coast.On 21 March 2015, after taking over Sana'a and the Yemeni government, the Houthi-led Supreme Revolutionary Committee declared a general mobilization to overthrow Hadi and further their control by driving into southern provinces. The Houthi offensive, allied with military forces loyal to Saleh, began on the next day with fighting in Lahij Governorate. By 25 March, Lahij fell to the Houthis and they reached the outskirts of Aden, the seat of power for Hadi's government; Hadi fled the country the same day. Concurrently, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched military operations by using airstrikes to restore the former Yemeni government and the United States provided intelligence and logistical support for the campaign. According to the UN and other sources, from March 2015 to December 2017, 8,670–13,600 people have been killed in Yemen, including more than 5,200 civilians, as well as estimates of more than 50,000 dead as a result of a ongoing famine due to the war. In 2018, the United Nations warned that 13 million Yemeni civilians face starvation in what it says could become "the worst famine in the world in 100 years."Many states have sharply condemned the Saudi Arabian-led intervention, which has included widespread bombing of civilian areas.

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