The Disabled Is Not an Exception from the Saudi To-Target List in Yemen

The damage caused to the disabled as a result of the Saudi-led coalition and the siege is not limited to the loss of resources and warplanes targeting the infrastructure of the institutions of the disabled. The US-backed coalition has left thousands of disabilities.
In the context of reading the map of Yemeni civilians with disabilities as a result of the Saudi-led coalition, which deliberately targets population centers and civilian targets, we face even greater and more brutal massacres. These war crimes have reinforced the number of disabled civilians.
The most important of these massacres was the bombing carried out by the US-backed coalition on Mount Atan using a roadside bomb on 20 April 2015. Its destruction and injuries spread over seven square kilometers, a populated residential area crowded with people during the strike.
The mop or heat weapons left a large number of wounded civilians, most of them permanently disabled; either visually, audiologically or nervously. They were subjected to a permanent state of panic as a result of psychological trauma. A number of them limbs limb where the fragments of explosion and rocks in populated residential areas.
The second criminal incident was the bombing of the Grand Hall, Al-Kubra Hall, in the capital Sana’a, October 10. Only these two altars, among countless others, subjugated “more than a thousand victims of disability”.
Of the 1000 people with disabilities, 40 are leading figures in Yemen who have seen amputations. There are more major massacres, such as the Snapean wedding carnage, the Blue Camp war crime, the Indian Crimes, the local market crimes at the Mastaba, and many more. However, one of the most prominent war crimes is that the Saudi-led coalition and the continued blockade paralyze the capacities of official institutions and stops most civil organizations working in the care of the disabled.
The report of the Fund for the Care of the Disabled confirms the funding of about 125 associations working with people with disabilities in various governorates of the Republic, but most of them stopped because of the ongoing war led by Saudi Arabia as well as the result of the interruption of income. box.
All associations and physiotherapy centers operating for persons with disabilities have ceased to work in most governorates. Some 32 associations and physiotherapy centers in Taiz have stopped working, the total number of associations and centers working for persons with disabilities supported and funded by the Fund.
Twelve associations and centers in Shabwa and Abyan have stopped working because of the Saudi-led war. In addition, associations working for persons with disabilities supported by the Fund in Al-Dhal governorate have the same fate as the closure. A number of associations and physiotherapy centers working for persons with disabilities have returned to Aden. Associations and centers working with people with disabilities in Marib, Saada, and Al Jawf have completely stopped working.
The Executive Director of the Fund for the Care of the Disabled, Eng. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Dailami, said in the context of this survey report that during the past three years, the Fund has received about 10,000 new handicaps as a result of Saudi Arabia. The war left most of them with limb limbs.
He pointed out that this figure does not reflect the magnitude of the disaster as much as it reflects only what was officially recorded. There are double numbers that can not reach the fund for economic, geographic and health reasons, let alone the social reasons that make the Yemeni family reluctant to pay its wounds, which have become permanently disabled for pastoral rights and human rights, especially in these circumstances.
“Like other Yemeni civilians, people with disabilities in Yemen have been subjected to indiscriminate bombardments in the capital Sana’a and many governments, and because they can not migrate and move like others, they are at risk of death and serious wounds. Unarmed civilians “.
“The infrastructure and specialized centers were also hit by direct shelling, as was the case with the Noor Center for the Blind, which was surrounded by the homes of citizens and schools and the Mother Hospital for Motherhood and Childhood in Al-Safiya neighborhood in the capital Sana’a. The blind residents of the center were wounded while the building was badly damaged.
“There are other buildings with special needs affected, which means that the aggression on Yemen has caused a significant and unprecedented setback for people with disabilities at various levels.”
“The Fund is facing significant challenges, particularly the gap between the number of applicants who are constantly increasing, with insufficient income allocated to the Fund, which has fallen to record levels. The brutal aggression led to the destruction of a number of factories and institutions on which the Fund was based. This has made the Fund unable to purchase many of the medicines distributed by the Fund t

He emphasized that the Fund is the only official incubator for persons with disabilities in Yemen. It supports this important segment of society at both the individual and institutional levels. The Fund also provides educational services for persons with disabilities with various types of disabilities and in different stages of education, including higher education and academic institutions.

He also pointed out that, “the number of beneficiaries of the services of the Fund for the care and rehabilitation of the disabled at the end of last year amounted to about 150 thousand beneficiaries .. pointing out that the Fund branches in five Yemeni governorates provide services for persons with disabilities and the Fund provides services for all persons with disabilities from different governorates of the Republic. The Fund does not ask the disabled person of his or her geographical, political or any other type of affiliation. As long as the person who has reached the Fund is disabled, the service due to him shall be provided in accordance with the possibilities of the Fund and the available resources.”

Assistant Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood stressed that more than 50% of the wounded and the new disabled were not registered in the capital or governorates because of the stubbornness of Yemeni society and its insistence on survival and recovery without the need of anyone under these conditions, many people do not report disability cases to the competent authorities.

“The situation is that many of the injured from this group have developed into permanent hearing or visual impairment, paralysis or amputation. The announced numbers we hear about are not the final results,” he said.

Moreover, he pointed out that, “the preliminary results of accurate studies of the effects of Saudi-led coalition and weapons used in the war on Yemen confirm the existence of congenital malformations in the children of the previous three years, not to mention the health implications that will be revealed by the future according to a more specialized scientific vision.”

“What concerns us is the statement of the current evidence that the new congenital handicaps will be added to the millions of civilian disabled persons because of the internationally prohibited weapons used in the unprecedented war of aggression on Yemen,” he confirmed.

Despite the fact that Yemen is a signatory to the international conventions and protocols relating to the persons with disabilities, the international community represented by the United Nations – in terms of those with special needs – has not reacted to the increase in the number of victims of disability due to war. The UN also did not take any action regarding the targeting of their headquarters, including the Noor Center for the Blind in the capital Sana’a, which was targeted on 5 January 2016.

With this complicity and international silence, the international media did not lose independent free voices, which rejected all temptations, warning the countries of the alliance against Yemen against the repercussions of the tragic scene of the Yemeni people in general and the segment of people with special needs in particular. Whereas civilian organizations and international media outlets warned of the danger of the continuation of massacres of genocide in Yemen, stressing that the alarming indicators among the civilians doubled the numbers of Yemeni disabled civilians, women and children.

An international report published by Deutsche Welle at the end of last year on the suffering of people with special needs said that the number of people left behind by the war is similar to that of the Gulf countries, pointing out that the war has left about 92 thousand disabled people and that the wars and conflicts witnessed in this country In the past years caused the increase in the number of disabled, based on what he described as modest estimates, to more than 3 million and 700 thousand disabled from movement.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports that some 25,400 disabled persons benefit from its support for 2016, of which 12,800 received regular treatment, and 5,977 patients benefited from orthodontic devices Bones.