أخبار العالم : Yemeni Officials Warn of Corruption, Accuse Presidential Leadership Council of Inefficiency and Failure
نافذة على العالم - Yemeni Officials Warn of Corruption, Accuse Presidential Leadership Council of Inefficiency and Failure
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Hospitals are drawing their final breaths as critical medications and nutritional aid run dry. By July 2025, over 71 children had died from malnutrition, and more than 620 patients had died due to the collapse of basic health services. There is no justification for this. No excuse for allowing an entire population to face extinction in plain sight. More than 805 people have been killed and 5,200 injured while trying to reach food aid centres. At least 42 individuals have disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, 88% of Gaza's infrastructure has been destroyed, including bakeries and flour mills, rendering local food production nearly impossible. This is no longer about survival — it's about resisting a slow, engineered death. But the tragedy doesn't end within Gaza's borders. It extends outward — to those who were expected to intervene. The international community has largely responded with toothless statements of 'concern.' Even more damning, verified reports show that the US destroyed 500 tonnes of high-energy emergency food rations — supplies capable of feeding 1.5 million people for an entire week — rather than redirecting them to starving populations like Gaza. The food was destroyed. The lives were not saved. This isn't bureaucratic failure — it's documented complicity. The US has not merely failed to act; it has provided open military and political support to Israel, effectively moving from peace broker to active participant in this humanitarian collapse. No political calculus can justify this role. What adds to the confusion — and to the heartbreak — is the vocal support some public figures in the US have extended to President Donald Trump during the election, arguing he represents the 'last chance for peace' in the Middle East. Among those voices is Imam Bilal Al-Zuhairi, a respected Yemeni-American leader from the US Arab community. Al-Zuhairi played a notable role in mobilising Arab-American voters during the 2024 election, particularly in pivotal swing states like Michigan — a contribution many credit with tipping the scales in Trump's favour. At a campaign rally, Imam Al-Zuhairi declared: 'I personally believe God saved Trump's life twice for a reason — maybe to save thousands of lives in Gaza.' This statement struck many as both hopeful and perplexing. Trump had promised his Muslim supporters in Michigan that he would end ongoing wars — including the war on Gaza — that he would fight Islamophobia and bring Arab-Americans into his administration. But as of now, none of those promises have materialised, and Gaza continues to burn. Nothing has changed — except for the worsening of the suffering. Did we expect a humanitarian miracle from Trump? Is he really the hope we cling to for peace in Palestine? The sad truth is that all we've heard are promises. The reality is: Gaza is still being punished, starved, and killed. This is not an attack. This is not incitement. This is a painful, honest question: How can someone claim to be a beacon of peace while a famine unfolds on their watch? How many times will we repackage the same illusions, while innocent lives continue to vanish? Today's call is not about assigning blame. It is a call to conscience — a plea to the world to reclaim its humanity. The United Nations must act, not just to send aid, but to guarantee its delivery, impose a ceasefire, and protect the dignity of civilians being crushed before our eyes. But above all, this is a call to the people — the only true agents of change. To the peoples of Europe, to the conscience of Arab America, whose voices have swayed elections and moved the tides of history: your silence now is complicity. From Dearborn to New York, from London to Oslo, we urge you to raise your voices: 'Save Gaza.' This is not a political battle. It is a moral reckoning. Vote — not for empty promises — but for justice, for peace, for human dignity. And to the United Nations: Don't postpone your conscience. Don't wait for more bodies to pile up before you act. Being 'concerned' is not enough. We demand bold, immediate, and effective action. Saving Gaza is a test of our shared humanity — a test we cannot afford to fail. Dr. Marwa El-Shenawy – Academic and Writer
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Egypt Independent
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- Egypt Independent
An Indian family's fight to save this mother from execution in war-torn Yemen
CNN — Relatives of an Indian nurse on death row in war-torn Yemen are racing against time to commute her death sentence, in a case that has gripped India's media. Nimisha Priya was sentenced to death for the murder of her former business partner, a Yemeni national, whose body was discovered in a water tank in 2017. Her execution was initially scheduled for Wednesday, but Indian government sources said on Tuesday she had been given a last minute reprieve. She was given the death penalty by a court in capital Sanaa in 2020 and her family has been fighting for her release since, complicated by the lack of formal ties between New Delhi and the Huthis, who have controlled the city since the country's civil war broke out in 2014. India's media has devoted significant coverage to the case and human rights groups have called on the Huthis not to carry it out. Amnesty International on Monday urged the Huthis to 'establish a moratorium on all executions and commute (Priya's) and all existing death sentences as first steps.' It added: 'The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.' Priya's mother Prema Kumari, a domestic laborer from Kerala, who sold her home to fund her daughter's legal fees, has been in Yemen for more than one year to facilitate negotiations for her release. She last saw Priya on June 18, she told CNN. 'She looked tense,' Kumar said through tears. In accordance with Yemen's Islamic laws, Priya could be given clemency if the victim's family pardon her and accept her family's donation of 'diyah', often dubbed blood money, according to Samuel Joseph, a social worker assisting her family in the case. 'I am optimistic,' said Joseph, an Indian who has lived in Yemen since 1999. 'I'm spiriting the efforts here, and by god's grace, we got people who are helping. The government of India is directly involved and there's nothing more I can say at this point of time,' he told CNN. The Indian government sources said Tuesday the government has 'made concerted efforts in recent days to seek more time for the family of Ms. Nimishapriya to reach a mutually agreeable solution with the other party.' 'Despite the sensitivities involved, Indian officials have been in regular touch with the local jail authorities and the prosecutor's office, leading to securing this postponement.' Priya allegedly injected her business partner with a fatal overdose of sedatives, Joseph said. Her family maintain she was acting in self-defense and that her business partner was abusive and kept her passport from her after the country's civil war broke out. Her trial was held in Arabic and she was not provided with a translator, Joseph said. A group of activists and lawyers founded the Save Nimisha Priya Action Council in 2020 to raise money for Priya's release and negotiate with the victim's family. 'Negotiations have been a challenge,' said Rafeek Ravuthar, an activist and member of the council. 'The reality is that there is no Indian embassy, there is no mission in this country.' Rafeeq said about five million rupees (nearly $58,000) has been raised so far. In recent days, politicians from her home state of Kerala have requested India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and help secure Priya's release. 'Considering the fact this is a case deserving sympathy, I appeal to the Hon'ble Prime Minister to take up the matter,' Kerala's chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote in a letter to Modi. In February, Kirti Vardhan Singh, India's Minister of State for External Affairs told the upper house of parliament that the government 'accords the highest priority for the welfare of Indians abroad and provides all possible support to those who fall in distress including in the instant case.' He added: 'Government of India is providing all possible assistance in the case. The matter regarding any consideration towards the release of Ms. Nimisha Priya is between the family of the deceased and Ms. Nimisha Priya's family.' CNN has contacted India's foreign ministry for comment. View of Sanaa skyline, Yemen Jeremy Woodhouse/Move to Yemen Priya first arrived in Yemen in 2008, joining the ranks of more than two million people from Kerala who have sought better livelihoods across the Middle East. She found work as a nurse in a local hospital, nurturing hopes of establishing her own clinic and building a more secure future for her young daughter and husband, according to campaigners from the Save Nimisha Priya Council. Yemeni regulations, however, required foreign nationals to partner with a local to open a business. With the support of her husband, Priya borrowed from family and friends and in 2014 opened a clinic in Sanaa. 'We lived a normal happy married life,' her husband Tomy Thomas told CNN. 'My wife was very loving, hardworking and faithful in all that she did.' But her aspirations were soon overshadowed by the political conflict and turmoil that has beset Yemen for decades. That same year, Huthi rebels seized the capital, ousting the internationally recognized Saudi-backed government. By 2015, the unrest had escalated into a devastating civil war, leaving the country fractured and unstable. For foreign nationals, the deteriorating security situation made Yemen an increasingly perilous place to live and work. Many chose to evacuate, but Priya decided to remain. Those supporting her family say that she stayed on, determined to salvage the life and business she had worked hard to build. India does not maintain formal diplomatic relations with the Huthis, nor does it have an operational embassy in Yemen. All consular and diplomatic affairs related to the country are instead handled through the Indian Embassy in Djibouti, across the Red Sea. CNN has contacted the Indian embassy in Djibouti. For those working to save Priya, that meant navigating complex communication channels and facing additional hurdles in seeking help, legal aid, or protection while stranded in a nation still wracked by conflict and instability. Yemen was among the top five countries in 2024 with the highest number of executions, according to Amnesty International. Amnesty said it confirmed the Huthis carried out at least one execution in areas they control in 2024 but added that it was possible more took place. Priya's mother, Kumari, said she was 'grateful for everyone's support,' adding she is happy has been able to see Priya over the course of this year. Priya's husband and daughter remain in Kerala, hopeful for her release. 'My wife is very good, she is very loving,' Thomas said. 'That is the sole reason I am with her, supporting her and will do so till the end.'
