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Education Under Bombardment

Violations Monitoring Report for Oct 2020

Education Under Bombardment

October 2020 Monitoring Report

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Report of Human Rights Violations in Taiz Governorate during October 2020

Monitored by the field team of the

Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRITC

Title P.

General situation 6

Heavy bombing 6

Education under bombardment and Rubble 7

The security situation and the increase in assassinations 8

The The Content Health status 9

Statistics 10

Infographic 18

Contact information 19

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General situation:

The intensity of the conflict escalated in Taiz during last October, and with it the grave violations, some of which amounted to war crimes and flagrant violations of the rules of international humanitarian law, increased. The educational and health facilities received the largest share of the bombing and the grave breach, and the videos and images that were reported by the media outlets and the activists' pages had a great impact in transmitting the state of terror and panic that afflicted students in schools, the College of Arts and Al-Amal Hospital for treating cancer patients.

Heavy bombing: According to the HRITC field team monitoring and matching this according to the various international and human rights reports, Taiz witnessed a dysfunctional security situation, as the Houthi militia controlling the eastern highlands surrounding the city of Taiz intensified its bombing of residential neighbourhoods densely populated with civilians than any month ago so that hardly a day passes without The occurrence of indiscriminate bombing may continue throughout the day.

The field team of the Human Rights Information and Training Center - HRITC monitored the places that the Houthi militia focused on bombing it with various medium and heavy artillery weapons, especially the eastern neighbourhoods of the city, such as Al-Jahmiliya, Al-Jumhori neighbourhood, Al-Zahra neighbourhood, Jabal Al-Shamasi neighborhood, Al-Haraziyah neighborhood, Al-Komb neighbourhood, Al-Thawra, Al-Ashraf neighbourhood, Hasnat neighbourhood, and the old governorate building in the district Salh.

It directly targeted Al-Amal Hospital for Cancer Diseases, the schools located in it, as well as the College of Arts, which was bombed twice while students were in it, one of which was on October 4, in which these neighbourhoods were bombed with more than 70 artillery shells, and another on October 24, from their locations in the Sofitel and Al-salal hill (Tebba Al-salal).

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The Houthi militia also bombed the Dhabab area in Jabal Habashi and the village of Al Shaqab in the Sabr Al Mawadim District. October 15 was a bloody day due to the intense and systematic bombing of eastern residential neighbourhoods, such as Jahmiliya, Al-Askari neighbourhood and others, and Doctors Without Borders announced that it had received 38 wounded civilians as a result of the bombing, including a 5-year-old child, in addition to a person who died upon his arrival at the hospital, according to a statement on that bloody day.

On October 24, the Houthi militia bombed the Al-Amal Hospital for treating cancer patients, the College of Arts, and the eastern residential neighbourhoods, as well as the overcrowded Al-Samil market (Souq Al-Samil), in the Cairo district, and next to Al-Suwaidi Hospital in the fourth point (Alnoqta Alraba') with an anti-aircraft fire. The artillery shelling of the Houthi militia killed 7 civilians, including a woman and a child, and wounded 63 civilians, including 3 women and 12 children, and the Houthi bombing on the first of October of the Water Project neighbourhood resulted in a woman being subjected to miscarriage.

On the other hand, the field team of the Human Rights Information and Training Center - HRITC also monitored the bombing of government forces in the Domla neighbourhood near the May 22 school in Sala on October 11, and another artillery bombardment on October 16 on the Al-Salal neighbourhood in the Salh district, and the two bombings killed two children and wounded 5 civilians, among them 3 children.

Education under bombardment and Rubble:

As soon as the new school year began and the students began to go to their schools, they became a daily target for the Houthi militia's cannons stationed in (Tibet Softail) Hill of the Softail and Al-salal. On their first day of school, which coincided with the fourth of October, a number of eastern neighbourhoods of the city witnessed intense shelling with more than 70 shells on a number of schools and the College of Arts, causing great panic among

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The security situation and the increase in assassinations:

The security situation increases from time to time in the liberated areas from the Houthi militia, despite the efforts made to stabilize and enhance security in those areas. The HRITC field team monitored 5 assassinations that occurred during the month of October, two cases for each member of the government army and the fifth for unknown gunmen, resulting in the killing of 4 civilians. Members of the army killed two of them, and another unidentified armed man were killed as well as militants outside the state. Two civilians were wounded by armed men outside the framework of the state, while another escaped death at their hands, as follows: -On October 3, the Aqil (Associate) Al-Tawhid neighbourhood, Ezzadin Mohsen Al-Yafei, was assassinated by a soldier in the Military Police. -On October 4, Abdul Rahim Al-Fateh, 42, Director General of Al-Mokha Directorate, escaped the attempt to assassinate him, while his companion, Abdullah Al-Sulaymani, 25, was killed by gunmen outside the framework of the state, "the Abu Al-Abbas Brigades" militants, and another was wounded in the public street in Al-Mokha District. -On October 10, Dr. Wagdy Yassin Farea Al-Dargash was assassinated in front of his house in the Bani Masin area, south of Taiz, by a gunman belonging to one of the factions in the government army.

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-On October 16, Abdullah Al-Askari was assassinated in Khatt Al-Asabah in Al- Turbah city by unknown gunmen -On October 20, the director of Tha'bat Police Department, Mohammad Abdullah Al-Sufyani, 45, was injured in the explosion of an explosive device by militants outside the state in Tha'bat neighbourhood, next to the Uqba bin Nafi school in district Salh. Since the beginning of October, there have been three incidents of explosions with IEDs targeting security and military patrols, and the security services have not yet revealed the circumstances of these three incidents and who is behind them.

Health status: On the health side, Taiz Governorate is still suffering from an outbreak of many diseases and fevers, amid scarce efforts to confront it due to the siege imposed on the city for nearly six years, which affected the scarcity of medicines, vaccines, treatment doses, etc., in addition to targeting hospitals and health centers with intense bombardment, which made them less ready to receive the patients. The Houthi militia’s bombing of the Al-Amal Center for Treating Cancer Patients with a number of artillery shells while dozens of patients and their families were present, wounding two workers, damaging the center and endangering the lives of those present. The Deputy Director of the Media and Health Education Department at the Ministry of Health office in the governorate, Tayseer Al-Sama’i, confirmed in a media statement that the number of cases of fevers in Taiz governorate since the beginning of this year until October 25 amounted to about six thousand and 879 cases, including four deaths. According to Tayseer Al-Sama’i, the Cairo district recorded the highest number of injuries, reaching 2,352 cases. Al-Sama’i said in a post on Facebook that the suspected cases of acute watery diarrhoea amounted to about 32 thousand and 188 cases, including nine deaths.

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Statistics:

The field team detected 349 violations during October 2020 in Taiz Governorate, which were as follows:

MONITORING STATISTICS FOR OCTOBER Public and private Killed property Assaults 6% Killed 13% 0% Injuries Freedom of speech 3% Injuries Displacement 27% Kidnapping and enforced Kidnapping and disappearance enforced Freedom of speech disappearance 14% Assaults

Public and private property Displacement 37%

The type of violation Total Cases of Violation Code

Killing 20 civilians killed

Injury 95 civilians injured

Displacement 128 families

Kidnapping and enforced 49 civilians disappearance

Freedom of speech 12 cases of violation

Assaults One case of assault

Public property 5 cases of public property

Private property 39 cases of violation of private property

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Killed:

20 civilians killed

Men Women Children 14 Men One Women 5 Children

 Cause of murder:

Houthi militia shells: 7 civilians, including a woman and two children Sniper bullets of the Houthi militia: 3 civilians Direct bullets from the Houthis: One civilian Direct bullets by militants outside the state: 3 civilians An explosion inside an army camp: one child Artillery shelling by multiple factions in the government army: two children Direct bullets fired by multiple factions in the government army: two civilians Direct bullets by unknown gunmen: one civilian

Injuries:

95 injured civilians, including severe cases:

Men Women Children 70 Men 5 Women 20 Children

 Cause of injury: Sniping by bullets of the Houthi militia: 5 civilians, including two women and two children

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Houthi militia shells: 63 civilians, including 3 women and 12 children By direct bullets by gunmen outside the state's borders: 3 civilians, including a child The explosion of an explosive device for militants outside the state: one civilian Assault by gunmen outside the framework of the state: 3 civilians By direct bullets, by unidentified gunmen: Two civilians An explosive device planted by unidentified persons exploded: 10 civilians, including two children An attempt to kill a sharp bale by unidentified gunmen: two civilians Shot by members of the government army: One civilian. Artillery shelling by multiple factions in the government army: 5 civilians, including 3 children

Many of these injuries resulted in amputations of some of the organs, leaving more physical disabilities for those injured by mines, shells, and others.

Displacement: The International Organization for Migration monitored displacement (128 families) The IOM Yemen Displacement Tracking Matrix tracked the displacement of 62 families in Taiz between 4 and 10 October and the displacement of 66 families between 18 and 24 October.

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Kidnapping and enforced disappearance: The HRITC field team documented 11 incidents of arrest, abduction and enforced disappearance of 49 civilians, including 6 children. The Houthi militia committed 4 cases, of which 20 civilians were arrested, including a girl, and armed personnel in the army committed 3 other cases, in which 15 civilians were arrested, including 5 Children. Qout AlYamaina Almoshtraqa (The Yemeni joint forces) in the West Coast committed one case, during which they kidnapped 11 civilians, and unidentified persons committed 3 cases in which 3 civilians were kidnapped, including a child. These cases were as follows: - On October 2, Sultan Saif Hasan Al-Bajah, 70, was arrested in the evening in the village of Al-Madhafa, the isolation of Bani Bakari in Jabal Habashi, by members of the government army, "soldiers of the seventh battalion of the 17th brigade." Ten other civilians, including five children, were arrested by members of the government army, "Soldiers of the 7th Battalion, Brigade 17" from the Qat market in Gil Bani Bakari in Jabal Habashi at ten in the morning, and they are: 1- Mashhur Sultan Ahmed Ali, 18 years old 2- Abd al-Khaliq Muti` Mansur Abdo Saif, 13 years old 3- Abdul Aziz Issa Saeed Tarboush, 16 years old 4- Issa Hazaa Musleh, the commander, 22 years old 5- Najeeb Muhayoub Ali Muhammad Al Saket, 20 years old 6- Wael Othman Ahmed Noman Al-Asimi, 18 years old 7- Muammar Mohammad Ghaleb Al-Bazoura, 20 years old 8- Zakaria Radwan Saeed Tarboush, 17 years old 9- Faris Fouad Ahmed Saeed, 16 years old 10- Bakil Ali Fadel Saeed, 15 years old

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- Four civilians were arrested by the government army, "Soldiers of the 7th Battalion of the 17th Brigade" in the village of Al-Madhafa, Isla Bani Bakari, Jabal Habashi, and they are: 1- Hisham Sultan Saif Hassan, 19 years old 2- Essam Abdel Hakim Mohamed Tarboush, 20 years old 3- Ismail Abdo Ali Othman, 20 years old 4- Abdullah Ibrahim Ahmed Thabet Al-Tuwairi, 21 years old

- On October 13, 11 civilians were kidnapped and disappeared by the joint Yemeni forces in the western coast, "Tariq Saleh Forces" in Al-Arouk area in Mokha, and they are: 1- Walid Abdul-Razzaq Al-Fadhli, 25 years old 2- Adel Bahiji Abdullah Ismail, 22 years old 3- Bashir Qaid Abdu Hammoud Al Mahmoudi, 30 years old 4- Ali Ghanem Ghaylan, 40 years old 5- Hashem Mohammad Muhammad Al-Dhali, 32 years old 6- Ahmed Ali Ahmed Ali Asiri, 26 years old 7- Bassam Abdullah Hizam Mohammad al-Qudsi, 24 years old 8- Ismail Omar Mohammad Muzeireq, 27 years old 9- Mohammad Abdo Ali Muhammad Al-Ruwe'i, 35 years old 10- Abdo Mayad Mohammad Saad, 25 years old 11- Haitham Mohammad Ali Abdullah, 21 years old

On October 19, the Houthi militia, about 12 shop owners, took them to Al-Saleh prison in Al-Hawban area. - On October 20, the activist Fahim Abd Al-Ghani Abdo Ali, 35, was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by unknown gunmen in Al-Masbah neighborhood, next to Al-Salam Hall in the Cairo District.

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- On October 22, the 15-year-old child, Mohammad Jamil Argash Al-Mashwali, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Al-Duhi neighborhood of Al-Mudhaffar District. On the same day, unknown gunmen kidnapped Mahyoub Qaid Ahmed Al-Waqar, 60, in front of the Public Prosecution Office, and took him to an unknown destination. - On October 24, four Houthi gunmen kidnapped a 14-year-old girl in Al-Rahada, and took her to an unknown location. - On October 25, the Houthi militia kidnapped the young Hamza, son of Al-Barti, and another citizen called Abdul Majeed Abdo Al-Sharabi, and transferred them to an unknown destination. - On October 28, the Houthi militia closed a petrol station belonging to the citizen Mohammad Sultan Shaddad in the Al-Hawban area, and arrested Mohammad Shaddad, 3 of his brothers and his son.

Freedom of speech: Freed The field team of the Human Rights Information and Training Center - HRITC om of documentedspeec 12 cases of violation in three incidents, two of which were committed by harmed men outside the framework of the state, and the third was committed by members of the government army, as follows:

- On October 8, the Yemen Shabab channel crew, which consisted of 9 people, was assaulted and 3 of them were injured as a result of an attack by armed men outside the state's framework on them in the village of Al-Mashjab in Al-Mawasat at 4:30 pm, and they are: 1- Mohammad Mahyoub Qassem Al-Meliki, 28 years old - injured photographer 2- Abu Bakr Mohammad Al-Yousfi, 25 years old, injured photographer 3- Ayman Ali Al-Mikhlafi, 30 years old, injured photographer 4- Fuad Abdullah Al-Salami, 40 years old - lighting engineer 5- Fadl Anam 21 years old - continue production

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6- Fawaz Al-Maqtari, 40 years old - director 7- Abd Al-Malik Al-Zariqi, 35 years old - producer and presenter 8- Abdul Hakim Anam, 23 years old - Program Coordinator 9- Iyad Al-Qurashi, 20 years old - services

- On the same day, the 30-year-old artist, Abd al-Rahman Muntadhar Al-Mikhlafi, was beaten by gunmen outside the framework of the state next to al-Shaab School in the Cairo District. - On October 21, the correspondent of the Yemen Satellite Channel, Abeer Abdullah Abd al-Wahid Marsh, 35, and the cameraman Muhammad Hammoud al- Qiyadhi, 22, were assaulted by the head of operations of the 145th Brigade, next to the Taawon Park in the Cairo District.

Assault:

The field team of the Human Rights Information and Training Center - HRITC documented one case of assault committed by a gunman outside the framework of the state and his wife, who on October 16th attacked the physically disabled Yasser Al-Sharjabi at his home in Damna Khadir.

Public and private property: As a result of the intensification of the fighting and the intense daily bombardment by the militias. The field monitoring team was currently unable to monitor all public and private properties that were subjected to total and partial damage, and what was monitored constitutes a very small part of what was affected, especially in the villages that are bombed intensively daily and displace their inhabitants.

Where 44 cases of violation of properties were documented and monitored as follows:

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5 cases of public property:

The Houthis bombed Al-Amal Hospital for Cancer Diseases, the yard of the 7 July School, the yard Al-Mithaq School, Al-Shaheed Al-Thulaya School, and the College of Arts.

39 cases of private property violation were documented as follows: • 4 houses were completely damaged, 11 houses were partially, and 9 vehicles were damaged as a result of the bombing by the Houthi militia. • A house bombed by Al-Houthi militia. • The Houthi militia raided the shops of a number of citizens in the city of Rahadah, confiscated the new edition of the currency, attacked the owners of shops and shops selling sweets, opened fire, and forced many merchants to hand over the sums. A number of shops were closed under the pretext of dealing with the new edition of the currency. • Al-Houthi militia stormed 4 homes • Closing down an oil station, stealing more than 5 million Yemeni riyals, and detaining 6 oil tankers and selling them by the Houthi militia. • The "Al Tashih" school was stormed by unknown gunmen, and the records and documents of male and female students were torn apart and thrown outside the school fence.

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