A Cholera Outbreak is Killing the Children of Yemen, So What is the Value of the United Nation’s Appeal??
A cholera outbreak in Yemen is spreading rampantly,
and posing an additional danger to the children, according to the UN.
Similarly, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is saying, as reported by the
Yemeni Ministry of Health, that there have been eight cases of cholera, most of
whom are children, registered within a single Yemeni district in the capital of
Sanaa. It indicates to the scarcity of water suitable for drinking which has
led to the situation being aggravated. Julien Harneis, UNICEF representative in
Yemen, said, “This outbreak adds to
the misery of millions of children in Yemen..." and added, “Children are
at a particularly high risk if the current cholera outbreak is not urgently
contained..." (UNICEF)
The healthcare system in Yemen, the
poorest country in the Middle East, is collapsing with the continuation of the
armed conflict. Meanwhile, the children are living through a real humanitarian by
the countries of the Arab coalition. Their targeting has become systematic
aiming to destroy the health infrastructure represented in hospitals, health
centres, clinics, emergency health units, medicine storage and health offices.
From another aspect, the Houthi militias are working to narrow the siege in
different districts and are confiscating medical supplies according to what Human
Right Watch has reported.
Yemen’s children are being killed in these
armed conflicts; and what further aggravates the humanitarian disaster making
it a war crime of the highest degree is the increase of the suffering and
deaths through preventing food and medicine from reaching the hospitals and
their direct (military) targeting.
The human rights and humanitarian
organisations appeal to the UN and international community to move urgently in
respect to Yemen. At the same time, the international law allows the “siege”, and
the attacks of the Arab coalition are not condemned as they are considered to
be for the sake of supporting “the legitimate government” in Yemen. For how
long will the international community and the UN be wagered upon to come to
save the children of Yemen at a time where the stances of their responsibility is
to not go beyond a call for “self-restraint” and expressing their worry about
what is happening or an implicit call for western military intervention within
the region in the name of protecting human rights?!
The three issues: “War, starvation and
disease” are annihilating the children of Yemen. Cholera may well be the most
threatening of epidemics for children if immediate treatment is not available
in the form of medicine, food and water. It is a tragedy beyond words, and the signs
of starvation and the spread of diseases warn of a horrendous humanitarian
disaster. Until when and to what extent will this suffering continue?! The
children of Yemen are a part of the children of the Islamic Ummah thus who do
we depend upon from this Ummah to save them and to put an end to the
disaster??!
O people of power and preventative
protection in the Muslim lands, O Muslim armies, O pilots of Saudi, UAE, Egypt,
Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Morocco and Pakistan, O those who are leading
the Decisive Storm! Are you content to point your weapons, missiles and tanks
towards the chests of the Muslims whilst you have refused to fight their enemies
with them? Have you been able to unite and come together to serve malicious
colonialist plans whilst you have been incapable of coming together to repel
it, expel it and avenge those of our Ummah who have been made to taste woes and
sufferings??!
The armies of Egypt were brazen enough to
bomb Libya and the Sinai under the pretext of fighting “terrorism” whilst
Jordan, the UAE, Morocco and others are bombing Syria and Iraq alongside US
aircraft. The same applies to the Pakistan army in respect to its bombing of
the tribal region and so on… Has the time not come for you to provide support
to your Ummah against its real and true enemies and take the stance of one
single man to provide support to it and rise up against the wretched rulers,
the agents of colonialism?!
Verily, the children of Yemen are an
Amaanah (trust) upon your necks and their protection falls under protecting
your own children. So do not neglect this great obligation and do not disappoint
and betray them. Their protection will not happen except by the establishment
of the real state that will foster and care for them fearing Allah regarding their
wellbeing. It is the Islamic state that will be a protective fortress, a shield
and guard for all Muslims. So tread the path towards it and establish it so
that you can attain the good of both the life of this world and the Hereafter.
Women’s Section
in
the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
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