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Credit: al-Akhbar

Mass Rallies Across Yemen Denounce Saudi-Led War and Blockade

Peoples Dispatch January 10, 2023 Peoples Dispatch

The United States has been supplying weapons to the Saudi-led international coalition and helping the coalition implement a blockade of Yemen, despite announcing in 2021 an end to its role in the war.

The Saudi-led international coalition intervened in the Yemen conflict in 2015. It has also imposed a land and sea blockade. According to UNICEF, around 11 million Yemeni children are directly affected by the war and around 2.2 million of them are extremely malnourished / credit: Press TV

Over 11,000 Yemeni Children Have Been Killed or Injured Since 2015, Reports UNICEF

Peoples Dispatch December 13, 2022 Peoples Dispatch

The Saudi-led international coalition intervened in the Yemen conflict in 2015. It has also imposed a land and sea blockade. According to UNICEF, around 11 million Yemeni children are directly affected by the war and around 2.2 million are extremely malnourished, reports Peoples Dispatch.

FIrefighters in Gaza tackled in 2014 a fire caused by an Israeli missile strike on an United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East storehouse / credit: Ashraf Amra / APA images

Israel’s Blockade Leaves Gaza’s Firefighters Badly Equipped

Ghada Al-Haddad December 6, 2022 Ghada Al-Haddad

Gaza has between 450 and 500 emergency responders, including firefighters. First responders are supposed to be protected under the Geneva Conventions. However, many have been killed during Israel’s aggressions against Gaza since 2008, reports Ghada Al-Haddad for Electronic Intifada.

A mass rally in Havana, Cuba, has started with former President Raul Castro, President Diaz-Canel and the Cuban 5 at the front. Thousands of supporters of the government have been arriving since 5 am on Havana’s Malecon, just a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy / credit: CubaDebate

If You Grew Up With the U.S. Blockade as a Cuban, You Might Understand the Recent Protests Differently

Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad July 21, 2021 Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad

During the early morning of July 17, tens of thousands of Cubans gathered along the Malecón boulevard in Havana to stand with the Cuban Revolution.

Cuban medical brigade doctors in 2020

The United States Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans Are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic

Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad July 15, 2021 Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad

If the U.S.-imposed blockade ended, many of the great challenges facing Cuba would lift.

Cuban activist Carlos Lazo getting ready to start his march from Miami to Washington, D.C. / credit: Tighe Barry

How One Cuban Is Leading the Charge to Transform U.S.-Cuba Policy

Medea Benjamin July 9, 2021 Medea Benjamin

Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cubans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

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