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- The #OpFeedYemen TweetSheet is part of Operation Yemen an initiative to inform the public about the ongoing war in Yemen that has killed over 100,000 people. If you have a Twitter account just click the link and it will automatically load the prewritten tweet all you have to do is click and tweet. The text may need minor corrections but the hard part is done. #OpYemen
The death toll in Yemen has reached 102,000 according to data released by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project in October of 2019. Since the war started in 2015, the United States government has maintained one steadfast talking point. The Houthis are an Iranian proxy in Yemen. Government officials and those in mainstream
media have repeatedly regurgitated this talking point without ever providing evidence to back up this claim.
(US Admits The Houthis Aren’t An Iranian Proxy As The Death Toll In Yemen Breaks 100k)
2. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/yemens-humanitarian-crisis/
The executive director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, David Beasley, said in
December 4, 2018, that more that 12 million people suffer from “severe hunger.”
demand an end to any and all US involvement in the war in Yemen #OpFeedYemen
3. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/yemenis-fleeing-violence-find-shelter-but-little-else-in-refugee-camps/
An average of 123 civilians die every week in Yemen, the United Nations said
Friday, as representatives from both sides of the country’s devastating
three-year civil war met for a second day in Sweden to try to halt the
violence. #OpFeedYemen
4. The Saudi-led war in #Yemen has left 14 million of Yemen’s
28 million people on the brink of famine. @SavetheChildren estimated 85k
children under the age of 5 have died from acute malnutrition. #OpFeedYemen
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-more-excuses-saudi-led-150400985.html
5. the War Powers Resolution states that “at any time that U.S.
Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the U.S.,
without a declaration of war, such forces shall be removed by the President if
the Congress so directs.” #JoeBiden end this war! #OpFeedYemen
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54/text
6. Congress has not declared war with respect to the conflict
between military forces led by Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, and Sudan (the Saudi-led coalition),
against the Houthis #OpFeedYemen #OpYemen
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54/text
7. end U.S. support in the Saudi Arabian led war in Yemen,
crucial to ending this humanitarian disaster for up to 14 million men, women
and children. Demand an end to the war in #Yemen OpFeedYemen
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/12/05/end-the-war-in-yemen-call-your-senators-today/
8. US involvement in Yemen is under the authority of the Trump
Administration w/o the consent or oversight of Congress. The US isnt at war
with Yemen but aiding Saudi Arabia with supplies personnel & a blockade tht
kills 130 children a day in #Yemen. #OpFeedYemen
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/11/16/counting-the-real-costs-of-the-war-on-yemen/
9. https://apnews.com/24ee4b33373a41d389e2599c5aa7bbfa Armed
Conflict Location & Event Data Project database gives an indication of the
scope of the disaster wreaked in Yemen by nearly 4 years of civil war. At least
57k people civilians and combatants have been killed since the beginning of
2016 #OpFeedYemen
10. Civilian casualties from attacks themselves are also dwarfed
by the number of civilians starved to death or otherwise killed by the Saudi
naval blockade, which is distinct from the UN figure provided by the UN refugee
agency of 1.5k. Pass #OpFeedYemen https://news.antiwar.com/2018/12/07/un-says-an-average-of-123-civilian-casualties-in-yemen-per-week/
11. “This unauthorized, unconstitutional war is not something we
ought to be fighting,” Sen. Mike Lee, Congress will vote soon to force the
Trump administration to withdraw U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in
Yemen, demand Congress Pass #OpFeedYemen
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/27/senate-vote-u-s-military-support-saudi-led-war-yemen/2120114002
12. Coalition airstrikes and a naval blockade imposed by
coalition forces in 2015 have pushed Yemen where over 80 percent of food is
imported to the brink of famine. The EU this year called it the “worst
humanitarian crisis in the world.” #OpFeedYemennow
https://www.dw.com/en/yemens-war-explained-in-4-key-points/a-40056866
13. Before the war, Yemen was a poor state, relying on imports
to feed the population, after being blockaded by the coalition for more than
five years, it faces famine. More than a million people have cholera, and
thousands have died from the disease. #OpFeedYemen
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/how-the-us-is-making-the-war-in-yemen-worse
14. More than 50k civilians and combatants have been killed and
at least 40k more injured since March 2015, the UN says. Well over half of the
dead and wounded have been caused by Saudi-led coalition air strikes.
#OpFeedYemen https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423
15. The war in Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian
crisis, with more than 22 million people or about three-quarters of the
population in desperate need of aid and protection, United Nations Secretary
General. End the war in Yemen pass #OpFeedYemen
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/middleeast/yemen-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-un-intl/index.html
16. The Yemeni people are suffering from the actions of
outsiders. Regional powers have turned the country into an arena for proxy
conflicts that have little to do with the interests of the Yemeni nation. End
US involvement in the war in Yemen #OpFeedYemen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/11/21/enough-is-enough-end-the-war-in-yemen/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.562aaf2a01a2
17. A series of leaked emails revealed that Saudi Arabia’s crown
prince and defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,
expressed a desire to end the war in Yemen during talks with former US
officials. Demand Congress pass #OpFeedYemen#OpYemen
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/saudi-arabia-war-yemen-strategic-failure-170823072854582.html
18. The overall death toll may have reached alarming levels,
according to one independent tally. Data collected by @ACLEDINFO, puts the
death toll at nearly 50,000 people in the period between January 2016 and late
July 2018. Demand Congress pass #OpFeedYemen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-deadly-war-in-yemen-rages-on-so-why-does-the-death-toll-stand-still-/2018/08/02/e6d9ebca-9022-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d282cc55b84b
19. Nearly 16m people in the country have food insecurity
ranging from crisis to catastrophe levels, including 10.8m at crisis levels, 5m
at emergency levels, & 65k people at catastrophe levels contact your state
leader and demand they vote for #OpFeedYemen
https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/World-News/2018/12/08/UN-agencies-warn-aid-is-needed-to-save-lives-in-Yemen/3591544292395
20. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. the U.N.
Children’s Fund & humanitarian partners released the report. In Yemen, 1.8m
children are acutely malnourished, which includes nearly 400k children
suffering severe acute malnutrition. #OpFeedYemen https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/World-News/2018/12/08/UN-agencies-warn-aid-is-needed-to-save-lives-in-Yemen/3591544292395/
21. #Yemen’s most innocent victims: 85k children under 5 may
have died from starvation, according to a UNICEF report Saudi Arabia is backed
by the U.S., which has supplied intelligence as well as billions of dollars’
worth of sophisticated weapons #OpFeedYemen https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/glimmer-of-hope-emerges-for-peace-in-yemen-as-humanitarian-crisis-worsens/
22. “This unauthorized, unconstitutional war is not something we
ought to be fighting,” – Sen. Mike Lee, Congress will vote soon to force the
Biden administration to withdraw U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in
Yemen, demand Congress stop supplying the KSA with weapons. #OpFeedYemen
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/27/senate-vote-u-s-military-support-saudi-led-war-yemen/2120114002
23. Coalition airstrikes and a naval blockade imposed by
coalition forces in 2015 have pushed Yemen where over 80 percent of food is
imported to the brink of famine. The EU this year called it the “worst humanitarian
crisis in the world.” OpFeedYemennow
https://www.dw.com/en/yemens-war-explained-in-4-key-points/a-40056866
24. Before the war, Yemen was a poor state, relying on imports
to feed the population, after being blockaded by the coalition since 2015 and it
faces famine. More than a million people have cholera, and thousands more have
died from the disease. #OpFeedYemen
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/how-the-us-is-making-the-war-in-yemen-worse
25. More than 100k have been killed and at least 40k more
injured since March 2015, the UN says well over half of the dead and wounded
have been caused by Saudi-led coalition air strikes. Stop this war and feed
Yemen #OpFeedYemen https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423
26. The war in Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian
crisis, with more than 22 million people or about three-quarters of the
population in desperate need of aid and protection according to the United
Nations Secretary General. End the war in Yemen #OpFeedYemen
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/middleeast/yemen-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-un-intl/index.html
