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The Houthis' siege of Abdia suspends 18 schools and deprives 8,000 of education

English - Monday 11 October 2021 الساعة 09:40 am

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Marib, NewsYemen:

The Yemeni Teachers Syndicate said that the siege imposed by the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm, on the Al-Abdiya district in the Marib governorate caused the suspension of the educational process in 18 schools, which led to the deprivation of at least eight thousand students from continuing education and the suffering of more than one hundred and eighty-three teachers.

In this regard, the union appealed to President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to intervene urgently to save the people of Abdiya, and also called on the Arab coalition, the international community, the United Nations, the International Organization for Education, UNICEF and all international human rights organizations, for immediate and urgent legal support to save teachers and their families.  By pressing towards breaking the siege or opening safe corridors for the besieged.

In its appeal, the Teachers Syndicate also called for solidarity, strongly and in various ways, with the besieged teachers, their families and all the people of Al-Abdiyyah. The union said that it is studying what can be done to escalate to the highest possible level in solidarity with the teachers and all the people of Al-Abdiyyah.

The Yemeni Teachers Syndicate indicated that more than 183 families of male and female teachers among 5000 families are the population of the Abdiya district in the Marib governorate, which totals 35,000 individuals, including 9,000 children and 3,000 women, who have been living under an unjust and suffocating siege imposed by the Houthi militia on the district for more than three weeks . 

Pointing out that the unjust siege on slavery has deprived thousands of families of the most basic necessities of life from medicine, food and milk for children, which led to the death of three citizens due to the unjust siege, in a crime against humanity prohibited and criminalized by all international laws and heavenly laws.