“Al-Shariya” – a stricken village.. burned trees, dead livestock, & homes razed to the ground
When the horizon of the village trembles to the thunder of death, silence is no longer possible. In that stricken spot that the treacherous Saudi aggression violated, life turned in moments into total destruction and ash.
The cowardly airstrikes were not content with demolishing stone in “Al-Shariya” village in Bani Hushaysh District of Sanaa Governorate; they targeted every detail pulsing with life and humanity, writing with their blood bloody chapters of absolute cruelty.
A loaf of bread never eaten.. and “Umm Ahmed” on a date with absence
At the lunch table that was never completed, “Umm Ahmed” was moving her hands tenderly between dough and flour, preparing the last loaves of bread for her children and family members, perhaps to satisfy their hunger and give them the warmth of family. She did not know that the filth of the aggression would not grant her that simple family honor. The treacherous bombardment preceded the bread’s ripening, turning the bread into flour mixed with the dust of rubble, and “Umm Ahmed” departed life in silence with everyone who was in the house, leaving behind the last loaves of bread she made and never tasted.
A trace after an eye.. homes razed to the ground
Those safe homes no longer have a single stone standing. They were completely razed to the ground, becoming a trace after an eye. Their contents—household furniture, equipment, clothes, and the remnants of children’s toys—scattered over wide areas of land, witnessing the enormity of the catastrophe and innocence stolen in a moment of heedlessness. Even the village mosque, with the copies of the Quran it contained, did not escape the criminality of the brutal Al Saud aircraft.
Nature weeps.. burned trees and dying livestock
Nature did not escape the brutality of the bombardment. The trees that had stood firm for decades, under whose shade residents sat, from which they gathered firewood, and on which their livestock grazed, turned into blackened, burned sticks. Beside them, livestock perished due to the spiteful airstrikes, becoming scattered remains that even dogs dared not approach in reverence for the enormity of the scene, while some surviving animals continued their incessant moaning for days, affected by their wounds and the shock.
At the heart of the tragedy, the destruction reached the vital water wells that had supplied the entire area with drinking and irrigation water. The bombardment destroyed the solar energy systems and all their surface equipment—solar panels, batteries, and water distribution pipes—cutting off the arteries of life from what remained of the land and the people.
A hero from the neighboring village
From outside the borders of the stricken village, as soon as he heard the terrifying roar of the bombardment, the child “Yousef Al-Marsad” rushed with steady steps to begin his noble humanitarian duty of trying to save lives and recover the victims.
“Yousef” did not know that the machine of aggression knows no sanctity for a human being or for rescue. It renewed targeting the place with second cowardly airstrikes while he was in the heart of the field.
But God’s care was present, and “Yousef” emerged from under the rubble in new clothes, his body and clothes filled with mud and dust, and his soul filled with steadfastness, perseverance, dignity, and honor, wielding an unyielding determination. He raised his voice with his famous cry that touched the minds and hearts of the free people of the homeland, challenging the brutality of the criminals and declaring to the deaf world: “By God, you will not escape, son of Saud. By God, it will not pass—we will show you. If you are a man, face us in battle.”
Yousef’s stand and the comprehensive destruction of the village stand today as living witnesses to the scale of the crime, and a resounding voice that refuses to break no matter how intense the brutality of the aggression. Saba: Ali Al-Aqil