September 26 Net: Ali Al-Sharai|
300 people were killed or wounded as a result of the encounter with bombs from the British aggression aircraft on the city of Taiz. The aggression also affected areas of the city of Ibb.
The main mission of the British colonial policy and aggression against Yemen, which began since the occupation of Mayun Island in 1799 AD until today, is the presence and control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the port of Aden with many justifications that differ according to the political circumstances of the major powers greedy for the region in general and Yemen in particular.
–Record greed
Britain’s occupation of Mayun Aymaniyah Island at the entrance to the Bab al-Mandab Strait in 1799 AD was the first military action carried out by Britain in Yemen. This was a reaction and a pretext for France’s occupation of Egypt in 1798 AD to secure the route of British maritime trade convoys to India.
Passing through the attack on the port of Mocha in December 1820 AD under the pretext of insulting the British commercial consul in the port of Mocha, and the occupation of Aden in January 1839 AD under the pretext of plundering a British ship, and the use of violence and killing against the resistance of the Yemeni tribes surrounding the port of Aden, and then the occupation of the Yemeni islands (Kamaran, Jabal al-Tair, Zuqar, and a group of islands). Hanish) The beginning of World War I.
The port of Hodeidah was attacked and occupied in December 1918 under the pretext of the Ottoman forces not surrendering, which caused casualties, destruction and burning of the city and its attempts to create a coastal state separate from the motherland on the Tihama coast.
Before that, setting borders and dividing Yemen between it and the Ottomans in 1914 AD, until the aggression of 2015 AD, and what is happening today in Yemen in terms of Western aggression, we find that the British aggressive colonial policy has a record and history full of crimes against Yemen and the Yemenis, with the aim of achieving its ambitions and goals, either directly or in participation with an international coalition under The United Nations umbrella, as happened in 2008 AD, when it was present in the Red Sea, especially at the entrance to Bab al-Mandab, with naval vessels under the pretext of fighting Somali piracy and terrorism.
Or its presence through intermediaries and agents in Yemen, such as the 2015 aggression. – Multiple pressures. While the first and second Saudi delegations were in Sana’a negotiating, British planes were dropping bombs on the Imam’s army in the reserves, to the point that he was forced to make a truce with Britain, which was announced on March 25, 1928 AD. So that Sana’a could devote itself to negotiating with Riyadh.
Therefore, Britain exerted political and military pressure on the Sanaa government to force it to withdraw from the areas it had regained from southern Yemen, as well as to recognize the 1914 borders signed between Britain and the Ottomans, and also an attempt to bring Sanaa back to the negotiating table again.
–Aggression and resilience
On June 26, 1925, London agreed to launch air strikes on the areas controlled by the Sana’a army in the reserves.
Between the months of July and August 1925 AD, British aircraft regularly bombed the front factions of the Sana’a army in the lands of Al-Awdhali, including the Lawdar area. They launched seven raids, two aircraft participated in five of them, and three aircraft participated in two of them.

He dropped more than 60 bombs and fired about 2,000 bullets.

This aggression resulted in the martyrdom of nearly a hundred Yemenis. Despite this, the British aggression aircraft were unable to defeat the Sanaa army.

Let the British Resident in Aden send an explanation of the reasons that Bristol planes are weak and short-range, so there is no hope for anything better than using them.

He proposed replacing these aircraft with a squadron of modern bombers, which would facilitate the launching of operations over large areas and deep into areas of the Sana’a government.

–Killing children and women

In the face of steadfastness and resistance, Sana’a rejected all the proposals of the British occupier of southern Yemen and considered southern Yemen as part of the motherland.

In late June 1928 AD, the British occupier launched a blatant aggression against a number of Yemeni regions, most notably Al-Dhalea, Taiz, and Ibb. Throwing bombs on those regions led to many tragedies. These events were described by a Turkish man (Mahmoud Mustafa), who remained in Yemen after the departure of the Ottomans and their defeat in the World War. The first (1914-1918 AD).

He was an eyewitness and present in the city of Taiz, specifically in the area where the British aggression aircraft committed their crime of dropping bombs on innocent residents. This was described during Nazih Al-Azm’s visit to Yemen, which he recorded in his book (A Journey in the Land of Happy Arabia).

Among what that Turkish man said: “The British asked the Imam to abandon Al-Dhale’, Jalila, and Qatuba to them, and they dropped some leaflets on Taiz, Mawiyah, and Ibb, saying that they would drop their bombs on these countries if the Imam’s soldiers did not evacuate those areas.”

They set a day for the strike…. Therefore, on the aforementioned day, many squadrons of planes came and dropped their bombs on the village of Shihab, located near Mawiyeh, killing two sons and striking the village of Omar Al-Saada, wounding four soldiers.

As for Taiz, the large, populated city, the loss was very heavy, as it amounted to about 300 people killed and wounded, most of whom were children and women. In Yarim, two women and two men were killed, and in the village of Al-Nadira, two women were killed.

Most of these villages that the planes dropped bombs on were not under warning, and in addition to dropping the bombs, the planes were raining down barrages of bullets from their machine guns on people on public roads, and the bullets caused serious harm to the people.

The bombs also demolished many homes in the countries that were warned and those that were not. The people of Yemen, from one end to the other, are greatly alarmed by the planes.

When they saw it, they would run in front of it, right and left, and fear and panic seized their hearts and souls.

-war crimes

While some looked at the events of the bombs and their consequences, another view focused mainly on the results of victory achieved by these planes and the resulting settlement of existing problems without regard to any other humanitarian considerations, and that they fall under war crimes and against humanity in targeting and killing innocent children and women.

–Poetry of resistance

As a result of that British aggression and raids, these events were recorded in Yemeni poetry – in which there is a spirit of resistance, steadfastness, and faith in victory and victory despite the difference in capabilities, and the verses of the poem documented the crimes and aggression of the British – and the most beautiful thing in it is in fact the emergence of that Arab spirit in general and Yemeni in particular, which has a concept that is specific to the Arabs and that Courage is a confrontation face to face, and bitter feelings also appear at the lack of means of warfare at that time, especially in the possession of aircraft. This appears clearly in the poem of Judge Yahya Ibn Muhammad Al-Iryani, including:

There is corruption on earth and destruction

For these houses it is not good

Do not think that the demolition of Al-Mada’in will be accomplished

Our resolve or our steadfastness will soften

This is savagery then

You brought what we do not have

Fighting is fighting if you are among those

During war, soldiers are not afraid

See who stays overnight between us and you

Bound and bound by his opponent

If you had come down, you would have seen it all

It has the power to melt iron

And you saw from us fatalities

Great truthful things make a newborn turn gray.