Yemen father seeks help for daughter who cries 'stones'

February 9, 2014

Sana’a, Feb 9: The father of an eight-year-old Yemeni girl who has recently started crying stones has urged philanthropists to help him treating his daughter from her baffling condition.

Mohammad Saleh Al Jaharani, said that the eyes of his daughter, Saadia, began producing stones 14 days ago and has spent thousands of Yemeni Rials on visits to local doctors.

“I once spent YR50,000 (Dh870) a day on treatment. She has done many X-rays in local clinics. Doctors said that they detected nothing extraordinary with her eyes,” he said.

A Yo Tube video prepared by the Yemeni Azal TV showed the girl’s eyes producing tiny gravel-like stones from underneath her eye lids instead of tears.

The girl also cries tears and her eyes do not produce stones when she is asleep. Most of stones come out in the afternoon and the evening. Stones do not hurt and she lives a normal life.

A father of 20 children from two wives, Jaharani said that Saadia’s eyes sometimes produce as many as 100 stones a day. “None of my other children has ever gone through the same condition.”

The girl does not go to school. Her father said he did not send any of his nine daughters to school as it is far from his home. Only his sons study.

Local doctors were not immediately available to comment on the girl’s case. However, a local doctor interviewed by the channel said that he could not find any scientific explanation to the phenomenon.

Abdul Kareem Al Ayashi, the producer of the channel’s video, said that local doctors could not examine the stones due to lack of technology.

“People are digesting many mythical explanations to the girl’s condition. Some people say she is possessed. Others say she is under a black magic spell,” he said.

Saadia’s strange case is the second in the same province. A year ago, local media shed light on the condition of Saboura Hassan Al Fagiah, a 15-year-old girl from Bajel city who suffered from the same symptoms.

Local media said at that time that Sabura’s strange phenomenon occurred six months after her wedding and began experiencing hours of unconsciousness and a swollen abdomen.

Al Ayashi said that charitable donors quickly responded to Saboura’s appeal for help. “Saboura was luckier than Saadia and was treated in Jordan. She cries normally now.”

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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