Saudi warplanes attacked the al-Mazzrak refugee camp in Yemen’s Hajjah Province today, killing at least 45 civilians and wounding some 200 others, according to aid workers on the ground.
Saudi officials were quick to deny responsibility for the killings, and declared that the Houthis they are at war with inexplicably attacked the camp. This was in spite of Saudi officials bragging only yesterday they’d destroyed every warplane in Yemen.
Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups confirmed that the attack was indeed an airstrike, and there seems no serious doubt it was a Saudi strike, just the latest in an air campaign that is increasingly targeting civilians.
The Saudis began attacking Yemen last week, promising to reinstall Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi as ruler, after Hadi resigned in January and fled the country. Some 150,000 Saudi troops are massed at the border, though the timing of a ground invasion remains unclear.
The king of Saudi Arabia should be brought up on war crimes.
The Saudis will present us with all kinds of lies and braggadocio. I think they've bitten off more than they can chew. As things go bad for them, others will come to their aid, like the Egyptians. But, the feckless Saudis will claim imagined prowess.
Isn't bombing a refugee camp by USG backed Saudi thugs a war crime?
The corporate media will put its spin on this atrocity, and (say)
the camp was filled with (terrorists).
I heard similar crap in 2006 when the rogue state occupying Palestine
used the Red Cross emblem on vehicles for target practice by its
USG made F16s during its (invasion) of Lebanon.
(Rumor) was terrorists were using these vehicles to drive to the front.
Way to many mentally ill people running Countries now days, I agree he is a war criminal and should be dealt with as such………
The Houthis have nothing to fear. The Saudis are too addicted to the Casino's and whorehouses of the west to have a stomach for a fight.