Though it’s unclear if the timing is more a function of regional sectarian tension or of the Saudis canceling the mostly ineffective ceasefire in Yemen, Saudi warplanes have dramatically escalated the number of airstrikes against targets inside Yemen today, hitting a number of civilian buildings in Shi’ite-held territory.
While airstrikes continued in the contested area around Taiz, much of the increase was deep in Houthi territory, around the capital city of Sanaa and the port of Hodeida, One of the Sanaa strikes destroyed the Noor Center for Care and Rehabilitation of the Blind, wounding three people. The chamber of commerce was also hit.
The Saudis have been facing growing international criticism of the huge civilian toll in their war against Yemen, and the tendency of strikes to hit obviously civilian targets like the blind center are only going to add to the criticism of their targeting methods.
Meanwhile, the “curfew” imposed by pro-Saudi forces in Aden doesn’t appear to be going well, as ISIS bombers attacked the city governor’s convoy in the city today, killing at least one, and according to some accounts two, of his bodyguards.
sanctions and a halt to weapons trade or even a UN resolution would do better. The international community has been ‘critizising’ Israel’s treatment of palestine for decades and that has amounted to nothing.
The Saudis are puppets of the Zionist/USG regime in Washington.
Oboomer is supplying the Saudis with the so-called (smart) bombs
that are (stupid) enough to slaughter women and children.
I find it hypocritical that the corrupt USG regime gives the
impression that it's seeking a peaceful solution to this illegal
Saudi invasion while its war profiteers are working hard to
crank out arms to resupply these Saudi thugs with deep pockets.
Also remember George W. Chimp was setting all kinds of records with his weapons shpts / sales to Saudi Arabia during his tenure…
EMPIRE USA — WHY DID YOU DO IT?
The new Dictator of Saudi Arabia, 30 years young even,
he did such a state-of-the-art slaughter of his own volition
and creative genius?
Not hardly, for it has the hallmark and imprimatur of a brutal
and imperial Empire, most assuredly rubber stamped all
over it.
Where are the big mouth liberal interventionists? The Responsibility To Protect crowd of the likes Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Anne Marie Slaughter where they at the drop of a hat scream for military action against this type of wanton violence being dished out by a corrupt human rights abusing regime?