Saudi warplanes attacked a residential district in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding scores of others. The strikes sent civilians fleeing the neighborhood into the surrounding area.
The Yemeni state news agency, Saba, reported 20 civilians dead and 50 woundede in the incident, and also cautioned the toll might rise because they are still recovering people from the rubble.
This is the latest in a long line of Saudi airstrikes against residential areas in the country, as well as refugee camps, a policy which has killed several hundreds of civilians over the course of the war.
In addition to the civilians killed directly in the war, the final toll is likely to include a large number of civilians killed because of food and medicine shortages caused by the Saudi naval blockade of Yemen.
No amount of "guaranteed cheap oil" will ever justify backing and supporting the cretins in Riyadh. The problem with the UN, who seem to have developed a major case of "I know nothing!!" is that they depend way too heavily on the US and are therefore reluctant to charge them with the crimes they publicly acknowledge – even brag about. Hell, the UN doesn't even talk about it. The UN should seriously consider moving the UN out of NY – move to Geneva who doesn't have a sullied reputation and then grow a set of stones and do what they were created to do.
Right…
This is a disgusting military action against civilians, by a depraved regime (who are being backed 100% by the West) who can be classed as the ultimate cowards of the region for refusing to take on ISIL and Al Qaeda.
The thing is, that people on here know the real reason why they take no action against both of the terrorist groups which I have mentioned, so why are our politicians still backing them?
Time for the "International Community" to begin military operations against Saudi Arabia.
Saudis family owned and operated "government", if such thing even exist in Sufi-Wahhabi Arabia will rather change the world into war with their illegitimate, Isis sons of the kingdom then giving up on their Israeli Mafiosi cartel gripe on oil prices-production then having peace in Yemen, is like Israel, Netanyahu rather kill millions of Palestinians then having a Palestine as its neighbor. Welcome to the neo fascism world and their power hunger for ruling the world since 1990s.
btw it was a Yemeni Felix Airways' plane (from tiny fleet) destroyed when Saudis bombe Sana'a airport. (btw the romans called Yemen Arabia Felix, Happy Arabia!)
why did saudi leaflets use "Persian", not "Iranian" on leaflets, just as Western intelligence (BBC World Sce/VOA etc still do?.
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