UN officials are expressing “disappointment” at the Yemen humanitarian ceasefire, which never took hold amid ongoing Saudi airstrikes against the country. Saudi officials insist they never agreed to the deal in the first place.
In their latest round of attacks, Saudi warplanes pounded the Sawan slums in the capital city of Sanaa, killing at least 25 civilians and wounding another 50 according to local officials. The strikes landed in a residential neighborhood near a military base, but did not appear to hit the base itself.
Sawan was just one of dozens of targets of Saudi airstrikes over the course of Monday, with reports that 10 different Yemeni provinces were hit throughout the day. The Sawan incident did have by far the largest death toll of the bunch, however.
Clashes also continued to pick up on the ground, as Houthi forces and those loyal to the pro-Saudi Hadi government clashed in Aden and Taiz, with reports of resumed fighting in Maarib as well. The Hadi forces had taken a significant suburb of Aden yesterday in an offensive, despite the ceasefire nominally being in place.
'UN officials are expressing “disappointment” at the Yemen humanitarian ceasefire, '
reminds me of the Condi Rice days of "unhelpful" illegal Israeli colonies and other war crimes.
But Rosemary, Crazy-eyes said,"the time was not ripe."
Why the silence about US involement and meddling within Yemen of many many years, that included multiple drone and Spec Ops assassinTions with hundreds of civilian casualtys.
US just saving bucks and aiding Saudi’s whose brand of Wahabi fanatacism is also involed there.
For years US backed corrupt factions with this group getting arms this month and anothrr fecieving bombs upon them next month.
The US brands of slaughter and opening of Africa to White domination(euro-centric economics) worked from long before 911 and was used as training base for Balkans Islamic destabilizing forcesYemen was great Al’Q training base and US knew each and every one of clans affiliations.
What needs happening , but US and Israel will not allow, is a massive defeat with resulting uprising against House of Saud.
US is allowing Saudi , Turkish Jordanian millitaries to gain experience so as to be available for time to end Iran independence.
Death to others is US greatest export but US dealers in death find millions or allies both in European finanvials and iddle east fanatics.
Yemen: A tragedy we can all ignore… unlike Ukraine, Lybia et al. Surely, the most oppressive nation on earth – Saudi Arabia – must have nothing but good intentions. How can we possibly question their (Al- Qaeda) motives ?