As fighting continues between Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthis and the pro-Saudi faction loyal to former President Hadi, civilians in the port city of Yemen remain caught in the middle, paying a deadly price in the drawn out war.
Sunday, health officials in Aden reported 57 civilians killed and 215 others wounded in heavy Houthi shelling against the Dar Saad neighborhood, a strategically important residential neighborhood in northern Aden. The Houthis are aiming to reclaim the city after losing much of it last week. By Monday, the figure was revised to nearly 100 killed and 200 wounded, with around 80% of the slain believed to be civilians.
Hadi forces are said to be using Dar Saad as a staging ground for their offensive against surrounding Houthi areas, and the shelling was aimed at halting their advance, though the shelling was also said to be relatively random, and took a big civilian toll.
This has been the case in fighting and strikes all across Yemen since the Saudi war began in March, and the civilian death toll, which crossed 1,500 last week, is rapidly approaching the 2,000 mark over that three month period.
“Today, health officials in Aden reported…”
I don ‘t believe it, for the Houthi government has been in power for over a year, actually headed a revolution for ten years and never have they random fired into a residential area — never have they killed more then one or two civilians in any kind of attack.
For this propaganda came from a Saudi-backed health official, was filtered through corporate owned mainstream media — news,yahoo.com no less and we should suffer such fools so lightly as to call this brainwash the actual factual news?
For if shells did kill 57 civilians, most likely was it a false-flag operation by Saudi-backed forces, as the Saudi dictatorship has already and deliberately killed for terrorism purposes over a thousand civilians in their War on Yemen.
And as over 90% of those killed in this Saudi invasion of helpless and impoverished Yemen, as they were wasted by bombs falling from Western-backed war planes, why was this not mentioned in the news report to put things in their proper context?
the Hadi forces shouldn't use these civilians as human shields those losers.