Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out a pair of airstrikes against northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least nine civilians, including a number of children, and wounding several others.
The larger of the two strikes took place near Saada, a major Shi’ite-dominated city, attacking a residential building that housed an influential cleric. Though there’s no sign the cleric was killed seven other civilians were, including children, and five were injured.
Not far away, a small airstrike hit the same district, attacking a flour mill in a province already afflicted with mass starvation by a Saudi-led blockade of the region’s only port. Two civilians were killed, including a pregnant woman.
Saudi officials didn’t specifically say why they attacked either target, though they did issue a statement bragging of their “professionally planned” efforts to get more humanitarian aid into southern Yemen. Of course, southern Yemen is where pro-Saudi factions are, in efforts have already been made to support the “loyal” ports there, while civilians in the Shi’ite north struggle to survive.
Professionally planned… yeah makes sense and explains a lot.
SA’s mercenaries have no reason to actually fight enemy combatants and win the war quickly.
Just drag it out wasting civvies and milk the war for big fat private military service contracts.
the nice thing about the saudi war in yemen is that no matter how many years you spend seeing daily news of civilian deaths the total number never changes.
Wake up America – Saudi is not our friend.
Hard to keep a scorecard with all the different situations going on at once. We should designate days for each conflict. We could have Syria on Monday, Iran on Tuesday, Yemen on Wednesday, Afghanistan on Thursday, N Korea on……