Reports of a Saudi airstrike against Yemen’s northern Jawf Province are fueling a new round of calls for probes because of the mounting civilian death toll, as attacks are worryingly common, and have little apparent military purpose.
Wednesday’s Jawf attack turned out to hit a circumcision party, destroying three homes and killing 25 civilians, most of them children. Clearly, there was no military dimension to this party, and the Saudis have offered no insight on why they attacked.
This was the deadliest in of a series of attacks by the Saudis in north Yemen over the past week, all of them killing civilians and none of them hitting anything but homes full of people.
The Saudis have not commented on the attack, and that’s not unusual, as they’ve been successfully avoiding UN accountability for years. Calls for a UN probe in the past have tended to end with agreements to let the Saudis investigate themselves.
Anybody listening? Anybody cares? With thousands upon thousands dead from epidemics, mobs demanding incoherent changes, money running out for unemployed, money going who knows where, threatening China in daily basis, screwed up economy with or without virus — where is a tiny Yemen in this picture?
The Wahhabis probably tried out new missiles from their US/western dealers, what better target than unarmed civilians.
This is from a previous article here after the UK decided to resume selling weapons to the Saudis:
“The Trade Secretary, today, argued sales could resume because they concluded that the Saudis ONLY SOMETIMES violate international humanitarian law with their arms.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/07/07/britain-resumes-arms-sales-to-saudis/
I guess this was just one of those ONLY SOMETIMES. Move on, nothing to worry about here.
The Saudis are terrorists and the UN is worthlessly corrupt. Defund them both.
Saudi behavior in Yemen is aggreesion, cruel and brutal to millions of civilians. The West should not support this neocolonial hangover in any material way.
I would however ask that Houthi militants be equally exposed as agents of foreign interests and in violation of basic standards that protect civilians and in particular, children.