The US-backed Saudi-led coalition bombed several targets inside Yemen on Friday. According to AFP, airstrikes targeted Houthi camps in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, the city of Amran, which is just north of Sanaa, and the western port city of Hodeidah.
According to Iran’s Press TV, one civilian was killed in the strikes, and another four were wounded in Sanaa. Yemen’s Ministry of Health said most of the airstrikes targeted residential areas, a common tactic for the Saudi-led coalition.
The airstrikes came after the Houthis launched a missile that hit a Saudi oil facility in Jeddah. Most media outlets framed the Saudi strikes as retaliation, but the Houthis and Yemen have been under a US-backed Saudi-led siege since 2015.
“Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates want to scare us with their airstrikes, but we say to them that their raids will only increase our strength,” an anonymous Houthi official told AFP.
lest we all forget “like they want you to” the saudi/yemen war began after the saudi’s wanted to dig a canal across yemen to ship oil to avoid the hormuz straight. the yemeni govt said no thank you,. not one to take no for an answer, the saudi’s then demanded they be allowed to dig a canal across yemen, to ship oil,. the yemeni’s told the saudis to go pound sand.. AND THATS HOW THIS CRIME AGAINST YEMEN AND HUMANITY STARTED, BECAUSE THE SAUDI’S REFUSED TO TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER AND WOULD PREFER TO WIPE OUT MILLIONS IF NOT ALL YEMENI’S TO GET THEIR WAY!
Our closest allies are the model democracies of Israel and the Gulf States, rivalling us for democratic freedoms and minding their own business. The people still remaining alive in Yemen are struck by war, lack of food, blockades, blame (of course) and diseases affecting large numbers of children. If this is world leadership, I suggest the multipolarity practiced by China. At least some people will survive.