After a pair of daily tolls showing nearly 300 Houthis killed this weekend, Saudi Arabia reported 115 more Houthis killed near Maarib in Monday’s airstrikes.
These strikes took place in Sirwah west of the city. The Houthis have the city mostly surrounded, and pro-Saudi forces are expecting a siege. Huge death tolls have not stopped the advance.
UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg warned that efforts for peace are facing an uphill battle, adding that the casualties are “exacerbating the humanitarian situation and undermining peace efforts.”
Monday’s 115 killed is indicative of recent casualties, and 100+ killed is pretty much a daily occurrence in recent weeks. If high death tolls are an obstacle, this could be a long-term problem giving the recent reliance on airstrikes.
these claims by the Saudis always remind me of the old claims by the US government during the Vietnam war that “US soldiers and airstrikes etc killed 2,488 viet cong and North Vietnamese troops this past week”
I distinctly remember figures like that being propaganda promoted/quoted by CBS and ABC news all those years ago when I was quite young. I wondered how any nation , i that is North Vietnam could keep fighting in the face of such massive losses.
Well now we know that most of that was pure lies, but also included many hundreds of thousands of dead civilians over those long and gruesome years…..