Saudi Arabia’s state media reported “precise airstrikes against legitimate military targets” in Yemen today. This included an attack on a youth soccer field in al-Hodeidah, while a game was going on.
Details are still emerging as to the aftermath, though there were reportedly a number of casualties, including three deaths. Photos showed several children among the casualties.
Despite the Saudis’ constant talk of legitimate military targets, and Hodeidah being militarized, this was just a soccer game with no official dimension at all, and there is no sign anyone was there except for a number of civilians.
Strikes against plainly civilian targets have been common enough throughout the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Though there is occasionally excuse-making that follows these incidents, the go-to tactic for the Saudi government is just to not report on these, and act furious if there is any talk of them being war crimes.
Hodeidah is the main aid port for Yemen, and the source for food and medicine for all of northern Yemen. The Saudis have presented the port as a military target, citing the seizure of a UAE-flagged ship, which the Saudis said held medical aid from a field hospital, but which Houthi photos showed was full of arms and armored vehicles.
This is our wonderful ally, Saudi Arabia, which is also helped by the UK and is fighting “Houthi terrorists” according to Brilliant Biden the top brain in the USA. We provide them with weapons because only 377000 people are known to have been killed in this war so far. Yemen is the poorest part of the region and the people are Muslims, which we have shown we care so much about, in our effort in Iraq, Afghanistan …..
Any talk of designating the Saudis as terrorists?
Is this finally enough to shame the western MSM to show our people who and what our dear friends are? Nah, they have no shame.
Do you remember the old days when pictures like this would be dismissed as being staged? Now we don’t even bother saying that anymore. We ignore it or say, ‘human shields’ to justify bomb anything we want.
In other news, the Houthis are terrorists because 3 people were killed at an oil installation at the UAE. Soccer match = legitimate target, oil infrastructure = terrorism.
A reporter should ask the president a question like this:
On the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign site, you promised to “end our support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.”
It’s 2022. You’ve been president for a year. Why are you still helping the Saudis attack Yemeni children?
Because war is lucrative for the military industrial complex.
They r using precision systems so this was deliberately terror bombing.
Sooner lor later ksa will pay a price for this especially since these people r incompetent and lack any ability of introspection to learn from their mistakes.
Iraq gassed Iranian civilians and look at Iraq now, Pakistan committed genocide in Bangladesh, look at Pakistan now. Us killed hundreds of thousands of people in the last 20 years, 100 k od deaths yearly and endemic of homeless population all over the “greatest country in the world”. unlike the other examples us used to have any ability for self correction and introspection.
These are the arms sold with great fanfare by Trump to Saudi Arabia. Oh it’s just business, we have nothing to do with what the Saudis do with their purchases.
Whereas Biden said he absolutely wouldn’t sell arms, He wagged his finger!!
But then he sold them arms.
Both the same