US airstrikes on Yemen killed at least 25 civilians and wounded 28 others in just the first week of the Trump administration’s renewed bombing campaign against the Houthis, according to the Yemen Data Project (YDP).
The YDP released a report on Tuesday analyzing 38 strikes on Yemen the US launched from March 15 to March 21 and found that 55% of the bombings hit non-military targets. The report said the US attacks marked the heaviest and deadliest week of bombing in Yemen since the final months of the US-backed Saudi-UAE air war on the country in early 2022.
The report found that more civilians were killed in the first week of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign than were killed in the 12 months of US- UK strikes on Yemen that were conducted under the Biden administration from January 2024 to January 2025.
The YDP report said the deadliest US strike in the first week of President Trump’s bombing campaign hit a residential area in Yemen’s northern Saada province, killing 10 civilians, including four children. Another 11 civilians were injured, including two children.
The YDP said 21 out of the 38 recorded US strikes hit non-military, civilian targets. “Civilian targets hit included: a medical storage facility, a medical center, a school, a wedding hall, residential areas, a cotton gin facility, a health office, Bedouin tents, and Al-Eiman University,” the report reads.
Only one of the strikes was confirmed to hit a Houthi military target, and in 16 of the strikes, the target couldn’t be identified. The YDP recorded US strikes every night in Yemen between the hours of 7 pm and 6 am from March 15 to 21, and the US has continued daily strikes on the country this week.
The US began bombing Yemen on March 15, a few days after the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, announced they would re-impose a blockade on Israeli shipping in response to Israel’s violation of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Since the US started the airstrikes on Yemen, the Houthis have launched attacks on US warships in the region and began firing missiles at Israel in response to Israel restarting its bombing campaign on Gaza.
President Trump is threatening the Houthis with “annihilation,” but the year-long US bombing campaign launched by President Biden did not stop the Yemeni group, and a brutal US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen from 2015 to 2022 also failed to remove them from power. The Houthis have maintained that a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade would be the only way to stop their attacks.
Bombing people into Freedom?! How Neocon can you get or be?!
The tide will turn and is turning!….
If this is juxtaposed to the deadline to Iran to give up its nuclear plant, giving up any leverage with the country that can influence the Houthi people – there is no way this will end well.
We live in depressing time. Who's doing the most killing?
Headlines:
US killed 25 Civilians in Yemen.
Israel kills 62 Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel kills six in Syria.
Who are the criminals in this world?
Only bullies use "Might makes Right". And as long as citizens allow it they will continue to bombard others and kill.
Keeps the Pentagon and the politicians rich. Bomb, bomb, bomb away is all the US knows about any more. Add a few missiles into Syria and Somalia and the empire gods strut around the globe as being "intellectually and morally" superior.
Who is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today?
Who is the largest exporter of terrorism?
Who pays?
Who complains?
Who is going nuts?
Everyone who has a heart
Bleeding broken
Desperate to do
something
anything
look inside
encourage
your courage
stand
raise your voice
till they take you away…
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https://youtu.be/33x39rRDGz0?si=2dZPnWMKCgNrWB6z
https://youtu.be/–X7AgFjyx8?si=krpRPYq64W_df2Ji
It seems there is a "friendly" competition breaking out between the Exceptionals and the Chosens as to who can kill the most civilians. The Chosens have a clear lead but the Exceptionals say that those the Chosens have killed would only have been possible with the Exceptionals help. So, let's call it a draw.
This was my [second]… https://youtu.be/aPFHEBMOZb8?si=4a4aPIQ0VwQ9Al52
This was my 1st https://youtu.be/xtkWIjBhFBw?si=Eoep5CYfzexLwCpD
https://sonar21.com/it-wasnt-a-leak-it-was-a-devious-charlie-foxtrot/
What we observe between Yemen, Israel, and western Ukraine is a strategic economic advantage to Russia. Why are they linked? Perhaps they're not.
Business and STEM talent are leaving Israel. One could interpret that as a drip or a deluge coming from a Russia-centered political, scientific, and business observation.
If the Russian MoD bombed the living daylights out of Lvov, Ukraine, could Moscow effect the same outcome, or is the Jewish exodus from Lvov in progress?
Does Russia have tech hubs in its warmer regions, such as Crimea and Krasnodar Krai?
Will the Trump administration initiate WWIII by bombing Iran if, for no other reason, the Houthis exist? There've been no public charges emanating from Washington that Russia is supplying the Houthis with weapons and targeting information. What if they were? What about the Chinese?
The triangles become more complicated, elongated, and perilous. As long as the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah continue the battle, more Jews will leave the region. What may largely remain will be radical, uneducated, settler types that will never rebuild Israel, post-genocide.
Congratulations to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin for opportunistic long-range planning. No moral being supports Israel's Palestinian genocide and that of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, but these business-related advantages have presented themselves at Russia's front door.
"Does Russia have tech hubs in its warmer regions…?"
As an observation, I wonder if tech facilities in COLDER climates might be more advantageous. PC's, servers, and related hardware generates a lot of heat (bitcoin farmers and hardcore gamers absolutely know this) so to have ready access to a significant reserve of cold air or ground could be quite appealing.
I doubt Alaska is a choice for such tech facilities. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Water could be pumped from the Black Sea for cooling purposes.
Regardless of career path, most people would choose a milder climate. My readings indicate new data centers will be constructed where reliable excess power or SMT (small modular reactors) are scheduled for construction.
Crypto farming is a waste of valuable resources. I suggest so because it's not a physical commodity.
From watching e.g. Microsoft and Meta’s announcements over the last few years, my impression is that they try to place data centers in colder climates because of the heat/cooling issue. But that doesn’t mean that the bulk of tech workers are in those locations. There’s probably minimal staff to maintain the hardware, with the software people, etc. working from nicer climates.
The thing about crypto mining is that the “valuable resources” that are “wasted” are, unless electricity is stolen (which does happen) resources owned by the crypto farmers. I use my computer to browse the web; they use their computers to mine crypto.
There are particular instances in which crypt mining can be (and has been demonstrated to be) beneficial to people other than crypt miners and crypto users as, more or less, a “free rider” proposition.
For example, consider a situation where building a hydro power power plant would not be cost-effective just to serve the area population … which means they go without cheap electricity, until a crypto miner offers to buy the excess power production if the facility is built. There was also one case I read about that I can’t remember exactly, but the commodity the crypto mining operation produced above and beyond cryptocurrency was heat for something that needed to be kept warm. It didn’t produce heat as efficiently as a dedicated furnace setup would have, but it also didn’t entail the cost because the crypto miners were willing to trade the heat for being allowed to put their facility next to the facility that needed heating.
Excellent points !
Also a good number of my friends are annoyed at cryptocurrency because a) it’s a process that burns through video cards, diminishing supply and jacking prices just as my friends sought to upgrade for anticipated game releases, and b) because their elderly dads thought investing in it with BitCoin around $50k each was a “smart buy* “, leading my friends to require a sit-down-and-dissuade afternoon.
*at least MY dad only bought CDN$7000 worth of Iraqi currency 3-4 years ago … sigh.
My son is into gaming and has complained incessantly for years about that price effect.
I’ve personally had good results from cryptocurrency, but I never bought a crap ton of it at high prices, and I haven’t really HODLed it — when it’s up, I spend some, when it’s down I wait for it to go up. And most of what I’ve had I’ve received as “found money” (donations to the various things I run that I wouldn’t have received if I only accepted Federal Reserve Notes).
If I had every bit of Bitcoin I’d ever had, right now, it would be well into the six figures. Instead it’s in the low four figures. But over time I’ve purchased household appliances, guitars, etc. that I couldn’t have afforded otherwise, and also contributed to regular household expenses. Oh, and about half of the cost of my motorcycle was funded by selling $1,100 worth of Bitcoin to a friend for $1,000.
You’ve done well at it, awesome ! Always nice to hear a ‘winning’ story about it and not like that nice fellow long ways back what bought a pizza with a dozen BitCoin or some such.
(Tho there was an e-sports competition I heard about in the very early days of BitCoin where 1st thru 5th place paid cash and 6th thru 10th got BitCoin instead)
The guy paid 50,000 Bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizzas. And at the time, the cash value of those Bitcoins wasn’t much more than the price of the pizzas. I saw an interview with him a few years ago, said he didn’t regret a thing. Of course, he had a lot more Bitcoins than that. He was one of the early minors, when the difficulty was low and you could mine with just a regular computer. The difficulty increases periodically, and it’s been a number of years since it got hard enough that you needed pretty high-power video cards to have much chance of mining a block and collecting the reward.
A lot of the guys from the early days ended up with Lamborghinis and all that. Good for them.
Yes, that was the dude !!!