An unusually busy morning at a rural hospital in Yemen’s Saada Province,
run by Save the Children, turned into a catastrophe on Tuesday when
Saudi warplanes attacked the area, hitting just outside the hospital
itself, striking a gas station and killing at least seven people.
According to the Save the Children NGO, the slain included at least two
children, as well as one staff member who worked at the hospital. Eight
other people are confirmed to have been wounded, and two others are
unaccounted for after the strike.
The group was critical of the attack, saying that “children have the right to be safe in their hospitals,”
and that the attack showed a complete disregard for the basic rules of
war. Saudi officials have yet to comment on the matter.
This is likely to be one of those Saudi attacks met with blanket denials
or silence, as some early media coverage referred to the strike as a
“missile,” and may allow them to falsely accuse the Shi’ite Houthi
movement of attacking a hospital in the predominantly Shi’ite area.
Trump and his swarthy Arabian lover keep their war on children alive.