When a wedding in Hajjah Governorate turned into a graveyard … at least 33 dead, including the bride. The majority of casualties were women and children.

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition backed by their western allies have turned countless blissful and happy events into hellfire, leaving insurmountable deep trauma. “Survivors of the attack described how the jets continued to circle the bombing site after the attack, preventing first responders from reaching the victims.”

The Americans have a famous war technique called the “double tap attack,” which they have perfectioned in Yemen. In his book Destroying Yemen, Professor Isa Blumi has a pretty insightful account on how the Americans taught and trained the Saudis to choose and aim at targets, and at the same time, the Americans having plenty of exercise to perfection their very own “double tap” technique while carpet bombing Yemen.

The Washington Post had reported on this tragic event airing a video, which includes interviews with survivors of the village wedding, watch here. They revisit the crime scene to report on their shared trauma and loss. The ground where the wedding tent once stood was covered with children’s slippers, broken musical instruments, pieces of festive clothing and other detritus of destroyed lives. Teeth, still attached to the jawbone, lay near some tattered decorations. “There is even some flesh left,” said Elan Yahya, the bride’s father, pointing at blackened shards hanging from a tree branch.

The charity organisation Medicine Sans Frontieres (MSF) has received 63 casualties in a hospital it supports in Hajjah.

Yemen, a war-torn country to be the poorest Arab Nation, has rare occasions to celebrate. “The families had spent much of their savings on the wedding. A large white tent was erected in front of their home. More than 150 guests drank soft drinks and water and feasted on lamb and other delicacies. A group of local folkloric dancers and musicians entertained, according to the recollections of villagers present at the event.”

Occasionally, on side of attacks while pulling out dead bodies under the rubble of collapsed buildings and houses, people recover remnants of ammunition used by the coalition. These are genuinely exceptional occurrences as the majority of the airstrikes leave behind nothing but ashes and sorrow. The lethal weapon rendering a joyful event into a funeral was a “GBU-12 Paveway II guided bomb. This bomb part was manufactured by the American defense firm Raytheon.

Raytheon operates simultaneously in the United Kingdom, deriving £billions of pounds out of the plight of Yemeni people.

In 2015, five months after the Saudi intervention in the Yemeni Civil War, the Obama administration approved the sale of 4,020 GBU-12 Paveway II guided bombs to Saudi Arabia.”

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