#OnThisDay (2017) The Saudi-led, US-BRITISH-BACKED coalition bombed a home in Sana’a

Four members of the al-Mahdi family, including an elderly woman and her three young grandchildren, were killed after their house was struck with an air strike shortly after midnight,”

There’s been no cessation in hostilies from the Saudis since the start of Ramadan. For the past two weeks, every night, we’ve had planes hovering in the skies until the early hours.”

9 June 2017: Bombing of residential building in Sana’a kills 4 and injures 8. (UN Panel of Experts, January 2018)


A man sits on the rubble of a house of his relatives, destroyed by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, June 9, 2017. 
Al Jazeera report
The Intercept report

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