Daily remembrance of the Saudi-led, US-BRITISH-backed coalition atrocities

On 24 Aug 2018, a 90-page report was released by a leading human rights org proving that JIAT was “COVERING UP WAR CRIMES” in Yemen. The Joint Incidents Assessment Team was meant to bring greater accountability to the war, but most of its reports absolve the coalition of responsibility. The 90-page report, released Friday, digs into the Joint Incidents Assessment Team, or JIAT, a body the coalition created to investigate civilian casualty claims after the bombing campaign began in Yemen in 2015. By its own count, the assessment team has investigated 79 incidents in which airstrikes allegedly killed or wounded civilians. But the vast majority of its reports — only 75 of which Human Rights Watch could actually find — absolve the coalition of legal responsibility for the strike in question, either by claiming the coalition wasn’t responsible or by determining that the attack was an “unintentional” result of technical errors.The report quotes a man identified as “Yasser,” whose relatives were killed in an airstrike on a water bottling factory in 2015. Yasser, whose name was changed by the report’s authors for his protection, told the group that he “heard about the compensation as everyone else heard about it, through the TV,” but that no one had contacted him about receiving payments on behalf of his lost relatives.JIAT’s only publicly known member, legal adviser and spokesperson Mansour al-Mansour, is a military lawyer from Bahrain, where he was reportedly involved in the prosecution of hundreds of peaceful protestors in the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. Earlier that year, Saudi Arabia invaded Bahrain over fears that unrest there could topple the monarchyThe Intercept report.

24 August 2019, in Hodeidah, a young man was killed after a mortar shell by the Saudi-UAE mercenaries was fires. The forces of the aggression shelled more than 35 artillery shells on different parts of the city and the Al Shabab city on 90th Street during the past hours. The bombing continued in other districts of Hodeidah. The governorate of Hajjah and the capital were bombed later – Yaman Yoon report.

A Yemeni woman and a girl, displaced from the coastal city of Hodeidah, sit at a shelter in Sanaa, Yemen, on Aug. 17. 2018, Thursday’s airstrike took place near Hodeidah.