Category: yemen war
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U.S.-British coalition conducts 4 more illegal airstrikes on Yemen Hodeidah airport
Warplanes of the U.S.-British naval coalition on Tuesday launched four airstrikes on the airport of Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah,
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#OnThisDay(2018) Saudi-led, US/UK backed airstrikes on family with nine children in Saada
An unknown coalition aircraft released a single GBU-12 on the target, a 500-pound; American-made precision-guided bomb that was dropped at 9:56 p.m., less than 50 minutes after the Saudis first caught sight of the tents. U.S.-BACKED SAUDI AIRSTRIKE ON FAMILY WITH NINE CHILDREN SHOWS “CLEAR VIOLATIONS” OF THE LAWS OF WARMembers of the Saudi-led coalition…
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#OnThisDay(2015) The Saudi-led, US/UK-backed coalition bombed a market & a lemon grove
An aircraft dropped at least five bombs on Zabid, killing at least 60 civilians, including 13 women and eight children, and wounding at least 155. The authorities gathered 66 unidentified body parts from the marketplace.[76] Three of the bombs had struck a three-story building in the middle of the Shagia market. The first bomb struck…
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#OnThisDay(2015) The Saudi-led, US/UK-backed coalition bombed the Abs/Kholan Prison and a family house
The strikes killed at least 25 civilians, including one woman and three children, and wounded at least 18 civilians. The bomb hit the prison’s mosque, at the corner of the prison compound, collapsing the structure. The second bomb struck minutes later, hitting the home of Omar Ali Farjain, about 50 meters (164 feet) from the…
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The old city of Sana’a treatened to lose its world heritage status
The old city of Sanaa in Yemen is more than two-thousand-five-hundred years old. Nearly a decade of war in Yemen has caused serious damage to the old city of Sanaa, due to airstrikes as well as heavy rains. We need international donations in order to preserve the Yemeni jewel.
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Unethical ‘US-UK Strategic Sanctions’
Yemeni say that they have been abandoned. People living in displacement say that they’ve never experienced aid cuts of such magnitude. Eight in ten people lacked sufficient clean water amid a surge in water-borne diseases including cholera. A separate survey of families in Aden, Marib, Taiz and other areas also found that 80 per cent…
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#OnThisDay (2015), A Saudi Arabia-led, US/UK-backed coalition airstrike on Sana’a
An army weapon depot on a hillside overlooking the capital was hit, killing 120 and injuring 300. The second of its kind in less than two months.
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#OnThisDay (2015) the Saudi-led Coalition bombed a 1200-year-old mosque in Sa’ada
The al-Hadi mosque in Saada City, Yemen, after the bombing on May 9, 2015.The mosque is the final resting place of Imam al-Hadi ila’l-Haqq Yahya, the first Shiite Zaydi imam of Yemen, who died in 911 A.D. Local legend has it that the site of the mosque is where the Prophet Mohammed’s camel once rested.…
Nascent Yemen 