“We very much regret MSF’s decision to evacuate staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen”, the coalition said in a statement, seeking to shift responsibility onto the charity. Countless human rights reports have cited Israel for violations of global law for both indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks.
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But it is likely to set the stage for a major confrontation between the U.N. leader and senior officials from Saudi Arabia, who have threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the United Nations if it didn’t take the coalition off the list, according to U.N. sources.
In March of previous year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive air campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi military gains and propping up the country’s Saudi-backed government. Oxfam and CODEPINK, among others, launched a petition to “f$3 orce a public debate on US participation in the Saudi war in Yemen by advocating for blocking the planned transfer of USA tanks and armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia”, which as of Monday had collected 9,500 signatures. As the Times notes, “Although many experts believe the threat to be overstated, Mr. Obama agreed to support the Yemen intervention – without formal authorization from Congress – and sell the Saudis even more weapons in part to appease Riyadh’s anger over the Iran nuclear deal”. A deal pending right now would see another $1 billion in arms sold to the country.
“The Green Arabia project has studied sites at ancient lakes in the Nafud desert”, Ali Ghabban, head of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, said. “Every single civilian death inside Yemen is attributable to the United States”.
That was the fourth and deadliest attack yet on an MSF facility during the war, the charity said. “Not for the patients, not for our staff”. “Because some people do not want to exercise either of these two options, so he is there to try and reach out to them – to impress upon them to cooperate and facilitate in this process”. “One is that the Saudis and their coalition of mostly Sunni Arab partners have yet to learn how to identify permissible military targets”, it reads. Beyond the grotesque killing of civilians, it’s clear at this point that the Saudis’ bombing campaign has also boosted al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) to a level which Reuters described as “stronger and richer” than anytime in its 20-year history. The Editorial Board concludes, “Given the civilian casualties, further American support for this war is indefensible”.
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A relative lull in the fighting followed, but in late July the most serious fighting for months along the border killed 12 Saudi soldiers. Five other USA nonprofit organizations were earlier blacklisted under the 2015 law.
