The strikes destroyed buildings that were serving as workers’ quarters as well as a nearby agricultural facility.
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And, of course, “the Saudi-led coalition” which is violating worldwide law, including the Geneva Conventions, by putting millions of Yemeni civilians at risk, is itself being given crucial logistical and material support for its Yemeni campaign by the United States (as well as the UK).
A six-day UN-proposed truce which was due to begin just before midnight on July 10 also failed as clashes and coalition air strikes persisted.
“The coalition is not imposing a blockade but an embargo”, he said.
On Wednesday the coalition said it had launched a series of air raids on Houthi militias and forces loyal to Saleh in the Houthis’ northern stronghold of Saada.
The move was still seen as an important escalation in the war as well as a message to Saudi Arabia that the Houthis had missile capacity. The group managed to overthrow the Yemeni government in January, and civil war has raged ever since. Further strikes on Friday slammed into residential areas in the coastal town of Mokha.
The battlefronts in Aden and Lahj have quietened, residents said, with an occasional volley of gunfire heard in the area.
It was the second bombing in Sanaa in three days.
However, the airstrikes quickly resumed after the Houthis broke the terms of the truce and continued military action and targeting civilians throughout the country as the ceasefire began.
As a reward for their participation in this bloody air campaign, some 100 Saudi pilots have been offered high-end sports cars. “Then humanitarian agencies can on top of that try to directly reach those populations that don’t have access”. “Saudi Arabia and other coalition members – and the supplier, the US – are flouting the global standard that rejects cluster munitions because of their long-term threat to civilians”.
Airstrikes had been halted for hours but ground fighting erupted in multiple provinces within minutes of the start of the unilateral cease-fire late Sunday.
The war has killed more than 3,500 people.
It is no coincidence that such operations bear the imprint of US-orchestrated machinations throughout the region.
Bakri added that “among the hostages and those killed are several specialists, fighters, and military cadres” from different nationalities including Iran and that the hostages were now being questioned. “Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Jubeir said Saudi Arabia had raised the issue with her”.
The warplanes which are dropping bombs on Yemen are manufactured in the U.S. along with the weapons being used on the people.
Saudi Arabia has conducted fresh attacks on Yemen as worldwide organizations voice concern about the humanitarian situation in the impoverished Arab country.
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This enraged the Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab sections of the country encouraged by Riyadh, which often regards the once vague Houthis, who exactly commend from Yemen’s certain moorland, as terrorists.
