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At least 21 civilians killed in Saudi-led air strikes
At least 21 civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen on Saturday, residents said on Sunday, as fighting intensified in the country before the Muslim Eid al-Adha feast.
They said at least 15 civilians were killed when war planes targeted workers drilling for water in the Beit Saadan area of the Arhab district north of Sanaa, and that 20 other people were wounded.
Residents said Saudi-led coalition warplanes, apparently mistaking the drilling machine for a rocket launcher, bombed the site and killed four workers. The planes conducted a second raid when residents of the village rushed to the scene, killing at least 11 more and wounding 20.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for a comment. The coalition, which has been fighting to roll back gains made by the Iran-allied Houthi group since 2014 and restore ousted President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power, says it does not target civilians.
U.N.-sponsored talks to try to end the fighting collapsed in failure last month and the Houthi movement and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh resumed shelling into neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
Saturday’s attacks were the latest in a series of strikes that have hit schools, hospitals, markets and private homes.
Local media put the number of dead and wounded at the water-drilling site at around 100 and published pictures of burned bodies and mangled equipment, and videos showed workers collecting mutilated bodies and carrying them away in blankets.
In the second attack on Saturday, residents reported an air strike hit the home of Sheikh Maqbool al-Harmali, a local tribal chief in Hairan district of Hajjah province, killing six civilians.
The United Nations says more than 10,000 people have been killed in the fighting, many of them civilians.
8 Comments on "At least 21 civilians killed in Saudi-led air strikes"
Plantagenet on Sun, 11th Sep 2016 8:18 pm
The Obama administration is supplying the weapons and providing military intelligence to the Saudis.
tahoe1780 on Sun, 11th Sep 2016 8:37 pm
Its a jobs program: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-defense-contractors-will-lose-jobs-if-u-s-stops-arming-saudi-arabia/
Boat on Sun, 11th Sep 2016 9:55 pm
Plant,
They also provide support for Kurd’s and Shiites.
rockman on Sun, 11th Sep 2016 11:46 pm
Just an aside but it always strikes me as odd when “civilians” in certain conflicts are killed. Especially by air strikes. In every civil war at least half the combatants (the non-uniformed “rebels”) are civilians. How are they (and exactly who are “they”) distinguishing unarmed dead in civilian cloths from formerly armed rebels in civilian cloths? And if unarmed folks are providing support for the rebel combatants do they count as dead rebels or dead civilians?
Of course during WWII many tens of thousands of unarmed civilians who supported the Nazi war effort were intentionally killed in allied air strikes. So moral then but not now? I guess that depends on who gets to write the history books.
Anonymous on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 4:57 am
No plantamoron, ‘obama’ is not supplying ‘anything’. The uS mil-indust deep state ,however, is. A vast array of groups, from the CIA to the pentagon, and your corporate overlords, THEY oversee that relationship with the ‘sauds’, not any ‘administration’. That relationship, weapons, training, and so on, has existed since your fixation, ‘obomber'(and you) were in diapers, idiot. Thing is, obomber at least to his credit, isn’t wearing diapers anymore. Not so sure about you though.
As for you rockman, why not direct your saud proxies to be even less discriminating about who they kill than they are now( kill em all and let allah sort em out). What exactly are you trying to imply? That every filthy arab is secretly a foot solider in a war against uS oil interests and is fair game for murder? Isnt that your regimes and their allies policy now? You think their being pussies and not aggressive enough when it comes to killing anything moving on the ground? Your attempts create an equivalence between Yemenis and German people(who were also like it or not defending their lands against amero-zionist attack), is appalling on many levels. You may have convinced yourself that bombing undefined german cities during WWII was ‘moral’, and that used to the unquestioned narrative. But a of people have since questioned the kosher (allied) forces actions and tactics and found them both immoral and militarly unnecessary. Remember your Kosher alliance, would not even LET Germany or Japan surrender, which extended the war and its suffering greatly. Germans, and Japan were both told, it was total capitulation, or nothing. You back them into a corner, then blame them(the victims) for mass- murdering their civilians with mass-fire bombing raids of no military value. But that was the ‘moral’ thing to do eh? Like most of your fellow imbeciles, I doubt you can locate Yemen on a map, and im pretty sure you, or no one you know, has ever been harmed, (or even met) a Yemeni. Your stance is identical(no surprise), to the vague justifications the uS cobbles together to help justify its drone-murder program. If they are moving around, and they are in the ‘target area’, then they must be guilty(of something), or are up to ‘no good’. Better vaporize em all just to be certain right?
I know who writes the history books(and the present) here the zionist world order. Clearly that is something you still have to figure out.
Cloggie on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 5:23 am
“I know who writes the history books(and the present) here the zionist world order. Clearly that is something you still have to figure out”
Just like most people are unaware they carry a lindworm if they do, most people will never figure out who is lording over them.
Tony Blair once ordered a study carried out among Indians (those in Asia), not sure about the exact topic, but it was some guilt-ridden sob study. The point was that it turned out that most Indians were never aware that India was a British colony.
Likewise, most people don’t have a clue who is calling the shots in the US. And those few with an university IQ>120, a family, a job, a mortgage and an interest in politics do figure out but decide to shut up about it after they saw what happened to people like David Duke. Among friends, after a beer or two after 11:00 pm they will perhaps hint about it, but that’s it.
https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Critique-Evolutionary-Twentieth-Century-Intellectual/dp/0759672229/ref=sr_1_1
People like Davy and ghung are smart enough to understand it, but won’t talk. Oil nerd rockman has the brains but doesn’t care. GregT will hint at it. Theedrich does more than hint. Plant, Boat, Apneaman don’t have a f* clue. Makati does know as far as the presence is concerned, but fails to connect the dots to WW2, which he, like rockman, still interprets as “the good war” rather than what it really was: the Anglo-Soviet (kosher) war for world conquest. The only reason why the entire world is not kosher urn today, bute merely the West, is because Stalin between 1938 and 1953 gradually began to remove zionist power from the USSR, which was the only reason why the Cold War came about. The USSR is meanwhile dead and for ten years the “oligarchs” managed to get a stranglehold over Russia again, until Vladimir the Great appeared on the scene and kicked them out. Today Russian and Chinese elites know perfectly well what the game is and now even Brzezinki knows it is game over for the NWO. The breakup of the US will finalize the great 20th century dream of the world in the hands of the self-chosen. Bye-bye und auf niemals wiedersehen.
joe on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 8:03 am
Coming to store near you. Its Islam and jihad. On the eve of eid al ahda the muslims show their love of God by sending him some more company.
Apneaman on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 11:54 am
Saudia Arabia: Can’t Pay Its Bills, Yet Funds War on Yemen
“Almost unreported outside the Kingdom, the country’s big construction magnates – including that of the Binladen group – have not been paid by the Saudi government for major construction projects and a portion of the army of Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and other workers have received no wages, some of them for up to seven months.”
“The result? A country with 16 per cent of the world’s proven oil reserves, whose Aramco oil company makes more than $1bn a day and now records a budget deficit of $100bn, cannot pay its bills.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/12/saudia-arabia-cant-pay-its-bills-yet-funds-war-on-yemen/