Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Twitter that at least ten school children have been left dead and 28 injured in Yemen’s Saada province.
Al-Alam News Network and Iran’s Tasnim news agency said some 50 school children were killed.
A video obtained by Ruptly shows numerous children with head, arm and leg wounds being carried away on stretchers with blood covered faces and bodies.
The video also provides still pictures of the bodies of children presumably killed, some with dismembered limbs and covered with dust.
RT Arabic reports citing local sources that the strike happened at 8 am local time as children were taking their exams.
There has been no official confirmation that the video portrays the exact aftermath of the alleged air strike on Saturday so far, however.
Since last March, Yemen has been the target of an air campaign launched by a Saudi Arabian-led coalition being carried out at request of President Mansur Hadi’s government, who is waging a civil war against a rebel Houthi movement, which recognizes Abdullah Saleh, who was ousted earlier, as Yemen’s legitimate president.
The alleged air strike would add to a growing list of civilian casualties in Yemen blamed on the Saudi-led coalition. At least nine people were killed in a bombardment on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, earlier this month when a potato chip factory was hit.
One of the deadliest attacks on civilians occurred in September of last year, when 131 people died in an airstrike on a wedding in the village of Al-Wahijah. Locals blamed the assault on Saudi Arabia, though Riyadh strongly denied responsibility.
In April of 2015, Saudi aircraft attacked a crowded marketplace in Mastaba, a village in Yemen’s northern Hajja governorate. UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, estimated the death toll from those airstrikes at 119, including 22 children.
Human Rights Watch later examined the bomb fragments found at the site and determined they came from a “US-made satellite-guided bomb”. The US alongside the UK is one of the major arms suppliers to Saudi Arabia.
Just recently, Washington gave a green light to the sale of 133 tanks and 20 recovery vehicles to Saudi Arabia, while praising the Saudi Kingdom as a “leading contributor of political stability and economic progress” in the Middle East. The deal was estimated at $1.15 billion by the US Defense Security Cooperation agency in its notice to Congress.
According to the latest figures issued by the UK’s Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), Great Britain is also heavily involved in arms deals with the Gulf State. CAAT estimated that the UK has licensed £3.2 billion in arms sales to Riyadh since the beginning of the Saudi campaign in Yemen.
On August 2, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced “very serious concerns” over the killing of children in Yemen.
“I still have very strong concerns about the protection of Yemeni children,” the official was quoted as saying by AFP. According to a recent UN report, the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for over 60 percent of 785 child casualties in Yemen in 2015.
makati1 on Mon, 15th Aug 2016 6:53 pm
10 kids in Yemen make the news. Hundreds of thousands in Syria, Libya, Iraq, etc. over the last 15 years are ignored. Just “collateral damage” in the Imperial quest for domination.
I wonder what the reaction would be to 10 America kids killed in an American school by Yemeni bombs?
DMyers on Mon, 15th Aug 2016 9:34 pm
Good question, Mak. Goes straight to the point of American exceptionalism. Yemen children are not exceptional. Therefore, we can tolerate their appointment as collateral damage, even though they are children, and we are a child centered society (make that child like?).
You can see the difference if you look. Our children have all the latest shit. They dress real good and go to school every day. They live and practice their exceptionalism by acting like they’re exceptional at all times.
So, you see, Yemeni children are not children in the way that we understand children to be. They’re children in name only, you might say. They were chosen to help our cause. And our cause is something worth dying for, as long as the dying ain’t done by us.
Apneaman on Mon, 15th Aug 2016 10:35 pm
We’re all dead anyway so who cares? The more people killed sooner the better.
Sissyfuss on Mon, 15th Aug 2016 10:43 pm
Apey, you need a hobby. How bout Macramé?
theedrich on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 3:28 am
Ah, the “indispensable nation” as kid killer. Makes one proud to be an American following in the footsteps of Madeleine (“we think it’s worth it”) Albright. Just think of all the money we made selling war toys to the Saudi Sand Negroes. The current form of “nation building” one might say. It’s so nice to have a microcephalic marionette running our foreign policy. Makes one look forward to the exHilarating fun Hotflash will introduce to the world as follow-up when she takes over the throne room. The “I’m with her” masses will be ecstatic. Massacring children proves how powerful we and our coalition can be. Just like the good ol’ times of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ralph on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 5:02 am
Reports today that the Saudis have been bombing hospitals as well, again. The M/E is now reaching the point in the Suni/Shia divide that the only good Sunni/Shia (delete as appropriate) is a dead one. But the Saudis are our allies so by definition they are the good guys.
Reports also that ISIS are leaving booby trapped hospitals and re-inventing old torture methods, like death by boiling oil, but the reports are in the MSM so it is impossible to know how true they are.
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 5:21 am
Another new development is that Russia has begun to bomb Syrian Assad opponents from… Hamadan-Iran airbase.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/krieg-in-syrien-russland-fliegt-angriffe-aus-iran-a-1107898.html
Combine that with recent Turkish overtures towards Russia, when Erdogan flew to Moscow, after not only apologizing for the downing of a Russian jet, but even admitted that the Russian jet flew over Syrian, not Turkish territory.
During the first days after the recent Turkish coup attempt I was tempted to think it was an Erdogan organized false flag to create the pretext for large scale internal purges.
But now I do not longer think that that was the case. The coup attempt was real, Erdogan was 45 minutes away from being killed and indeed originated from Gulen and more important was probably secretly backed by the Americans centered at Incirlik airbase. The Americans were long irritated by Erdogan’s Islamism and neo-Ottoman attitudes, incompatible with meek NWO membership.
The failed coup could have enormous consequences. There is a long list of ME leaders who were first lauded by the West… only to be killed not long after. Google it up:
– Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam, because he took on Iran
– Khadaffi kissing Tony Blair
– Assad and misses wining and dining with John Kohn and misses
All killed or attempted to be overthrown.
Now Erdogan knows he is on the western hit list as well.
The bad message for the West is: Turkey is playing in a different league than Iraq, Syria or Libya.
Erdogan could have drawn the tentative conclusion that his own survival is better guaranteed in SCO than in NATO. And that would be a real game changer.
And the winner is… again… Vladimir the Great.
Davy on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 5:49 am
“And the winner is… again… Vladimir the Great.” Clog, there are no winners in the Mid-east only mission creep and further commitments. Yes, Putin is a winner but winning has a price and Russia has only so much to pay. If you think Russia and Turkey will make up over this than you are being simple. Their alliances are incompatible and inconsistent. They will serve each other’s purpose until they don’t and in the Mid-East that process is short.
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 6:37 am
Davy, the point of my post was not to stress a machiavellian “friendship” between Turkey and Russia, but that the West has shown its true murderous intentions vis a vis Erdogan. And that can’t be undone easily. Not in the short term.
The precariousness of Erdogan’s position is illustrated best by the U-turn Erdogan was forced to make after the coup. Erdogan hates Russia’s successful blocking of his western-backed meddling in Syria in an attempt to add Syria to the Turkish sphere of influence. Yet he has to play nice to Vlad because he knows that at least Russia won’t organize a coup in Turkey.
The US correctly began to understand that Turkey intended to use IS as a tool and icebreaker for a Turkish run fundamentalist ME, entirely backed by Saudi-Arabia and smaller Sunni oil states. This ME with the “Sunni-side-up” would likely give the West the finger and go it alone, backed by oil wealth.
Additionally interesting is that unlike KSA, Turkey is not really that interested in antagonizing Iran. Erdogan deep in his heart is more anti-western than anti-Iranian.
With these considerations in mind and Russia allowed to use Iranian airspace to bomb IS and a rapprochement of Russia and Turkey, one has to seriously consider the possibility that the ENTIRE ME including Iran could switch sides and defect to the Moscow-Beijing axis.
NWO utterly defeated.
makati1 on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 6:46 am
Cloggie, I see that as a distinct possibility. The US has done nothing positive for any ME country in the last 15 years. None. It has destroyed most of them in one way or another. Eyes are opening to the real US, not the ‘defender of freedom’ it professes to be.
Davy on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 7:02 am
Clog, the best thing for the US is to lose in the ME and for the rest of them to win. We are close to the point of going local anyway. The whole ME region will be in a massive die off soon enough anyway. Why be a part of that? We will see a die off in the US also but likely nothing like the ME with too many people living in a desert with people who hate each other more than anywhere else in the world. IMA, the US can walk away a lot easier than your Europe can from the ME. Are you ready to share your easy chair with a desperate from the ME?
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 7:51 am
Indeed Davy, the US can survive on its own and its Canadian and Venezolean backyard.
Oh and I am NOT ready to share my chair with anybody from the otherside of the Meditarrenean.
I have long been preaching that Russia is the key to European survival but we are stuck with a spineless political class that simply follow orders from Washington, even if it is not in the European interest, like outright inviting the entire third world by Merkel on orders of Soros.
On a positive note, this massive influx is mobilizing the European population and creating a gigantic divide between them and the leftist 1968 generation of political US ****-suckers.
My hope is that Europe won’t become too rightwing, a development entirely provoked by politics and their insane drive towards global empire, a pipe dream, of which mass migration is a cornerstone in order to create a world of Obama look-a-likes.
I think that we in western Europe soon will see a revolution a la 1989 in eastern Europe. All rightwingers in Europe, as well as Trump and his electorate in America want good relations with Russia. They see the third world, not Russia, as THE major threat.
Earlier I posted the video where German justice minister Maas was kicked out of an eastern-German town of Zwickau:
https://youtu.be/J9rvjdB-VRc
It recently happened again, this time in Sebnitz:
https://youtu.be/S0Z0uHosv4o
And here the German president Gauck, same story:
https://youtu.be/8IrhJwpSdvQ
These are scenes like in the GDR-1989.
I seriously expect Merkel to be chased down naked through the streets of Berlin and lynched for her bottomless treason of her people.
These are all signs that western liberal multicultural xenophile modernity is coming to a close and that we are entering a period of immense chaos and even civil war in countries like France.
JuanP on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:04 am
Mak “I wonder what the reaction would be to 10 America kids killed in an American school by Yemeni bombs?”
I guess that was a rhetorical question, but the answer would be that the USA would carpet bomb, invade, blockade, and sanction Yemen completely destroying the country’s infrastructure and starving, murdering, and raping its population for the foreseeable future. The USA would likely focus on bombing every single Yemeni school and starving and abusing the children. No two bricks would be left one on top of the other.
Boat on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:10 am
What the US does know is when intolerance creates enough violence and disruption, regardless of race, color or country, it’s time to intervene. The idea of nationalism, superior breed, rogue systems or religion that promotes violence and death, must be confronted to keep trade flowing and world systems intact.
JuanP on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:15 am
Cloggie, At first I thought the Turkish coup was a false flag, too, but now I have changed my mind and think it was instigated by the USA. Erdogan now understands that the USA and its minions are not his friends but rather his enemies. The relationship between Russia and Turkey is bound to somewhat recover. If I were the Russians I would be very careful with Erdogan, though, because he is a selfish motherfucker, but Russia needs to get along with Turkey for its own good. Putin must be delighted with this turn of events. If the Americans keep shooting themselves in the foot like this they will soon be hated by the whole world. All Putin has to do is keep buying time and wait for the American Empire to collapse from the inside out. Americans are their own worst enemies and they are doing an awesome job of destroying their own country.
JuanP on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:23 am
As someone who has lived most of his life in the USA, I believe that the best thing this country can do at this time for its population is to isolate itself from the rest of the world. The USA should close all its military bases abroad, bring our bombs, ships, and troops back home, invest all the money saved in redeveloping a domestic manufacturing industry, learn to live within its means, and let the rest of the world take care of their problems on their own. We need to spend our money here in the USA fixing the many, many problems we have here before it is too late, and we are running out of time to do it.
JuanP on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:24 am
Boat, Do you really believe all that nonsense you write? If you do then you are a complete fool! LOL!
Boat on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:29 am
“All rightwingers in Europe, as well as Trump and his electorate in America want good relations with Russia.”
Most Americans could care less about the Russians. They are viewed as one of the larger moles in “whack a mole”. We don’t want any mole to raise up but if it happens it will beaten down.
Boat on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:49 am
JuanP on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 8:24 am
Of course JuanP. Foriegn born immigrants like yourself sometimes have trouble adjusting to a nation that supports divesity. Some never do. Your one of those.
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 9:26 am
In Damascus a highranking Chinese military commission has agreed with the Assad government that China will begin to military support the Syrian government:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/syrien-china-will-enger-mit-assads-armee-kooperieren-a-1107940.html
China, behind Russia’s broad back, is openly beginning to support a regime that Washington wants to see overthrown.
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 9:40 am
“Most Americans could care less about the Russians. They are viewed as one of the larger moles in “whack a mole”. We don’t want any mole to raise up but if it happens it will beaten down.”
Boat, are you sure that you want to have your murderous intentions on display this clear for everybody to see?
We all know what imperialist Hillary-supporters like you think, but I still consider it is unwise to broadcast your aspirations with such a brutal intensity.
Now Boat, you are of Swedish descent, meaning those Europeans who are hands down the most devirilised sissies around, handing over their cuntry to the Jihadists on a silver platter. After all, gay suede shoes aren’t called suede for nothing.
Do you intend to “whack a mole” yourself? If so, please notify us so we can buy some beer and popcorn and have a coupe of good laughs.
The last times Swedes tried to defeat Russians was during the battle of Poltava. Predictable they got their asses kicked and were forced to flee southwards and ended up in Istanbul, to the amazement of the Turks, who had never seen blond gays before.
Boat on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 10:45 am
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 9:40 am
Murderous intentions? Not at all. We would all hope international sanctions would have enough effect. Most eventual adversaries had ample time and warning before military action occurred.
Apneaman on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 11:47 am
cloggie, wrong again. Swedish vikings were in Istanbul 500 years before you claim – when it was still called Constantinople and had made it as far as Baghdad. They were well known in the region. The Roman royalty even hired them, being how they was such ass kickers. Even Russia is named after those boys “The Rus”, since they set up shop there.
The Varangian Guard
The Vikings in Byzantium
http://www.soldiers-of-misfortune.com/history/varangian-guard.htm
cloggie you need to pound back a can of drano – your shit is so backed up, it’s plugged up your brain.
Henceforth, you will known as “Shit for Brains”
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 12:12 pm
Apneaman can’t read. I was talking about Turks seeing blond gays for the first time, not Christian Constantinopolists.
Apneaman, why don’t smear maple sirup on your pretty little nose just to keep the mosquitos away from your boyfriend. And when he is out there setting beaver traps to keep the chimney smoking, you can watch your anal porn, just to keep you warm and fuzzy when he can’t.
Apneaman on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 1:16 pm
Shit4Brains you really have a bad case of homophobia eh? You know what the research says about that………….
Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals
A new analysis of implicit bias and explicit sexual orientation statements may help to explain the underpinnings of anti-gay bullying and hate crimes
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/
Homophobic Men Most Aroused by Gay Male Porn
Homophobia is associated with sexual excitement by male-on-male sex.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201106/homophobic-men-most-aroused-gay-male-porn
Wow shit4, that must be tough for you living in the very first country to legalize gay marriage and with a 93% acceptance level of homo sexuality and yet there you are hiding in the closet and pretending. Is that a religious thing or a mommy and daddy thing? Doesn’t seem like anyone else cares if you are a fudge packing poo miner – I don’t and neither do most reasonable intelligent people. Hey if you want to live what tiny little time you get to be alive, living and hiding in fear, go right ahead.
Who needs all these million dollar studies eh?
Methinks, the closet homosexual doth protest too much.
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 1:34 pm
Could you produce a quote from me from which you can conclude that I am “homophobic”?
I voted for Pim Fortuyn, for Christ sake, who claimed that he could taste from the seed of his partner what he had been drinking the day before.
Here a conversation between Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, both murdered by political correctness:
https://youtu.be/bDE9-Pt1kms
I was devastated when he was killed.
Fortuyn was unique in the western world. He was very worried that liberal values would be destroyed by these backward homophobic algebra inventors of yours.
I am not homophobic.
I am very Islamophobic.
But worst of all are lefties like you, commissar ghung and Boat.
Apneaman on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 3:25 pm
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 9:40 am
“….who had never seen blond gays before.”
There is that and plenty of other references to gays and anything to do with sexuality, like porn, you get all churchy like it’s the middle ages and you’re going to shame me. I watch porn every fucking day, so go ahead and tell the whole fucking world shit4brains – like they give a fuck.
Another thing shit4, apparent you don’t know what “lefties” are if you think me, ghung and boat are lefties. You really must enjoy the taste of your own toe jam since your foot spends so much time in your mouth.
So, you’re Islamophobic, so what? What you just hide away on the computer bitching about it? At least 95% of the posters on here are from N America, so do you need us to come and fix up your latest invasion problem again? Gonna take a pass on this one. Try doing your own fighting this time. Their your mess, you clean it up. I doubt they are going to go away because a bunch of soft angry white Euro-cowards are yelling on the internet. I’m tired of hearing all this whining about Muslims from Europeans. I don’t care, because I don’t give a fuck about Europe and all their micro whining and arrogance.
There are forces underway now beyond any little nationalities and races. Powerful unstoppable planetary forces and forces of evolution that those who choose to remain in tribal mindsets are incapable of comprehending.
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 4:53 pm
“apparent you don’t know what “lefties” are if you think me, ghung and boat are lefties”
Lefties are egalitarians and in 2016 outright political fossils, who opine that the entire world needs to be rammed into a single power pyramid or reject the idea that it is better to keep seperate people, well… seperate. The inevitable consequence of mixing people on a global scale would be that in the end that single powerpyramid will be an automatic result, which is precisely why the American left, who still think that they can “whack any mole who resists” (Boat), promotes endless migration.
That leftist political program existed between 1917-1991 as economic egalitarianism in the USSR and now as racial egalitarianism in the US. The USSR failed, the US will fail in their globalist agenda’s. Reason: apart from a few power hungry elitists in Moscow c.q. Washington, nobody is interested to be part of that globalist nightmare. People prefer to be among their own kind, no matter how much sexial deviants like the forum strangulator will fulminate against that idea.
It is interesting to note that our commissar ghung has posted an article in a parallel forum titled “World War III is well underway and we are losing it”. Ghung is slowly getting it, in contrast to the forum boa constrictor and not the brightest bulb in the christmas tree, but the trouble is that WW3 is already underway and will escalate anyway, the result of which will be the complete dismantlement of Anglosphere and the West.
The American empire has dug it self too deep in a hole to escape from that, by broadcasting the message of exceptionalism a bit too long, resulting in the entire world mobilizing against the parvenues.
The ingredients of the coming conflict will be:
– the violent overthrow of US multicult vassals in Europe and the formation of the rightwing-identitarian Paris-Berlin-Moscow confederation
– the challenging of the US by China in the South-China Sea and the invasion of China in Philipines and US ally Australia
– the complete breakdown or order in the US where the bipolar party system will fall apart and morph into two war parties, where Washington and our racial commie gang of three will try to keep America together
– European intervention on US soil on the side of the Amerikaner (Confederate flag wavers/Trumpeteers) and against Washington and its HillaryBillies
– Turkey using the power vacuum to expand southwards after all, aided by all the Sunni Gulf states
– End game USA: SW back to Mexico, Amerikaner republic, “where Dolly Parton meets Hitler” (Kunstler) between Apalachians and Rockies backed by Europe. Diverse republic along the entire east coast, the new home for the gang of three. Chinese North-American stronghold around Vancouver. China will control the Pacific, Europesphere the Atlantic.
There is no way that the Democratic Party and a bunch of neocons are going to conquor the world, ghung begins to understands that. The fallout of the implosion of Pax America is going to be immense, as portrayed above.
Apneaman on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 5:48 pm
Well, although I might agree with a couple of your points regarding the empire, none of those details is all that important to me, because I don’t give a shit and am convinced the humans, due to their inherent stupidity, will not see the next century. Got a political label for that one?
Cloggie on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 6:01 pm
Nihilist.
Apneaman on Tue, 16th Aug 2016 6:41 pm
Realist
……………………………………………………………………………
July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded; 2016 Set to Make 1998 Look Cold by Comparison
“July 2016 was the warmest July in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. — NASA GISS.
2016 — 99 Percent Likely to be the Hottest Year on Record by a Big Margin”
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/08/16/july-was-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded-2016-set-to-make-1998-look-cold-by-comparison/
Cloggie on Wed, 17th Aug 2016 5:09 am
Coldest summer in Europe in 200 years:
http://www.ad.nl/binnenland/europa-wacht-koudste-zomer-in-200-jaar~a7416a35/
Please send us 2 degrees Celcius global warming!
PracticalMaina on Wed, 17th Aug 2016 8:18 am
So Bush senior was a leftist for talking about the New World Order? Bush for allowing the false flag to start the war on terror? Interesting… Reagan for making it no longer a two superpower world? With his cooperation with extremist?
Anonymous on Sun, 21st Aug 2016 4:10 pm
But the ministry of truth tells me merika’s democracy and freedom bombs only hit ‘bad guys’, and never photogenic kids, old people, or women. They also tell me Russian bombs, otoh, always hit women and children, and never hit actual terrorists. Russian bombs according to merikan press, UN etc, only hit ‘rebel’s (when they are not flattening children’s hospitals of course).
So confusing…