Yemen Bahrain Saudi update 8/15/2016..Deadly Saudi led air strike on MSF hospital in Yemen
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Yemen’s war: seven dead after MSF hospital hit
Deadly aftermath of Saudi led air strike on MSF hospital in Yemen (GRAPHIC)
U.S.-Backed Saudi Coalition Bombs School, Hospital In Yemen
Saudi Airstrike Kills 7 At Yemen Hospital Run By Doctors Without Borders
Many have forgotten that as US and Russian forces battle the Islamic State, a few hundred kilometers away, Saudi Arabia continues to wage war in Yemen, which is where earlier today a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the northern Hajja province in Yemen, killing at least seven people and wounding 13. A Reuters witness cited by The Guardian at the scene of the attack in the Abs district, said medics could not immediately evacuate the wounded because war planes continued to fly over the area and first responders feared more bombings.
“Yes, we confirm the news. A hospital that is run by MSF was hit by a couple of airstrikes today at 3.45pm local time. Right now we don’t have more information. Medical staff are attending the wounded,” MSF spokesperson Malak Shaher told RT.
MSF says it has supported the hospital since July 2015, adding that 4,611 patients have been treated at the facility.
The incident comes less than two days after MSF accused the Saudi-led coalition of killing 10 children and injuring 28 more in a strike that hit a school in the Houthi rebel stronghold of Saada in northern Yemen. The coalition denied targeting the school and claimed it hit a rebel camp where underage fighters were trained, AFP reports.
Just last week the US approved the sale of 130 Abrams tanks and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia for $1.2 billion. As most know, Saudi Arabia has been the most generous donor to the Clinton Family Foundation, and as the WSJ reported last week, donors have historicall expected a quid-pro-quo in exchange for their “donations.”
As a further reminder, last October, an airstrike by the US government bombed a MSF facility in Afghanistan and prompted the humanitarian organization to accuse Obama of a “War Crime.” That story was quickly buried by the mainstream media.
The Saudi-led coalition has not responded to requests for comment.
Saudi Bombers Pound Hospital in Yemen 2 Days after Killing Kids in School
The Saudi-led coalition warplanes intensified their airstrikes on residential areas across Yemen, targeting a hospital in Hajjah province just two days after killing and wounding a number of children at a school in Sa’ada province. According to reports, the Saudi fighter jets targeted Ab’as Hospital in Hajjah province on Monday, killing and wounding at least 20 people. Disturbing images of children killed in an airstrike on a religious school in Sa’ada province filled the media on Saturday. According to the latest report, at least 10 children were killed and 28 other were wounded in the air raid.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since last March to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 9,800 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children. Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures. According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has drove the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster.
‘My son & 3 others came across a bomb while playing’ – Yemeni father tells of horrors of ongoing war
War on Yemen: Children Lives Don’t Matter to Saudis
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The rising death toll of children in Saudi-led war on Yemen is generating strong messages of condemnation from international institutions and human rights organisations – with the United Nations remaining helpless as killings keep multiplying.
On Saturday, August 13, for instance, 10 were killed and 28 other children were wounded when a Saudi airstrike struck a school in northern Yemen. Medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says all the casualties were 8-15 years old, and that the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition was responsible for the attack.
The House of Saud and its partners in crime, which have launched thousands of deadly airstrikes against Yemen since March 2015, deny targeting the school in question! They claim the site bombed was “a major training camp for militia,” adding that the death toll as recorded by MSF “confirms the Houthi practice of recruiting and subjecting children to terror.”
This is rubbish. With the intensification in violence in the past week alone, the number of children killed and injured by Saudi airstrikes has grown sharply almost by the hour. Across the country, nearly 10 million children – 80 percent of the country’s under-18 population – are still in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. More than 1.3 million people have also been forced to flee their homes.
The 1949 Geneva Convention, which governs the basic rules of war, has also continued to be violated by the greatest offenders in the conflict. Even UNICEF agrees. In a new report on children in conflict zones the organisation says one of the worst cases is Yemen where an average of eight children are being killed or maimed almost every day.
Under the circumstances, what is not in dispute is that as per the UN Charter there is a moral imperative and a legal obligation on the part of Saudi Arabia and cohorts to protect children. They should never jeopardize, much less murder, children for national interests and regional politics. Also under International Law, the airstrikes amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, as the offensive has no international legitimacy.
That said, the conflict in Yemen is still a particular tragedy for children. Children are being killed by Saudi bombs and those that survive face the growing threat of disease and malnutrition. As devastating as the conflict is for the lives of children right now, it will have terrifying consequences for their future as well.
This cannot be allowed to continue. This is an important issue and it should receive great attention by the media as well. Together with the international civil society, they should force the warmongers to stop bombing schools and come to terms with accountability for the devastating loss of children lives at their hands. Equally, they should call on the UN to abandon its politics of shame and review the Saudi war crimes and act on it, which has received international attention and condemnation in recent days.
It’s tragic to hear that since March 2015 there has never been any UN resolution against Saudi Arabia, and certainly no international prosecution of one of thousands of children and civilian murders at the hands of Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. The worst offenders in the Middle East have a lot of explaining to do in such tribunals. So far, they have refused to come clean, which only implies one thing: They have no intention to stop murdering children, much less come to terms with accountability.
Yemenis fire ballistic missile at Saudi base
Whistleblower Mocks S. Arabia’s Useless Missile Defense, Urges Riyadh to Avoid Warmongering against Iran
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Saudi whistleblower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, warned Riyadh to avoid warmongering against Iran, when its missile defense shields have failed to even defuse the Yemenis’ primary missile attacks. “The Saudi air defense system has not been able to destroy even the home-made missiles built by the Houthis, let alone intercepting Iran’s ballistic missiles,” Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday. “Ansarullah has several times targeted Saudi Arabia’s largest airbase with Qaher missiles in a way that the base is on the verge of closure,” he added. “Imagine what would happen if Iran wants to attack Saudi Arabia with ballistic missiles. Will the second Hiroshima happen in Saudi Arabia?” Mujtahid asked.
The Yemenis target different military bases in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for Riyadh’s continued violation of ceasefire across Yemen, killing a large number of civilians. On Sunday, the Yemeni army and popular forces hit a strategic military base in Southern Saudi Arabia with their ballistic missile, killing tens of Saudi army men. Khamis Mushait military base located in Assir province in Southern Saudi Arabia was hit by Yemen’s Qaher-I missile on Sunday. Early reports indicated large casualties on the Saudi forces in the missile attack. The Saudi army and its coalition members have lost, at least, over a hundred troops each time they have come under a ballistic missile attack by Yemen.
In a relevant development on Wednesday, the Qaher-I missile hit Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait military base, destroying their military hardware and equipment. The Saudi-led forces’ armored vehicles were destroyed during the Yemeni missile attack.
Also on Tuesday, the Yemeni army missiles pounded the Saudi troops’ military positions in the kingdom’s Southwestern provinces, while Ansarullah fighters fended off the Saudi forces’ attacks in border regions in Northern Yemen. “The Saudi military centers in Najran and Jizan provinces came under the Yemeni army’s missile attacks today,” Ansarullah Commander Abdullah al-Zeidi told FNA. He also noted that the Yemeni forces repelled the Saudi army attacks on their military positions in border areas near Jizan and Najran provinces, and said, “The Yemeni army and popular forces fired tens of mortar rounds at al-Tala’a and al-Shabaka military sites in the Southern parts of Saudi Arabia.” Al-Zeidi also said that Saudi Arabia’s newly-established site in al-Khoba of Jizan province also came under Yemen’s missile attack, killing and wounding several Saudi troops.
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Al Khalifa Regime Detains another Cleric as Campaign against Clerics Goes on
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The Bahraini regime authorities detained another prominent cleric after summoning him for interrogation within a wide campaign against Shiite clerics, local sources said. The sources who demanded anonymity said the preacher Hani Basira was arrested along with several other people, including some of his aides, Bahrain Mirror reported. The cleric will be presented to the Public Prosecution along with those who were arrested with him, the sources said. Manama regime , a close ally of the US in the Persian Gulf region, has used heavy handed measures to crack down a wave of anti-regime protests in the country since mid-February 2011, and recently has intensified its methods against opposition senior opposition figures. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others wounded or detained amid Manama’s ongoing crackdown on dissent and widespread discrimination against the country’s Shia majority.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/08/yemen-bahrain-saudi-update_15.html
