Yemen Saudi update 8/22/2016..Saudi Arabia playing blame game to justify failures

Saudi Arabia hits another school in Yemen

Source: Saudi Arabia Launches Chemical Attack on Sana’a, Killing Civilians

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A Yemeni military source disclosed that Saudi Arabia has attacked the civilians in Sana’a with chemical weapons, killing and injuring a number of people in the capital city’s Ninth district. “A number of Yemeni people have been killed as a result of inhaling poisonous gases in the chemical attack,” Military Expert Major General Abdel Sattar al-Sa’deh told FNA on Monday. He reiterated that Sana’a's Ninth district has been under artillery attacks of the pro-Saudi forces, yet it seems that the Saudi forces have been recently supplied with chemical weapons to exert more pressure on the district. Al-Sa’deh said that the Yemeni citizens felt weakness, unconsciousness and tiredness after the Saudi forces attacked them with artillery shells containing white-colored substances. “This is for the first time that this kind of poisonous artillery shells are fired at residents of the Ninth district and the villages of Qoubareh, Qoul Ali, al-Ma’di, al-Asarat and al-Aqran,” he added. Al-Sa’deh reiterated that the chemical warfare used by Saudi Arabia only targets humans and animals.

On Sunday, fighter jets from the Saudi-led coalition hit Sana’a during a massive rally that attracted millions of people rallied in strong support for a political body recently formed to run the country in the face of a Saudi military campaign to reinstate a former president. During the demonstration, Saudi fighter jets bombed Yemen’s capital, including the area around the Presidential palace. The bombardment resulted in an “unknown number of casualties,” local officials said. People on Twitter said that at least three civilians were killed and a number were wounded.

Saudi Arabia has been repeatedly slammed for causing civilian casualties during its bombing campaign. In the latest case on August 13, at least ten children were killed in an airstrike blamed on the Saudi-led coalition that hit a religious school in Northwestern Yemen. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirmed that 28 youngsters were also injured in that attack. After Saudi jets hit their hospital, killing 19 people, MSF announced on Thursday that it was pulling its staff out of northern Yemen. Just days after the airstrike on MSF hospital in Hajjah, the US military announced it has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning.

Prominent watchdog urges arms embargo on Saudi Arabia

Yemeni Army Downs Saudi Arabia’s Apache Military Chopper Near Najran Border

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The Yemeni army and Ansarullah fighters continued their advances against the pro-Saudi forces across Yemen, and inflicted heavy losses on their military hardware, including a US-made Apache helicopter. “Yemen’s air defense system destroyed an Apache helicopter in Najran region,” the Arabic-language media outlets quoted an unnamed source as saying on Monday, August 22, 2016 There are no further details available on the incident. Earlier on Monday, a senior Yemeni commander announced that the Yemeni army and popular forces inflicted heavy losses and casualties on the pro-Saudi forces in Ma’rib, Ta’iz and al-Jawf provinces. “Over 20 pro-Saudi forces were killed in an ambush of the Yemeni army and popular forces,” Senior Ansarullah Commander Ali al-Houthi told FNA.

Meantime, several Saudi forces were killed in an artillery attack of the Yemeni popular forces on their gathering center in the surrounding areas of al-Waziya region. Several military vehicles of the pro-Saudi forces were also destroyed in the attack. On Sunday, a senior Yemeni military commander announced that Yemen’s Dhale province is on the verge of being fully liberated as the pro-Saudi forces have sustained heavy losses and casualties in Ma’rib and al-Jawf provinces. “The Yemeni army backed by popular forces purged terrorists from a large number of villages in the Southern and Western parts of Dhale province,” Yemeni Army Commander Brigadier General Abdollah al-Setri told FNA. The Yemeni commander reiterated that seizing back of Dhale province will be a heavy blow to the Saudi-led coalition. Brigadier General al-Setri, meantime, noted that the Yemeni army and popular forces have inflicted heavy losses on the Saudi forces in Ma’rib and al-Jawf provinces. He also said that the army and popular forces have purged terrorists from 245 square kilometers of areas in Southern Sana’a.

US-Supported Genocide in Yemen

by Stephen Lendman

Yemen is Obama’s war, naked aggression letting Saudis, other rogue Gulf States and Israel do his dirty work – enforcing blockade to restrict humanitarian aid, flooding the region with weapons and munitions, providing intelligence for terror-bombing, designating targets to be struck, civilians being massacred in much larger numbers than UN reports claim.

War in Yemen is US-sponsored slow-motion genocide, putting most of its population at risk. Yet something this important gets scant scoundrel media coverage, most often none at all – including on the following incidents.

RT International reported Saudi warplanes (bought from America, armed with US munitions) terror-bombed a huge pro-Houthi/pro-ousted President Abdullah Saleh rally in Sanaa on Saturday, the nation’s capital.

Unknown numbers of civilians were killed or injured. One participant said “(s)uddenly they started bombing, and the crowd started running…People (were) screaming.”

Earlier in August, Riyadh terror-bombed a school and Doctors Without Borders hospital, causing numerous civilian deaths and injuries.

MSF said it’s pulling out of northern Yemen entirely. It’s too unsafe to operate there despite Saudis and other combatants given coordinates of their facilities to avoid incidents.

Civilians and nonmilitary related sites are being willfully terror-bombed. Yet media scoundrels virtually ignore what’s happening. It deserves regular feature front page coverage.

On August 22, Fars News reported on a separate incident, involving Saudis use of chemical weapons, killing or injuring an unknown number of civilians in Sanaa’s ninth district.

According to General Abdel Sattar al-Sa’deh, “(a) number of Yemeni people have been killed as a result of inhaling poisonous gases in the chemical attack.”

“This is for the first time that this kind of poisonous artillery shells are fired at residents of the Ninth district and the villages of Qoubareh, Qoul Ali, al-Ma’di, al-Asarat and al-Aqran.”

Monday NYT, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal editions have plenty of political coverage, lots on other topics – nothing on US-sponsored slow-motion genocide in Yemen.