US Backed Saudi Airstrikes Kill 100 Yemenis In Two Days
While the biggest single Saudi airstrike over the weekend in
Yemen targeted a prison in Hodeidah, dozens of other strikes were
reported over the weekend by villagers around Taiz and in the Maarib
Province, with attacks killing at least 27 civilians, and wounding a
number of others. Most of the casualties were in Taiz, where attacks
destroyed several homes and caused a large number of injuries. With
hospitals in the area having very limited access to medicine because of
the naval blockade, many of those injuries proved fatal. The attacks in
Maarib and Saada, however, may prove more devastating to the country in
the long run, targeting some of the very limited farmland Yemen has,
destroying a number of villagers’ homes and burning a lot of that
farmland. Yemen has to import some 90 percent of its food under normal
circumstances, with such imports severely limited by the blockade, and
the loss of farmland just adds to food insecurity in the nation.
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