Saudi Coalition Airstrike Hits Bus With Dozens Of School Children

We are supporting these bastards. A bus with dozens of children was hit in an airstrike in Northern Yemen by the Saudi led coalition. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross most of the children are under ten. There is a video of the disturbing incident on the link below, which of course won't be on Youtube. Not politically expedient you know.

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ICRC‏Verified account @ICRC 6h6 hours ago

This morning a bus carrying children in Yemen was attacked. Scores of dead and wounded are being treated by our medical teams in Sa’ada the attack in Dahyan Market. The majority of our patients are under 10 years old.
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The ICRC has now confirmed that the bodies of 29 children have been recovered, all of whom were aged under 15 years old. 48 others were also injured, including 30 children. The bus was transporting civilians, including many school children, but it is not clear how many of the casualties were bus passengers and how many were pedestrians on the surrounding street.

https://www.rt.com/news/435512-yeme...notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications

 

And we and the U.K. are complicit in the slaughter of these children due to our greed.

 

Oil is more expensive than children.

 

How much do you want to bet these were American weapons?

Suppose someone is waging a war. You give them money, weapons, training, protection, have military forces stationed in their country.
Are you basically involved in that war? Or do you just wipe your hands clean and say it's none of your business because you're not the one waging that war?

 

We've been selling them weapons for decades so it could be American made. What does that matter in this situation? If they didn't buy them from us, they'd buy them from someone else. If you're trying to drag us into this, it's extremely pathetic.

 

This happened less than a week after an airstrike killed dozens near a hospital in the city of Hodeidah. The death toll on the bus has now risen to 50 according to the Red Cross, and so here's the response from Saudi Arabia - if you can believe it?

“Today’s attack in Saada was a legitimate military operation… it conformed to international and humanitarian laws,” said coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki in the statement.​

So even though the Saudi's decimated the Yemeni healthcare system, and 70% of the population is undernourished - not to mention the infrastructure is ready to collapse we should all be of good cheer that Saudi Arabia has its priorities right. It it now allowing women to drive. Whoop de do!

 

Didn't Germany stop selling them weapons?

 

No idea.

 

There's a Greek saying; 'tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are'. Our friends, do not seem to reflect well on us.

Here's another friend: (It can be translated)

http://web.archive.org/web/20100216231547/http:/rid.org.ua/?p=256

 

This has nothing to do with oil. Yemen has very little and until recently their tiny oil production has been out of commission along with 500 factories that shut down 5 years ago.

Yemen is over run with jihadis of every sort. The al Houthis supported by Iran have overthrown the government in a running battle since 2008 and are now attacking shipping thru the Bab al Mandab.

 

The Saudis built hospitals, clinics, schools and colleges for Yemen for the past 50 years.

 

A few months ago some right wingers were all set to start a war on Syria because they felt Assad was killing innocent children with poison gas. Then we all learned that these reports were all a fraud and the warmongering stopped.

Now we have actual proof that Saudi fascists killed innocent children. How many forum warmongers are all set to march off into war to exact revenge for this crime?

 

There's nothing good about what is going on in Yemen. How would you stop it?

Meanwhile, ISIS is killing Druze on behalf of Assad.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-assad-isis-and-the-russians-cooperated-to-carry-out-a-massacre

 

I can help you get over the pain - simply change your language.

Stop calling them children and simply refer to them as "collateral damage"....you'll find you barley look up from drinking your coffee....

 

Who are you supporting?

 

Oh thank goodness. That totally absolves the Saudis for killing hundreds of children.

 

I say guilty.
Margot sez were doing it out of love for humanity

 

Well in that case, those kids must really not be dead

 

Saudi Arabia never wanted a failed state on their border so they have invested in healthcare, education, clean water, power generation and economic development in Yemen since the 1960s.

The AQ and other jihadi groups began moving into Yemen 20 years ago.. and now Iran is funding the Houthis in their violent overthrow of the government.

Why don't you take five minutes to learn something about Yemen?

 

So now they just kill the children out of love

 

Wow, sounds like we're in the Abortion forum now.

 

They were probably unwanted and living a poor quality life anyway

 

The Saudi campaign in Yemen is monstrous beyond belief. But the corrupt CIA mouthpieces who call themselves "journalists" have purposely avoided giving the issue the consideration it deserves. If they pay any attention to what's happening there, it's only because they think it can be used to hurt Trump somehow.

 

Saudi Arabia is starving millions of people and causing a cholera epidemic. They and their apologists are monsters.

 

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-quintuples-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-and-egypt/a-41370500

They did but only after increasing sales by 4 times first and getting very very bad press about it.

Don't believe Merkel did for humanitarian reasons she did because of bad press in Germany!