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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:18 AM Mar 2015

Civilians Killed in Arab Airstrikes on Yemen - Six Children Reported Killed Near Airport

http://defence.pk/threads/civilians-killed-in-arab-airstrikes-on-yemen.367185/

Six Children Among Dozens Killed in Saudi-Arabian Led Airstrikes | Amnesty International

Sana'a main airport:





The organization spoke to medical personnel at four different hospitals where the dead were taken after being pulled from the rubble of 14 houses that were hit in a residential neighbourhood near the city’s international airport. The rest of those killed were men, mostly in their 30s and 40s. It is believed that more people may still be buried beneath the rubble, and at least 20, including four women, were admitted to hospital with mainly shrapnel injures.

This high toll of civilian deaths and injuries in these attacks raises concerns about compliance with the rules of international humanitarian law. Saudi Arabian and any other armed forces carrying out airstrikes in Yemen are required to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians.​

“This high toll of civilian deaths and injuries in these attacks raises concerns about compliance with the rules of international humanitarian law. Saudi Arabian and any other armed forces carrying out airstrikes in Yemen are required to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.

“This includes verifying that targets are in fact military objectives and giving civilians effective advance warnings unless circumstances do not permit.

“The Huthi armed groups and the Yemeni armed forces also have obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians under their control from the effects of attacks, including by avoiding, to the extent feasible, locating their fighters and weaponry within residential neighbourhoods.”

Given the civilian deaths and injuries, Saudi Arabia and other states involved in these airstrikes must investigate whether violations of international humanitarian law were committed. And if there is evidence that war crimes were committed they must prosecute the suspects in fair trials.

Yemen’s Ministry of Health today said the airstrikes killed 25 people and injured some 40 – it is not yet known if there were any fighters among the casualties.

According to a paramedic who witnessed the aftermath, the airstrike near the airport occurred shortly before 3AM local time, in a residential area called Beni Hawat. Huthi armed groups had allegedly been operating a checkpoint around 100m away, as well as al-Dailami base around 500m away.

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Civilians Killed in Arab Airstrikes on Yemen - Six Children Reported Killed Near Airport (Original Post) Fred Sanders Mar 2015 OP
The Saudi Air Force can not hit....an airport??? Look at the airport photo. This was intentional terrorism. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #1
FFS atreides1 Mar 2015 #2
Maybe they did, maybe they did. Saudi is a state that openly promotes both domestic and foreign terrorism after all. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The Saudi Air Force can not hit....an airport??? Look at the airport photo. This was intentional terrorism.
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:24 AM
Mar 2015

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
2. FFS
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:28 AM
Mar 2015

You think with all the money the US spends to train these dimwits, they could hit the damn right target!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Maybe they did, maybe they did. Saudi is a state that openly promotes both domestic and foreign terrorism after all.
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:39 AM
Mar 2015
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