(Updated:) Deadly air strike hits marketplace in Yemen

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Source: The Guardian

More than 45 civilians have been killed following an air strike by Saudi-led coalition forces on a marketplace in Yemen, according to security officials and witnesses.

The officials said more than 50 civilians were wounded in the strike in Fayoush, a suburb of the southern port city of Aden.

“I came right after the explosion and saw dozens of dead strewn about and a sea of blood, while the wounded were being evacuated to nearby hospitals,” resident Abu-Ali al-Azibi said. “(There was) blood from people mixed with that of the sheep and other livestock at the market.”

The officials said Saudi-led airstrikes against Houthi rebels continued across the country, with nine provinces and the capital, Sana’a, hit.

The conflict in Yemen has pit the Houthis and troops loyal to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh against southern separatists, local and tribal militias, Sunni Islamic militants and loyalists of exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi – who is now based in Saudi Arabia.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/air-strike-hits-marketplace-aden-yemen

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1. Related: Monitors say Saudi is violating international law in Yemen, but the US is still helping

Monitors say Saudi is violating international law in Yemen, but the US is still helping

Published July 6th, 2015 - 15:27 GMT via SyndiGate.info

If you've forgotten about Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen, Human Rights Watch is there to remind you.

The monitor came out with a report on Yemen last week that said Saudi Arabia has been violating international law with its air campaign, striking civilian casualties in areas that showed "no evident military target."

The UN declared the conflict-torn country a Level 3, the highest-level humanitarian crisis, earlier this week. And Human Rights Watch says the blatant disregard for civilian casualties in northern Saada, a city believed to be a stronghold for Houthi rebels. HRW wrote:

On May 8, a coalition spokesman announced that the entire city of Saada was a military target. This not only violated the laws-of-war prohibition against placing civilians at particular risk by treating a number of separate and distinct military objectives as a single military target, but possibly also the prohibition against making threats of violence whose purpose is to instill terror in the civilian population....

Read more:
http://www.albawaba.com/loop/monitors-say-saudi-violating-international-law-yemen-us-still-helping-715992

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2. Barbaric mass murder by a dictatorial family theocracy allied with America and Israel?

Not newsworthy in the Western sphere as much as human-munching sea life.