Here what you don’t know about Kuwait’s role in killing civilians
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Kuwait’s defense minister visited his forces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , taking part in the US-Saudi-led coalition forces, Kuwaiti media sources said on Tuesday.
Al-Rai newspaper quoted the minister as saying that he arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait region and visited the first operations sector.
Observers expected that the State of Kuwait is about to withdraw its forces which participate in the alliance of the coalition’s campaign on Yemen, after the warning of the prince of Kuwait a few days before the “threat of direct description” exposed to his country and demanded the army of Kuwait to prepare.
Kuwait participates in the Saudi-led coalition with 15 combat fighters. Kuwait did not lose any of its soldiers in the alliance, meaning that its participation in the alliance is a symbolic image of Qatar’s participation before withdrawing from the coalition.
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people later, the war has yielded little to that effect.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.
Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million people in need and is seeing a spike in needs, fuelled by ongoing conflict, a collapsing economy and diminished social services and livelihoods.
A UN panel has compiled a detailed report of civilian casualties caused by the Saudi military and its allies during their war against Yemen, saying the Riyadh-led coalition has used precision-guided munitions in its raids on civilian targets.
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