Yemen War is a Test of world Humanity

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In Yemen, rescue workers pulled a bloodied young girl from the rubble of her home in Sana’a Thursday after an airstrike by the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition killed both her parents and all four of her siblings. The latest Saudi-led strikes came after four years of U.S.-backed Saudi attacks have left at least 7,300 children killed or seriously injured.

Each day, another eight children will be killed, injured. Every 10 minutes, another child will die from a preventable cause. Like a lack of food, with 360,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

In fact, half the children under five years old in Yemen — 2.5 million — are stunted. And stunting is irreversible. … Yemen is a test of the world’s humanity. And right now, the world badly failing this test.”

The last attacks have enraged local residents, who took to the streets of Raqas to condemn the airstrikes and loss of civilian life, calling for counter-attacks on Coalition forces. Most here hold the United States responsible for the attacks, as the U.S. supplies Saudi Arabia with advanced weapons as well as logistical and intelligence assistance.

Saudi warplanes also struck a building housing Yemen’s Ministry of Information and more than 20 airstrikes struck targets in civilian areas across Sana`a on Thursday morning.

The official spokesman of Ansar Allah, the political wing of the Houthis, called the airstrikes in Sana`a a crime, and proof of the military and political failure of the Saudi forces.

The Saudi-led Coalition confirmed that its warplanes carried out airstrikes in Sana`a on Thursday. “We have begun to launch airstrikes targeting sites operated by the Houthis, including in Sana`a,” a Coalition official, who declined to be identified, told AFP. So far the United States has not commented on the airstrikes.