The
United States should be held accountable for Saudi-led airstrikes
that hit a hospital and fish market, killing at least two dozen
civilians in the Yemeni port, Health Ministry said as thousands
protested the attack.
A
spokesman for the Houthi-affiliated health ministry said on Friday
that “the United States bears full responsibility” for the
deadly attack, adding that “the United Nations, its
organizations and the international community have remained silent in
the face of the aggression” from the US-backed, Saudi-led
coalition that invaded Yemen in 2015.
According
to the ministry, at least 55 people, including women and children,
have been killed in the airstrikes. Reuters reported 28 were killed
in the air raids, while China’s Xinhua said the death toll stood at
70 early on Friday. A ministry spokesman called the bombings a “war
crime” and accused the Saudi coalition of engaging in a “double
tap strike” aimed at targeting first responders.
Thousands
of Yemenis took to the streets of Sanaa on Friday to protest the
military actions undertaken by the Saudi-led coalition in their
country.
US envoy
to the UN Nikki Haley expressed concern over the strikes during a
Security Council briefing on Yemen on Thursday, as if this was a new
development in the three-year conflict. After condemning the Houthi
rebels and their Iranian sponsors, Haley noted that the deadly
Saudi-led air raids mark a “new day” in Yemen in which
civilians are “starting” to be put at risk.
The Wall
Street Journal reported in June that the US military is helping the
Saudi-led coalition to “fine-tune” its list of targets in
Hodeida, reportedly in hopes of avoiding unnecessary civilian
casualties. Since at least 2016, US and British military officials
have had access to lists of Saudi airstrike targets.
With
material and logistical support from the US, Saudi Arabia and its
Gulf partners invaded Yemen in March 2015 in hopes of returning
deposed President Mansour Hadi to power. Since then, more than 5,500
civilians have been killed and over 9,000 injured, according to the
UN.
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