War
Crimes
A family
of beekeepers was killed when the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the
United States, targeted their family bee farm with multiple
airstrikes on Monday in a residential district of Hodeida.
Local
witnesses told MintPress News that airstrikes targeted Ayesh
Clip’s bee farm at Deir Essa in the Bajjel district of southern
Hodeida, killing Ayesh and four of his family members. The attack
also destroyed the farm, which was the family’s sole source of
income in a country gripped by famine and a devastating humanitarian
crisis.
In a
separate attack on a civilian target, three people were killed and a
fourth was critically injured when a Saudi warship targeted a market
in al-Duraihimi city in the same province. Three civilian workers
were also killed and four others injured when Saudi coalition
airstrikes hit a stone factory in Sanhan district south of Yemen’s
capital city of Sana’a.
The
attack on the bee farm comes as families of victims were marking the
second anniversary of a coalition strike that hit a funeral hall with
about 1,000 mourners inside, in Yemen’s capital, on October 8,
2016. One hundred and forty funeral-goers were killed in the attack
and 600 were wounded.
“As
we remember the funeral hall bombing, it’s also an opportunity to
remember that death happens everywhere,” 19-year-old Ali
al-Kholani, who was injured in the attack, said, adding, “The
funeral attack was not the first deadly attack of its kind and the
attack on the bee farm will not be the last.”
Families
of the victims of the attack on the funeral hall stood alongside
local politicians in silence for four minutes — two minutes to mark
casualties from the first airstrike on the hall, and another two for
those who were killed while rushing in to save lives and were hit by
a subsequent airstrike in what is known as a double-tap airstrike.
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