Children's bodies burnt by Saudi strike in Yemen (video)
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On Monday, the Saudi-led Arab coalition, heavily armed on its side by EU countries and the United States, struck a Yemeni port city, killing 12 civilians, including seven children. The agency Ruptly publishes images to freeze the blood of the impact of this murderous attack.
Ruptly has released a video of the
recent strike by the Saudi-led Arab coalition over the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, which killed 12 civilians, including seven children. Dead bodies of children, all under the age of 10, are burned and mutilated by explosions and are scattered on the sand, as the footage shows.
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The 12 victims are all members of the same family, said doctors on site and witnesses. The air strike destroyed a house in the Al Hali neighborhood, where civilians displaced by fighting in other provinces had settled.
For years,
Yemen has been plunged into a civil war, and regularly faces the deadly strikes of the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, which receives large arms deliveries from the West. .
The NGO has accused several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Italy, of "continuing to deliver billions of dollars in arms" to Saudi Arabia and guilty of "potential war crimes in Yemen".
According to the
annual report of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), France has delivered to Saudi Arabia 115 Aravis armored combat vehicles and 745 precision rifles in 2015, 276 armored combat vehicles, two artillery large caliber (90 and 105 mm), 500 sniper rifles and 29 missiles in 2016. According to the latest report on defense arms sales to parliament, 218 licenses, potentially representing 19 billion euros in contracts, were awarded in 2016 by the government to French companies for the Wahhabi petomonarchy.
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Why does the West "focus on the Syrian crisis" and push Yemen back into the background?
According to
La Croix , "the French government continues to authorize the signing of new contracts such as in November 2017, a contract for the sale of Gowind 2500 corvettes in the United Arab Emirates or, at the beginning of January 2018, the supply of FS56-type fighter patrol aircraft to the United States. 'Saudi Arabia."
On the American side, in March 2018, the US State Department approved a Saudi-owned arms sale worth more than $ 1 billion, including TOW 2B missiles (BGM-71F), spare parts for M1A2 Abrams tanks, many types of armored vehicles and howitzers M198 Towed Howitzers.
On May 20, 2017, Donald Trump signed a $ 350 million arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Deliveries included tanks, combat ships, missile defense systems, as well as radar, communications and cybersecurity technologies.
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Last month, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia decided to finalize a multi-billion dollar deal for the sale of
48 Typhoon fighters . Currently, 72 Typhoons have been in service in the Saudi army since the first delivery of the aircraft in 2007. London has reportedly sold 4.6 billion pounds (6.5 billion dollars) of weapons to Riyadh since 2015, the British Prime Minister Theresa May has always defended Saudi Arabia's involvement in Yemen.
Since 2014, Yemen has been in the throes of an armed conflict between Houthi rebels and soldiers loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed on December 4, and the government forces and Popular militias loyal to incumbent President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, supported by the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
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