{"id":10252,"date":"2018-08-16T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:49:09","slug":"yemen-massacre-of-children-exposes-saudi-war-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/yemen-massacre-of-children-exposes-saudi-war-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen: Massacre Of Children Exposes Saudi War Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Saudi-led military coalition shelled the Dahyan Market in the city of Saada, Yemen, last August 9, 2018.<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\nBy Fabio Bosco<br \/>\nAugust 15, 2018<br \/>\n51 people died including 40 children who were in a school bus.<br \/>\nOther 56 children out of 79 people were injured.<br \/>\nThe funeral was carried out on August 13.<br \/>\nSaudi authorities stated that it was a legitimate military operation carried out in accordance with International Humanitarian Law.<br \/>\nThey said their targets were missile launchers employed to bombard Jizan city in Saudi Arabia which killed one Yemeni citizen.<br \/>\nThe operation was broadly repudiated.<br \/>\nUNICEF formally protested and the UN demanded probing.<br \/>\nAmerican bomb Raytheon Mark-82 fragments were found on the site.<br \/>\nThat bomb weighs 500 pounds (around 225 kg).<br \/>\nIt was dropped on a funeral in 2016 where 140 people were killed.<br \/>\nAnother relevant info is about the relationship between the organization AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula) and the Saudi-led coalition backed by the U.S.<br \/>\nThe Associated Press (AP) brought the results of their investigation last August 6 exposing a serie of agreements between them, including payment for AQAP to leave some areas bringing their weaponry and the recruitment of hundreds of AQAP members for Saudi-led coalition war efforts against the Houthis.<br \/>\nTheir report points out that the U.S. administration is aware of all those agreements and has suspended drone attacks against AQAP.<br \/>\nAt last, the UN is calling peace negociations to be held in Geneve on September 6, 2018.<br \/>\nA provisional government and military de-escalation are on the agenda\u00a0 although the U.S., the most influential country in the U.N., support the coalition offensive which started on March 2015.<br \/>\nThe Saudi have already carried out 16,000 strikes.<br \/>\nMore than 10,000 were killed and 2 millions are injured.<br \/>\nAny fair solution starts from the termination of Saudi aggression and the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces.<br \/>\nThen the Yemeni will be able to exercise their legitimate right for self-determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led military coalition shelled the Dahyan Market in the city of Saada, Yemen, last August 9, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10254,"menu_order":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"litci_post_political_author":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3481],"tags":[180,5693],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yemen","tag-fabio-bosco","tag-yemen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6c82fd95f295fd393cd35879cd930fff0489fbd1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","fimg_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6c82fd95f295fd393cd35879cd930fff0489fbd1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","categories_names":["Yemen"],"author_info":{"name":"litci","pic":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c5ccde5393ccb83747702c5ca92f55d8fdaf99be9432d0142571c6d437fbaadb?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"political_author":null,"tagline":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}