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2017-04-21 Arabia
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Saudi-led coalition ‘bombing hospitals, violating rights of children’ in Yemen
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 [RT] The Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
-led coalition in Yemen, backed by the UK, must be put on a UN violations list for repeated attacks on medical facilities and violating the rights of children, a new report says.
The report, by Save the Children and Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, documents a series of deadly coalition-led attacks on hospitals and medics over the past two years.
In one case, two infants in incubators died from a lack of oxygen after a pediatric hospital in the capital Sanaa was damaged in a coalition Arclight airstrike.
More than 160 attacks have been carried out by parties to the conflict throughout Yemen, the report says, including the damaging of medical facilities through Arclight airstrikes, occupation and looting of hospitals, and extortion, detention and killing of medical staff.
The conflict has forced more than half of Yemen’s medical facilities out of action, leading to the "near collapse of the country’s already fragile healthcare system." The report says those that remain face severe shortages of medicine and equipment in the face of a maritime block imposed by the coalition.
"In the past two years, an increase in conflict and assassinations on medical facilities and personnel have led to more children directly injured, suffering and dying from preventable conditions, including acute malnutrition, acute respiratory infections and diarrheal disease."
Britannia has come under frequent criticism for continuing to supply arms to Saudi Arabia amid reports of repeated atrocities in Yemen. The UK has made more than £3 billion ($3.6 billion) from arms sales since the military campaign began in March 2015, which has seen 11,000 Yemeni civilians killed.
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