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The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed that the bodies of 29 children have been recovered, all of whom were aged under 15 years old. 48 others were also injured, including 30 children.See: Saudi-led coalition mercilessly bombs Yemen hospital killing 52, injuring over 100
The UN children's agency UNICEF said it was "very concerned with the initial reports of children being killed" with UNICEF's resident representative in Yemen, Meritxell Relano saying that he is witnessing the "horror the images and videos coming from Saada... Why are children being killed?"
The Saada attack took place less than a week after an airstrike launched by the Saudi-led coalition killed dozens near a hospital in the city of Hodeidah. Mirella Hodeib from the ICRC told RT that the group is calling for the protection of civilian infrastructure.
"The humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic, the population has been brought to the brink of collapse. The movement of the population is growing because of [the ongoing] conflicts and hostilities," Hodeib admitted. She noted that the Yemeni healthcare system has been "decimated," while infrastructure is "weakened" and "would collapse across the country."And here's everything you need to know about the strike:
According to the ICRC representative, humanitarian organizations can neither feed millions of Yemenis, nor provide access to healthcare for them. "Twenty million Yemeni people are in need of [humanitarian] aid. The ICRC has always called upon all parties of the conflict to [find] a political solution... in order to curb worsening humanitarian conditions," she added.
U.S. Deepens Role in Yemen Fight, Offers Gulf Allies Airstrike-Target Assistance - Wall Street Journal - June 12, 2018The U.S. military is providing its Gulf allies with intelligence to fine-tune their list of airstrike targets ...
"The European market is effectively blocked. At the same time, European exports to Africa are growing. Therefore, my main message to Brussels is - Open the markets to all African goods ... This is the only way the continent can turn into the region of growth ... I am sure that the African youth ... would not flee [the continent] and would remain in their home countries if there were jobs and prospects for the future."The very basis of this proposal rests in the naïve assumption that Africans are fleeing the continent purely for humanitarian reasons stemming from local conflicts and economic underdevelopment, ignoring the fact that many simply want a piece of the EU's "socialist welfare utopia".
"If these sanctions are implemented in their full announced volume this would mean that the United States is yet another time using the behavior of a police state that extracts evidence from suspects through torture and threats and eventually executes punishment for non-existent crimes, in the worst tradition of the infamous Lynch Law," the head of the Upper House Committee for International Relations, Senator Konstantin Kosachev, told Kommersant newspaper on Thursday.
Kosachev added that the news was especially disturbing because it was not about some initiative voiced by a few congressmen who cannot get over the hysteria generated since the presidential election two years ago, but a premeditated action of the US administration and the US State Department, the agencies that cannot come up with such initiatives without informing President Donald Trump.
Comment: Unlikely this will happen as the conglomerates are a united force affording themselves the power to dictate news through mainstream press. With or without an independent fact-check review board to adjudicate media on agreed parameters, to clue discernment and call out bias and propaganda, the public has a responsibility to become informed individuals who have the power to turn the channel, diss the fakery and not subscribe to biased news products. We get what we tolerate or ignore. Trump is doing 'what he can'.