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| Coalition says deadly Yemen raid hit rebels, not school |
| 2016-08-15 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi-led coalition on Sunday denied targeting a school in Yemen’s rebel-held north in an attack that an international relief agency said killed 10 children. "The coalition denied targeting a school," coalition front man General Ahmed Assiri said in an English-language statement to AFP. "The aircraft has bombed a training camp for the coup militias... in Saada," he said, referring to the Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... militias which he accused of using "children as recruits." The Gay Paree-based Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 10 children were killed and 28 maimed Saturday in coalition air strikes on a school in Haydan, a town in rebel-held Saada province. MSF spokeswoman Malak Shaher told AFP that the casualties the agency received at a field hospital were all under 15 and the "victims of air strikes on a Koranic school in Haydan." But Assiri said the Yemeni government had confirmed to the coalition that "there is no school in this area." "The site that was bombed... is a major training camp for militia," he said. "Why would children be at a training camp?" "When jets target training camps they cannot distinguish between ages" of recruits, Assiri said. The Saudi Press Agency said previously that coalition warplanes struck a Houthi "training center" on Saturday in Saada, killing several krazed killers, including a leader it identified as Yehya Munassar Abu Rabua. Assiri said that MSF’s toll only "confirms the Houthis practice of recruiting and subjecting children to terror." "They recruit children and use them as scouts, guards, messengers and fighters," he said, noting previous reports from Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... on rebels recruiting children. "We would have hoped MSF would take measures to stop the recruitment of children to fight in wars instead of crying over them in the media." Last Update: Sunday, 14 August 2016 KSA 20:01 - GMT 17:01 |
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