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Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen - Uglier by the day
Aid agencies fear mass deaths as a Sunni coalition bombs a Shia rebel stronghold
May 9th 2015 | Middle East and Africa

IF SAUDI Arabia expected praise when it announced a five-day ceasefire in the air campaign it is leading in Yemen, it will be disappointed. As Adel al-Jubeir, the freshly minted foreign minister, declared the impending halt on May 8th, the Saudi-led coalition began an intense bombing campaign on Saada, a province in northern Yemen, in a reprisal against Shia rebels known as the Houthis.

Reports from residents of Saada say that the bombing has been relentless. “Homes, schools, everything has been destroyed,” says a Houthi supporter in the capital who has friends and family in Saada. Aid workers say the bombardment will probably lead to a “mass loss of life”.

John Kerry, America's secretary of state, says that “a humanitarian catastrophe is building". Though America is helping the campaign with intelligence and logistics, it is growing wary of a war that seems ill-thought and increasingly ugly.

Mortars and rockets struck Najran, a Saudi town near the Yemeni border, two days ago, killing at least one Saudi soldier. The coalition began to issue warnings that it would treat the entire province of Saada, the Houthi heartland on the other side of the border, as a military target. It told the region’s 1m inhabitants to evacuate.
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“They are calling it a ceasefire, but they are continuing to blockade 24m people while intensifying their bombing campaign,” a frustrated aid official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “This looks like yet another way of getting around pressure from America. They are playing a double game—doing one thing while feeding the international community a line.”
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Wo sollen 1 Mio. Zivilisten bis zur Abenddämmerung denn hin?? Zumal kein Benzin vorhanden ist. Das ist doch absurd.

Saudi coalition airstrikes hit rebel stronghold in Yemen
By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press12:35 p.m.May 9, 2015

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Dozens of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit the rebel stronghold Saada in northern Yemen, forcing hundreds of families to flee the area, security officials and Shiite Houthi rebels said Saturday.

The raids come after the Saudi-led coalition ordered civilians in rebel strongholds to flee by nightfall Friday and declared the entire region a "military target." It warned it will strike anything in the region, even as the Saudis pressed for a ceasefire to begin next week.
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