Originally appeared on The American Conservative.
Saudi coalition planes bombed the area next to a girls’ school in Sanaa earlier today, killing at least 11 and injuring dozens more:
At least eleven schoolgirls have been killed by an explosion at a warehouse in Yemen, medical officials say.
A total of 54 people in Sanaa have been wounded with eleven children in nearby schools pronounced dead after a metal workshop exploded.
Yemeni journalists and activists were the first to report on the attack:
????of some elementary school students killed by #Saudi#UAE double tap strikes on residential area n Sa'awan next2 Alraea school E #Sanaa#Yemen
11dead
30+injurd most of them students suffered frm glass wounds&panic attacks
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C??link4 previous double taphttps://t.co/ZgFj0Tkbi4pic.twitter.com/Eod3QUl2F4— Hussain Albukhaiti (@HussainBukhaiti) April 7, 2019
Another video shows the double-tap air strike by #Saudi led coalition near a school in Sa'wan #Sanaa. #Yemen. pic.twitter.com/Fgy1uhBPyy
— Ahmad Algohbary (@AhmadAlgohbary) April 7, 2019
More photos of today's crime by #Saudi led coalition air strikes near a school in Sa'wan #Sanaa. #Yemen. pic.twitter.com/H2zqm3wLvJ
— Ahmad Algohbary (@AhmadAlgohbary) April 7, 2019
Mother of one of schoolgirls rushed to the site after she had heard about Saudi-led attack. She found her daughter dead and cried "my daughter died while she was hungry"! Perhaps you know that many Yemeni children go to school on empty stomach. Yemen: the world's worst crisis.
— Fuad Rajeh (@FuadRajeh) April 7, 2019
The latest coalition attack hit a residential area. That is consistent with the coalition’s frequent attacks on civilian targets, which have consistently made up one third of their airstrikes over the last four years of war. Like many other coalition airstrikes, the jets bombed the area once and then struck it again with a second attack. Attacks on schools have unfortunately been all too common in this war. 2,500 schools in Yemen have been damaged or destroyed over the last four years. Millions Yemeni children already must cope with malnutrition and the threat of disease, and even at their schools they are not safe from being killed by coalition airstrikes. In addition to the children killed and wounded in such attacks, all Yemeni children have been traumatized by the ongoing conflict. Both the mental and physical health of an entire generation of Yemenis is being severely harmed by the effects of this war. The Trump administration continues to back the Saudi coalition as they bomb hospitals and kill schoolchildren. This is what supporters of U.S. involvement in the war are defending.
Update: The death toll has reportedly risen to 13, and as many as 90 people, most of them children, have been injured in the blast.
Daniel Larison is a senior editor at The American Conservative, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and is a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Dallas. Follow him on Twitter. This article is reprinted from The American Conservative with permission.
The savagery of cowards never fails to disgust me.
Which ones?Those in DC,Riyadh or Tel Aviv?
All of the above.
Same difference :-)
These butchers will bomb Yeman to the point that there are no more people left to occupy. True travesty.
zionists plus wasps plus saudis equals endless death
This is disgusting and the UK/US/Germany are complicit in this slaughter. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the World and it is being attacked by one of the richest and cruellest nations.
Jarvanka approves.
I guess none of these pictures will make It into mainstream news coverage.
Did Invanka also see them and complain to her father?
The sub headline – “Saudis Threaten To Kill Petrodollar if US Moves Against OPEC” – tells us everything we need to know about why nothing will happen to America’s “great friend” Saudi Arabia.
Be all that you can be…..losers
Ooops, right? Perhaps not even that from the KSA “royals.”
JR is hiding from comments but it is only fair to point out the people he puts up as heroes in his column are the very ones responsible for these ongoing tragedies.