Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Months of US-Saudi bombings destroy Yemen capital Sanaa

"Yemen's capital city has been largely reduced to rubble by Saudi Arabia's continuing air strikes," "The scale of the destruction across the country is devastating. An estimated 1.5 million people have been displaced, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Approximately 82 per cent of Yemenis need some form of humanitarian assistance, with more than half of the population lacking access to clean drinking water. The escalation of the conflict in March 2015, when the Saudi-led coalition started air strikes under Operation Decisive Storm, has seen at least 5,700 people killed – half of them civilians."