U.S.-BACKED SAUDI ZIO-WAHHABI AIRSTRIKE ON FAMILY WITH NINE CHILDREN
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Top photo: A boy watches as a cloud of dust rises from the site of airstrikes in Saada, Yemen, on Feb. 27, 2018.Photo: Naif Rahma/Reuters
U.S.-BACKED SAUDI AIRSTRIKE ON FAMILY WITH NINE CHILDREN SHOWS “CLEAR VIOLATIONS” OF THE LAWS OF WAR
Iona Craig, Shuaib Almosawa
The intercept
SHORTLY BEFORE 10 P.M. on the night of May 14, more than a dozen members of the Maswadah family, including nine children, lay sleeping in tents in the shadow of a cliff in Yemen’s northern governorate of Saada. The nomadic family had been eking out a living raising sheep and doing farm work in the region most heavily targeted by the U.S.-supported, Saudi-led bombing campaign that began in 2015.
Unbeknown to the Maswadahs, Royal Saudi Air Force drones had been hovering for 45 minute...