A Saudi-coalition airstrike on a family home in Yemen murdered women & children in the latest evidence of potential war crimes (Sky)
Yet the UK gvt continues to provide arms & support Saudi's campaign in Yemen, the world's *largest* humanitarian disaster!
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As @AlexCrawfordSky reported last week, Yemen children's hospitals are the 'closest thing to hell on Earth'.
Our UK government continues its weapon sales and support for the Saudi regime and its allies, whilst 80% of the population are reliant on aid
ICYMI: The United Nations (via the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen) called out the UK as one of the countries perpetuating the conflict due to its weapon sales to the Saudi regime & its allies (Page 5)
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This report highlighted fresh war crimes fears its Yemen report - this is how bad it is...
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The scale is unimaginable:
“Four people out of every five, 24 million people in all, need lifesaving aid in what remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis”, said UN SG.
“Two million Yemeni children are suffering from acute malnutrition"
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Another example: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deployed cluster bombs against a residential neighborhood in the country’s coastal western province of Hudaydah, a United Nations official said.
tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/0…
This is just not new:
Saudi Airstrike Targets Wedding Ceremony in Yemen Killing 11
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It happens again and again:
Saudi Arabia admits Yemen air strike that killed 6 children was a ‘mistake’
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Yet our government is complicit
Let's not forget that a UN panel of experts uncovered fragments of British-made laser guidance missile systems at an air raid site in Yemen in a strike that it concluded breached international humanitarian law.
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The reality (as seen in this important long-read) is that 'The Saudis couldn’t do it without us’
Britain does not merely supply the bombs that fall on Yemen – it provides the personnel and expertise that keep the war going.
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