{"id":219531,"date":"2016-01-28T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=219531"},"modified":"2016-01-28T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T12:52:27","slug":"saudi-arabia-killing-civilians-us-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/saudi-arabia-killing-civilians-us-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With US Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has engaged in war crimes, and the United States is aiding and<br \/>\nabetting them by providing the Saudis with military assistance. In September<br \/>\n2015, Saudi aircraft killed 135 wedding celebrants in Yemen. The air strikes<br \/>\nhave killed 2,800 civilians, including 500 children. Human Rights Watch charges<br \/>\nthat these bombings \u201chave indiscriminately killed and injured civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This conflict is part of a regional power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\nThe Saudis are bombing Yemen in order to defeat the Houthi rebels, who have<br \/>\nbeen resisting government repression for a long time. Iran has been accused<br \/>\nof supporting the Houthis, although Iran denies this. Yemen is strategically<br \/>\nlocated on a narrow waterway that links the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea. Much<br \/>\nof the world\u2019s oil passes through this waterway.<\/p>\n<p>A United Nations panel of experts concluded in October 2015 that the Saudi-led<br \/>\ncoalition had committed \u201cgrave violations\u201d of civilians\u2019 human<br \/>\nrights. They include indiscriminate attacks; targeting markets, a camp for displaced<br \/>\nYemenis, and humanitarian aid warehouses; and intentionally preventing the delivery<br \/>\nof humanitarian assistance. The panel was also concerned that the coalition<br \/>\nconsidered civilian neighborhoods, including Marra and Sadah, as legitimate<br \/>\nstrike zones. The International Committee of the Red Cross documented 100 attacks<br \/>\non hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions prohibits the targeting of civilians.<br \/>\nIt provides that parties to a conflict \u201cshall at all times distinguish<br \/>\nbetween the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects<br \/>\nand military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against<br \/>\nmilitary objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is also engaging in serious individual human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/marjorie_cohn\/2016\/01\/26\/saudi-arabia-is-killing-civilians-with-us-bombs\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has engaged in war crimes, and the United States is aiding and abetting them by providing the Saudis with military assistance. In September 2015, Saudi aircraft killed 135 wedding celebrants in Yemen. The air strikes have killed 2,800 civilians, including 500 children. Human Rights Watch charges that these bombings \u201chave indiscriminately killed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-219531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}