{"id":362335,"date":"2018-05-22T20:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scourging-yemen\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T19:54:34","slug":"scourging-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scourging-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Scourging Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102301\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102301 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/A-Thumb-on-the-Scale.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"392\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201cThumb on the Scale,\u201d by S. Reynolds. (CC BY-SA 4.0.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched from inside Yemeni territory targeting densely populated civilian areas in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. No one was killed, but an earlier attack, on March 26, 2018, killed one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/26\/saudis-shoot-down-seven-missiles-fired-on-cities-by-yemens-houthi-rebels\">Egyptian worker<\/a> in Riyadh and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-yemen-security-saudi\/saudi-man-killed-in-missile-salvo-from-yemen-idUSKBN1HZ0AY\">April 28 attack<\/a> killed a Saudi man.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the unnumbered victims of the Saudis\u2019 own ongoing bombardment of Yemen, these two precious, irreplaceable lives are easy to document and count. Death tolls have become notoriously difficult to count accurately in Yemen. Three years of U.S.-supported blockades and bombardments have plunged the country into immiseration and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>In their May 10<sup>th<\/sup>request, the Saudis asked the UN to implement \u201call relevant Security Council resolutions in order to prevent the smuggling of additional weapons to the Houthis, and to hold violators of the arms embargo accountable.\u201d The letter accuses Iran of furnishing the Houthi militias with stockpiles of ballistic missiles, UAVs and sea mines. The Saudis\u2019 letter omits mention of massive U.S. weapons exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>The Security Council resolutions invoked by the Saudis name the Houthis as a warring party in Yemen and call for an embargo, so the Houthis can\u2019t acquire more weapons. But these Resolutions&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/22\/scourging-yemen\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThumb on the Scale,\u201d by S. Reynolds. (CC BY-SA 4.0.) On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched from inside Yemeni territory targeting densely populated civilian areas in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. No one [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362335","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=362335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}