2020-02-16: News Headlines

RT (2020-02-16). Houthis say Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen killed at least 30 people, including women & children. rt.com Strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Saturday left at least 30 dead, according to the health ministry in the Houthi-controlled Al-Jawf province. Women and children were among the casualties, the ministry told a local TV channel according to Reuters. The alleged attack came shortly after the Houthis claimed to have downed a coalition warplane on Friday. Meanwhile, according to Saudi state news agency SPA, a spokesman for the coalition said that a Tornado jet had "crashed." He added that a rescue operation had been launched but declined to go into detail about what may have caused the crash…

teleSUR (2020-02-16). Saudi Airstrikes Kill 31 Civilians in Northern Yemen. telesurenglish.net TheSaudi-led Coalition carried out a deadly attack over northern Yemen on Saturday, killing over 30 civlians inside the Al-Jawf province. According to Yemen's Houthi movement, the airstrikes were carried out in retaliation for the downing of a Saudi warplane in the same province. | RELATED: | The United Nations office in Yemen said preliminary field reports indicated that "as many as 31 civilians were killed and 12…

yenisafak (2020-02-16). UN decries attacks on civilians in Yemen. yenisafak.com The UN has condemned recent airstrikes that killed dozens of civilians in the northern Yemeni province of Al-Jawf.Houthi rebels said Saturday 31 people were killed and 12 others injured in Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Al-Jawf.The group said the attacks targeted civilians checking the wreckage of a Tornado fighter jet downed by Houthis a day earlier in the province."So many people are being killed in Yemen — it's a tragedy and it's unjustified," UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, said in a statement."Five years into this conflict and belligerents are still failing to uphold this respons…

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2020-02-14). Yemen: UN Medical Air Bridge Little More Than Saudi PR Stunt Say Desperate Patients. mintpressnews.com Many Yemenis have described the much-lauded UN medical air bridge as little more than a public relations stunt aimed at improving Saudi Arabia's image in the world.