Saudi Arabia kills Over 600 Muslims in December

A Yemeni girl brought out of rubble after a Saudi airstrike

Saudi Arabia has continued its onslaught against its impoverished Sunni neighbor, Yemen. Reports coming from a Yemeni TV station, Al-Masira, revealed that until Tuesday 26 December the number of civilians killed by Saudi airstrikes stood at 600 for the month of December. The news outfit stated this while reporting the death toll from Saudi airstrikes across the country on Wednesday 27 December. In the news report, a Saudi airstrike on a residential area killed a family
of five which included a man, his wife and their three children in the Tuhayat district of the country. It was reported that hours before that particular incident, an airstrike in the same region killed fourteen people including women and children.

A United Nations report on 6 October 2017 confirmed that Saudi Arabia deliberately targeted schools, residential areas, hospitals and markets in Yemen on 38 different occasions leading to the death of 683 children, locals and independent observers say the figures are much higher than that. These incidences were largely unreported in mainstream media.

Saudi Arabia began its war on Yemen in March 2015 and has killed over 13, 000 Yemenis ever since. Saudi Arabia aims to reinstall secularist leader Abd Rabbbur Mansur Hadi who now resides in Saudi Arabia.

The war in Yemen has placed over 7 million Yemenis on the verge of starvation as the Saudis have placed an embargo on food and health supplies to Yemen. The war also caused a cholera epidemic which started in October 2016 and still persists to this day. As of 30 September 2017, the World Health Organization had reported 771,945 cases of cholera with 2,132 death cases. Most of the victims have been children. The UN has called the famine in Yemen the worst of its kind in recent times.

Yemen has an estimated population of 27.58 million 60-65% of which are Sunnis and 30-35% Shiites. Other estimates put it at 70% Sunni and 30% Shia.