WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA NOT REPORTING ON THE HOUTHIS’ KILLING OF YEMENI CHILDREN?
Houthi extremists have used snipers to kill Yemeni civilians. However, over the last few months, they have increasingly targeted the most vulnerable: children and the elderly. These stories include:
- 16 Children – various ages
Taiz, Taiz Province – 16 children were killed or wounded during Eid El-Fitr. The children “were targeted with shells and snipers” stationed near one of the main exits just outside the city. (1)
- Amr Yaqoub – 13 years old
Asifra District, Taiz Province – Yaqoub was killed by a Houthi sniper on June 5 near his home. Officials confirmed that he died immediately at the scene after receiving a deadly bullet to the head. (2)
- Hashem al-Aizari – 4 years old
Taiz, Taiz Province – A Houthi sniper targeted and killed Hashem outside his home. This was not the first attack on the al-Aizari family; in 2016, Houthi snipers also killed his father in the center of the city. (3)
- Ali Saleh Alawi Al-Nawami – 80 years old
Damt District, Al-Dhale Province – A Houthi sniper targeted and killed Al-Nawami as he was travelling from Damt district to the Moris area.(4)
- Zahra Hamid – age unknown
Tuwarsa Area, Al Azarik Front – An elderly woman, Hamid was targeted and killed by a Houthi sniper while she was tending to her cattle near her home. (5)
- https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190608-yemen-16-children-killed-injured-in-taiz-during-eid/
- http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/05/c_138119616.htm
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/shot-dead-sniper-yemeni-child-meets-same-fate-his-father
- http://en.26sepnews.net/2019/05/28/2-civilians-killed-2-injured-by-militias-shelling-and-sniping-north-of-al-dhale/
- https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/un-deminers-in-yemen-start-clearing-hodeidah-ports-as-houthis-withdraw-1.861374