The Saudi military has dramatically escalated the violence in Yemen with a wave of airstrikes which have killed and wounded more than 200 people, wounding dozens more, and cutting off internet service throughout the country. In Saada, in the heart of the stronghold of the Houthis about 110 miles north of the capital Sana’a, an airstrike hit the city prison killing at least 150 people—a death toll that is likely to climb—and wounding about as many more. Aid workers told AFP that hospitals were overwhelmed in Saada after the prison attack, with one receiving 70 dead and 138 wounded, according to Doctors Without Borders. Two other hospitals have received “many wounded” and as night fell, the rubble was still being searched, the aid agency said. “It is impossible to know how many people have been killed,” Ahmed Mahat, Doctors Without Borders’ head of mission in Yemen said. “It seems to have been a horrific act of violence.”
“We Condemn the terrific aggressive murder attack on Saada Prison, and destroying the internet connection in Yemen that violates the Right to information and may hide a massive attack at any moment!” said Fouad Al Ghaffari, the leader of the ALBRICS Youth Parliament in Sana’a, in a message transmitted by text to the Schiller Institute.
