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At Least 25 Dead in U.S.-Backed, Saudi-Led Airstrikes on Yemen

HeadlineJul 16, 2020

In northern Yemen, medical workers say a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing raid on a residential neighborhood Wednesday killed 25 civilians, while critically injuring nine others. A local doctor treated several children injured in the airstrikes.

Doctor: “The only injured victims are all children. We received three or four people and eight martyred women and children. And today is a painful and sad day for the free Yemeni people.”

The Yemen Data Project estimates the Saudi-led coalition has carried out more than 21,000 airstrikes in five years of war, killing more than 8,700 civilians. Most of the raids were carried out with weapons sold by the United States. 

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