A charity has condemned an air strike near a hospital in rebel-held north-western Yemen that killed at least eight people, five of them children. A missile hit a petrol station 50m (164ft) from the entrance of the Kitaf rural hospital on Tuesday morning, according to Save the Children. The blast also injured eight people. It was not clear who was behind the attack, but a Saudi-led coalition is carrying out air strikes in support of the government in Yemen's civil war. The coalition insists it never deliberately targets civilians, but human rights groups have accused it of bombing markets, schools, hospitals and residential areas. Tuesday was the fourth anniversary of the escalation of the civil war, which has killed thousands and pushed millions to the brink of starvation. What happened in Kitaf? Save the Children says the petrol station in the area, which is 60km (40 miles) from the city of Saada, was struck by a missile at about 09:30 (06:30 GMT) on Tuesday, as many people were arriving at the nearby hospital. An eight-year-old boy was the youngest person killed. Another boy aged 10, two boys aged 12, and one boy aged 14 also lost their lives. please log in to view this image IMAGE SOURCE, SAVE THE CHILDREN Image caption, The rebel Houthi movement blamed the Saudi-led coalition for the attack One injured health worker, who was in the emergency room treating two young children when the strike happened, said: "All people were screaming and running out of the hospital. The structure of the hospital was totally damaged inside. Our colleague lost two children. They were burned. "I got injured in my head and I was bleeding. I ran away from the hospital with my colleague to a safe place but we found nothing that could help me stop the bleeding. It was the most difficult moment of my life." Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the chief executive of Save the Children International, said she was "shocked and appalled by this outrageous attack" on a medical facility that the charity supported, and she demanded an urgent investigation. "Innocent children and health workers have lost their lives in what appears to been an indiscriminate attack on a hospital in a densely populated civilian area. Attacks like these are a breach of international law," she added.
Very wise words mate. We've been handed the moral high ground on a silver platter ... ... time for me to take your advice.
Fair enough that mate. But there really is nothing wrong with highlighting the grotesque behaviour and mentality of the Saudi regime. It goes a million miles past football. I've seen that place for myself decades ago, and refused work there afterwards. I've loathed them for well over thirty years! But you're right about the moral ground. It's not that we are on some lofty, close to heaven golden perch. But more that they have sunk so far, so irretrievably low, that they have secured the permanent repugnance of all of football, and they will begin to realise this when the " murdering scum" and other ditties start raining down on them from stands at various intervals, following the latest revelation about their latest atrocity. They are The Permanent Pariahs.
I genuinely believe its a really bad and sad outcome for Newcastle, the North East as a whole and football in general. They may be ablee in the future to buy trophies but that's what it will always be. I disliked Chelsea for many years for doing this. Difference this time is how the money was generated and maintained. It has been fun and banter watching the purchase being knocked back and the mindless protests and paper planes, however I didn't believe that the capitulation would go through. Shame on the PL and UK for allowing this to happen.
Cristiano Ronaldo as player manager for the mags at the end of this season according to one of their lot on tertle spert now. He's absolutely serious about it as well.
God I hate these loathsome c***s - am getting all sorts of Whatsapp and FB messages from friends/ex-colleagues/family that I haven't heard from in years. Gloating about their billionaire owners and how they "have their club back" Bored of it
Look I know they wanted rid of Ashley but this “having their club back” is the biggest load of **** and as far from the truth they can get. They haven’t got it back at all, but money blinds everything and it’s a line they are just hiding behind in the hope of masking the murderous ****s regime. Imagine thinking, “I don’t care that they Murder thousands, cut off peoples hands, fund terrorism and bomb Yemen. I have my club back! “
It does surprise me that it's all gone very quiet. I expected Bruce to be gone by now as they can't move forward with him there. They've had long enough to have put plans in place. I'd imagine they'll need to appoint a 'Brian Marwood' type of figure as none of the buyers know much about football.
Thing is, they’ve said “we’ll spend in January to ensure we stay in the premier league”. As if it’s a guarantee! So if they sign players are they looking for “stop gaps”? Oretty sure I’ve seen teams throw money at getting out of a relegation slump. And fail! imagine them playing us in the championship next season. It’d be funny as hell Edit: I’m actually wondering if the “spend in January” means they’ll bribe the premier league to allow them to remain in the the division! There was a movement in not to distant past to try to stop relegation from some clubs iirc.
I think the next appointment they make is the crucial one - if they fail to put someone in charge of the day to day running who understands how a football club works the they could easily turn into the next Venkys. As Smug says - a Brian Marwood type would be essential. Can't imagine Alien Stavely will be negotiating transfers and agents fees
Bit like that mantra "Get Brexit done" Similar mindset, you'll never convince them that they're wrong.
Total sport last night on the radio, John Anderson loving the deal now, falling in line with the rest of the scum nicely, Howey, Shearer et al, saying that SAFC fans would have loved to have the deal and wants to shutdown the debate. Disgrace.
Just typical really. If it was SAFC though, they’d be going mental about it and saying how bad it was that we’re owned by people like that. It seems that they’re more bothered what we think than anything else.
