Saudi Airstrikes on UNICEF Water Facility in Yemen Compounds Cholera Risk
SAADA, YEMEN — Four Saudi warplanes launched airstrikes against the UNICEF-funded al Asayed Water Network, destroying water pumps, an electric generator, a nearby solar energy system, and a guard room. Much of the facility was destroyed in the attack, leaving thousands of residents of the Al Safra district of Yemen’s Saada governorate, including internally displaced families, without clean drinking water.
Mohammed Kamel — an engineer with the National Foundation which operated the Water Network — said in a statement to MintPress:
