Saudi Arabia BLOWS UP college with 'UK-made bomb' - a day after PM defends £3bn arms deal
THIS shocking video of an alleged war crime - with a devastating airstrike on a university - comes just days after Theresa May defended Britain’s £3billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia
U.K made bomb is dropped on Yemen civilians by saudi's
The devastating footage sees a Saudi Arabian jets hit a Yemeni college with what is alleged to be a UK-made bomb.
The video comes just a day after the Prime Minister Theresa May defended Britain's £3billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
In the previously unseen footage, from January this year, a devastating airstrike smashes into a college within a built-up area in the capital city, Sana’a.
Following the devastating explosion, a massive mushroom cloud rises to the sky, in a clip published by The Ferret.
No-one was injured in the blast - although attacks on school are banned under the Geneva Convention.
A security guard nearby recorded the shocking footage on his mobile phone and passed it onto Mwatana, a Yemeni human rights organisation.
Mwatana has submitted the video to Westminster’s Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC) which is investigating UK arms involved in Yemen’s war.
The evidence of UK arms being used against civilians is overwhelming , yet ministers in Whitehall are pulling out all stops to support the Saudi regime
On the video, the human rights group said: “Mwatana investigated two air strikes carried out by the Arab Coalition led by Saudi Arabia on 8th and 10th of January 2016 which targeted the Community College in Quhaza village, Bilad Arroos District, about 32 kilometers south of Sana’a city.”
The security guard witness, Ali Hadi al-Muzalim, told them: “On Friday, 8th of January, around 2pm I was in the administration building, and heard three air strikes targeted the compound.
"Later I left the compound and made a basic shelter around 50 meters away from the compound.
“On Sunday, 10th of January 2016, around 6 pm, again two air strikes hit the compound and I filmed the former with my mobile.”
The release of the clip comes during the week in which the British Prime Minister told MPs that selling weapons to Saudi Arabia “kept Britons safe”.
She dismissed Mr Corbyn’s criticism that “what happened in Saudi Arabia was a threat to the safety of people here in the UK”.
Instead, she hit back and said: “Actually, what matters is the strength of our relationship with Saudi Arabia.”
The UK agreed a £3.3 billion deal with Saudi Arabia, handing the Gulf nation helicopters, drones, tanks and missiles.
The long-running conflict in Yemen has seen nearly three million people forced to flee their homes and almost eight million people are suffering from malnutrition.
According to the UN, around 14 million people - of Yemen’s 26 million population - are in need of food aid in the country.
Last week, the UN admitted that the previous civilian death toll of 6,000 in the 18-month conflict was conservative and said it was likely at least 10,000 had been killed so far.
However, the British government has so far denied evidence of Saudi war crimes amid growing pressure for the UK to suspend the arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this year the UN said there had been 119 “clear violations” of international law by the Saudi coalition.
The report claimed that refugee camps, schools, hospitals and markets had all been targeted by airstrikes.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said last week that if any concrete evidence of war crimes came to light, the country would halt the sale of arms to the country.
Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said: “The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse. The situation for people in Yemen is intolerable, and lives are being torn apart.
“The evidence of UK arms being used against civilians is overwhelming , yet ministers in Whitehall are pulling out all stops to support the Saudi regime.
“If the UK government wants to help the desperate situation then it must cease all arms sales to Saudi Arabia and call for an independent investigation into the legality of the bombardment.
“The UK has fueled the destruction, now it needs to do all it can to end it.”