HRW urges US to suspend Saudi arms supplies instead of condemning attacks

Human Rights Watch said the US should stop supplying arms to Saudi Arabia instead of calling on Riyadh to halt its deadly airstrikes on Yemeni civilians.

Human Rights Watch said the US should stop supplying arms to Saudi Arabia instead of calling on Riyadh to halt its deadly airstrikes on Yemeni civilians.

The demand by HRW was made after the US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power during her remarks to the UNSC, called on Riyadh to halt its airstrikes on schools, hospitals and other civilian targets, PressTv reported.

In September, Amnesty International also reported that a US manufactured bomb had been used in a Saudi strike against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah which claimed the lives of 19 people.

Saudi Arabia has been launching airstrikes on Yemen since March 2015