US sells 3,000 smart bombs to the Saudi-led aggressive coalition

YemenExtra The U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) announced that the U.S. State Department has agreed to sell 3,000 smartly-guided bombs worth up to $ 290 million to Saudi Arabia. The US approval of the deal is a clear indication of its desire to continue to participate in the aggression and massacre the Yemeni people. "The potential sale would include 3,000 GBU-39 ammunition, containers, support equipment, parts and technical support for the small diameter Bomb I (SDB I)," the Pentagon said in a statement. "The package will improve Saudi Arabia's ability to address current and future threats by increasing its inventory of long-range and precise air-to-ground ammunition," it said. "The size of the ammunition enables effective ammunition with less collateral damage," said Boeing, explaining that Boeing is the prime contractor for the deal with Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of this potential deal on Tuesday, noting that the United States is the largest arms exporter to Saudi Arabia, followed by the UK and France. Since the start of the Saudi war of aggression against Yemen, more than 45,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed and injured as a result of direct bombing by the Saudi-American coalition. Most of these victims were attacked by American weapons and ammunition and led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations. The deal refreshed Yemenis' memories of one of the most brutal massacres in Saudi Arabia, which was carried out using an American missile and which dates back to August 9, 2018. It was the destination of a school bus that carried students and made a trip to the Dhahian region. The missile was a US-made 150-pound laser-guided missile that was sold to Saudi Arabia as part of a US State Department-approved arms deal. The serial numbers of the rocket parts and remnants for which the rocket was approved came originally from the US military industry specialist "Lockheed Martin" and in particular from the model (MK82), which symbolizes a missile guided by laser beams. In addition, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fired the missile from a US-made jet when these children were killed. More than 50 people were killed, most of them children, and around 80 others were injured. In a similar massacre, Saudi Arabia used American rockets in the "Great Hall" massacre, when Saudi Arabia fired rockets at which a funeral took place and thousands offered their condolences in the capital Sanaa in October 2016, which killed and hundreds wound. In independent statistics, the Eye of Humanity Center for Rights and Development last week unveiled statistics on crimes committed by the Saudi coalition of aggression over the last 2100 days of the war against Yemen. According to statistics, 43,000 and 400 were killed and wounded, exactly 17,042 killed, including 3,804 children and 2,389 women, while the number of wounded reached 26,355, including 4,128 children and 2,801 women. The center said the number of destroyed and damaged facilities in Yemen's infrastructure reached 9526, indicating that the attacker destroyed and damaged 15 airports, 16 seaports, 305 power plants and generators, and 545 communication stations. Statistics confirmed that the attackers deliberately destroyed and targeted 2,181 reservoirs and water networks, in 1974 government facilities and 4,490 bridges. It is ironic that the US State Department has asked its Saudi partner to investigate some of the crimes against the Yemeni people, as its spokeswoman said when it called on the Saudi regime to investigate the "incident" of the Dhahyan bus and the US Defense Secretary James Mattis alleged at the time that he hired a military commander to go to Riyadh to investigate what happened in the crime.