🇾🇪🇸🇦 Yemen's Saudi-backed government declares tribal gatherings in Houthi territory "legitimate military targets" and tells civilians to stay home
The Defence Ministry's case is that the Houthis use tribal rallies and cultural events to recruit children and young men for the front, so the rallies themselves are now on the strike list.
The warning comes with Saudi jets already hitting Saada's phone network and Ras Isa's fuel line.
A tribal gathering in northern Yemen is a few hundred people, their elders and their kids.
Targeting them is how a counterinsurgency ends up bombing the people it needs to win over, and the Houthis have run on exactly that grievance for twenty years.
Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel
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