Yemen: The US-Saudi aggression continued its aggression on March, 2 in the years 2016, 2017, and 2020, committing war crimes and genocide through direct airstrikes and artillery and missile attacks by its mercenary forces. These assaults targeted homes, markets, schools, and hospitals in the provinces of Hajjah, Saada, and Hodeidah.

March 2, 2016: On this day, US-Saudi airstrikes obliterated the Al-Muwazat school in Hajjah’s Mustaba district, reducing classrooms to rubble and depriving 200 children of education. 

A teacher lamented, “I ran to save books or desks, but only dust and torn notebooks remained.” With no military targets nearby, locals condemned the attack as a deliberate assault on Yemen’s future. This strike exemplified the coalition’s systematic destruction of over 3,000 schools, leaving millions of children without education. Nine years on, no investigations have held perpetrators accountable, underscoring global apathy.

March 2, 2016: Destroying Healthcare in Saada

On the same day, airstrikes flattened a makeshift hospital in Saada’s Baqem district, severing lifeline care for civilians. Already crippled by war, the region’s healthcare infrastructure collapsed entirely, worsening disease outbreaks and malnutrition. 

March 2, 2017: Cluster Bombs and Carnage in Saada

Airstrikes using banned cluster munitions ravaged Saada’s Al-Baraka and Al-Sahn neighbourhoods, killing 15 and injuring dozens. Residential areas and a vegetable market were reduced to “ghost streets,” littered with unexploded bomblets that later maimed children.

March 2, 2017: Residential Horror in Hiran, Hajjah

US-Saudi warplanes bombed two homes in Hiran, killing nine and displacing families. A survivor asked, “Why target us? Where is the UN?” With schools and hospitals destroyed, residents now live in constant terror: “Safety is a myth here.” This attack added to Yemen’s 24 million in need of aid, as the world turned a blind eye.

March 2, 2020: Shattering Truce in Hodeidah

Despite the Stockholm Agreement, Saudi-backed mercenaries shelling struck Hodeidah’s Al-Jah district, killing three and maiming a girl who lost both legs. A grieving mother clutched her son’s bloodied school shoe—a symbol of stolen childhoods. The assault crippled water supplies and shattered the fragile ceasefire. A local psychologist noted 80% of children now suffer nightmares and bedwetting, their innocence erased by trauma.

From schools to hospitals and homes, these attacks reflect the coalition’s callous disregard for civilian life. With no justice for victims and global powers complicit through silence, Yemen’s agony persists. As one survivor pleaded: “How many children must die before the world acts?” The answer, tragically, remains buried in the rubble.