“I keep talking to my children about the future and about a country where they could live in peace and security, without religious extremism and wars … until the bombing starts all over again. I leave them and go up to the roof of the house as I cannot bear to see the horror in their eyes.” These are the words of Yehya Abu Rijjal, who spoke to Al-Monitor of his days during the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen.
Since Operation Decisive Storm, which was launched March 26, the death toll has reached 944; on April 17 the number of injured stood at 3,487 as a result of the war between the Saudis and Ali Abdullah Saleh’s militias and the Houthis. Every night, Sanaa flares up under the airstrikes and the anti-aircraft placed by the Houthis and Saleh in the middle of residential areas.
