In Yemen, Death From Above, Grief Below
Lewza was my sister-in-law. She was a good person, one of the kindest I have ever known.
At about 6 a.m. on Saturday a missile hit her house here, east of the presidential palace, in an area called Al Asbahi. She and her 7-year old son, Taha, were killed instantly. Miraculously, her three other children survived. One of them told me that at the moment the missile hit, Lewza had been praying. She was 45.
The missile hit a side of her house and partially destroyed two other buildings. It also killed a 3-year-old boy who lived nearby. It was almost certainly fired by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in this country’s civil war.… Seguir leyendo »