U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition forces have recently bombed two separate civilian wedding parties in Yemen, killing as many as 130 innocent people in the first attack on Sept. 28 and at least 28 in the second attack on Oct. 8.

According to residents, on Sept. 28, two missiles tore through wedding tents in the Red Sea village of Al-Wahijah, near the Al-Mokha, where a man affiliated with the Houthis was holding a wedding reception. The carnage in this attack was horrendous and many of the victims were women and children.



Ahmed Altabozi, who said a niece, Fatma Al-Khaishani, had been killed in the bombing of the wedding party, called the attack inexplicable. The wedding tents were in a remote stretch of the desert, far from any “military sites, soldiers or thepresence of the state.” The majority of villagers had already left the area, fearing the airstrikes, he told The New York Times.

Mr. Altabozi said that he heard the bombs from his house, which is less than a mile away, about 11 a.m. Two initial airstrikes hit one tent, and other bombs, minutes later, fell on a second tent where a group of women had taken shelter, causing most of the casualties, he said.

“I saw no body intact,” he added.

Less than 10 days later, Saudi bombs attacked a wedding taking place in a house south of the capitol Sana’a, killing as many as 28 civilians.

Three of Muhammed al-Sanabani’s sons were to be married in a joint ceremony on Wednesday night, the cousin told the New York Times. The airstrikes