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Eliot Engel: “This is not just a statistic. One of those one in three was a school bus in northern Yemen with 40 children on it. That…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
This is not just a statistic. One of those one in three was a school bus in northern Yemen with 40 children on it. That is not acceptable.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Highlighting the tragic impact of airstrikes on civilians in Yemen.

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