On this day in 2017, US SEALs killed 8-year-old American citizen “Nora” Nawar Al-Awlaki along with 24 other civilians, (incl. 9 young children) in a raid on a village in Yemen. U.S. Apache gunships destroyed entire homes and fired on villagers as they fled.

"Nawar was shot several times, with one bullet piercing her neck. She was bleeding for two hours because it was not possible to get her medical attention,“ Nawar's uncle, Ammar Al-Aulaqi said.

Ammar wrote that Nawar’s last words were, “'Don't cry mama, I'm fine, I'm fine.”

Nawar's grandfather, told Reuters, "Why kill children? This is the new [US] administration – it's very sad, a big crime."

The SEAL attack on the village of al Ghayil—which killed 25 civilians—was approved by Donald Trump after just 9 days in office. U.S. Apaches fired at anything moving, destroying 12 buildings while villagers were still asleep in them.

Of the nine young children killed in the raid, the smallest was only 3 months old. Eight women were killed, including one who was heavily pregnant, with 7 more women and children injured.

5 year-old Sinan al Ameri, described the scene as his mother was gunned down as she ran with her baby brother in her arms, “She was hit by the plane. The American plane, she’s in heaven now.” His mother’s body was found in morning with her head split open.

A month after the raid, the U.S. went back & bombed it for four consecutive nights, both with drone strikes and helicopter gunfire, killing two more children and several more adults.

Nawar Al-Awlaki’s family had fled to the village to escape the US-backed Saudi airstrikes making life miserable in Sanaa. Read more about the raid: https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/women-and-children-in-yemeni-village-recall-horror-of-trumps-highly-successful-seal-raid/

Nawar Al-Awlaki was the younger sister of American 16 year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was murdered in an Obama-ordered drone strike in Yemen in 2011.