US Contributes to Violent Attacks on Yemen While Cutting Back Relief Efforts Children sit on the rubble of a warehouse after it was hit by airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on July 2, 2020. Mohammed Mohammed / Xinhua via Getty By Reading List In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created The Massacre of the Innocents, a provocative masterpiece of religious art. The painting reworks a biblical narrative about King Herod’s order to slaughter all newborn boys in Bethlehem for fear that a messiah had been born there. Bruegel’s painting situates the atrocity in a contemporary setting, a sixteenth-century Flemish village under attack by heavily armed soldiers.