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Saudi-led air strikes have killed dozens of civilians in the past 24 hours in Yemen's flashpoint province of Hodeida, medical sources said on Thursday.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out nine air raids overnight on positions of the Houthi revolutionaries in the Red Sea province, local sources told AFP.
The strikes killed at least 12 civilians, sources at four hospitals in the provincial capital said.
Fighting between the Houthis and the resigned regime of former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi supported by the Saudi-led coalition has intensified in the past few weeks, causing a rise in civilian casualties.
Last week, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said coalition air strikes on December 26 killed 68 civilians in Hodeida and the neighboring province of Taiz.
The military alliance launched a military campaign in support of the resigned regime in March 2015 upon Hadi’s request. But despite the coalition's superior firepower, the revolutionaries still control the capital and much of the north.
More than 8,750 people have been killed since the coalition intervened, according to the World Health Organization.
However, a Yemeni non-governmental monitoring group, the Legal Center for Rights and Development, put the figures at 12,000 lives and more than 19,343 wounded.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
