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Saudi-UAE coalition air strikes on Yemen’s Hodeida province have killed and wounded several people, medical sources said.
A spokesperson from Yemen’s health ministry said Tuesday's attacks on the city of Duraihami killed at least 13 civilians and injured 24 others.
Doctor Youssef al-Hadri said that latest attacks hit a heavily populated area, damaging civilian infrastructure including medical facilities and mosques.
Hadri added that medics from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were being prevented from entering the city.
The ICRC for its part expressed concern with recent developments in the city and said it was still assessing the extent of the damage.
Fighting between Houthi revolutionaries and forces loyal to Hadi, backed by the Saudi-UAE coalition, along the eastern outskirts of Duraihami city has intensified in recent weeks as the two Gulf nations look to seize control of the strategic province.
Hodeida has been under the control of the Houthis since 2014, along with other west coast ports and much of northern Yemen.
The city's seaport was responsible for delivering 70 percent of Yemen's imports - mostly humanitarian aid, food and fuel - before 2015.
Concerned by the rise of the Houthi revolutionaries, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab states launched a military aggression in 2015 in the form of a massive air campaign aimed at forcefully reinstalling the resigned regime of former President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi .
According to the UN, at least 10,000 people have been killed in the three-year war - a death toll that has not been updated in years and is certain to be far higher.
In retaliation, the Houthis have launched dozens of missiles at the kingdom. Saudi authorities say over the past three years 90 ballistic missiles were fired by the revolutionaries.
Multiple rounds of United Nations-brokered peace talks have failed to achieve any breakthrough.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
