Coalition Continues Committing War Crimes In Yemen: Army Spokesperson

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The spokesman for the Yemeni army Brigadier General Yahia Sarie said on Thursday the Saudi-led coalition forces have continued to shed more blood and commit massacres against the Yemeni people.

In a press statement, Sarie said that coalition fighter jets launched a series of airstrikes on Hodeida province, killing four people and wounding two others.

The spokesperson affirmed that the artillery of the Saudi-backed militiamen fired at residential areas of Hodeida and injured six children.

“The Yemeni army inflicted heavy casualties on the militiamen when they tried to move towards the areas of Kilo16 and Hais,” the spokesman added.

Sarie stressed that the talk of a ceasefire declared by the Saudi-led coalition’s media is only to deceive the public opinion and allow the coalition to rearrange its positions and troops.

The spokesman affirmed the Yemeni army’s readiness to continue launching military operation in all the battlefronts.
Saudi Arabia launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power.

The aggression initially consisted of a bombing campaign, but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces to Yemen.

According to a new report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi war has claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis so far.

The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.

The UN has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. According to the world body, Yemen is suffering from the most severe famine in more than 100 years.

More than three and a half years into that war, Saudi Arabia has achieved neither of its objectives. This is while it had declared at the start of the invasion that the war would take no more than a couple of weeks.

Since the onset of that war, Riyadh has been accused of using banned chemical weapons against the Yemeni soldiers defending their country against the Saudi-led aggression, with reports of using US-supplied white phosphorus munitions that can maim and kill by burning to the bone.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team