Local Editor

Fresh attacks by Saudi-led warplanes have killed at least 10 fishermen in Yemen’s northwestern coasts as the civilian death toll from a US-led Saudi aggression keeps rising. 

The fishermen were killed by Saudi war jets off the coast of Uqban Island in al-Hudaydah Province.

The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,300 with more than 4,000 other civilians wounded in the fighting in the country that has raged for more than a year now, according to the UN recently this month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression on Yemen by carrying out airstrikes against the country since March 26 in an attempt to restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].