Saudi Warplanes Hit Yemen Market with ’Banned Cluster Bombs’

 

Local Editor

Saudi-led warplanes used internationally-banned cluster bombs in its bombing of a popular market in Hidah district of Yemen’s Sa’ada, a security source in the province said on Sunday.

 

The source pointed out that dozens of these internationally banned bombs did not explode yet, which pose a danger and a threat to the lives of citizens in those areas.

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].

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.