Saudi Jets Pound Yemeni Cities, Towns despite Eid Day

Local Editor

Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed various cities and towns in Yemen despite the announcement of Eid al-Fitr Day, the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

 The Saudi warplanes, which had targeted various parts of the country during the holy month of Ramadan, raided Sana’a airports earlier in the morning, killing and wounding several people, sources said. 


The sources said that even after the announcement of Friday as the Day of Eid al-Fitr in Saudi Arabia and Yemen on Thursday night, the Saudi fighter jets targeted various residential areas in two provinces of Abb and Sa’ada, which left tens of civilians killed or wounded.

Three civilians, including a child and a woman were killed in the last night airstrikes by the Saudi jets in Sa’ada, local media said.

The media sources also said that a cemetery in Razama district in Abb province was massively bombed by the Saudi fighter jets on Friday.

The Saudi warplanes also pounded the regions of al-Tawahi, Kreiter, Khour Maksour, Moalla and Soheib hospital in the last 24 hours.

 

The Saudi bombing comes despite a UN-declared ceasefire that came into force a week earlier on Friday and was due to run up to the end of the holy month of Ramadan on July 17, but Saudi Arabia has repeatedly violated the ceasefire.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

The Saudi attacks have killed more than 2,600 people and injured at least 11,000 since the military aggression began against Yemen on March 26, according to UN records.

The US-led Saudi military aggression began in an attempt to bring the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia, back to power, and to weaken the Houthi Ansarullah movement.