Local Editor

Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, on Friday to denounce Saudi Arabia’s ongoing attacks on the country.

The demonstrators marched toward the central square in Sana’a while they condemned Saudi Arabia’s targeting of civilians across Yemen, Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported on Friday.

The demonstrators also chanted slogans against the ruling Saudi royal family and urged the international organizations to break their silence on the continued Saudi aggression.

Additionally, they said that they will support "strategic decisions" by the Houthi Ansarullah movement in the face of Saudi Arabia’s breach of repeated agreements on establishing a ceasefire.

Senior members of the Ansarullah movement addressed the demonstrators, appreciating them for their steadfastness in the face of the Saudi aggression.

One of the Ansarullah members said that the entire Saudi project for launching the airstrikes on Yemen has been a "total failure," adding that the Yemeni nation will not bow to the pressure. He said Yemeni people are thankful to some Arab governments, including Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Lebanon, and other "free nations" for supporting Yemen through such hard times.

He also urged Russia to continue to support the Yemeni nation’s struggle for gaining independence and its emancipation from the Saudi hegemony.

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.

Based on UN figures, over 3,261 people have been killed, 1,670 of whom were civilians in the Saudi onslaught.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a United [UN] Nation mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.