Saudi-Led Coalition Bombs Yemen ’Aid Port’ Hodeida
Local Editor
Jets from a Saudi-led coalition struck Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida on Tuesday, port officials said, destroying cranes and warehouses at a main import hub for aid supplies to the country’s north.
Aid groups have previously complained that the coalition naval blockade has stopped relief supplies entering Yemen, which is suffering a humanitarian crisis.
Hodeida, lies almost due west of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies, including the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, began the aggression in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] reported recently this month [August].
