Saudi-led Aggression Violently Strikes Yemen after Retaliatory Op, Many Civilians Killed
Local Editor
Powerful explosions shook Yemen’s capital on Sunday, witnesses said, after the Saudi-led coalition vowed to press its air aggression following the retaliatory missile operation by the Yemeni army and popular committees that killed 300 foreign troopers.
The United Arab Emirates [UAE] had pledged to quickly avenge its heaviest ever military loss after 45 of its soldiers were killed in Friday’s missile operation, along with 10 Saudis and five Bahrainis, according to Gulf media.
Two children were killed in Al-Sab’een Childhood and Motherhood Hospital due the Saudi-led coalition air raids against Al-Sab’een district in Sana’a. A two-day old baby and another three-week-old baby were martyred inside the hospital because of the explosions on the district, the Deputy General Director Hilal al-Bahri of Al-Sab’een hospital said.
Furthermore, the Saudi-led coalition warplanes also struck points on the Nahdain and Fajj Attan hills and the neighboring presidential complex, south of Sanaa, as well as a headquarters for special forces.
Areas in the northern neighborhoods of Sufan and Al-Nahda were also targeted, forcing scores of residents to flee, witnesses said.
The witnesses said that Sunday’s bombardment was one of the heaviest since the Saudi-led air aggression began.
Meanwhile, normally bustling areas of the capital remained empty and shops were mostly shuttered.
Students taking exams at Abdulrazzaq al-Sanaani high school, in Hadda neighborhood, said they abandoned their tests and fled.
On Saturday alone, at least 27 members of two families were killed by the Saudi-led airstrikes on the capital, according to hospital officials.
Another deadly strike hit the al-Jouf province north of the capital, killing at least 20 people who had been attending a wake.
The Yemeni army and Popular Committees forces launched a missile operation on Friday by firing a Toshka rocket at a Saudi-led coalition military base in Yemen’s Ma’rib.
The Yemeni army and Popular Committees forces said Friday’s missile operation was "revenge" for six months of deadly air raids, but the coalition vowed that there would be no let-up in its air aggression.
Since March 26, a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
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 last month.
The US-led Saudi aggression began in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
