At Least 26 People Killed by Saudi-led Warplanes, Jets in Yemen
Local Editor
At least 26 Yemeni people have been killed and scores of others injured in Saudi Arabia’s latest airstrikes on Yemen, as Riyadh’s unabated aggression against the impoverished country continues.
The Yemeni al-Masirah news channel reported on Wednesday that Saudi fighter jets killed at least 19 people and wounded a number of others in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz.
Saudi warplanes also pounded Ayn and Bayhan districts in the southern province of Shabwa in Yemen, leaving seven civilians killed and a number of others injured.
Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, witnessed the heaviest attacks in recent weeks, with at one point more than 20 attacks being carried out in less than half an hour.
Saudi warplanes also hit multiple positions in the provinces of Hajjah, Ma’rib, and Sa’ada.
Meanwhile, reports say that more foreign forces are joining the US-led Saudi aggression against war-ravaged Yemen.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that as many as 800 Egyptian soldiers have arrived in Yemen to aid the Saudi army in its aggression against Yemen.
Earlier, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV reported that 10,000 foreign troops are operating in Yemen.
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.
