11 Other ’Civilians’ Killed in Saudi-led Airstrikes against Yemen
Local Editor
At least 11 people have been killed in a fresh wave of Saudi-led airstrikes against the northern part of Yemen, as Saudi Arabia’ relentless bombardment of residential areas keeps taking toll on civilians across the impoverished country.
Six members of a family were killed in one of the Saudi-led airstrikes that targeted the Jiyah neighborhood of the city of Mohabashah, the northern province of Hajjah, Yemen’s al-Masirah TV said on Thursday.
Saudi-led warplanes also targeted a residential building in the Sharas district of the same province, killing four civilians.
Yemen’s official Saba Net agency said another Yemeni citizen was killed after Saudi jets pounded a ceramics production house in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,000 with more than 4,000 other civilians wounded in the fighting in the country that has raged for more than a year now, according to the United Nations [UN] recently this week.
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 26. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
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.
