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The children’s parents are said to have been critically injured in the assault.
A day earlier, Saudi warplanes repeatedly pounded the Kahlan military base in the province of Sa’ada. The Harad district in the northwestern province of Hajjah also came under similar attacks.
Meanwhile, Yemeni forces responded to the Saudi attacks, targeting the Ma’azab military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Jizan with rockets and destroying several military vehicles there.
Yemeni troops, backed by Ansarullah fighters, also fired Katyusha rockets at a military convoy in the Saudi military base of Sababa in the same region.
Riyadh’s new airstrikes come in defiance of a UN-backed ceasefire between the Yemeni warring sides, which took effect in April.
The impoverished Arabian Peninsula country has seen relentless military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March 2015, with internal sources putting the death toll from the aggression at about 10,000.
Since April 21, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has been in talks with the Saudi-backed representatives of the former government, but the negotiations have failed to make progress amid fundamental disputes on the agenda.
Saudi Arabia backs Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi and seeks to undermine the Ansarullah through airstrikes and ground operations against neighboring Yemen.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
