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Yemen’s National Salvation Government Thursday condemned Wednesday’s Saudi-led airstrike on Hodeida province that killed at least 20 people and wounded 10 others.
“The coalition continues to target Yemeni civilians for more than three years, the latest of which was Wednesday’s war crime that targeted a popular market in Bait al-Fakih district,” Yemeni minister of Information and government spokesman Abdul Salam Jaber said in a statement.
The government held the United Nations responsibility for its silence towards such war crimes and called on the international community to act and halt the Saudi military aggression against the Yemeni people.
The Legal Center for Rights and Developments in Yemen, in a statement released on October 15, announced that the ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against the impoverished and conflict-plagued Arab country has resulted in the death of 15,185 civilians, including 3,527 children and 2,277 women.
A total of 23,822 civilians, among them 3,526 children and 2,587 women, have also sustained injuries, and are currently suffering from the lack of medicine, medical supplies and poor treatment due to the crippling Saudi siege.
The center further noted that the Saudi military aggression has also caused the death of nearly 2,200 Yemenis from cholera.
It highlighted that aerial assaults being conducted by the Saudi-led alliance have resulted in the destruction of 15 airports and 14 ports, and damaged 2,559 roads and bridges in addition to 781 water storage facilities, 191 power stations and 426 telecommunications towers.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
