’Historical Sites’ Attacked by Saudi Aggression in Yemen’s Mareb
Local Editor
The Saudi-led warplanes attacked the Baraqish historical city in Yemen’s Mareb governorate with four air raids on Wednesday.
A local source told SABA that the aggression left huge damage to the historical northern wall of the city and its temple.
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.
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,300 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 UN recently last month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.
