Saudi Arabia Continues Using ’Banned Cluster Bombs’ in Yemen
Local Editor
Saudi-led aircraft pounded the province of Sa’ada in Yemen with internationally banned cluster bombs, leaving tens of civilians dead, as Yemeni media revealed on Sunday.
Yemeni media released a video on Sunday showing Saudi war jets bombing the residential area of Maran village in Yemen’s Sa’ada province with cluster bombs.
Tens of civilians were reportedly killed in the attack and several houses were destroyed.
On September 18, Saudi Arabia had also used cluster bombs in its airstrikes on the province of Sa’ada.
Separately, a number of civilians were killed in Saudi bombings in al-Hazm district in al-Jawf Province.
Saudi war jets also struck the security forces headquarters in Haraz district in Hajjah Province.
Meanwhile, Saudi bombs hit a number of locations in Sanhan district in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a as well.
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 ’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 this month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.
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.
