Local Editor
At least 20 Yemeni fishermen were killed in an attack by Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate on Thursday.
The warplanes attacked the fishermen’s boats and killed twenty people, a local source at the governorate said.
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 attacks began in a bid to restore power to fugitive former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement that is currently resisting the aggression.
Over 2,615 civilians have been killed in the conflict in the last six months, according to the UN. Yet, other organization put the death toll at much higher. According to the Yemeni health ministry, the death toll from the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen so far is more than 6,000, adding that 1,277 of those killed were children.
