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The spokesperson for the Yemeni National Salvation Government Abdel Salam Jaber blasted the Saudi-led coalition on Friday for its war crimes and massacres committed against Yemen’s civilian population.
The latest of these is the targeting of residential neighborhoods, health facilities, farms and other vital infrastructure in the districts of Tuhita and Durihami as well as Kamran Island in the province of Hodeidah.
According to Jaber, the air raids destroyed Durahemi General Hospital and the Maternity and Childhood Hospital, packed with pregnant women, newborns and staff.
Aside from the collateral damage, women and children were killed in the attacks, Jaber noted.
He said that the coalition prevented ambulances and rescue teams from reaching those in need.
“The deliberate bombing on health facilities, ambulances and the targeting of citizens by the US-Saudi aggression are war crimes,” he said.
Jaber also denounced the complicity of the international community, led by the United Nations, which has failed to condemn these crimes.
Saudi Arabia and some of its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan, launched the brutal war against Yemen in an attempt to reinstall Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has played a significant role, alongside the Yemeni army, in defending the nation.
Some 15,000 Yemenis have so far been killed and thousands more injured. More than 2,200 others have also died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
The imposed war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN has said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.
Some Western countries, the United States and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical and intelligence assistance.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
