Saudi War Jets Continue Bombing Residential Areas, Civilian Facilities in Yemen
Local Editor
Days of bombardment do not appear to end as the Saudi air force keeps dispatching warplanes to bombard even more areas across Yemen, which is facing a deteriorating humanitarian situation.
The Saudi-led coalition continued its unabated military aggression on Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, with a series of air raids on a number of residential areas and civilian facilities on Sunday.
According to the latest media reports on Sunday, Saudi jets pounded the province of Sana’a, targeting residential areas in al-Jaraf, a car gallery and a military college.
Saudi-led warplanes also hit Al-Subaha area in Bani Matar district in the same province with a number of air raids causing damages to agricultural lands, a local source told SABA.
In the northwestern province of Sa’ada, reports said that in as many as ten Saudi-led airstrikes targeting food carriers in the district of Ghamar, at least three civilians lost their lives.
A market was also bombarded by Saudi aircraft in the Haydan district of Sa’ada, where at least three people died. Fatalities, including a woman and children, were also reported in similar attacks on the Razih district of the province.
Ta’izz, located in the southwestern part of the impoverished country, was another province that once again came under Saudi-led airstrikes as well.
Furthermore, the provinces of Ma’rib, in central Yemen, as well as Hajjah and Dhamar, in the west, were hit by the Saud-led airstrikes.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression against Yemen by launching air strikes against the country in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the 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.
