Saudi Warplanes Hit Yemen with ’Cluster Bombs’
Local Editor
Saudi fighter jets used cluster bombs in their fresh attacks against Yemen’s province of Hajjah on Thursday as Saudi Arabia continues with its US-led aggression against the impoverished country.
Saudi warplanes dropped cluster munitions on populated areas in the al-Mazraq district of the province, located about 300 kilometers [186 miles] northwest of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, on Thursday.
According to the Human Rights Watch [HRW] organization in a report published recently last month [May 31], it announced that evidence shows that Saudi Arabia has been pounding Yemen with internationally banned cluster bombs, warning that such attacks are "harming civilians."
The rights body also posted photos showing remnants of cluster munitions and unexploded submunitions found in several areas, including al-Nushoor and al-Maqash in Sa’ada, noting that three types of cluster bombs have been used in the Saudi attacks.
Furthermore, nine civilians lost their lives as Saudi warplanes bombarded residential buildings in the Bani Moein district of Ghamr region in Yemen’s northwestern Sa’ada Province.
Additionally, 13 Yemeni civilians were killed, when Saudi warplanes struck Ghomam region in the Razih district of the same province.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began carrying out airstrikes against Yemen in late March.
The US-led Saudi aggression has killed more than 2,000 civilians, displaced more than a million and led to severe shortages of food, water, fuel and electricity.
The US-led Saudi military aggression against Yemen began on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in an attempt to weaken the Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia, back to power.
