Saudi Jets Continue Pounding Yemen

TEHRAN (defapress) – Saudi warplanes continued their relentless military aggression against Yemen and targeted residential areas in northwestern Sa'ada province, causing more death and destruction in the impoverished Arab country.

News ID: 66671

Date: 25 October 2017 - 14:15

On Tuesday evening, the areas of al-Fara', and Kutaf in Sa'ada were pounded by Saudi jets in a series of strikes, a military source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the official Saba news agency.

During the raids, dozens of Yemeni civilians lost their lives.

In a separate development, the Saudi military aircraft waged four strikes on Maslub and al-Maton districts of Jawf province overnight, killing and injuring scores of people there.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia for more than two years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that more than 11 million Yemeni children are in dire need of relief aid as a result of Saudi Arabia’s aggression against the impoverished country.

In a statement published on Monday, the agency described the conflict in Yemen as "devastating,” and said the Yemeni children were facing "the largest food security crisis in the world and an unprecedented cholera outbreak.”

"Deprived of access to basic health and nutrition services, children are unable to fulfill their potential," the statement said, adding that children in the war-ravaged country were dying of "preventable causes like malnutrition, diarrhea, and respiratory tract infections.”

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Over 12,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.