Saudi Arabia Deadly Campaign Takes More Civilian Casualties in Yemen

Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s Northwestern province of Amran on Monday, killing at least nine civilians, mostly women and children.

News ID: 70953

Date: 26 June 2018 - 15:13

TEHRAN (Defapress)- Al-Masirah television network, citing officials, reported that 20 civilian also sustained injuries after Saudi fighter jets bombed houses in the al-Barid neighborhood of Amran city early on Monday.

Severe damage was reported as Saudi fighters also pounded a military barracks and communication building in the city.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 16,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia's deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million people in need and is seeing a spike in needs, fuelled by ongoing conflict, a collapsing economy and diminished social services and livelihoods.

The United Nations aid chief has recently expressed concern over the decline of food imports to Yemen amid restrictions put in place by the Saudi Arabia, warning that a further 10 million Yemenis could face starvation by year-end.

Humanitarian agencies have also warned that halting operations at the crucial Hudaydah port would have an enormous impact on people all across Yemen, urging the warring parties to spare innocent lives in their battle for the Red Sea city.

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