Saudi air raids leave Yemeni child dead, 7 injured
Saudi airstrikes against Yemen have left a child dead and seven others wounded in the capital city of Sana’a, as Riyadh’s military keeps violating a UN-backed humanitarian ceasefire.
The casualties came after Saudi jets bombarded al-Anasi District and al-Zahra Mosque in Sana’a on Thursday, Lebanon’s al-Ahed news website reported.
The building of Yemen’s Foreign Ministry, al-Dulaimi military airbase and Sana’a International Airport had also been hit in the Saudi air raids hours earlier, but no reports on casualties and the extent of damage were available, Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported.
Elsewhere, Saudi fighter jets attacked a mosque, a school as well as health and trade centers in the Munabbih district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Meanwhile, Saudi Apache combat helicopters fired 14 missiles into the Shada and al-Manzala districts of Sa’ada. They also targeted al-Hesameh District in western Sa’ada with artillery.
The TV channel further reported that the Saudi warplanes carried out attacks on Mualla District in the southern Yemeni province of Aden.
The Saudi jets targeted the al-Rabat street as well as the al-Basatin and Dar Sad districts in Aden more than twenty times.
The attacks come as the Yemeni army and the popular committees rejected the claims that the port city of Aden had fallen into the hands of militants, adding that they advanced in al-Mansoura District in Aden Province and gained control of the areas bordering al-Mansoura.
Meanwhile, the missile unit of the Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, pounded the Saudi military posts by shelling the communications center in the southwestern Saudi province of Dhahran al-Janub with six retaliatory rockets, the Ansarullah website reported.
Yemeni troops also fired five rockets at the Malhamah military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Jizan.
The deadly Saudi air raids come despite the announcement of the humanitarian truce in Yemen that came into force at 23:59 local time (2059 GMT) on July 10. The UN-sponsored truce was slated to run up to the end of the fasting month of Ramadan on July 17.
On Wednesday, Rupert Colville, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said more than 3,800 people have been killed in Yemen since March 26, when Riyadh launched its airstrikes without a UN mandate.
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