Fresh attacks by Saudi warplanes in Yemen’s northwestern coasts have killed at least 10 fishermen as the civilian death toll keeps rising with Saudi attacks going unabated.
Yemen’s al-Masirah TV said on Thursday that the fishermen were killed after Saudi fighter jets pounded their boats off the coast of Uqban Island in al-Hudaydah Province.
The report said several others were wounded in the airstrike on the relatively calm area which is located around 100 kilometers from the provincial capital.
The attacks came hours after Saudi jets launched incessant airstrikes in Yemen's third-largest city of Taiz in the southern province of Taiz in a bid to back followers of the ousted fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who were reportedly engaged in fierce clashes with fighters from the ruling Ansarullah movement.
Saudi airstrikes were also reported in the northern Sa’ada Province, a main bastion of support for Ansarullah and a major target of Saudi attacks over the past months. A report by Maisrah said areas in Dahwan district in the city of Razih were bombarded, with no immediate details available on potential casualties.
Ansarullah fighters, who are also known as Houthis, also responded with retaliatory attacks on Saudi-led forces in the central province of Ma’rib, with reports saying that at least 12 anti-Houthi troops and militants were killed in an area south of Haylan mountain in Sarwah area south of the province.
Yemen has been under military strikes by Saudi Arabia on a daily basis since March 26. The strikes have been meant to undermine Ansarullah and restore power to Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh. According to a new tally, at least 7,000 people have lost their lives in the Saudi strikes, and a total of nearly 14,000 people have been injured since late March.