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Death toll from Saudi airstrikes on Yemen nears 7,500, report says

Tuesday, 17 November 2015 6:18 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 19 November 2015 4:35 PM ]

The file photo shows damage inflicted by Saudi warplanes on a residential area in the southern Yemeni port city of Mokha.

Nearly 7,500 people have died in more than seven months of Saudi Arabia’s relentless military aggression against Yemen, a monitoring group says.

The Yemeni Civil Coalition, which monitors the crimes committed during the Saudi aggression against Yemen, said in a statement on Tuesday that the death toll from 255 days of the Saudi airstrikes has reached 7,495, adding that the incessant attacks have left 16,058 others wounded.

The report said the attacks have inflicted damage on hundreds of critical installations in the civilian infrastructure.

The monitoring group said Saudi warplanes have targeted, among others, 105 water projects, 108 power plants, 14 airports, 304 bridges, 104 road networks, 10 ports, 244 market places, 472 food warehouses, 212 gas stations, 1,231 schools and education centers, 34 universities, 844 governmental institutions, 161 workshops, 29 sport clubs, 214 health facilities and 564 mosques in all the provinces of Yemen.

Saudi warplanes continued to target residential areas across Yemen on Tuesday.

Massive explosions shook the city of Ta’izz, located about 346 kilometers (214 miles) south of the capital, Sana’a, as Saudi fighter jets launched airstrikes against the international airport in the southwestern Yemeni city.

The warplanes also hit the al-Omari camp north of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and off Yemen’s coast as well as the al-Arqoub military camp, which lies east of the capital.

Also a Yemeni fisherman lost his life on Tuesday, when Saudi frigates fired a number of missiles at the Mokha port city, about 346 kilometers (214 miles) south of Sana’a.

The attacks came against the backdrop of reports saying that Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi reportedly returned to southern city of Aden from exile in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi attacks, which began on March 26 and lack any international mandate, are supposedly meant to undermine the ruling Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring Hadi back to power.

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