Friday, July 17, 2020

Over 25 Yemenis killed in Saudi airstrike on wedding ceremony



More than 25 civilians were killed on Wednesday as Saudi warplanes carried out fresh deadly strikes in Yemen, this time targeting a wedding ceremony in the northern province of Al-Jawf, as part of the Riyadh regime's ongoing aerial bombardment campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.


Women and children were among those killed in the attack, almasirah.com reported.
Earlier in the day, Saudi-led warplanes launched five airstrikes against Al-Aqsha’ area in the same district of Jawf Province. There were, however, no immediate reports of possible casualties, Press TV reported.
Separately, fighter jets pounded an area in the Kitaf wa al-Boqe'e district of the mountainous northwestern province of Saada. The number of casualties was not immediately known.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has been conducting a bloody military aggression in Yemen with help from its regional allies, and using arms supplied by its Western backers. The aim of the war has been to bring Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, back to power and defeat the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Yemeni armed forces have been boosting their military capabilities and responding to the attacks using domestic missiles and drones, and targeting sensitive oil installations and military sites deep inside the Saudi territory.
In excess of 100,000 people have already lost their lives as a result of the military aggression in the past five years.
The war has also destroyed, damaged and shut down Yemen's infrastructure, including a large number of hospitals and clinics.
The Yemeni population has been subjected to large-scale hunger and diseases aggravated by the naval blockade imposed on the country by the coalition of aggressors.

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