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Several students were left injured in airstrikes Riyadh claims are being launched against "legitimate military targets"
According to local sources, the drone attack left several students injured. It was then followed by a second airstrike targeting a nearby gas station which also left a number of civilians injured.
On 23 November, the Saudi-led coalition announced the beginning of a new bombing campaign against the Ansarallah resistance movement, allegedly aiming to hit “legitimate military targets.”
In their statement, Riyadh went on to claim that Ansarallah fighters had camouflaged these targets as hospitals, schools, and other civilian buildings, using them as “human shields.”
The statement framed the airstrikes as falling in line “with international humanitarian law and the principle of legitimate defense,” calling to mind Israel’s similar excuse which was used to carpet bomb the occupied Gaza Strip earlier this year.
The attack in Dali Governorate came a day after Saudi warplanes bombed Dhahaban town on the outskirts of the capital Sanaa, leaving several casualties.
Over the past week, Sanaa has been hit on a near daily basis by Saudi airstrikes. The renewed violence comes in response to the coalition’s impending defeat in strategic Marib province, which experts believe could turn the tide of the war in favor of the Yemeni Armed Forces.
Since 2015, Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and other key allies, has been waging a brutal war in Yemen which has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more. The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
In addition, an all-out blockade has also been imposed on Yemen since the onset of the war, pushing the Arab world’s poorest country into a humanitarian crisis which is described by the UN as “the worst in the world.”
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