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News ID: 56341
Publish Date : 15 August 2018 - 21:43

Fresh Saudi Airstrike Kills More Yemeni Civilians


SANAA (Dispatches) – At least six civilians have lost their lives when Saudi military vessels deployed in  the Red Sea launched a barrage of missiles at a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah as the Riyadh regime continues with its atrocious military campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network quoted local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, that the warships fired the projectiles at al-Sadah village in the Hayran district of the province on Wednesday afternoon. The sources added that there were women and children among the fallen victims.
Later in the day, scores of Saudi-backed Yemeni militiamen loyal to resigned president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi were killed and injured when a powerful bomb explosion ripped through their position in the al-Zobab region of Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta'izz.
Iran renewed its support for intra-Yemeni negotiations towards the resolution of the conflict there, saying the Saudi regime and its allies should stop their deadly attacks on the impoverished Arab state and give room to peace efforts.
In a letter to the UN and its Security Council (UNSC), UN Ambassador Gholam-Ali Khoshrou said Iran is of the position that there is no military solution to Yemen’s conflict, and that a peaceful solution can only come about through an all-out national dialog under Yemeni-Yemeni leadership.
Therefore, he added, Saudi Arabia should end its military and political intervention in Yemen and put an end to its blockade of the impoverished country, where the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in unfolding, according to the UN.
Saudi Arabia has been leading many of its allies in an invasion of the Arab world’s most impoverished nation since 2015. The invasion has killed thousands and placed Yemen on the brink of outright famine.
In a latest incident, the Saudi-led coalition massacred at least 51 civilians, 40 them children, in a single air raid targeting a bus in Sa’ada Province.
The coalition called its new instance of child killing as "legitimate,” and even said the move conforms to international regulations.

Yemeni people attend the funeral of victims of a Saudi airstrike in Sa’ada, Yemen, on August 13, 2018.