MANAMA (Dispatches) –
Saudi fighter jets have launched fresh airstrikes on residential areas across Yemen, after a number of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen’s former president were killed in the Yemeni army’s missile attack at their camp in the country’s southern province of Shabwah.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported that Saudi military aircraft bombed a district of the northern province of Hajjah at least six times. No immediate information about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused were immediately available.
Saudi jets also conducted six air attacks in Yemen’s oil-producing central province of Ma’rib.
In the al-Sawadiyah district of the central Yemeni province of al-Bayda, local residents reported two airstrikes.
Yemen’s Liaison and Coordination Officers Operations Room also said on Sunday that the Saudi-led coalition and their mercenaries had violated 169 times a ceasefire agreement for the western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours.
The violations included reconnaissance flights, 22 artillery attacks as well as 131 shooting incidents.
Moreover, two civilians sustained injuries when Saudi border forces shelled the northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Nine more women were injured in Qahar area of the Baqim district in the same Yemeni province as Saudi troops targeted the region with a barrage of artillery rounds.
The developments came hours after the Arabic service of Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported that Yemeni missile defense units launched a ballistic missile at al-Alam camp, which houses Saudi mercenaries, in the Ataq district of Shabwah province.
The report added that the missile strike left three Saudi-paid militiamen killed and ten others injured.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies, backed by the United States and European powers, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah resistance movement.
The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.
A human rights organization says more than 6,200 Yemeni women and children have lost their lives, as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing the southern impoverished neighbor in defiance of international calls to end its bloody war.
In a report published on Saturday, Yemen-based Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights said 2,426 women and 3,847 children have been killed ever since the Saudi-led military campaign started against the crisis-hit Arab country back in March 2015.
At least 2,834 women and 4,206 children have been wounded as well.