SANA’A (Dispatches) –
Yemen’s Sana’a-based government says that the Saudi-led coalition launched five drone strikes on the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, al-Masirah TV reported.
The attacks on Tuesday targeted military positions in Hays district in the southern part of the city, the news outlet said without providing further details.
Hudaydah has witnessed a shaky cease-fire between the Saudi-led coalition and the Yemeni government in Sana’a since a UN-sponsored truce was reached in Stockholm in December 2018.
The Yemeni government controls the port city while the militants and mercenary forces backed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia have advanced to the southern districts.
Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the U.S. and other Western states, launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015.
The objective was to crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen, and reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to achieve any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
According to a Yemeni rights group more than 3,000 civilians, including women and children, were killed or injured in the airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen in the year 2022.
The Humanity Eye Center for Rights and Development issued a report on Monday, showing that the total number of casualties was 3,083 during last year’s war on Yemen, which included the death of 643 citizens and the wounding of 2,440 others.
The report said 102 children lost their lives and 353 others sustained injuries, in addition to 27 women killed and 97 others wounded.
The Yemeni rights group confirmed that 514 men were killed and 1,990 others injured.