KABUL: (MEP) At least seven Yemenis have been killed and 12 others wounded in an airstrike carried out by Saudi Arabia in the country’s western region despite a fragile truce.
The incident occurred in Haya al-Shuhada district of the city of al-Hudaydah, Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported on Monday.
The latest attack came shortly after six days of talks between a delegation representing the Houthi Ansarullah movement and representatives of Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi closed in the Swiss village of Magglingen.
Although a member of Hadi’s delegate said the negotiations had ended without any agreement to end the Saudi aggression against Yemen, the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said he was optimistic that a fully-respected ceasefire deal would soon come into force in Yemen. The next round of the talks aimed at ending the Yemeni conflict is expected to be held on January 14 next year.
Saudi Arabia’s military attacks against impoverished Yemen, which started in late March, have so far claimed the lives of more than 7,500 people and injured over 14,000 others. The airstrikes supposedly aim to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, back to power.
