Saudis Launch 200 Air Strikes in Yemen in One Day Despite Truce
KABUL: (Middle East Press) Saudi Arabia has escalated its deadly aerial attacks against the war-ravaged Yemeni nation by conducting over 200 air strikes in just one day amid a media blackout of Riyadh’s aggression, Press TV reported.
The latest aerial bombardments by the Saudi military were carried out throughout Tuesday with war planes first conducting more than 100 airstrikes against various locations in Hajjah and Sa’ada provinces.
At least eight Yemeni civilians were killed when one aerial attack targeted a residential neighborhood in the Harad district of Hajjah.
The Saudi jets further pounded the southwestern province of Aden over 100 times and also hit the nation’s capital city of Sana’a.
The massive airstrikes by the Saudi regime took place despite a UN-brokered ceasefire that went into effect from midnight on Friday. Saudi Arabia, however, has violated the truce several times since then.
Riyadh launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia.
More than 3,000 people, including 1,500 civilians, have been killed over the past three months in Yemen, according to the United Nations.
