Fresh Saudi airstrikes hit areas across Yemen
Iran Press TV
Sat Jun 13, 2015 3:23PM
Saudi warplanes have carried out fresh airstrikes across Yemen as the impoverished country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula continues to reel from over 80 days of aggression by its rich northern neighbor.
Witnesses said the air raids were carried out on Saturday in the central province of Dhamar and the northern province of Sa'ada.
The attacks come as at least 10 civilians were killed and 65 others injured on Saturday in similar attacks on the capital, Sana'a. A wave of intensive overnight strikes also targeted arms depots around the capital.
The latest bombardments also targeted several locations, including a local council and a residential building, in Sa'ada Province, killing at least 13 people.
In an attempt to undermine the Houthi revolutionaries and bring Riyadh's staunch ally, fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, back to power, the Saudi regime started its military aggression against its impoverished neighbor on March 26 – without a UN mandate.
The United Nations says at least 2,300 people have lost their lives due to the conflict in Yemen since March 19. However, Yemeni sources have put the death toll at over 4,300 since the onset of the Saudi military campaign.
According to Yemen's Ministry of Public Health, some of the injured Yemeni people have symptoms indicating that they were exposed to prohibited weapons dropped by Saudi warplanes on Sana'a.
The ministry's spokesman, Tamim Shami, has said that Yemen is witnessing an alarming humanitarian situation due to the shortage of medical supplies.
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), has warned that over 20 million people in Yemen, some 80 percent of the country's population, require emergency humanitarian aid to access safe drinking water and sanitation.
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