11 Members of Yemeni Family Killed Or Injured in Saudi Bombing in Hajjah
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Saudi-led coalition warplanes attacked Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, killing or injuring 11 members of a family in the second airstrike against the war-torn country in less than 24 hours.
In the early hours of Monday, an airstrike hit the home of a civilian named Ahmed Mohammad Tamri in the district of Abs in Hajjah, according to Yemen's al-Masirah television network.
Preliminary reports indicated that one woman was killed in the aerial attack and eight other civilians were injured, the majority of whom children.
Later, a reporter for Al-Masirah said that the number of injured had risen to at least ten, with seven of them being children aged 18 months to 14 years.
The attack was condemned by a senior Yemeni official, who termed it a "war crime."
Yemen's Supreme Political Council member Mohammed Ali al-Houthi highlighted that the continuous targeting of Yemenis is "a war crime and deliberate terrorism."
The airstrike occurred after the Yemeni army stopped a Saudi-led coalition onslaught on Hajjah's Harad region near the Saudi border on Sunday, while also liberating a mountainous territory from the hands of Riyadh-backed mercenaries.
According to Al-Masirah, the Saudi-led coalition broke 163 ceasefires in Yemen's western coastal province of Hudaydah on Sunday. Six spy flights and 54 artillery assaults were among the infractions.
The strikes were carried out in violation of the Stockholm Agreement, which was signed in December 2018 after peace talks between Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement and Riyadh-backed mercenaries loyal to Yemen's fugitive former president Abd Rabbouh Mansur Hadi.
The paper outlined three commitments: a ceasefire along the Hudaydah front and the redeployment of armed forces out of the city and port; a prisoner exchange deal; and a statement of understanding regarding the Yemeni city of Taiz in the south.
The Ansarullah movement has said they expected the Stockholm Agreement to lead to peace, but instead, Saudi Arabia has continued to violate the UN-backed agreement, killing and injuring thousands of Yemenis ever since.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies – including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – launched a brutal war against Yemen in March 2015.
The war was launched to eliminate the Ansarullah movement and reinstall Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
Accompanied by a tight siege, the war has failed to reach its goals, while killing hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people. The UN refers to the situation in Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
Meanwhile, Yemeni forces have continued to grow stronger in the face of the Saudi-led invaders, advancing toward strategic areas held by Saudi-led mercenaries, including Ma’rib province, and conducting several rounds of counterstrikes against Saudi Arabia and the UAE.