Militants loyal to Riyadh kill two Yemeni children
Militants loyal to the regime in Riyadh and its staunch ally, the former fugitive Yemeni president, have killed two Yemeni children in Ta'izz Province.
According to Yemen's al-Masirah television network, the militants fired shells on a residential area in the province on Wednesday.
The deadly attack came after at least five civilians were killed and a child was wounded in the ongoing Saudi airstrikes in the northern province of Sa’ada.
Similar attacks were reported on the provinces of Abyan and Bayda.
Separately, a number of Yemeni civilians were feared to have lost lives after Saudi warplanes conducted two airstrikes in al-Ashraf region of Ma’rib Province.
Meanwhile, fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement and the Yemeni army units carried out retaliatory attacks on the Jalah army base in Saudi Arabia's southern border region of Jizan.
Several Saudi soldiers have been killed in the Saudi border regions with Yemen over the past weeks.
On Tuesday, Peter Maurer, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), warned of the grave humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which has been under heavy bombardment by Saudi warplanes for more than four months. The ICRC chief said Yemen is “crumbling” under a deepening crisis which is nothing short of catastrophic.
Since March 26, Riyadh has been pounding various areas in Yemen – without a UN mandate. The Saudi military aggression is meant to undermine Houthi fighters and restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
The UN says the Saudi war on Yemen has killed over 4,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, since late March. Local Yemeni sources, however, put the fatality figure at a much higher number.
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