HODEIDAH: An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in
Yemen killed 12 civilians, including seven children, in the coastal city of
Hodeidah on Monday, medics and a witness said.
Medics and a witness who saw the wreckage said the air strike had destroyed a house in
al-Hali district, where displaced civilians from other provinces were settled.
The 12 victims were all from the same family, they said.
A spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hodeidah is home to the impoverished country's biggest port from where most of the humanitarian aid reaches millions of civilians on the brink of famine. The operation of port, controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthis, was not affected by the air strike.
Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates intervened in a civil war in Yemen in 2015 against the Houthis to restore the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The alliance, which includes other Sunni Muslim states, has conducted thousands of air strikes targeting Houthi fighters and has often hit civilian areas, although it denies ever doing so intentionally.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2 million and driven the country - already the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula - to the verge of famine.
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