Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s rebel-held capital

“The terrorist (Houthi) leaders will be held accountable,” he mentioned. Residents in Sanaa, Yemen’s rebel-held capital, reported listening to large explosions as a spherical of bombs fell on town on Sunday.

The Houthi-run al-Masirah satellite tv for pc TV channel reported at the least seven airstrikes on Sanaa’s districts of Attan and al-Nahda. Al-Masirah didn’t say what services had been hit by the coalition, however again smoke was seen rising over army camps within the areas.

While the Houthi assaults not often trigger harm or casualties, strikes on main oil services in Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, have shaken power markets and the world financial system.

On Thursday, the Houthis mentioned they launched a drone assault on an oil facility within the port metropolis of Jiddah. Another ballistic missile assault final week reached so far as the capital, Riyadh, the place it was intercepted and exploded within the sky, scattering shrapnel over town.

The airstrikes on Sanaa have additionally come because the Houthis proceed their weeks-long offensive on the central province of Marib, in an try and retake it from the internationally acknowledged authorities. They have confronted stiff resistance and suffered heavy casualties with out making progress. Hundreds had been killed within the Marib clashes.

There have been additionally clashes within the province of Taiz. The Medecins Sans Frontieres charity, or MSF, mentioned on Friday that over two dozen folks wounded within the clashes had been handled in al-Thawra hospital, which is run by the charity. MSF additionally mentioned heavy gunfire hit the hospital, wounding at the least three folks together with one healthcare employee and a 12-year-old little one.

MSF additionally mentioned that on Friday the Al-Thawra hospital in Taiz handled 28 folks wounded throughout intense clashes since Wednesday, including that the hospital itself was hit by gun hearth, injuring three, together with a 12-year-old boy.

The battle in Yemen erupted almost six years in the past, after the Houthis swept into the capital and seized a lot of the nation’s north. A Saudi-led army coalition launched a bombing marketing campaign to dislodge the Houthis and restore the internationally acknowledged authorities.

The stalemated battle was has killed round 130,000 folks, together with greater than 12,000 civilians, pushed hundreds of thousands to the brink of famine and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. Saudi Arabia has confronted widespread worldwide criticism for its airstrikes which have killed civilians and hit non-military targets in Yemen.

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