Iran denounced on Friday the Saudi-led coalition’s latest air strikes on Yemen’s western port city of Hudeidah which killed scores of people.
In a statement, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi described the Thursday attacks on civilians in Hudaydah as “the constant repetition of genocide and heinous crimes in Yemen committed by Saudi Arabia and its allies.”
By shedding the blood of the Yemeni people and attacking civilian targets such as hospitals, residential houses and public places, Saudi Arabia is making up for its defeats and failures in the battlefields, the spokesman said.
Such attacks are “nothing but war crimes”, he said, adding that their continuation on a daily basis and international organizations’ silence on such measures have worsened the situation of the Yemeni people.
More than 40 people were martyred on Thursday as Saudi-led warplanes launched air strikes on a hospital and a fish market in Hudeidah.
Medical workers said more than 20 missiles were fired by warplanes into several neighborhoods of the port city.
Missiles hit the crowded fish market, which is a few hundred meters from the city’s main hospital. Rescue teams went quickly to the scene but, half-an-hour later, another strike hit the street in front of the hospital where the wounded had been transferred.
Source: Agencies
