A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and UAE committed a new massacre in Yemen, killing dozens of civilians including at least 22 children, just two weeks after a similar strike on a school bus in a market killed 40 children.
22 children and four women died on Thursday (August 23) as Saudi-led fighter jets targeted a camp for internally displaced people in Ad Durayhimi, which lies about 20km from the Red Sea city of Hodeidah, Yemen’s Beirut-based Al-Massirah TV channel reported.
Saba news agency quoted Abdulrahman Jarallah, health official, as saying that medical staff and aid workers could not reach the scene of the attack.
The strike on Thursday comes two weeks after Saudi-led warplanes hit a school bus in a market in Saada’s Dahian, killing 51 people, including 40 children, and injuring 79 others, including 56 children.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led Coalition, in a bid to restore control to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is Riyadh’s ally.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and injured in the strikes launched by the coalition, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition, which includes in addition to Saudi Arabia and UAE: Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait, has been also imposing a harsh blockade against Yemenis.
Source: Agencies
