About two dozen people were killed Saturday in northern Yemen after two separate air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition.
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On Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed a water-drilling well site in the village of Bait Sa’dan in the district of Arhab, 50 km north of Sanaa, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding many others.
The Saudi-led coalition backs Yemen’s internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi against the country’s Shiite rebels known Houthis and their allies, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s loyalists.
The Saudi-owned al-Arabiya satellite channel reported that several field commanders of the Houthi group were killed in an air strike on a cave near the border with Saudi Arabia.
The country’s ongoing civil war pits Saudi and US -backed government forces against Shiite Houthi rebels. Videos showed workers collecting mutilated bodies and carrying them away in blankets.
Residents said the building was struck three times while an adjacent but empty school was hit twice.
The intervention claimed the lives of at least 10,000 people, including nearly 4,000 civilians, according to United Nations data.
Iran denies any interference in Arab states. Human Rights Minister Ezz Eddin al-Asbahi also said the Houthis have killed about 1,000 civilians in the two-year conflict, and that more than 300 children have died, either because of gunfire or rockets.
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Yemen is of crucial importance for the USA, as the country is home to one of their worst enemies, al-Qaida’s deadliest franchise, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which has orchestrated numerous high-profile terrorist attacks, including claiming responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.
