On Tuesday, the Saudi-led military coalition conducted air strikes on Sanaa for the first time in five months, residents said, after United Nations -backed peace talks to end the conflict broke down at the weekend.
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It was the first time in five months that Sanaa had been bombed by warplanes from the coalition, which also includes Bahrain, Egypt, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, and other Middle Eastern countries.
“The Saudi-led coalition’s campaign in Yemen has been devastating for civilians (and) the US should be suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia, not approving more”, said Kristine Beckerle, a researcher with Human Rights Watch.
On Tuesday, coalition airstrikes killed 15 employees of a food factory in Sanaa.
Saudi Arabia claims that the Houthis – who are Shia Muslims – are proxies of Iran, which Tehran has categorically denied.
We depart Kuwait today but the Yemen peace talks continue.
The approval was announced on the same day the Saudi-led military coalition was reported to have killed 14 workers in an air attack on a food factory in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa.
The factory targeted was situated inside an army maintenance camp.
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Nine of the victims were women and seven of the injured were left in critical condition, an official at the Sana’a factory said.
In the mountainous region of Nihm, east of Sanaa, forces loyal to Hadi’s government escalated fighting with Houthi militias and allied forces, as part of a new campaign supported by the Saudi-led coalition to seize Sanaa, now under Houthi control.
Officials said that the U.S. military on Thursday killed three Al-Qaeda operatives in a strike in Shabwa.
Tribal sources said air strikes hit rebel positions Wednesday around their northern stronghold province of Saada.
Medics put the death toll at 13.
The Saudi civil defence agency said late Wednesday that cross-border shelling from Yemen had killed one Saudi civilian and wounded seven, including four children, in Jazan province.
“We had hoped Yemen could find a way out of this war”.
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Airports have been closed and flights suspended across Yemen amid intensified Saudi Arabian military strikes against the impoverished country.
