The United States and the U.N. Security Council support the Saudi-led coalition. In less than five months, coalition jets have launched thousands of air strikes.
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The coalition began targeting the Houthis in March.
“They are spread out in Tahawi and we can say they have the area under their control”. He gave no further details on the identity of the bombers.
As this was taking place, a ceasefire proposal was handed by the president to the UN envoy to Yemen in Saudi Arabia, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
Ten million children, approximately 80 percent of the country’s population under 18 years old, are in urgent need of some form of humanitarian aid. That has forced many people to rely unsanitary sources and unprotected wells, placing themselves at risk of life-threatening illnesses such as diarrhoea and cholera.
Moreover, almost 2 million children in Yemen have no access to education.
The western port city of Hodeida was hit with airstrikes Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, medical teams have had a hard time reaching hospital due to intense fighting.
In a 23-page report entitled, Nowhere Safe for Civilians, Amnesty, which blames all parties, says conflict, raging in 20 of the country’s 22 provinces, has killed 4,000 and displaced over one million.
“We’re not able to confirm if the port was used as a military installation”.
“The firepower with which this war is fought on the ground and in the air is causing more suffering than in other societies which are stronger and where infrastructures are better off and people are wealthier and have reserves and can escape”, Peter Maurer told the Associated Press.
The shipping line added that it could no longer accept any Hodeidah-bound cargo on its vessels, and would instead divert Hodeidah-destined shipments now at sea to Aden in the south of Yemen.
A coalition air strike on July 9 killed ten members of the Faraa family in the village of Tahrur, north of Aden, when a bomb was dropped on the Mus’ab ben Omar school. Witnesses said scores of houses were damaged and some caught on fire.
“Those who survived the bombings are searching through the rubble with their bare hands in the hope of finding survivors, as well as the bodies of victims of the attack,” Dongu’du said. “There was no fighting around here and there were no Houthis, just some unlucky people”.
Emirati tanks heave across southern Yemen’s stony wastes and Apache helicopters from a Saudi-led coalition, dubbed “black genies” by local media, rule its skies, helping fighters loyal to the exiled government win the initiative against an Iran-allied militia. The Houthis, who accused the Hadi government of marginalization, captured most of the country earlier this year, forcing Hadi into exile in Saudi Arabia.
For the Gulf Arabs, bristling at Iran’s role in sectarian wars rocking Syria and Iraq, the gains in Yemen prove they can seize their collective destiny from their arch-rival, even as their ally the United States has reached a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic last month.
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Moreover, Saudi warplanes struck the presidential palace in Ta’izz Province, but there were no reports of casualties.
