Saudi-Led Coalition Warplanes Attack Yemen’s Sana’a
Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said coalition warplanes attacked seven targets.
Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said on Sunday that the Western-backed coalition had conducted 24 air strikes on Sana’a since Saturday evening, including four on the air base.
It said non-military targets were also hit, including a plastics factory where al-Masirah said a large fire broke out.
Medical workers and residents told Reuters at least two civilians were killed, and others injured, in the raids which damaged homes.
“The raids were very violent, the likes of which we have not seen for a year,” Sana’a resident Arwa Abdul Karim said. “The house shook so much we thought it would fall on our heads.”
The escalation in fighting raises doubts about the chances of a second round of UN-sponsored talks this month aimed at ending the nearly four-year war.
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Tens of thousands have died in the Saudi-led war on Yemen so far.
The United Nations is trying to implement a ceasefire and troop withdrawal agreement in the port city of Hudaydah, the main entry point for most of Yemen’s imports and aid.
A deal was reached in UN-sponsored talks in Sweden last month to avert a full-scale assault on the port, in the first significant breakthrough in peace efforts in five years.
The truce has largely held in Hudaydah, which is controlled by the Houthi Ansarullah movement with thousands of coalition-backed forces massed on the outskirts. But the withdrawal of forces by both sides has stalled over disagreements over who would control the Red Sea city.
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