Saudi-led coalition conducts fresh strikes on Yemeni capital

Warplanes belonging to the Saudi-led coalition of invaders have carried out fresh airstrikes on Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, as the kingdom intensifies the devastating war on its southern neighbor.

Yemen’s al-Masirah TV channel reported on Thursday that Sana’a’s Sabeen residential area had been bombarded at least three times in a few minutes.

In a report early on Thursday, Saudi state TV claimed that the coalition had targeted an Ansarullah security forces camp in Sana’a and destroyed seven drones and weapons storehouses there.

"The operation in Sana’a is an immediate response after destroying a drone launched towards Jizan," it added, referring to a port city in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

The houses of Yemeni citizens had been damaged in Sana’a during the Saudi air raids, contrary to the coalition’s claim of targeting a military camp, according to the al-Masirah report.

On Monday, the Saudi-led collation targeted Sana’a airport, which remains a lifeline for Yemenis.

In a series of tweets, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a high-ranking member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council said the “repeated attacks on Sana'a International Airport, which was prepared to transport Yemeni patients and travelers, are terrorism against the Republic of Yemen.”

"As usual, the United Nations will not take a stand against this crime, I expect, and the coalition will claim that it was not the one who closed the airport, to repudiate the war crime it has committed," he noted.

Saudi Arabia launched the devastating military aggression against its southern neighbor in March 2015 in collaboration with a number of its allied states and with arms and logistics support from the US and several Western states.

The aim was to return to power the former Riyadh-backed regime and crush the popular Ansarullah Movement which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective government in Yemen.

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