Saudi jets kill Yemenis amid cholera outbreak

New Saudi airstrikes against various areas across Yemen have taken the lives of seven more civilians, while Yemeni counteroffensives saw a missile being fired at the kingdom’s southwest.

On Saturday, one person was killed after Saudi warplanes targeted his moving truck in Sa’ada Province in Yemen’s remote northwest, Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported.

Saudi aircraft killed six others, including four children, in an airstrike hitting the western province of al-Hudaydah.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni army’s missile unit hit military bases in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region with a Qaher missile. The Saudi side confirmed the retaliatory strike, claiming it had intercepted the projectile.

In the same region, Yemeni forces carried out a mortar attack, killing a number of Saudi servicemen, and Yemeni snipers were reported to have targeted another Saudi military personnel member.

Separately, the Yemeni army engaged the Saudi mercenaries siding with Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi — who has resigned and fled the capital, Sana’a — in the southern Yemen province of Aden, killing two of the mercenaries and injuring four others.

Yemen is, meanwhile, grappling with a severe food shortage amid a naval blockade imposed by Riyadh, which prevents shipments to most of its ports. According to the UN’s children agency, there are 370,000 children enduring severe malnutrition in the already-impoverished nation, and 1.5 million are going hungry.

On Friday, the UNICEF and the World Health Organization said war-torn Yemen was also suffering from a cholera outbreak, posing a further threat to infants in the country.

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