Saudi airstrikes martyr 10 in southwest Yemen

Saudi Arabian warplanes have bombed residential buildings in the Southwestern Yemeni Province of Ta’izz, martyring at least 10 people.

According to Press TV quoting Yemen’s al-Masirah television network, the Saturday attacks targeted the province’s As Silw district.

Early reports had said that at least three women were among those martyred.

Saudi aircraft also targeted the Nihm district in the Sana’a Province in west-central Yemen and another location in the Shabwah Province in the impoverished country’s south.

Separately, a blast was reported at a checkpoint in the Crater district in the Southwestern Province of Aden, leaving at least three people martyred. The details of the attack are yet to be announced.

Saudi Arabia has been waging war on Yemen since March 2015. The war was launched in an unsuccessful attempt to reinstate Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who has resigned as Yemen’s President.

The war has martyred at least 10,000 people, amid countless reports suggesting the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilian infrastructure by Saudi forces and mercenaries.

A Saudi-imposed naval embargo of Yemen, which is the Arab world’s poorest nation, has, meanwhile, led to a famine across much of the country.

The Middle East Eye news portal reported on Thursday that Saudi Arabian and Qatari army chiefs had met with their Algerian counterpart earlier in the month, asking Algiers to send its servicemen to Yemen. Riyadh had previously tried and failed to recruit Pakistan and Lebanon in the offensive.

Some observers say the war has cost Saudi Arabia so much in terms of financial and political capital that it seeks to diminish its own role while enlisting the services of allies to gradually fill in its shoes.

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