Nine civilians martyred as Saudi warplanes bomb NW Yemen

At least nine civilians have been martyred when Saudi military aircraft carried out an airstrike against a residential area in Yemen as the Saudi regime presses ahead with an atrocious military campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four women and five children lost their lives on Tuesday, when Saudi fighter jets bombarded a residential building in the Kushar district of the Northwestern Province of Hajjah, located approximately 130 kilometers northwest of the capital Sana’a, Arabic-language al-Arabi news website reported.

The sources identified the victims as members of the same family.

Later in the day, Yemeni troopers and allied fighters from Popular Committees fired a medium-range Qaher M2 ballistic missile at a gathering of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to resigned President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the al-Hazm district of the Northern Province of Jawf.

There were no immediate reports on possible casualties among the mercenaries and the extent of damage inflicted on their military hardware.

Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Ansarullah movement and reinstate Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.

More than 12,000 people have been martyred since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.

The Saudi war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.

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