Alwaght- Nearly 30 civilians have been killed and many others injured after Saudi military aircraft launched a series of airstrikes in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta'izz.
According to Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Ahed news website, Saudi fighter jets bombarded residential buildings in the Salh district of the province, late on Thursday, leaving 29 civilians, mostly women and children, dead.
Additionally, Saudi warplanes carried out three airstrikes against al-Ja’malah area in Yemen’s northwestern and mountainous province of Sa’ada. There were no immediate reports of possible casualties and the extent of damage inflicted.
Saudi jets also hit two areas in the central Yemeni province of Ma'rib on Thursday, though no information on possible fatalities and the scope of damage was available.
Elsewhere a large number of Saudi troops have been killed in retaliatory attacks by Yemeni army soldiers backed by fighters from Popular Committees in Saudi Arabia's southwestern region of Jizan.
Additionally, Yemeni soldiers together with allied forces destroyed six military vehicles in al-Jarrah area in Jizan region.
Yemeni troopers and fighters of the Popular Committees also lobbed seven Grad missiles at the Tawilah military base in Saudi Arabia’s Dhahran al-Janoub district of Asir Province.
Saudi Arabia began its illegal military aggression against Yemen in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah movement and to restore Hadi to power, an ally of Riyadh.
The incessant bombardments have caused severe shortages in basic necessities in the impoverished state. According to local sources, the conflict has killed almost 5,400 people, mostly women and children.
A significant number of governmental buildings, schools, shops, gas stations, markets, stadiums and mosques have been destroyed in the brutal Saudi attacks which have been described by human rights organizations as war crimes.
