28 Mar 2024
Press TV - The Saudi Arabia-led coalition has carried out deadly air raids against 15 targets, including a food factory, in Yemens west-central Sanaa Province, prompting condemnations from officials in the capital.

At least two people lost their lives after the coalition struck a sponge factory in the province overnight, Yemens al-Masirah television news reported. Lebanons al-Mayadeen television channel said the attack had targeted the provinces Jadar Village, and that five people had also been injured as a result.

Al-Masirah said Sunday's bombings destroyed a food production facility as well as a plastic factory in Sana'a, also damaging neighboring houses.

The aggression (the Saudi-led coalition) also launched four raids on September-21st Park in the capital, according to the news network.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] A Yemeni boy walks in a cemetery in the countrys capital Sana'a on June 15, 2018. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]

Al-Mayadeen said the attack on the food factory had also left a number of victims, without giving an exact figure.

Houthis vow response

Yemens Human Rights Ministry condemned the stepped-up attacks on the capital, saying the raids came at a time when the city was hosting many people, who have fled the Saudi-led strikes in other parts of the country.

It said the escalation was in violation of international human rights law, calling on the United Nations to take a position and condemn the bombings.

Yemens popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the country against the Riyadh-led invaders, described the aerial attacks as a joint US-Saudi act of aggression.
The US has directed and prepared for these operations in Sana'a and other areas, said Ali al-Quhoom, a member of Ansarullahs Political Bureau.
We will escalate in response, said the official, adding thatthe Yemeni nation and Houthi-led armed forces will continue to defend the countrys people, territory and identity in the face of the Saudi-led military campaign.

The coalition has killed tens of thousands in the Arab worlds poorest country, trying unsuccessfully to restore power to Yemens former Riyadh-allied government.

The US has been lending generous arms and logistical support to the coalition, turning a deaf year to numerous calls by international rights groups to drop that policy.

This latest escalation could jeopardize the ongoing United Nations peace efforts that brought the two sides together in Sweden for the first time last year, where they reached an agreement on a truce in the lifeline port city of Hudaydah.
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