Saudi airstrike in Yemen capital claims lives

Two women were the victims of the Saudi bombing in an al-Sha’ab neighborhood on Friday, May 1, 2015.

A number of people also suffered injuries in the violence.

Saudi warplanes also attacked the capital’s districts of Faj Attan and Hasbah, and the Marwaneh neighborhood. There have been no reports of casualties in the Saudi airstrikes in these areas.

Hours earlier, Saudi’s warplanes fired a number of missiles into the international airport in Sana’a, damaging the airport.

The Saudi fighter jets bombed areas located between the towns of Razeh and Shadda in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26, without a United Nations mandate, in an attempt to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the country’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is an ally of Riyadh.

On April 21, Riyadh publicized the end of the first phase of its illegal military operations, which ended the lives of nearly 1,000 people, but airstrikes have continued with Saudi bombers targeting areas across the country in a new phase.

According to Yemen’s Health Ministry, the Saudi aggression has killed nearly 150 children and around 100 women so far.