10 Civilians Killed in Saudi Airstrike on Yemeni Capital

TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 10 civilians were killed in a Saudi airstrike on a residential area in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Monday.

 According to reports, the attacks were carried out in the city’s Sa’awan neighborhood, early on Monday.

Meanwhile, Saudi jets bombed several medical and commercial centers in the country’s northwestern province of Amran.

On Sunday, the kingdom’s warplanes launched attacks on the northwestern Hajjah province, Press TV reported.   

Raids were also carried out in the southwestern Lahij and Aden provinces and the northwestern Sa’ada province.

Yemeni forces backed by popular committees’ fighters carried out retaliatory attacks on several Saudi military bases in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Jizan.

The latest Saudi attacks came just days after a humanitarian truce was announced in Yemen on Friday.

The monarchy started military attacka against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – in a attempt to undermine the Houthi movement and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

According to the UN, over 3,000 people, including 1,500 civilians, have been killed over the past three months in the impoverished country.