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Hospitals were filled today with casualties in Saada after airstrikes razed buildings in the heart of Yemeni Houthi rebel territory.
More than 200 people are believed to be dead or injured after an airstrike on a Yemeni prison and at least three children were killed in another bombing in the country as the old regional conflict escalated dramatically.
The Houthi rebels posted gruesome video footage of troops lying on the ground after the attack on the prison that flattened buildings in north Saada center.
Further south, in the port of Hodeida, a Saudi coalition attack left several children dead as communication plants nearby were hit, the Save the Children monitoring group said. In Yemen, meanwhile, the internet has been cut off across the country.
“The tragic children were playing on a nearby football field when the rockets hit,” said Save the Children.
The attacks come five days after Houthi rebels carried out a drone and rocket attack on Abu Dhabi where there were reportedly casualties.
The United Arab Emirates, which is part of the Saudi-backed coalition against Iranian-backed rebels, has threatened retaliation.
“There are more than 100 killed and wounded… the numbers are growing,” Basheer Omar, a Yemeni Red Cross spokesman, told AFP.
Ahmed Mahat, head of the Médecins Sans Frontières mission in Yemen, said: “There are still many bodies at the scene of the Emirati cruel air strike, many people missing.”
The UAE is part of the Saudi coalition that has been fighting the rebels since 2015, in a serious conflict that has displaced millions of people and left the country impoverished in a famine crisis.
The coalition has taken over the attack on the important port of Hodeida, but has not yet pronounced the devastating attack on Saada.
State-run news agencies in Saudi Arabia said the coalition had carried out “pre-emptive strikes to destroy the capabilities of Houthi militants in Hodeida.”
Yemen’s civil and regional war has been a massacre of millions of people, which the UN calls “the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world.”
The UN says 377,000 people will be killed in it by the end of 2021, both directly and indirectly from hunger and disease.
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