Air raids on Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Wednesday killed more than 30 13 people found to be wounded, including civilians, local and international aid organizations said. According to media reports, the air raid was launched targeting Lukanda inside dozens of citizens in the village of Beit al-Azhari in Arhab.
Witnesses told that multiple air strikes had hit the capital on Wednesday, including at a housing unit for workers from a nearby qat farm. There were reports that members of the Huthi rebel group had been staying in the area. Hussein al-Tawil, head of the Sanaa branch of Yemen’s Red Crescent, said at least 35 people were killed in raids on Sanaa as rescuers continued to pull bodies from the rubble.
The war between the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-backed Huth rebels has killed more than 8,300 Yemenis since 2015 and pushed the country to the brink of famine.
While the rebel alliance, which includes former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, controls the capital, the pro-government Arab coalition controls Yemen’s airspace.
Northern Yemen has come under aerial attack in recent months. On 24 June civilians were killed when an air strike hit a market in northern Yemen that was a center for trafficking in qat, a leafy stimulant plant that is widely used in Yemen but banned by neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Local sources, including hospital officials, blamed the June strike on the Saudi-led Arab coalition. The coalition has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
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