Marketplace in Yemen Hit by Airstrike, 45 Killed

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information otherwise, say more than 50 civilians were also wounded in the strike Monday in Fayoush, a suburb of the southern port city of Aden.

Houthi rebels took over Sana, the capital, in September, and the stated goal of the Saudi coalition’s airstrikes has been to restore to power exiled President Abdu Rabu Mansour.

According to reports, 54 people were killed in a series of raids on Amran province while forty others were killed in a raid on the town of al-Foyoush in southern Yemen.

A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for comment.

Fighting has intensified in Aden since late March, when rebel forces advanced on the city.

Badi said a sought-after “humanitarian pause” would last through the end of the three-day Eid, due to start on July 17.

Both the Houthis and the Yemeni government-in-exile have signalled a readiness to observe such a truce.

Ould Cheikh Ahmed was due to travel to Sanaa on Sunday for talks with the Houthis, after discussions in Muscat, Oman.

The assault on the workplaces of the General People’s Congress triggered “some deaths” amongst staff and guards of the constructing in the south of the capital, party official Faeqa al-Sayed stated.

Aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Monday medical facilities had received hundreds of people wounded in airstrikes and ground shelling across Yemen in recent days.

In Amran, 40 people, mostly buyers and sellers that included women and children, lost their lives in the bombings, said Saba.

Even the most scandalous aspect of the Saudi war, the naval blockade of a nation that imports 90% of its food, has been a site of U.S. involvement, as at times the U.S. Navy has contributed warships to stop and search aid ships trying to deliver basic goods to Yemen.