Red Cross: Civilians in Yemen’s Aden struggle to survive fighting, shortages

A Saudi-led Arab coalition has been bombarding Houthis and allied military models since March 26 in a marketing campaign to revive Saleh’s successor as president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to energy.

The northern Houthi fighters, who have seized large parts of Yemen in recent months, advanced toward Aden in March, prompting Hadi, who had taken refuge there, to flee to Saudi Arabia.

The Houthis and their allies early on Wednesday pounded the city’s loyalist-held Mansoura district with 15 artillery rockets from their positions in the Dar Saad neighbourhood, loyalist forces spokesman Ali al-Ahmadi told the AFP news agency.

The rocket fire began before dawn when the streets were busy ahead of the daytime fast during the holy month of Ramadan, he told AFP.

The city’s health chief Al Khader Laswar said more than 100 people were wounded, and that three women and two children were among the dead.

ADEN: At least 22 people were killed on Thursday (Jul 2) in Yemen as fighting raged in the southern port of Aden and Saudi-led warplanes bombed Shiite rebels in the capital Sanaa, officials said. The Saudi-led coalition also struck Houthi forces and Saleh loyalists in Marib province, east of Sanaa, witnesses said.

The air war has come under mounting global criticism.

“These attacks appear to be serious laws of war violations that need to be properly investigated”.

On June 30, 1,200 prisoners, including suspected Al Qaida operatives, escaped during clashes at a prison in central Yemen, officials said.

A loyalist source accused the rebels of deliberately throwing open the gates in an apparent attempt to cover their withdrawal.

There have been repeated jailbreaks in Yemen since the Houthi launched an offensive last summer, overrunning the capital and then much of the rest of the country.

EPA Yemenis walk past graffiti showing a USA drone after al-Qaeda in Yemen confirmed the death of its leader in USA drone strike, in Sanaa.

Adding more fuel to the fire in Yemen has been a series of coordinated bombings claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), including a vehicle bomb attack in Sanaa on June 29 that killed at least 28 people.

The United Nations has called repeatedly for a humanitarian ceasefire to allow the delivery of desperately needed relief supplies.

United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said Wednesday during the second day of talks with Yemen’s government in exile in Riyadh that he was still hoped a truce can be agreed.