Saudi-led raids kill 20 civilians in Yemen rebel port
Also on Wednesday, a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle hit the Wadi Abida district of Ma’rib Province.
The raid hit a house in a neighbourhood populated by workers, according to medical services and local officials.
Children were among the fatalities photographed at a city mortuary.
Last month, the United States military said it had slashed the number of intelligence advisers directly supporting the Saudi-led coalition’s air war in support of Hadi’s government.
Yemen descended into chaos after the 2012 removal of longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose forces are fighting alongside the Houthi fighters.
Right after they interfered on the Yemen territory in March 2015, the Saudi coalition has been accused numerous times by the humanitarian organizations of making the wrong choices. Houthi forces then advanced from Sanaa towards the south, seizing large parts of Yemen, and sending Hadi into exile.
More than 6,600 people have been killed since the coalition launched its intervention in March previous year, the majority of them civilians, according to the United Nations.
The death toll from an Arab coalition air strike which hit a house in a residential area in western Yemen has risen to 26 people, medics and residents in the Houthi-held area said on Thursday, and the alliance said it was looking into the report.
“In many cases you had several bodies stuffed on one shelf, in one morgue unit, so the situation was not sustainable, the hospitals asked for our support, and we made a decision to donate morgues, which is something that we rarely do”, Rima Kamal, a Yemen-based spokeswoman for the Red Cross said.
While the Saudi coalition was attacking Souq Hounod, another Arab air raid destroyed a presidential residence in Hodeida.