Saudi-led strikes on Yemen hit party HQ of Houthi ally Saleh

The Houthi-run agency said 42 people in all had died in Saudi-led strikes across the country Monday.

The United Nations special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived on Sunday in Sana’a in a visit lasting for several days. Smaller groups of casualties were reported in separate attacks.

They also attacked the rebel-held Al Anad air base, Yemen’s largest.

According to official report, as many as 50 civilians were wounded in airstrikes, when coalition thunder crafts targeted rebels in Fayoush, a town of southern port of Aden.

Since end-March, coalition aircraft led by Saudi Arabia, have been bombing Houthi positions across Yemen, to check their advance and restore the legitimate government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The Saudi-led coalition started a marketing campaign of air strikes towards the Huthis and their allies in March after the insurgents seized Sanaa after which superior south, forcing the federal government to flee to Riyadh.

Thirty more people were killed in a raid on Houthi rebels’ checkpoint on the main road between Aden and Lahj. Several aid groups are being alerted to be prepared for a possible humanitarian pause in the fighting, that would allow them to deliver help to some of the 21 million people in need.

The United Nations last week designated the war in Yemen as a Level 3 humanitarian crisis, its most severe category, and the US and the European Union have endorsed calls for a humanitarian suspension of hostilities. This not only violated the laws-of-war prohibition against placing civilians at particular risk by treating a number of separate and distinct military objectives as a single military target, but possibly also the prohibition against making threats of violence whose goal is to instill terror in the civilian population.

“It’s more than one million people displaced, 3,000 killed, shortage of fuel, basic public services – health, water, sanitation – that are collapsing, one city after another that are collapsing”, he said.