YEMEN Press Agency

Yemen’s FM condemns Sunday ‘s coalition air strikes on citizens in Hajjah

SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) – The Yemeni Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly condemned the Sunday’s airstrikes carried out by Saudi-led air forces on Hajjah province that killed nine residents and injured 16 others.

The ministry said in a statement that the war crime added to the previous crimes and violations committed by the aggression against the Yemeni people.

“While the Muslim of Arabic and Islamic nation were approaching Allah on Sunday morning of Eid al-Adha, by the coalition countries, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE approached to Allah in killing the Yemeni children and women on Eid al-Adhah in a flagrant violations for human and international law,” the ministry added.

It called on the UN to exert more pressures on the coalition to end the war and lift the siege imposed on the Yemeni people, holding the international community full responsible for the crimes.

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