At least 31 people died and more than a hundred were injured in the air attacks launched on Saturday night and early this Sunday by the United States against the Shiite Shiit rebels of Yemen in several cities of that Arab country, according to the Ministry of Health of the Insurgents.
The spokesman for the aforementioned department, Anees to Asbahi, told Efe that it is a “preliminary” count of the victims, and said that most are children and women.
“According to initial statistics, these massacres left 31 martyrs (dead), while 131 were injured, all civilians and most of them children and women,” the Asbahi assured.
He warned that the death toll can increase due to the serious state of several injured, since “the deespomb operations and search for victims still continue.”
He pointed out that the attacks had as “residential areas” in Saná, the capital, and other cities of the center and northern Yemen, including Sadá, near the border with Saudi Arabia and hometown of the maximum leader of the insurgent Yemenis, Abdelmalek al Hutí.
Television to Masira, spokesman for the insurgents, indicated that only attacks against the Qahza district, in northern Sadá, have caused the death of at least ten people, including four children and one woman, and other thirteen were injured.
The attacks against the hutis, backed by Iran, were ordered by the US president, Donald Trump, who announced this Saturday a “decisive and forceful” action against the Yemeni rebels to end their military actions and their threat against international navigation.
The insurgents warned, on the other hand, that “the” American “massacres will not remain unanswered”, and “they will not deter Yemen of continuing to support Palestine and fulfill their obligation to support Gaza”, according to a statement from his superior political council.
The US military operations in the Yemen occur a few days after the Hutíes ensure that they would resume their attacks against Israeli ships or linked to the Jewish state if Israel does not raise the siege to Gaza.
The insurgent movement backed by Iran has launched hundreds of attacks against Israel, as well as against commercial navigation in the Red and Arabic seas, from the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 in response to the slaughter of Palestinians by the Jewish state.
