The air raids got here in a single day after at the least 26 individuals had been killed and dozens wounded in an assault on Aden airport.
The Saudi-UAE coalition preventing Houthi rebels in Yemen has reportedly carried out air raids in components of the capital, Sanaa, hours after explosions struck the primary airport within the southern metropolis of Aden killing at the least 26 individuals.
The coalition launched the air assaults in a single day on Sanaa Worldwide Airport, and two Houthi websites in Rima Hamid in Sanhan district and Wadi Rjam in Bani Cannabis district located in southern Sanaa, in line with Houthi-run Al Masirah TV.
No casualties have been reported to this point.
“There are greater than eight raids which have been carried out,” Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Al Attab, reporting from Sanaa, confirmed.
António Guterres, the UN chief, condemned the “deplorable” lethal assault on Aden airport, which got here moments after a airplane carrying members of a newly shaped Saudi-backed unity cupboard landed.
Hours after the assault, a second explosion was heard round Aden’s Maasheq presidential palace the place the cupboard members together with Yemen’s Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik, in addition to the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed Stated al-Jaber, had been taken to security, residents and native media stated.
Two Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross employees members had been additionally killed within the assault and one was lacking, ICRC stated in an announcement.
Prime Minister Abdulmalik stated all members of the cupboard had been “superb”. He dubbed the assaults as “treacherous” and “cowardly”.
No group claimed duty for the lethal assault.
The Houthis, who’re aligned with Iran, denied they had been behind the assault.
The Saudi-led coalition later stated it had downed an explosive-laden Houthi drone that was focusing on the presidential palace.
The brand new unity cupboard pushed by Riyadh was aimed toward uniting the internationally-backed authorities of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi with southern separatists (Southern Transitional Council or STC), who’re backed by the UAE.
The 2 teams are the primary Yemeni factions in a southern-based, Saudi-backed alliance preventing the Houthis who management the north, together with the capital, Sanaa.
The southern port metropolis of Aden has been mired in violence due to a rift between the UAE-backed separatists and Hadi’s authorities.
The STC, which seeks independence for south Yemen, declared self-rule in Aden in April, triggering clashes and complicating United Nations efforts to forge a everlasting ceasefire within the general battle.
The Saudi-led coalition introduced the brand new power-sharing cupboard this month after greater than a yr of intense Saudi mediation between the federal government and the separatists.