At Least 7 Yemeni Civilians Martyred in Saudi Airstrike While Preparing for Quds Day Rally

By Staff, Agencies

At least seven civilians were martyred after warplanes of the Saudi-led military coalition launched an airstrike on a group of people preparing for an anti-‘Israel’ rally in Yemen’s northern province of Marib.

The aerial aggression was carried out against Sahari village in Majzar district, where at least three other civilians were also wounded on Friday, Yemen's official Saba news agency, citing an unnamed security source, reported.

The Saudi-led warplanes attacked the village while a group of people was preparing to hold a rally to commemorate the International Quds Day.

Every year, the occasion falls on the last Friday of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. It has been so named by the late founder of the Islamic Republic in Iran, Imam Khomeini, who has obliged Muslims around the world to rise in demonstration on the occasion in support of the Palestinian cause of liberation from ‘Israeli’ occupation and aggression.

The source strongly condemned the Saudi-led coalition for its deliberate targeting of civilians who came from various areas of the district to mark the Quds Day, stressing that such aggression confirms the Zionist nature of the Saudi regime.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its regional allies, launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of Yemen's former president back to power and in an attempt to crush the Ansarullah revolutionary movement.

The Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees have, however, gone from strength to strength against the Saudi-led invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

More than six years of the Saudi-led military aggression have left more than 200,000 Yemenis dead, and displaced millions of people.

It has also destroyed Yemen's infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases across the impoverished Arab country.