[[{"content_id":"323679","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"114","user_id":"30","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"30","content_title":"Two killed as Saudi-led coalition intensifies air raids against Yemen\u2019s Sana\u2019a Province","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2019-01-20 10:50:43","content_summary":"The Saudi Arabia-led coalition has carried out deadly air raids against 15 targets, including a food factory, in Yemen\u2019s west-central Sana\u2019a Province, prompting condemnations from officials in the capital.","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":"As Reported by Qods News Agency (Qodsna) At least two people lost their lives after the coalition struck a sponge factory in the province overnight on Sunday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television news reported. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television channel said the attack had targeted the province’s Jadar Village, and that five people had also been injured as a result.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAl-Masirah said the bombings that hit the capital city, Sana’a, destroyed a food production facility and plastic factory, damaging the houses surrounding the two.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“The aggression (the Saudi-led coalition) also launched four raids on September-21st Park” in the capital, the network also reported.\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA Yemeni boy walks in a cemetery in the country’s capital Sana'a on June 15, 2018. (Photo by AFP)\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAl-Mayadeen said the attack on the food factory had also “left a number of victims,” without giving an exact figure.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHouthis vow response\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nYemen’s Human Rights Ministry condemned the stepped-up attacks on the capital, saying the raids came at a time when the city was hosting many people, who have fled the Saudi-led attacks against other parts of the country.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIt called the strikes “an escalation” and a violation of international human rights law, calling on the United Nations to take a position and condemn the bombings.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nYemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the country against the Riyadh-led invaders, described the aerial attacks as a joint “US-Saudi” act of aggression.\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“The US has directed and prepared for these operations in Sana'a and other areas,” said Ali al-Quhoom, a member of Ansarullah’s Political Bureau.\r\n\r\n\r\n“We will escalate in response,” said the official, adding that the Yemeni nation and Houthi-led armed forces will continue to defend the country’s people, territory and identity in the face of the Saudi-led military campaign.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe coalition has killed tens of thousands in the Arab world’s poorest country, trying unsuccessfully to restore power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-allied government.\r\n\r\nThe\r\n\r\nUS has been lending generous arms and logistical support to the coalition, turning a deaf year to numerous calls by international rights groups for Washington to drop such support.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Saudi-led escalation could jeopardize ongoing United Nations peace efforts that brought the two sides together in Sweden for the first time late last year, where they agreed a truce in the lifeline port city of Hudaydah.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t ","content_html":"
As Reported by Qods News Agency (Qodsna) At least two people lost their lives after the coalition struck a sponge factory in the province overnight on Sunday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television news reported. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television channel said the attack had targeted the province’s Jadar Village, and that five people had also been injured as a result.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Al-Masirah said the bombings that hit the capital city, Sana’a, destroyed a food production facility and plastic factory, damaging the houses surrounding the two.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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“The aggression (the Saudi-led coalition) also launched four raids on September-21st Park” in the capital, the network also reported.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/p>\r\n\r\nA Yemeni boy walks in a cemetery in the country’s capital Sana'a on June 15, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Al-Mayadeen said the attack on the food factory had also “left a number of victims,” without giving an exact figure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Yemen’s Human Rights Ministry condemned the stepped-up attacks on the capital, saying the raids came at a time when the city was hosting many people, who have fled the Saudi-led attacks against other parts of the country.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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It called the strikes “an escalation” and a violation of international human rights law, calling on the United Nations to take a position and condemn the bombings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the country against the Riyadh-led invaders, described the aerial attacks as a joint “US-Saudi” act of aggression.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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“The US has directed and prepared for these operations in Sana'a and other areas,” said Ali al-Quhoom, a member of Ansarullah’s Political Bureau.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n
“We will escalate in response,” said the official, adding that the Yemeni nation and Houthi-led armed forces will continue to defend the country’s people, territory and identity in the face of the Saudi-led military campaign.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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The coalition has killed tens of thousands in the Arab world’s poorest country, trying unsuccessfully to restore power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-allied government.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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