Saudi-backed militants fire shells at aid convoy in Yemen

A civilian was injured during the attack, which occurred in the Dahi district of Ta’izz on Monday, Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel reported.
 
The militants also blocked an aid convoy that was heading toward the Habil Salman district of the province.
 
The report also said that Saudi-backed snipers have recently targeted a number of Yemeni civilians in Ta’izz, including one in Dahi and another in Habil Salman on Sunday.
 
On Sunday, three civilians were killed in a Saudi airstrike on a residential area in the Saqayn district of Sa’ada Province, in northern Yemen. In another air raid on the Kataf district of Sa’ada, six women were killed.
 
Also on Sunday, Saudi warplanes bombarded a number of areas in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, including the al-Sabaha district.
 
The regime in Riyadh began the campaign against Yemen in late March 2015. The airstrikes are supposedly meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
 
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the strikes began. The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure.
 
Yemenis have, meanwhile, been carrying out retaliatory attacks against the Saudi forces deployed in the country as well as targets inside Saudi Arabia.