Undated picture shows an American warplane taking off from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier during the United States escalation against Yemen.
The United States has launched 22 fresh deadly airstrikes across several provinces around Yemen shortly after subjecting the country to dozens of similar aerial attacks.
Yemeni sources reported the new assaults on Wednesday, saying they targeted the capital Sana’a and the central province of Ibb among other places.
In the capital, eight new airstrikes were reported, though no immediate casualties have been confirmed yet. The strikes are believed to have hit critical infrastructure, further disrupting civilian life in the city.
In Ibb, three airstrikes reportedly targeted the communications network in what appeared to be an effort to dismantle civilian sites and sever lines of internal coordination.
Tragedy in al-Hudaydah; children among fatalities
The most devastating toll, however, was reported in the western province of al-Hudaydah, where six civilians, including two children and a woman, were confirmed dead. At least 16 others were also injured, many of them critically.
Rescue teams are, meanwhile, still working to remove the rubble and search for survivors in the aftermath of the bombardments.
Human rights groups say the targeting of al-Hudaydah, a densely-populated city that also serves as Yemen’s main port and humanitarian lifeline, has raised serious concerns over the continued erosion of civilian safety and the flow of essential aid into the country.
The attacks took the overall instances of American aerial aggression towards the already impoverished country to some 50 within the past 24 hours.
Despite the United States own refusal to pinpoint the principal purpose of the escalation against Yemen that began last month, the aggression is widely viewed as a continuation of Washington’s broader regional policy in support of the Israeli regime and its brutal war of genocide on the besieged Gaza Strip.
In solidarity with Gaza, Yemen’s Armed Forces have been striking Israeli and Israeli-linked targets and American military assets in the Red Sea and beyond on numerous occasions.
Yemeni officials have described the operations as a legitimate response to the genocide, the US’s support for it, and the American assaults on Yemen itself.
Despite its vast firepower, the Pentagon has failed to prevent Yemeni missile and drone operations.
On Sunday, CNN described the American campaign of aggression as an astronomically-expensive push that had fallen far short of deterring Yemen, which had even threatened to extend the scope of its retaliatory strikes.
