{"id":18348,"date":"2018-10-13T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18348"},"modified":"2018-10-13T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:25:18","slug":"saudi-uae-coalition-air-raid-kills-civilians-in-yemens-hodeidah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18348","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-UAE coalition air raid kills civilians in Yemen&#8217;s Hodeidah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"89.6337365591\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An air raid by the Saudi-UAE coalition targeting Houthi fighters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/yemen.html\">Yemen<\/a> has killed at least 17 people in the province of Hodeidah, according to rebel officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Youssef al-Hadari, spokesman for the Houthi-run Health Ministry, said the raid on Saturday targeted the Jabal Rass area. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>At least 20 people were wounded, he told The Associated Press. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Medical sources told Reuters that 10 civilians were among those killed when the air raid hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/houthis.html\">Houthi<\/a> checkpoint as a bus was passing through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eight members of the same family were among the victims, they said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Saudi-UAE coalition could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition intervened in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/06\/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html\">Yemen&#8217;s war<\/a> in 2015 to restore the country&#8217;s internationally recognised government to power.<\/p>\n<p>Hodeidah, with its key port installations that bring in humanitarian aid, has become the centre of Yemen&#8217;s conflict, with ground troops allied to the coalition struggling to drive out the rebels who control it.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition has conducted thousands of air raids targeting the Iran-aligned Houthis, and has often hit civilians, but denies doing so intentionally.<\/p>\n<p>The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than two million and driven the country &#8211; which was already the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula &#8211; to the verge of widespread famine.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a> said the conflict in Yemen has produced the world&#8217;s worst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/categories\/humanitarian-crises.html\">humanitarian crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/9\/19\/db14c97e6b71479ab936b417801688a7_6.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/9\/19\/db14c97e6b71479ab936b417801688a7_6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An air raid by the Saudi-UAE coalition targeting Houthi fighters in Yemen has killed at least 17 people in the province of Hodeidah, according to rebel officials. Youssef al-Hadari, spokesman for the Houthi-run Health Ministry, said the raid on Saturday targeted the Jabal Rass area. 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