Saudi-led airstrikes killed 20 civilians in the rebel-held Yemeni port city of Hodeida late on Wednesday, just hours after the rebels celebrated the second anniversary of their seizure of the capital, a Yemeni government official said.
The raids hit the Suq al-Hunod district of the Red Sea port, said the official in the government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which is supported by the Saudi-led coalition.
The strikes were also reported by the rebel administration in the capital, Sana’a, which reported civilian casualties without giving a specific toll.
The official said the residential neighborhood was “probably hit in error.”
He said the presidential palace in Hodeida was also hit.
Khaled Suhail, a physician at Hodeida’s al-Thawra hospital, said that his facility alone received 12 dead and 30 wounded from the strikes.
The Saudi-led coalition has been repeatedly criticized for the high civilian death toll from its 18-month-old bombing campaign in support of Hadi’s administration.
More than 6,600 people have been killed since the intervention began, the majority of them civilians, according to the UN.
The intervention has pushed the rebels out of much of the south, but they remain in control of nearly all of Yemen’s Red Sea coast as well as the capital and much of the central and northern highlands.
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