A bombing on the city of Hodeida, located on the Red Sea and controlled by the Hushists, destroyed a telecommunications center.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
The response of the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia after the deadly attack on the United Arab Emirates claimed by the Houthist rebels supported by Iran continues.
In the night, the coalition bombed the city of Hodeida, located on the Red Sea and controlled by the Houthists, destroying a telecommunications center and causing an internet breakdown throughout the country, announced the organization NetBlocks, a non-governmental organization (NGO) specializing in the surveillance of the Internet around the world. The Applied Internet Data Analysis Center and CloudFlare, respectively based in San Diego and San Francisco (California), also found a national breakdown affecting Yemen from the same time.
NetBlocks has reported a “collapse of Internet connections in the country” after bombing. AFP correspondents in Hodeida and Sanaa confirmed the failure.
⚠️ CONFIRMED: #YEMEN IS IN THE MIDST OF A NATION-SCALE INTERNET BLACKOUT FOLLOWING AIRSTRIKE ON TELECOM BUILDING IN … https://t.co/g2i4weqxqy
The Demanding Coalition, which fights the Hushist rebels, said it aimed at a “hub of piracy and organized crime” in this vital port city for the country at war. The Saudi State News Agency stated that the coalition had made “targeted air strikes to destroy the Action Capacities of the Hodeida Militia”.
Most of the humanitarian aid for Yemen passes through Hodeida, a vital stake in the war in Yemen. The Hushists reported victims in this striking, but their statement could not be confirmed immediately. A correspondent of the France-Presse agency in Hodeida described a large attack. It occurs after the Houthist rebels diverted a vessel flying the United Arab Emirates to the Red Sea: the coalition had, indeed warned that it would bomb in retaliation the ports held by the rebels.
Most of the humanitarian aid for Yemen passes through Hodeida, a vital stake in the war in Yemen.
Bombing of a prison in northern Yemen
An aerial strike for a prison in the city of Saada, fief of the Houthist rebels in northern Yemen, made several dead and wounded, also said the insurgents after this attack confirmed by the Red Cross. The Hushists announced the attack on their television channel, Al-Massirah, and broadcast images showing blown buildings with rescue teams removing rubble bodies, some mutilated.
“A detention center was targeted in Saada and a team of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in the field to determine the number of deaths and injuries,” said the agency France Presse (AFP) Bachir Omar, ICRC spokesman in Yemen.
“From what I’ve heard from colleagues in Saada, there are many bodies on the site of the strike, and many missing. It is impossible to know how many people were killed”, said in a statement Ahmed Mahat, the chief of the mission of doctors without borders in Yemen. The city’s hospital has so far received some 200 wounded and says no longer able to welcome it.
Monday, the rebels have claimed an attack on the drone and missile that has hit oil facilities and Abu Dhabi airport, capital of the United Arab Emirates, killing three people and by hurting six. The Emirates are members of the Coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
According to the United Nations, the conflict in Yemen made 377,000 deaths, direct and indirect victims of a war that has lasted for more than seven years.