“The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the appalling massacre committed by the Saudi aggression on a hospital and a public market in Yemen, which left hundreds of martyrs and wounded from the innocent Yemeni citizens,” an official source at The Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
At least 55 people have been killed after warplanes of the Saudi-led military coalition hit a hospital and a fishing harbor in Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah.
According to the source, this heinous crime reflects the despair and frustration of the Saudi aggression over its continued failure, considering that the aggression amounts to the level of war crimes that warrant accountability.
Syria urges the international community to promptly act to put an end to the barbaric Saudi aggression which is backed by Western states, chiefly the US, UK and France which are supplying Saudi Arabia with the most fatal of weapons, the source said, expressing fraternal solidarity with the people of Yemen.
The source concluded by affirming Syria’s confidence in the inevitability of the Saudi aggression’s failure in the face of the Yemeni people’s insistence to defend their homeland.
Yemen’s Health Ministry said the Thursday brutal strikes also left at least 130 wounded, some in critical condition.
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and the accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.
The Saudi-led aggression has also taken a heavy toll on the country's infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories. The United Nations has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.
Several Western countries, the United States and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical and intelligence assistance.
