🔻 A large crowd gathered in Sanaa to mourn the victims of Saudi airstrikes

In Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, a large crowd gathered today to mourn dozens of people, including several children who died earlier this week in “Saudi airstrikes.”

According to a photographer from the French news agency who was on the scene, mourners gathered at Al-Shaab Mosque in Sanaa, recited prayers, and chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

The Houthis said that in the Saturday attack by Saudi Arabia on the village of “Al-Shari‘a” in the outskirts of the capital, 44 people were killed, including 21 children, and 40 others were injured.

According to the Houthis-linked al-Masirah television network, as rescue forces were moving toward the site of the incident to pull survivors out from under the rubble, another attack occurred.

These people are among the victims of a new round of fighting that began in the summer; fighting which, according to the United Nations, has so far resulted in the killing of more than 1,600 people and the displacement of more than 300,000 people in Yemen.