As the three-month, UN-backed peace negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Yemen crumbled over the weekend in Kuwait, the former resumed attacks on the later. Saudi-led air strikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, began on Sunday and continued on Tuesday.
At least 14 people have been killed in Sanaa as a result of the bombardment. The civilians were working overnight shifts at a potato chip factory in the Nahda district were killed, according to medics.
The Saudi government is supporting Yemeni forces trying to rid the city of Iran-allied Houthi rebels.
The coalition also turned away flights into the Sanaa International Airport for 72 hours from Monday night, according to sources at the airport and an aid agency.
The United Nations has called the scale of suffering in the war-torn country “staggering”. Since the escalation of the conflict nearly two years ago, more than 6,500 civilians have been killed and 32,000 injured, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
During that time three million have fled their homes. Eighty percent of the country, or 21 million people, are now in need of humanitarian aid.
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