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TEHRAN, December 18 - Iran has strongly condemned recent attacks by Saudi aircraft on civilian targets in various Yemeni cities as well as the kingdom’s Saturday bombing of a wedding ceremony in northern Ma’rib province.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - “The intensified bombardment of residential areas, the continued blockade and closure of maritime, ground, and air entry points, and the denial of access to humanitarian aid and basic needs by Saudi rulers indicate their desperation, defeat and countless failures in achieving their goals through aggression on Yemen,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said late Sunday.
An airstrike by Saudi Arabia struck a wedding procession east of Yemen’s capital Saturday night, killing at least a dozen women.
Witnesses and health officials said the airstrike targeted the women as they marched in the Harib al-Qaramesh region in Ma’rib province, where it’s a tradition for the bride’s female friends and relatives to escort her to the wedding ceremony where the groom awaits.
Separately, at least three civilians lost their lives when Saudi aircraft carried out an assault in Mawza district in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz on Sunday evening.
Qassemi criticized the international community's silence on the “Saudi war crimes which are committed with American weapons”.
He said attacks on residential areas and civilian targets, and Saudi Arabia’s denial of access to international relief agencies is a flagrant violation of indisputable principles of humanitarian law.
The spokesman said those providing arms support to the aggressors are complicit in daily atrocities committed by the Saudis in Yemen.
He called on the United Nations and the effective countries in the Yemen crisis to increase their efforts to immediately stop the attacks and take necessary measures to protect the safety and security of civilians, especially women and children.
Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has been pounding Yemen where more than 12,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
The UN has listed Yemen as the world’s No. 1 humanitarian crisis, with 7 million people on the brink of famine, where more than 2,000 people have also died of cholera this year.
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