Houthi group said today, Saturday, that dozens of civilians were killed and wounded in raids of the Saudi-Emirati coalition in Al-Jawf governorate, eastern Yemen, accusing the coalition of deliberately obstructing rescue operations, after the group shot down a coalition plane.
The Houthi channel, Al-Masirah, said that coalition aircraft targeted citizens as they gathered near the wreckage of the plane, which the Houthis announced yesterday to shoot down in the Al-Masloub district, Al-Jawf, near the Saudi border.
The German news agency quoted the Houthis as saying that the number of dead and wounded people was at least 30.
"Most of the dead and wounded are women and children," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Houthi government, Yusuf al-Hadhri, accusing the coalition of obstructing rescue and first aid operations by carrying out air strikes with the continued flight of planes.
For his part, Houthi spokesman Mohamed Abdel Salam said in a tweet on Twitter that "as usual, when the Saudi-American aggression fails, and he receives painful strikes in the fields of military confrontation, he aggressively and foolishly begins to target civilians."
The group announced yesterday the shooting down of a fighter plane belonging to the Saudi-Emirati Tornado coalition with a sophisticated air-to-surface missile, while the aircraft was carrying out "hostile actions".
A spokesman for the Saudi-Emirati coalition confirmed today that a coalition plane had crashed in Al-Jawf Governorate.