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Saudi-led coalition air strikes targeted a key Red Sea port and an oil facility in Yemen’s Hodeidah province, wounding seven people, the Iran-backed Houthi group said on Monday.
Four civilians were wounded in strikes on Ras Issa port, while three others were injured in an attack on an oil facility in Bajil district, Houthi health ministry spokesman Anees Alasbahi said in a post on X.
“These repeated attacks on oil facilities and vital ports constitute a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and add to the series of war crimes in Yemen that target civilians and critical infrastructure,” he said.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV earlier reported that Saudi Arabia had attacked a pier and a commercial ship at Ras Issa port.
Hodeidah is the largest seaport under Houthi control and a key entry point for food supplies and humanitarian aid to areas held by the group. Ras Issa, located north of Hodeidah city, is also used to import and store oil.
Houthi media also reported air strikes on Sunday targeting the faculty of medicine at Hodeidah University in the same province. Two residents told AFP they heard an explosion in the area.
The Saudi-led coalition said it had carried out “a precision operation to neutralise vital resources” used by the Houthis.
The Houthis have been fighting a Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognised government in a conflict that has devastated one of the world’s poorest countries.
A fragile truce in Yemen’s civil war, reached in 2022, collapsed in July after the Houthis allowed an Iranian plane to land in the capital, Sanaa, in defiance of Saudi control over Yemeni airspace, triggering a fresh wave of attacks.
The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and over 300,000 displaced since the fighting reignited.
