Yemen: Houthis commit new massacre in the five-year-besieged city of Taiz

At least two kids were killed and another dozen wounded in a new massacre committed today by Houthi insurgents, Iran’s proxy in Yemen, against the five-year-besieged city of Taiz.

The militia targeted Osaifra neighborhood, north of the city, with mortar shells, killing a seven-month infant and another child,9, witnesses told Republican Yemen.

 Medical sources in Al Thowra Hospital and Al Safwa Hospital said the two hospitals received 9 wounded civilians, 4 of whom in a critical situation.

In the eastern part of the city, the militia also blew up today two homes owned by two residents named Mohand Al-Azani and Ameen Al-Sharabi, local sources said

The Houthi group has lately intensified its attacks against civilians in Taiz and Hodeida provinces.

Yesterday, at least seven civilians were killed and ten others wounded in indiscriminate shelling launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia on populated areas in Al Durayhimi district, south the port city of Hodeidah.