HODEIDA, YEMEN—Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition fired more than two dozen missiles into this rebel-held Yemeni port city Thursday, hitting the fish market, the entrance to the main hospital and a security compound in an attack that killed at least 30 people, medical workers said. "The number of people killed in the two attacks has reached 20," a doctor in the Red Sea city told AFP news agency, with other medical sources putting the number of wounded admitted to hospital at 60. Saudi Arabia and some 20 of its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan, launched a brutal war, code-named Operation Decisive Storm, against Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the popular Ansarullah movement. Hours after the missile strikes, the United Nations special representative for Yemen briefed the U.N.’s Security Council in New York about a possible renewal of peace talks in the country, which the U.N. has declared the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
Alleged Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on a fish market and hospital entrance kill at least 20 people in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. A Saudi spokesman denies that its jets were in the area at the time, and blames rebels instead.