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Airstrikes against the Houthi Ansar Allah movement in Yemen by
the Saudi-led coalition, originally made up of UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait
and Qatar and later joined by Gulf Countries, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco
and Sudan, is continuing at full-speed. In addition to this constant

pounding by the coalition, bloody clashes between the armed groups
in the country are also underway. Forces of the ousted President Ali
Abdullah Saleh and Houthis fight the militia of the South Yemen Peo-
ple's Committee and the forces supporting the President Hadi.

The inevitable outcome of airstrikes: Civilian casualties

According to Jens Laerke, the spokesperson for the United
Nations' Humanitarian Office, many civilians lost their lives in the
airstrikes that affected 18 of 22 Yemen's governorates, with the most
casualties in Aden, South Yemen.
Joel Millman, the spokesperson of the International Organization
for Migration (IOM), said that at least 40 people lost their lives as a

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