Artillery attack on Yemen village kills at least 10 during Ramadan

At least 10 people killed, including six children, and more than 30 wounded in artillery attack on civilian gathering during Ramadan.

On a Sunday evening in Ramadan, as families in a northern Yemeni village broke their fast together, artillery fire tore through the gathering, killing at least ten people — six of them children — and wounding more than thirty others. The attack in Hajjah province, blamed by Yemen's exiled government on Iran-backed Houthi rebels, is one more wound in a war now more than a decade old, a conflict that has hollowed out an economy, starved a population, and repeatedly shown that no hour — not even the sacred hour of iftar — is beyond the reach of violence. The Houthis offered no response, and in th

Artillery attack on Yemen village kills at least 10 during Ramadan

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