journalist killed in air strike
Leading Yemeni journalist who worked for international media killed in air strike
Almigdad Mojali, who had also worked for the Telegraph, was one of only a handful of Yemeni journalists working with international news organisations
A leading Yemeni journalist was killed by an air strike on Sunday as he left a village where up to 21 civilians had been killed days earlier.
Almigdad Mojali was one of a handful of Yemenijournalists working with international news organisations, including the Telegraph, to report on the country’s ten month war.
Friends said his car was struck by an air strike as it travelled to from Jarif, an eastern village where bombing raids killed 21 civilians days earlier. It is understood that he was travelling with a photographer.
Mojali’s work for The Telegraph focused on the cost of war, documenting Saudi-led air strikes and Houthi ground attacks, as well as thenumber of child soldiers who had been sucked into the conflict’s vortex. More than 5,600 people are reported to have been killed in Yemen’s conflict to date, and over 26,000 more have been injured.
Men walk on rubble at the Chamber of Trade and Industry headquarters, after it was hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Sanaa
Mr Mojalli was married with a young son. A friend and journalist colleague, Rawan Shaif, said Mr Mojalli's brother had asked him to investigate the circumstances of his death.
"His family asked that I go photograph and write about what happened," she said. "But I'm not even sure of what's happening - it's all a giant blur."
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Sunni Arab states are trying to halt the progress of Iran-backed militia, known as the Houthis, who seized control of the capital in January, sending the elected president into exile.
The military operation is meant to be targeting Houthi fighting positions. But air strikes have hit schools, wedding parties, mosques and hospitals. In some cases, British-funded aid projects have also been destroyed.
Houthis gather for the celebration of Moulid Al-Nabi, the birth of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa last month
In a briefing with the Telegraph last week, the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, confirmed that British military advisers are in control rooms assisting the Saudi-led coalition with its targeting.
As Yemen’s humanitarian crisis burgeons, Doctors Without Borders said on Sunday that it had delivered medical supplies to areas in the south-western city of Taiz. The area has been blockaded by the Houthis for months, forcing doctors to choose which patients lived and died as medical supplies ran dangerously low.
Doctors Without Borders said two trucks "full of essential medical supplies" entered the south-western city in the first such operation in five months.
The Houthis and the Saudi-led military coalition have both been accused
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