The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemned the attacks on the city of Hodeidah, which resulted in the death and wounding of dozens of civilians.

The Red Cross on Friday said 55 civilians were killed and 170 others wounded “when a series of explosions rocked densely populated districts of the coastal city, including a fish market and the area around Al Thawra Hospital”.

The statement added that “Al-Thawra hospital Yemen’s largest is supported by the ICRC, which also said that two ambulances were destroyed in Thursday’s attacks.”

“The scenes coming from Hodeidah are horrific. The disregard of international humanitarian law in Yemen cannot be tolerated,”Johannes Bruwer, head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen, said in a statement on Friday.

“While the exact circumstances around the ground explosions are still unknown, this lack of respect for civilian life and civilian property is reprehensible,” said Bruwer.

Lise Grande, UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, earlier said hundreds of thousands of people depend on Al-Thawra.

“This is shocking,” she said of the attacks.

“Hospitals are protected under international humanitarian law. Nothing can justify this loss of life,” she added.

The US-Saudi aerial aggression carried out two horrific crimes Thursday targeting Al-Thawra Hospital and the fishing port of Hodeidah, resulting in more than 229 martyrs and wounded.