Alwaght- Saudi Arabia has several times violated human rights by deliberately bombing civilian targets and killing children during its one-and-half-a-year aggression on Yemen.
A confidential report by a panel of UN experts, obtained by AFP, said on Thursday that an airstrike by Saudi fighter jets on a village house in southern Lahj Province on May 25 was a breach of international humanitarian law.
At least six civilians, including four children, were killed in the air raid, according to the report.
“It is almost certain that the civilian house was the deliberate target of the high explosive aircraft bombs,” said the report presented to the UN Security Council.
The report stresses that Saudi Arabia and its allies failed to take precautions and “thus violated” international humanitarian law while conducting aerial raids across the impoverished Arab country.
This comes as experts are still conducting detailed investigations into three more Saudi air strikes against civilian targets across various parts of Yemen.
The Saudi regime has long remained defiant against calls by the UN and prominent rights bodies to stop its human rights abuses against Yemenis.
On Thursday, Mansour bin Ahmed Mansour, spokesman of the Joint Group to Assess Incidents on the Saudi-Yemeni Border, largely defended a series of deadly airstrikes on markets, clinics and a wedding in Yemen, citing the presence of armed force at the sites.
This is while rights groups and witnesses say Saudi strikes from Yemen's mountainous north to coastal south had together killed hundreds of civilians in the second half of 2015.
In a single incident on September 28 last year, at least 131 civilians were killed and many more sustained injuries in a Saudi air raid against a wedding party in the Mokha port city, situated 346 kilometers (214 miles) south of Sana’a.
Elsewhere in the UN report, the experts accused Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and its allies of concealing their equipment near a civilian area in Ta’izz Province in one instance, saying such moves endanger the civilian population.
Meanwhile, the report indicates that the al-Qaeda franchise in Yemen has upgraded its bomb-making capabilities and could wage a “sustained IED (improvised explosive device) campaign” of attacks.
The Takfiri terrorist group used the refined bomb technique for the first time during an attack in Aden on May 1.
The al-Qaeda and ISIS terror groups have taken advantage of the chaos in Yemen to boost their presence there. Critics say the ongoing Saudi military campaign against Yemen has strengthened the terrorists active there.
About 10,000 people have been killed since the Saudi aggression began in late March 2015. Yemenis say most of the victims in the Saudi airstrikes are civilians. The attacks by Riyadh are meant to reinstate the former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
