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Saudi Warplanes Kill Yemeni Children, Women in Latest Atrocity

Friday 25 August 2017
Saudi Warplanes Kill Yemeni Children, Women in Latest Atrocity

Aftermath of a Saudi-led air raid in Yemeni capital Sanaa

Saudi-led warplanes committed early on Friday yet another atrocity against Yemen civilians in fresh strikes on residential buildings in the capital Sanaa.

  Alwaght- Saudi-led warplanes committed early on Friday yet another atrocity against Yemeni civilians in fresh strikes on residential buildings in the Faj Attan neighborhood of the capital Sanaa.

At least 14 people were killed, including children and  women, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported.

The victims include two women and six children, adding that the strike targeted two residences, according to al-Massirah.

Mohammed Ahmad, who lived in one of the buildings, said he was among residents who had taken nine bodies to a hospital.

"We extracted them one by one from under the rubble," he said. "Some of them were children from a single family."

Liz Throssell, a spokeswoman for the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told all parties in the Yemen conflict to "ensure full respect for international humanitarian law" after the air raids on Friday.

"Eight of the victims were members of the same family, including five children between three and 10 years old," said Carlos Morazzani, the deputy head of ICRC's delegation in Yemen, after visiting the site of the attack.

"Such loss of civilian life is outrageous and runs counter to the basic tenets of the law of armed conflict."

Speaking in Geneva, Throssell called on authorities to start "comprehensive and impartial investigations" into Friday's bloodshed.

Earlier this week, this week, coalition fighter jets attacked a hotel in Arhab, north of Sanaa, killing at least 41 people.

The Saudi-led coalition started a bloody aggression on Yemen in March 2015 to oust the popular Ansarullah movement and restore to power fugitive Abdul Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who resigned as president and fled to Riyadh. The Saudis have failed to achieve their stated objective and are now stuck in the Yemen quagmire while indiscriminately bombarding the impoverished stated on an almost daily basis.

The Saudi war on Yemen, one of the world's most impoverished countries, has killed over 13,000 people and left tens of thousands wounded while displacing millions.

The country is also facing a health crisis, with close to 2,000 people having died from cholera since April, more than half a million people infected, and another 600,000 expected to contract the infection this year.

 

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