Alwaght- Several civilians have been killed and wounded on Friday when Saudi warplanes bombed two markets and a main road in Yemen’s Saada province.
According to Yemen's Saba news agency, Saudi fighter jets Struck Sarbi and Mahather markets and bombed a main road in Farwh area, damaging civilians’ cars and shops.
The attacks comes two weeks after a UN panel presented a detailed report of civilian casualties caused by the Saudi military and its allies during their war against Yemen, saying the Riyadh-led coalition has used precision-guided munitions in its raids on civilian targets.
It has examined 10 airstrikes that killed 157 people last year. It specified the targets as a migrant boat, a night market, five residential buildings, a motel, a vehicle, and government forces.
“Even if in some cases, the Saudi-led coalition had targeted legitimate military objectives, the panel finds it highly unlikely that the IHL (International Humanitarian Law) principles of proportionality, and precautions in attack were met,” the report stated.
Further, the UN panel directed strong criticism at the coalition’s other abuses inside Yemen. Those include the violations being committed inside the coalition’s incarceration camps, most notably the ones run by the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh’s most important coalition partner, on the Yemeni soil.
UN chief Antonio Guterres has called the war a “stupid one,” calling on the United States, which is a strong Saudi ally and has been backing the invasion through arms sales and logistical support, to pressure Riyadh into ending the attacks.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 14,000 Yemenis, mostly women, children and the elderly, have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war. The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic and famine across Yemen.
