“Damning evidence of war crimes by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, which is armed by states including the US, highlights the urgent need for independent, effective investigation of violations in Yemen and for the suspension of transfers of certain arms”, the Amnesty worldwide said.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman slammed a Saudi-led aerial attack on a wedding ceremony in Yemen’s Dhamar province that killed dozens of civilians on Wednesday.
It was the first time that the jihadist group had claimed attacks on government and coalition targets.
Residents in the town of Sanban said the three brothers had been waiting for their brides’ party to arrive when the missile hit their house.
The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah television said on Twitter that the wedding was hit by “aggression warplanes”, referring to the coalition assembled by Saudi Arabia.
At least 13 people were killed and 38 others wounded in the bombing of a wedding in a rebel-held Yemeni town, a medical source said Thursday. The union last week denied that its airstrikes hit a wedding party on 28th of September, killing more than 128 people in the deadliest single event of Yemen’s civil war. Meanwhile, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric says the rebels accepted an April 14 Security Council resolution calling for the withdrawal of rebel forces from all areas they have seized and a halt to undermining the country’s political transition.
“This is an important step”, he said.
Washington and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat-Yemen’s Houthis and the party of the ex-president have agreed to stop fighting, the United Nations said on Wednesday, more than six months after a Saudi-led coalition intervened to restore President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power.
Coalition forces said they have no ongoing operations in the southwestern Yemeni province where Wednesday’s bombing happened. “There must be an announcement of willingness to implement all articles of the (UN) resolution without any changes”.
He accused the Houthis of employing a “new media strategy” after losing territory to pro-government militiamen and coalition troops, who have been advancing towards Sanaa since regaining control of the southern port city of Aden in July.
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The Houthis – northern rebels that were Shia Muslim – backed by forces loyal to the past President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, pressured the government into exile.
