At least 10 children were killed and 21 injured in northern Yemen on Saturday, aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said, as the country’s parliament convened for the first time in nearly two years.
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However, Saudi-led military coalition has failed to force bring back exiled President Hadi and his government to the office in Sanaa. In Saudi Arabia, five foreign residents were wounded in suspected Houthi shelling from Yemen in the Jazan border region, the civil defence agency said.
On Tuesday, the United Nations’s children fund, UNICEF, said the Saudi invasion had killed 1,121 children and wounded 1,650 others.
Huthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam said warplanes “targeted” children at the Jomaa bin Fadhel school, in what he described as a “heinous crime”.
Press TV has interviewed Hafsa Kara-Mustapha, a journalist and Middle East analyst, and Richard Millett, a journalist and political commentator, both from London, to discuss a United Nations report about the increase of civilian deaths in Yemen due to the Saudi invasion.
Since March 2015, the coalition has battled Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and allied forces who occupy the capital.
The air raids in Saada were part of renewed strikes against the rebels after peace talks came to an end earlier this month.
The fighting has also driven 2.8 million people from their homes and left more than 80 percent of the population needing humanitarian aid.
“UNICEF calls on all parties to the conflict in Yemen to respect and abide by their obligations under global law”.
Al-Qaida seized both Zinjibar and Jaar a year ago, exploiting the chaos of Yemen’s civil war, which pits an array of pro-government forces against Shiite Houthi rebels.
Saudi Arabia allegedly threatened to withhold funding for refugees and the Mr Ban grudgingly gave in to their demands.
In January, the then UK Prime Minister David Cameron was urged to immediately suspend all arms sales to Saudi Arabia amid growing fears that British-made weapons may have been used to bomb hospitals, schools, markets and other civilian targets in Yemen.
It found the coalition guilty of “mistakenly” hitting a residential compound after receiving “imprecise” intelligence information and offered compensation to families of the victims.
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Human rights groups have accused the Saudi-led coalition of indiscriminately bombing civilians and systematically committing human rights violations, which Riyadh has denied.
