At least ten children were killed in an airstrike on a school in Yemen’s stronghold of the Houthi group on Saturday, aid group Doctors Without Borders said.
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Saudi-led coalition air strikes on a Yemen hospital killed six people on Monday, health sources said, less than two days after similar raids killed 10 children and sparked worldwide concern.
“All were under 15 years old”, the medical aid group said on its official Twitter account.
The incident occurred even as the Yemeni parliament convened on Saturday, for the first time in over two years, in what is considered an act of defiance against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the internationally recognised government, backed by Saudi Arabia.
The coalition denied targeting a school, instead saying it bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels train underage soldiers.
On Monday it promised to probe another attack that MSF said killed 10 children this weekend at a school in the rebel-held northern province of Saada.
But the kingdom was swiftly removed from the list after protesting, prompting U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to publicly tell journalists that he had faced “undue pressure” from the Saudis.
US -backed Saudi forces have bombed more hospitals, schools, civilian neighborhoods, weddings, a refugee camp and even an Oxfam humanitarian aid warehouse.
The children, according to local reports, were taking exams inside their classrooms.
“The panel has documented violations of worldwide humanitarian law and global human rights law committed by the Houthi-Saleh forces, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition and forces affiliated to the legitimate government of Yemen”, said the report presented to the Security Council. Thousands of civilians – no one knows how many – have been killed or wounded.
Armed rebels were inside parliament for Saturday’s session, which was held as Saudi-led coalition warplanes pounded military targets around the capital, parliamentary sources said. Amnesty International and other rights organizations have repeatedly warned Western countries that their backing of the Saudis in the Yemen War effectively implicates them in the “gross violations of human rights and possible war crimes during aerial and ground attacks”.
United Nations have accused Saudi-coalition of bombing and said the coalition had already killed 2,000 civilians with its airstrikes.
The factory is near a military equipment maintenance centre targeted by the coalition.
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At least 6400 people have been killed in the conflict, around half of them civilians.
