The airstrike hit a school in the Houthi heartland in Saada as coalition warplanes bombed multiple targets across the country. According to the Telegraph, the air strike took place early on Saturday morning as children on their summer vacation were gathering for the religious lessons.The area is supposed to be a power base for the Houthi rebels. Yemenis say most of the victims in the Saudi airstrikes are civilians.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that ten children, were killed by the bombings and 28 injured in the attack.
Shaher added that MSF had received the children at a field hospital near the school before they were transferred to a public hospital.
“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.
Assiri said that MSF’s toll only “confirms the Houthis practice of recruiting and subjecting children to terror”.
“Whatever takes place at this meeting has no legal effects and can not be implemented”, he said.
Reports suggest that the children who were studying in a religious school in the Juma’a Bin Fadil in Hayden lost their lives because of trauma and serious head injuries.
The United Nation’s children agency, UNICEF, confirmed the attack warning that “with the intensification in violence across the country in the past week, the number of children killed and injured by air strikes, street fighting and landmines has grown sharply”.
Human rights groups have accused the Saudi-led coalition of indiscriminately bombing civilians and systematically committing human rights violations, which Riyadh has denied.
The Saudi-led coalition on Sunday denied targeting a school in Yemen’s rebel-held north in an attack that an global relief agency said killed 10 children.
Yemen’s parliament has held its first session since the outbreak of conflict in the Arab country nearly two years ago, in a move to challenge the Saudi-backed resigned government. Local people blamed the incident to the Saudi-coalition.
“The site that was bombed.is a major training camp for militia”, he said.
Both the U.S. and United Kingdom sell billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states each year. Since the campaign began in Yemen, GB has made over £3.2 billion in arms sales to Riyadh.
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It recognises former president Ali Abdullah Saleh as Yemen’s legitimate leader.
