Rebels and aid workers said an air strike on a school on Saturday killed at least 10 children and wounded dozens more in Saada province.
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“These countries are arming and aiding a campaign that’s bombing, killing and starving civilians”, Yemeni researcher Nawal al-Maghafi said in an Amnesty International statement in February.
Worldwide medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says a medical center it runs received people who were killed and wounded in the attack.
The Saudi-led coalition on Sunday denied targeting a school in Yemen’s rebel-held north in an attack that an worldwide relief agency said killed 10 children.
Critics of the conflict have bemoaned the vast humanitarian cost, which has seen thousands of people die, many of them civilians.
Parliament chief Yehya al-Raie, a leading figure in Saleh’s General People’s Congress party, urged all MPs “outside the country to review their positions” and invited them to retake their seats.
Since March 2015, the coalition has battled Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and allied forces who occupy the capital.
The Houthi rebels overran Sanaa in September 2014 and then fought their way into other parts of Yemen, forcing Hadi and his government into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Ten children were reported injured in the attack.
In a story August 12 about civilian deaths in Yemen’s civil war The Associated Press erroneously reported the year that the Saudi-led coalition began fighting in Yemen.
The alleged air strike would add to a growing list of civilian casualties in Yemen blamed on the Saudi-led coalition.
The conflict began early previous year, when President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi resigned and fled to the southern city of Aden after Houthi rebels seized and consolidated their hold on Sanaa.
The raids came after more than three months of UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait were suspended.
Around 100 Saudi soldiers and civilians have been killed inside the kingdom’s borders since last March.
The team also held the coalition responsible for air strikes on an MSF-run hospital, also in Haydan, but accused the rebels of having used the hospital as a hideout.
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The 15-month conflict has also taken a horrifying toll on the country’s youth, with UNICEF warning that an estimated 320,000 children face life-threatening malnutrition.
