While both warring parties are to blame for the death toll, the Saudi-led coalition has been repeatedly accused of conducting “indiscriminate bombings”. Saudi Arabia has said the report is based on inaccurate information.
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Facing a budget crisis from low petroleum costs and criticism of its bombing campaign, Riyadh is fantastic to bring a conclusion to the intervention it started this past year against their allies and Houthi rebels, analysts say.
The coalition, which involves several Arab countries, began a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 aimed at preventing Houthi rebels allied to Iran and forces loyal to Yemen’s deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking power.
Leading rights advocacy groups such as Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch (HRW) have repeatedly blasted the USA for selling the illegal munitions to Saudi Arabia, urging Riyadh to stop using them as some of the bomblets fail to explode on impact and may go unnoticed for years before killing unsuspecting civilians.
Yet allegations of strikes on civilian facilities have continued.
“The decision to evacuate the staff from a project is never taken lightly but in the absence of credible assurances that parties will respect the protected status of medical facilities there may be no other option”, they added.
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“The cooperation that we’ve extended to Saudi Arabia since the conflict escalated again is modest and it is not a blank check”, Adam Stump said. “At no point did United States military personnel provide direct or implicit approval of target selection or prosecution”.
In recent months, however, the United Nations, global humanitarian organizations and even some US lawmakers have criticized the coalition air strikes.
A relative lull in the fighting followed, but in late July the most serious fighting for months along the border killed 12 Saudi soldiers.
Saudi Ekhbariyah television said projectiles fired by the Houthis landed at an industrial area in the southern city of Najran, close to the Yemeni border, in one of the deadliest attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The news comes just a day after the coalition killed at least 17 civilians when warplanes attacked a family home at a village near the capital Sanaa. Earlier, 11 were reported killed.
United Kingdom leaders appeal comes in the wake of recent conflict has killed more than 9,000 people, displaced 2.4 million, and destroyed much of the already limited infrastructure in the violence-hit country.
US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau expressed deep concern after reports of the hospital strike.
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The Fifth Fleet spokesman said intelligence is still being provided to the Saudis who are the ultimate decision-makers.
