Referring to the two stages of the military campaign in Yemen that began in March 2015, the agency said that King Salman ordered a month’s salary for staff in the Defence Ministry, the Interior Ministry and the National Guard who are “actual participants in the front line of the Decisive Storm and Restoring Hope” operations.
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Another air attack hit what MSF described as a school in neighbouring Saada province on Saturday, killing 10 children.
Doctors Without Borders, which is known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF, confirmed the casualty figures, and noted that the victims were all between 8 and 15 years old.
A witness told the Reuters news agency that it was hard for medics to evacuate the wounded from the hospital since Saudi-coalition warplanes were still flying overhead.
It instead claimed that it had bombed a camp where Yemen’s Houthi rebels were training child soldiers.
It destroyed the MSF-supported hospital in Haydan in October then went on to bomb another MSF facility in south-western Taiz in December and the Shiara Hospital in the Razeh district of Saada in January.
“The site that was bombed.is a major training camp for militia”, he said.
This image provided by Yemen’s al-Masirah TV shows a boy injured in a Saudi attack on a school in the northern province of Sa’ada on August 14, 2016.
At the time of Monday’s attack, there were 23 patients in the surgery ward, 23 in the maternity ward, 13 newborns and 12 patients in the pediatric ward, the group said.
Peace talks between Yemeni rebels and the USA -backed, Saudi-allied government broke down on Saturday, Aug. 6.
The Arab coalition launched its air war against the Huthis on March 26 previous year.
The air campaign, carried out without any global mandate, has killed almost 10,000 people, a lot of them civilians, according to pro-Houthi sources.
Earlier this summer, the secretary-general included Saudi Arabia on a blacklist of groups that target children in his annual “Children and Armed Conflict” report.
“Saudi Arabia is an unreliable ally with a poor human rights record”, Paul said in a statement to ABC News today.
But the United Nations itself came in for criticism.
The war has left a security vacuum throughout parts of the country.
More than half of Yemen’s entire population, 14 million people, are hungry. For more than a year, humanitarian groups have warned that 80 percent of the population desperately needs food and medical assistance.
Moreover, American and British military officials are physically in the command room with the Saudi military, and have access to a list of targets.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the air strike on Sunday and called for a investigation, which the coalition said it would conduct, according to a statement sent to Reuters.
