Clashes also continued in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, where anti-Houthi security officials said they took over a house belonging to Saleh and other government buildings.
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Coalition officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the Amnesty report but has previously denied targeting civilians.
“No nation, no society, can afford to lose its children to conflict, whether from direct attacks, from malnutrition, from disease, from lack of education, or from the traumas of the horrors they witness”, UN agency UNICEF said in a statement.
He wasn’t harmed in the attack. Since then, parties to the conflict have committed serious violations of global law, some of which may amount to war crimes.
United Nations aid chief Stephen O’Brien said on Wednesday air strikes by Saudi-led coalition airplanes on Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida were unacceptable and could worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis.
Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, said the strikes on Hodeida were directed not at the civilian port but at a base where the Houthis had deployed anti-ship weapons.
According to the BBC, Saudi-led airstrikes are being carried out since March 26 against the Houthi militia that is loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Thousands of Saudi and UAE troops have been deployed to Yemen to assist these forces in the push against the Houthis, which has gained momentum with the recapture of Aden and the nearby Al Anad airbase by pro-Hadi forces at the end of July.
The Saudis won the war for control of the three provinces, but there are many Yemenis who do not recognise the border that separates these three provinces from Yemen.
Local groups fought with the Houthis throughout the night Monday as the militia group tried taking control of the city of Taiz.
“Civilians in southern Yemen have found themselves trapped in a deadly crossfire between Houthi loyalists and anti-Houthi groups on the ground, while facing the persistent threat of coalition air strikes from the sky”.
Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who has been leading his government from his exile in Saudi Arabia for the past five months, will return to his country next month, Gulf News has learnt. At least 207 civilian objects, including property and infrastructure have been damaged.
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Ten members of a single family, including four children, were killed in one attack. With commercial imports accounting for 90 percent of Yemen’s food and fuel supplies, the coalition-imposed blockade may amount to starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, a war crime.
