It comes as the parliament convened for the first time in nearly two years.
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A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to restore power to internationally recognized President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Monitors say at least 6,500 people have been killed in the fighting, including more than 3,200 civilians.
A confidential United Nations report uncovered last week concluded that the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen deliberately bombed a house, killing four children, and that Houthi rebels used civilians as shields to avoid attacks.
The conflict has killed at least 6,400 people and displaced almost 2.5 million, turning what was already the Arab world’s poorest country into a humanitarian disaster.
The Houthis and their allies in General People’s Congress (GPC) led by former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, control the capital city of Sana’a.
“We would have hoped MSF would take measures to stop the recruitment of children to fight in wars instead of crying over them in the media”, he said.
Maj. Gen. Ahmed Seif told The Associated Press that troops entered Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, and Jaar as al-Qaida militants fled into the mountains under heavy fire and airstrikes that killed more than 40 militants and destroyed several of their vehicles. Ten children were reported injured in the attack.
It warned 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”.
AFP said Saudi Arabia sent the agency pictures of children holding guns and in military uniform.
A Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Houthis and their allies – supporters of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh – since March a year ago to shore up the Hadi government.
But the United Nations suspended the talks last week after the rebels appointed their governing coalition.
Coalition states have formed a 14-member investigative team which has probed claims of attacks on a residential area, hospitals, markets, a wedding and World Food Programme aid trucks.
It found the coalition guilty of “mistakenly” hitting a residential compound and an MSF-run hospital, but accused the rebels of having used the hospital – also in Haydan – as a hideout.
Saudi Arabia accuses its regional rival Iran of backing the Shiite Houthi rebels, charges they deny.
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Around 100 Saudi soldiers and civilians have been killed inside the kingdom’s borders since last March.
