A Yemeni expatriate who killed a policeman in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by running him over with his vehicle and then stabbing him had pledged allegiance to the militant group Islamic State, the state news agency SPA reported.
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More than 1,100 children have died since the fighting began, according to Unicef, the United Nations children’s agency.
Last week, he suspended UN-brokered talks between rebels and the government.
The coalition said it received 12 flight requests from the United Nations and other groups, but warned that it needed to receive advanced notice of flight plans to Sanaa “in order to guarantee the security of airport staff”.
Since March a year ago, a Saudi-led military coalition, which includes armed forces from the UAE, has battled Houthi rebels, who deposed the internationally-recognised president, Abdrabu Mansur Hadi, and occupied the capital, Sanaa.
The factory is near a military equipment maintenance centre targeted by the coalition. For more than a year, humanitarian groups have warned that 80 percent of the population desperately needs food and medical assistance.
The U.N. children’s agency called on “all parties to the conflict in Yemen to respect and abide by their obligations under global law”, stressing, “This includes the obligation to only target combatants and limit harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure”.
“This includes the obligation to only target combatants and limit harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure”, it added.
The Yemen Post claimed one bomb was being dropped on the city every 10 minutes by the Saudi-led Arab coalition.
Saudi Arabia accuses its regional rival Iran of backing the Shiite Houthi rebels, charges they deny.
It found the coalition guilty of “mistakenly” hitting a residential compound after receiving “imprecise” intelligence information and offered compensation to families of the victims.
According to the latest figures announced on Friday by Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 272 civilians were killed and 543 others sustained injuries between April 11 and August 11.
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“There’s no active ground fighting near area attacked but Sa’ada is Houthi’s home governorate and stronghold, and has been relentlessly and aerially bombarded by the Saudi-led coalition since the beginning of the war in March of 2015”, Mr al-Omeisy said.
