In among the attacks, two Saudi girls were killed and five of their family members wounded when a rocket hit their dwelling in the boundary area of Najran, the kingdom’s SPA news agency said.
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He said participants “agreed on a renewed approach to negotiations” between the Saudi-backed government and Iran-supported Shiite rebels, after three months of talks in Kuwait ended earlier in August without headway.
She said HRW found evidence that USA -supplied bombs killed 97 civilians, including 25 children, in airstrikes on a market in northwestern Yemen in March.
The overnight attack in the city of Saada, a stronghold of the Houthi rebels, came as Iran’s foreign minister dismissed claims from Saudi Arabia that his country had supplied Yemen’s rebels with missiles.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday announced a fresh worldwide peace initiative for Yemen aimed at forming a unity government to resolve its 17-month-old conflict.
The UN believes that a huge number of the more than 8,000 civilian casualties in Yemen have been caused by Saudi-led airstrikes. It was the fourth strike on an MSF-backed site in a year, the group says, and raised concern in Washington, which supports the coalition.
Kerry was in Saudi Arabia, where he met with Foreign Affairs Minister Adel al-Jubeir to discuss the 18-month conflict between the Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government that has been exiled to Saudi Arabia.
The U.N. human rights chief on Thursday called for an global investigation of rights abuses and violence in Yemen’s civil war which has killed thousands of people, insisting that a domestic panel set up to look into violations has not been up to the task.
After Reuters filed the report, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said in a statement that, “Even as we assist the Saudis regarding their territorial integrity, it does not mean that we will refrain from expressing our concern about the war in Yemen and how it has been waged”.
A Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign against the Houthis in March 2015, pushing them out of southern Yemen, but has failed so far to dislodge them from Sanaa and the rest of the north. Backing by Gulf Arab states for the Syria plan is vital because they wield influence over Syrian opposition groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
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Those talks center on proposals to share intelligence and coordinate militarily with Russian Federation against the IS group and al-Qaida. Oman is the only country of the six-nation GCC that is not part of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Mr Kerry is scheduled for talks with the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in Geneva on Friday.
