In March of past year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government.
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The Islamic School released some of the names of those killed.
The country’s dominant Houthi group claimed it was a Saudi-led air strike on a school.
Human Rights Watch later examined the bomb fragments found at the site and determined they came from a “US-made satellite-guided bomb”. “Why would children be at a training camp?”
But Assiri said the Yemeni government had confirmed to the coalition that “there is no school in this area”.
Assiri said MSF’s toll “confirms the Huthis’ practice of recruiting and subjecting children to terror”.
“When jets target training camps, they can not distinguish between ages”, Assiri said.
The actions amount to violations of worldwide humanitarian law, according to the report by a panel of experts obtained by AFP on Thursday.
Since March 2014, a Saudi-led military coalition has waged a campaign against Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and allied forces who occupy the capital.
“It is nearly certain that the civilian house was the deliberate target of the high explosive aircraft bombs”, said the report.
“Before the end of July, the casualties were mostly attributable to the Houthis, whereas in the past week they have been mostly attributable to the coalition’s air strikes”.
Yemen’s parliament convened on Saturday for the first time since a civil war began nearly two years ago, in a move that bolsters the dominant Houthi movement and challenges the Saudi-backed exiled government.
The United Nations had also voiced concern over the increased fighting in Yemen during the past week, warning of its humanitarian consequences with more than 80% of the population needing aid.
In June, Saudi Arabia reacted angrily to a decision to blacklist the coalition after a United Nations report found the Arab alliance responsible for more than half of the 785 deaths of children in Yemen previous year.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government and the Houthi opposition movement, who are supported by army units loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, since March 2015.
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They say Sunday that hundreds of troops are headed to Abyan province to retake the towns of Jaar and Zinjibar, under cover of coalition artillery and naval fire.
