A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states has been battling the Iran-backed rebels since March 2015 when the insurgents seized the capital Sanaa before expanding to other parts of the country.
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The attack on the medical facility, run by the aid group Doctors Without Borders has reportedly left at least seven civilians dead and dozens injured.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz returned home on Sunday after a month-long holiday in Morocco, and ordered a month’s extra pay for Saudi military and security personnel actively involved in military operations in Yemen, state news agency SPA said. All the victims were between eight and 15 years old, the charity said. The residents said two civilians were killed and four others wounded when a warplane bombed a auto laden with explosives and left in a street.
United Nations -backed talks concluded last Saturday with no agreement on how to end a civil war that has killed more than 10,000 civilians and caused a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world’s poorest country.
The meeting came a week after UN-sponsored peace talks between representatives of the government and rebels ended in Kuwait without a breakthrough. At least nine people were killed in a bombardment on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, earlier this month when a potato chip factory was hit.
According to a recent United Nations report, the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for over 60 percent of 785 child casualties in Yemen in 2015.
However, Saudi-led military coalition has failed to force bring back exiled President Hadi and his government to the office in Sanaa.
The U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, also reported the attack, warning that “with the intensification in violence across the country in the past week, the number of children killed and injured by airstrikes, street fighting and landmines has grown sharply”.
Al-Qaida seized both Zinjibar and Jaar a year ago, exploiting the chaos of Yemen’s civil war, which pits an array of pro-government forces against Shiite Houthi rebels.
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The conflict has claimed more than 6,500 lives, about half of them civilians, and has plunged Yemen, already the Middle East’s poorest nation, into a humanitarian crisis and on the brink of starvation. A similar strike occurred in April 2015 when Saudi aircraft attacked a crowded marketplace in Mastaba, a village that lies in Yemen’s northern Hajjah governorate.
