UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned a deadly attack on a school in northern Yemen, which killed at least 10 children and injured many more.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that ten children, were killed by the bombings and 28 injured in the attack.
But this has been disputed by a Saudi general, who says the raid hit a rebel training centre, not a school, and that the rebels used “children as recruits”.
On August 4 the coalition acknowledged “shortcomings” in two out of eight cases it investigated of strikes on civilian targets in Yemen that the United Nations has condemned.
SPA said King Salman flew back from Tangier in Morocco to the Red Sea city of Jeddah, where the government of the world’s top oil exporter usually moves in the summer to escape the scorching heat of the capital Riyadh.
MSF spokeswoman Malak Shaher said those killed in the strikes on “a Koranic school” were all under 15.
Assiri said MSF’s toll “confirms the Houthis’ practice of recruiting and subjecting children to terror”.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s parliament reconvened for the first time in almost two years in an act of defiance against Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the internationally-recognised president, and his Saudi backers. Since then, more than 9,000 people have been killed and 2.8 million driven from their homes.
“When jets target training camps, they can not distinguish between ages”, Assiri said.
AFP said Saudi Arabia sent the agency pictures of children holding guns and in military uniform.
Moreover, American and British military officials are physically in the command room with the Saudi military, and have access to a list of targets.
The UN had also voiced concern over the increased fighting in the past week, warning that more than 80 percent of the population needs aid.
As Common Dreams reported last week, “Saudi Arabia and its military coalition have been the target of criticism from both the United Nations and Human Rights Watch for alleged breaches of worldwide humanitarian law that many say amount to war crimes”.
The coalition, meanwhile, said Saudi air defences Saturday intercepted a Scud missile fired from Yemen.
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About 10,000 people have been killed since the Saudi aggression began in late March 2015.
