Send: Airstrikes in Yemen on Friday killed three children and more than 60 adults, Save the Children said, and a Reuters witness said raids in Houthi-held Saada province killed several people, including African migrants .
Rescue workers were still pulling bodies out of the rubble around noon after an early morning strike at a temporary detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, but it was not immediately clear how many were killed.
a Saudi-led military coalition fighting an Iran-aligned Houthi group Since 2015, it has been said that the report will be thoroughly investigated.
Coalition spokesman Brigadier-General Turki said: “We take this report very seriously and will be thoroughly investigated as all reports of this nature are made using an internationally accepted, independent process. It would be inappropriate to comment further.” Al-Malki.
The coalition has intensified airstrikes on Houthi military targets after the group launched an unprecedented attack on a coalition member in the United Arab Emirates on Monday and launched missiles and drones in Saudi cities.
A statement from Save the Children said more than 60 adults were killed in airstrikes in Yemen on Friday, including three children when missiles struck the western city of Hodeidah.
It called on parties to the conflict to protect children and their families from “the horrors of the ongoing violence” and to avoid the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
The Houthi-run Al Masira television channel said tens of people were killed and wounded in the strike in Saada. It showed footage of people trapped in Al-Jamhoori Hospital and trying to clear debris using their hands to reach the injured.
migrants
Despite Yemen’s war, migrants from the Horn of Africa still make their way to Saudi Arabia or the wealthy Gulf states.
A nationwide internet shutdown in Yemen on Friday, except in the southern city of Aden. Houthi media blamed it on what it said was a coalition strike at a telecommunications facility in Hodeidah. Reuters could not immediately confirm the cause of the outage.
The Saudi-led coalition reported on Thursday “Houthi military capabilities” in Hodeidah, ballistic missile launch platforms in Beyda province in central Yemen, and actions against military bases in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa.
The UN Security Council in a statement on Friday condemned the Houthi attacks on other sites in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and called for “the need to hold accountable and bring to justice the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism.” underlined.”
The statement came after the council met in-camera to discuss the Houthi attack on the UAE, which requested discussion. The UAE this month joined the 15-member council for a two-year term.
Asked about Friday’s air strikes on Yemen, the United Arab Emirates’ UN ambassador Lana Nuseebeh told reporters: “The coalition pledges to abide by international law and to respond equally in all its military operations.”
The conflict, in which the coalition intervened in March 2015 after the Houthis removed the internationally recognized government from Sanaa, has killed thousands, displaced millions and pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
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