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The UN Human Rights Office strongly condemned recent Saudi-led coalition airstrikes that claimed lives of dozens of civilians in Yemen and urged the sides to respect the humanitarian international law and properly investigate the cases, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday in a statement.
On Tuesday, the coalition hit a house in Talan village in Saada province, leaving a woman and two children dead.
On Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition carried out three separate airstrikes, reportedly killing and injuring at least 71 people.
“Attacks targeting civilians or civilian objects are prohibited under international humanitarian law, which also prohibits indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks. We remind all parties to the conflict, including the Coalition, of their duty to ensure full respect for international humanitarian law. We call on the relevant authorities to carry out credible, comprehensive and impartial investigations into these incidents,” the statement read.
On Friday, more than 14 people including women and children were also killed in a Saudi bombardment on the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
The spokesperson added that, according to the UN Human Rights Office’s estimates, a total of 58 civilians had been killed over past week, including 42 by the Saudi-led coalition’s air raids.
Yemen has been engulfed in a violent conflict between the regime headed by resigned President Abd Rabbu Manosur Hadi and the Houthi movement, also known as Ansarullah, backed by army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh since 2015.
The Saudi-led coalition of mostly Persian Gulf countries has started carrying out airstrikes against the Houthis at Hadi’s request in March of the same year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website
