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Saudi pilots launched yet another airstrike on a school in the Yemeni province of Taiz, with no information immediately available on possible casualties.
According to Yemen’s al-Masirah television, the air raid hit the al-Rawd school in the district of Dabab in western Taiz early on Monday.
In the war Saudi Arabia has launched on Yemen, the Saudi forces have been targeting schools, hospitals, residential buildings, roads, markets and refugee camps.
The war was launched in late March 2015, killing about 10,000 people so far, according to internal sources.
Back in June, the United Nations [UN] put Saudi Arabia on a blacklist of countries that kill and maim children. It concluded in a report that Riyadh had been responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in the Saudi war on Yemen in 2015.
A few days later, however, the world body announced that Saudi Arabia would be taken off the list pending a joint review with Saudi Arabia.
In rare remarks after the de-listing, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admitted that the decision had been made under "undue pressure" from Saudi Arabia.
Reports by media outlets in the United States - which has offered intelligence support for the Saudi war by helping Saudi forces acquire "targets" - claimed incompetence as well as cowardice on the part of the Saudi pilots conducting airstrikes as some of the reasons why indiscriminate bombing occurs in Yemen.
In the previous instance of indiscriminate bombing, scores of students were killed and injured in a Saudi airstrike against an elementary school in the province of Sa’ada less than a week ago.
On Friday, the US military alleged it had sharply reduced the number of its forces working with Saudi Arabia in the war on Yemen.
While some US officials have sought to distance the decision to downgrade military cooperation with Saudi Arabia from the rising outcry over the mounting civilian deaths caused in Yemen, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said on Friday that the US military support for the Saudi war on Yemen "does not mean that we will refrain from expressing our concern about the war in Yemen and how it has been waged."
Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen in an attempt to reinstate Abed Rabboh Mansour Hadi, who resigned from the presidency but seeks to grab power again through the Saudi military intervention.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
