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The Human Rights Watch [HRW] organization condemned on Tuesday as an "apparent war crime" a Saudi-led air raid recently last week that it said martyred at least 65 civilians in residential compounds in Yemen.

The New York-based watchdog charged that the Saudi-led coalition had failed to investigate alleged breaches of the rules of war during the bombing aggression it launched against Yemen in March and called for a UN probe. 

Ten children were among the martyrs in Friday’s air strikes in the Red Sea port of Mokha, HRW said. 

The Saudi-led coalition warplanes repeatedly struck two compounds housing the families of workers at the Mokha Steam Power Plant, it further said.

"With no evident military target, this attack appears to be a war crime," said the HRW’s senior emergencies researcher, Ole Solvang.

HRW further said: "The failure of Saudi Arabia and other coalition members to investigate apparently unlawful airstrikes in Yemen demonstrates the need for the United Nations [UN] Human Rights Council to create a commission of inquiry".