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The outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein unveiled his annual report in Geneva on Wednesday.
Al-Hussein stated that the continuous escalation of the Yemeni conflict is “creating a humanitarian disaster of new magnitudes.”
He pointed out that the “airstrikes conducted by the Saudi-led Coalition forces … remain the leading cause of civilian casualties, including child casualties, in the conflict.”
The UN official expressed concern over “the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city of Taiz.”
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. Local Yemeni sources have put the death toll from the Saudi war at over 13,000, including many women and children.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
