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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, deplored the Saudi-led attacks on residential areas, schools and hospitals in Yemen as a "blatant" violation of international law.

Speaking in a meeting with a senior delegation from the high council of Yemen’s revolution, Abdollahian highlighted the duty of international organizations to immediately help in stopping the foreign attacks on Yemeni civilians.

"Attacking residential areas, schools and hospitals is a blatant violation of human rights and regulations", he said, adding that the United Nations [UN] should take necessary measures to protect the safety and security of Yemeni civilians, especially women and children.

He further added that the UN is required to make every effort to lift the blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition on the impoverished country.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

More than 4000 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the aggression against Yemen so far, Tasnimnews reported. 

The Saudi-led aerial strikes have targeted 61 hospitals and 13 ambulances, it also said.