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The United Nations has condemned a Saudi-led airstrike on a busy market that killed at least 17 people earlier this week in northern Yemen.
The U.N. statement said that along with the 17 killed, including 12 Ethiopian migrants who had reached Yemen in search of a better life, another 12 civilians were wounded in the strike on the Al-Raqw market in the northern province of Saada on Tuesday.
It was the third time in a month that the Saudi-led coalition targets markets, the U.N. added, saying the number of killed and wounded in the three attacks has reached 89.
The attacks on the market are deeply troubling, said the Yemen U.N humanitarian coordinator, Lise Grande. “Every attack of this kind is a gross violation. The parties responsible for this, and other atrocities, must be held accountable.”
Yemen’s conflict erupted in 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition launched a devastating military campaign to forcefully reinstate the regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi which resigned in 2014. that has killed tens of thousands of people. The fighting has also left millions suffering from food and medical shortages and pushed the country to the brink of famine.
Yemeni army spokesman Yehya Saree tweeted later on Wednesday that “these crimes” by the Saudi-led coalition “will not go by unnoticed” and pledged that the victims would be avenged. He put the death toll at least 20. The two different tolls could not immediately be reconciled.
Saree also posted images on social media purporting to show the casualties from the airstrike.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
