As many as 10 children were killed and 28 others injured in a Saudi-led airstrike on Saturday, after a school in the Houthi main stronghold province of Saada was hit, the humanitarian association Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
The MSF reported that on its official Twitter account, adding that the children were between 8 and 15 years old, but released no statement or details on its official website.
The Houthi-held Saba news agency also reported the airstrike.
The Saudi-led warplanes launched over 100 airstrikes against military targets of Houthi and Saleh in several northern provinces on Saturday, including the Houthi-held capital Sanaa.
Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in support of exiled Yemeni government in 2015, but failed to bring it back to power in the rebel-held capital Sanaa.
The war and airstrikes have since killed over 6,400 people, mostly civilians.
[Xinhua -globaltimes.cn]
14/8/16
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The MSF reported that on its official Twitter account, adding that the children were between 8 and 15 years old, but released no statement or details on its official website.
The Houthi-held Saba news agency also reported the airstrike.
The Saudi-led warplanes launched over 100 airstrikes against military targets of Houthi and Saleh in several northern provinces on Saturday, including the Houthi-held capital Sanaa.
Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in support of exiled Yemeni government in 2015, but failed to bring it back to power in the rebel-held capital Sanaa.
The war and airstrikes have since killed over 6,400 people, mostly civilians.
[Xinhua -globaltimes.cn]
14/8/16
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The Saudi-led coalition Sunday denied targeting a Yemeni school in air strikes that killed 10 children, instead saying it bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels train underage soldiers...
ReplyDeleteDoctors Without Borders, a Paris-based relief agency also known as MSF, said the children were killed Saturday in coalition air raids on a school in Haydan, a town in rebel-held Saada province.
The coalition of Arab states has been battling the Houthi rebels since 2015 after the insurgents seized Sanaa before expanding to other parts of the country.
Ten days ago it acknowledged "shortcomings" in two out of eight cases it has investigated of strikes on civilian targets in Yemen that the UN has condemned.
Coalition spokesman General Ahmed Assiri said the strikes hit a Houthi training camp, killing militia fighters including a leader identified as Yehya Munassar Abu Rabua.
"The site that was bombed... is a major training camp for militia," he told AFP. "Why would children be at a training camp?''
Yemen's government had confirmed to the coalition that "there is no school in this area," he said.
Assiri said MSF's toll "confirms the Houthis' practice of recruiting and subjecting children to terror."
"They... use them as scouts, guards, messengers and fighters," Assiri said, noting previous reports from Human Rights Watch on the rebels' use of underage recruits.....http://www.eletos.international/2016/08/saudi-coalition-denies-targeting-yemen.html