(CNN) – Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed 30 people, including 22 children, in a rebel-held area in northwestern Yemen on Thursday, according to the Houthi-controlled Health Ministry. Four families were evacuating their homes in a vehicle when the airstrikes hit, according to Houthi-owned media. Earlier coalition airstrikes on Wednesday killed four people and injured two, according to […]
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(HRW) – The Saudi-led coalition’s investigations into alleged war crimes in Yemen have lacked credibility and failed to provide redress to civilian victims, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 90-page report, “Hiding Behind the Coalition: Failure to Credibly Investigate and Provide Redress for Unlawful Attacks in Yemen,” analyzes the work of the coalition’s investigative body, […]
(The Independent) -The scrubby hospital room in a former al-Qaeda stronghold in Yemen is filled by the tortured cries of a baby whose wizened face is drawn taught across his skull. Mohamed is nearly three months old, but looks simultaneously like a premature newborn and a grandfather. Hunger has ravaged his tiny frame and given him a bulbous […]
(Al Jazeera) – The bandage wrapped around Mokhtar al-Jaradi’s head is still soaked in blood. There are cuts and grazes to his arms and face. But it’s the anguish etched in his dark brown eyes that really speaks of the massacre that unfolded in north Yemen last week. The eight-year-old was laughing and playing with a group of friends at the […]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent escalation of violence affecting children in several conflicts around the world. “Children have been directly targeted by belligerents. They were also collateral victims of despicable acts of war,” said Ms. Gamba. “We cannot […]
(CNN) – The bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition in a devastating attack on a school bus in Yemen was sold as part of a US State Department-sanctioned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, munitions experts told CNN. Working with local Yemeni journalists and munitions experts, CNN has established that the weapon that left dozens of children dead […]
(Human Rights Watch) – Investigating the terrible toll that the war in Yemen is inflicting on civilians has become, sadly, a regular occurrence for human rights investigators. We and others have documented scores of unlawful airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition that have killed hundreds of civilians in Yemen. We have shown that the coalition’s blockade makes it harder to […]
(Al Jazeera) – Thousands of people gathered in Yemen‘s war-ravaged city of Saada on Monday for the funerals of 51 people, including 40 children, who were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-UAE military alliance, backed by the US. Scores of cars covered in green, which is a hugely symbolic colour in Islam, transported the victims’ coffins from […]
(Norwegian Refugee Council) – Sana’a International Airport has been hit with an average of one bomb every fortnight, in the two years since it has been shut to all commercial traffic. Restrictions imposed on Yemen’s airspace by the Saudi-led coalition led to the official closure of Sana’a International Airport to commercial flights on 9 August […]
(UN News) – Early reports suggest multiple deaths and injuries after Yemen’s largest hospital, Al Thawra, was hit on Thursday, said Dr. Peter Salama, who is in charge of Emergency Preparedness and Response at the World Health Organization. “We’re particularly saddened at WHO by the attack on one of the major hospitals in the country yesterday, Al Thawra in […]
