At least 70 folks had been killed in an air strike on a jail as Yemen’s long-running battle suffered a dramatic escalation Friday that drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres.
The Houthi rebels launched grotesque video footage displaying our bodies within the rubble and mangled corpses from the assault, which levelled buildings on the jail of their northern heartland of Saada.”The children were reportedly playing on a nearby football field when missiles struck,” Save the Children mentioned.They mentioned the jail in Saada was used as a holding centre for migrants, who made up lots of the casualties.They got here because the UN Security Council met to debate that assault on the UAE’s request.”The United States calls on all parties to the conflict to de-escalate, abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law, and participate fully in an inclusive UN-led peace process,” he mentioned in a press release Friday.The United Arab Emirates insisted that it and different coalition members remained dedicated to “proportionate” responses to Houthi assaults.READ | UAE suspects drones triggered Abu Dhabi fires, Yemen Houthis declare assaultThe Security Council unanimously condemned the “heinous terrorist attacks” by the Yemeni rebels, however in a press release earlier than the assembly the council’s Norwegian presidency additionally strongly condemned the newest violence.In a later assertion, the UN mentioned Guterres “reminds all parties that attacks directed against civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited by international humanitarian law.”Two different hospitals have obtained “many wounded” and as night time fell, the rubble was nonetheless being searched, the help company mentioned.Ahmed Mahat, Doctors Without Borders’ head of mission in Yemen, mentioned: “There are many bodies still at the scene of the air strike, many missing people.”The coalition claimed the assault in Hodeida, a lifeline port for the shattered nation, however didn’t say it had carried out any strikes on Saada.It mentioned Saudi air defences destroyed a missile fired from Saada on Friday in direction of Khamis Mushait, web site of a significant Saudi air base.AFP correspondents in Hodeida and Sanaa confirmed the outage. Save the Children mentioned it will hamper its working capability.Decoded | Yemen civil conflict: Who is preventing whom and whyTensions have soared in latest weeks after the UAE-backed Giants Brigade drove the rebels out of Shabwa province, undermining their months-long marketing campaign to take the important thing metropolis of Marib additional north.And on Monday, they claimed a long-range assault that struck oil services and the airport within the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, killing two Indians and a Pakistani, and wounding six different folks.In retaliation, the coalition carried out air strikes towards rebel-held Sanaa that killed 14 folks.The UN has estimated the conflict killed 377,000 folks by the top of 2021, each immediately and not directly via starvation and illness.
