IranPress/Middle East- Scores of demonstrators took to the streets of the northwestern city of Sa'ada on Wednesday, decrying Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s grave violations of international law including recent air attack in August that killed dozens of people.
They also rejected an offer by the Saudi-led coalition to pay compensations for victims of an air strike in Saada.
Meanwhile, a military source said that the snipping unit of the army and popular committees gun down 5 Saudi soldiers and 10 of Saudi army’s mercenaries during the past days in different positions in Jizan.
The Saudi air raid hit the school bus as it drove through a market in the town of Dhahyan, killing a total of 51 people, among them 40 children, and injuring 79 others, mostly kids. The kids reportedly had been on a much-anticipated field trip marking their graduation from summer school.
The tragedy sent shockwaves across the globe, with the international community condemning what has been dubbed "the single biggest attack on children" since the conflict erupted in 2015.
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore called the attack on children "unconscionable" and said that it "should be a turning point in Yemen's brutal war,"
The Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, "urgently renews his call for a negotiated political settlement through inclusive intra-Yemeni dialogue."
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Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 to reinstall the former Saudi-backed Hadi regime and crush the Houthi movement.
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and an accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.
According to the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) report, 683 children were killed or injured by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition in 2016.
Amnesty International confirmed the use of a US-manufactured bomb by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition in an August attack
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