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Air attacks by Saudi-led coalition killed 14 civilians in northern Yemen

SHAFAQNA- Air attacks by Saudi-led coalition forces at a busy market in the northern Saada province killed at least 14 people, including children.

The manager of the local Al Jomhouri hospital on Monday said 13 people were killed and 23 others injured in the air raids in Qatabir district by Saudi-led troops battling Houthi rebels.

The Houthi group’s Al Masirah TV said 14 people were killed.

“There are two children among the martyrs and 11 children among those injured,” hospital manager Saleh Qorban told Reuters News Agency.

Pictures taken by a Reuters photographer showed at least nine bodies, some of them torn apart, lined up on a nylon sheet near the morgue.

The Yemeni army says it has launched several drones against an airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia after the kingdom and its allies slew more than a dozen people in northern Yemen.

On Monday, army spokesman Yahya Sare’e was quoted by the al-Masirah television network as saying that the aircraft had stricken the King Khalid Airbase in the kingdom’s Asir region. The counter-raid used unmanned aerial vehicles of the Qasef 2K make, he added.

“The attack targeted warplane hangers and important military sites accurately,” Sare’e was cited by the network as saying.

Using ample Western support, the kingdom and its most important regional allies have been hitting Yemen in an indiscriminate invasion since March 2015. The military aggression has been seeking to restore the impoverished country’s former Saudi-allied government, whose officials have fled the country and refused to negotiate power, press tv reported.

Civilians have borne the brunt of the conflict, which has killed thousands of people, created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and brought Yemen to the brink of famine.

Virginia Gamba, the U.N. special representative for children in conflict, said that while some positive measures have been adopted by the warring parties, “the suffering of children in Yemen has worsened during the reporting period, becoming simply appalling.”

“The children of Yemen had nothing to do with the start of this conflict,” she said. “They should now be given the opportunity to exit from it and be assisted to fully recover.”

Saudi Arabia is blacklisted for a third year by the United Nations over the killing and wounding of hundreds of children, according to a report seen by Al Jazeera.

Over 7,500 children have been killed or wounded in Yemen in the last 5 1/2 years as a result of airstrikes, shelling, fighting, suicide attacks, mines and other unexploded ordnance, according to a U.N. report released in June.

The report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the killings and injuries were among 11,779 grave violations against children during the period between April 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2018.

It said the figures are likely to be worse because monitoring Yemen has become increasingly difficult, Time told.

Human rights groups have criticised Western countries that provide arms and intelligence to the coalition over air attacks that have killed civilians at hospitals, schools and markets.

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