{"id":12542,"date":"2018-08-23T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2018-08-23T21:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:24:17","slug":"houthis-saudi-uae-air-raids-kill-dozens-including-22-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12542","title":{"rendered":"Houthis: Saudi-UAE air raids kill dozens, including 22 children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yemen<\/a>‘s Houthi rebels\u00a0say air raids by the Saudi-UAE military alliance have killed dozens of civilians, most of them children, in a reported incident two weeks after a coalition air attack on\u00a0a school bus<\/a> killed 40 boys.<\/p>\n

According to the Houthi movement’s Al Massira TV, 22 children and four women died on Thursday as fighter jets targeted a camp for internally displaced people in\u00a0Ad Durayhimi, which lies about 20km from the Red Sea city of Hodeidah.<\/p>\n

Backed by the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have carried out attacks in Yemen since March 2015 as part of a military campaign to reinstate the internationally recognised government of President Abu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Hadi and his forces were overrun by the Houthi rebels who currently control much of northern Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa.<\/p>\n

Yemeni government forces – backed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE – launched a major operation to retake Hodeidah and its strategic seaport from Houthi rebels in June.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hussein al-Bukhaiti, a Yemeni journalist in Sanaa, said the death toll in Thursday’s air raids stood at 31, citing a medical source.<\/p>\n

“The Saudi strikes at first targeted a village in the Ad Durayhimi area south of Hodeidah, killing five people and injuring another two,” he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

Al-Bukhaiti<\/span>\u00a0said that 26 women and children had come under attack before boarding a bus in an attempt to flee, but a “second Saudi-UAE strike targeted that bus, killing everyone”.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, the UAE state news agency WAM said that the Houthis had launched a ballistic missile in the same district,\u00a0which resulted in the death of one child.<\/p>\n

WAM said the strike in the recently recaptured village of al-Ghalifqa in Ad Durayhimi also wounded dozens of people, three of them seriously.<\/p>\n

Ruinous war<\/h2>\n

Last year, the United Nations added the\u00a0Saudi-UAE military coalition to a blacklist<\/a> of child rights violators for causing the deaths and injuries of hundreds of children in Yemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On August 9, an air attack by the Saudi-UAE coalition hit a school bus\u00a0in the Houthi-controlled province of Saada, killing 51 people, including 40 children.<\/p>\n

According<\/a>\u00a0to munitions experts, a US-made bomb was used in the attack on the school bus, leading to further criticism over Washington’s role in the war in Yemen – described by the UN as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

“If it’s proved again that in this instance it was a missile from the US fired by the Saudi-led coalition, that will lead to greater calls and questioning of the US’ intervention and involvement in Yemen,” said Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, reporting from neighbouring Djibouti.<\/p>\n

According to the UN, at least 10,000 people have been killed in the three-year war – a death toll that has not been updated in years and is certain to be far higher.<\/p>\n

In retaliation, the Houthis have launched dozens of missiles at the kingdom. Saudi authorities say over the past three years 90 ballistic missiles were fired by the rebels.<\/p>\n

Multiple rounds of United Nations-brokered peace talks have failed to achieve any breakthrough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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