{"id":13413,"date":"2018-08-31T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:25:36","slug":"fishermen-in-hodeidah-reportedly-targeted-by-saudi-uae-air-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13413","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen in Hodeidah reportedly targeted by Saudi-UAE air raid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An air raid by a Saudi Arabia-UAE coalition battling Houthis rebels in Yemen has killed fishermen off an island in the war-torn country’s Hodeidah province, according to media linked to the rebel movement.<\/p>\n

In a statement carried by the Houthi-run Saba news agency on Friday, the ministry of fisheries blamed the Saudi-UAE military for targeting “a gathering of fishermen near the island of Ugban” on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The strike “resulted in fishermen being killed and the destruction of three fishing boats, as well as preventing paramedics from approaching the area”, the statement added, without offering a figure for the death toll.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, reporting from neighbouring Djibouti, said it was difficult to verify the reports of the attack and the casualty numbers because of the location of the alleged incident – Ugban island is located off the coast of Houthi-held Hodeidah, a strategic Red Sea port city that is the target of a Saudi-UAE-backed offensive.<\/p>\n

“Three fishing vessels, according to reports, were setting out to do their normal job when they were targeted by the Saudi-led coalition and were sunk,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Initial reports suggest that about 70 fishermen are missing. That figure has now been amended by Houthi media to 19.<\/p>\n

“No one can get to the location to verify the number and the exact details of the incident.”<\/p>\n

The reports of the attack came a day after a US Navy destroyer seized more than 1,000 AK-47 rifles from a “stateless” skiff in international waters off the coast of Yemen believed to be part of an illicit weapons shipment to the war-torn country, according to ABC news.<\/p>\n

In an attack on a fish market in Hodeidah earlier this month, 28 people were killed and more than 30 were injured.<\/p>\n

A team of UN-mandated investigators said earlier this week they had “reasonable grounds to believe that the parties to the armed conflict in Yemen have committed a substantial number of violations of international humanitarian law”.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0damning report<\/a>\u00a0blamed the Houthis<\/a> and the Saudi-UAE coalition for the violence in Yemen but said air attacks by the military coalition had caused the most direct civilian casualties in the war.<\/p>\n

It added that a blockade of Yemeni ports and airspace may have violated international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n

A US official called for an investigation into attacks by the Saudi-UAE coalition in Yemen and for perpetrators to be held accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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