{"id":34923,"date":"2019-03-11T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34923"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:23:00","slug":"yemens-warring-sides-trade-blame-after-women-and-children-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34923","title":{"rendered":"Yemen’s warring sides trade blame after women and children killed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yemen’s warring sides have traded blame after more than 20 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a village that has been gripped by fighting for weeks.<\/p>\n

The Houthi-aligned Al Masirah TV network said on Monday that air raids by the Saudi-UAE coalition killed 23 civilians in Hajjah’s Kushar district, in northwestern Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel said the Houthis<\/a> killed several members of the Hajour tribes who had begun an uprising against the movement.<\/p>\n

Citing medical reports, the UN said that 10 women and 12 children were among the fatalities over the past two days, with as many as 30 people wounded<\/p>\n

“We condemn these deaths and injuries unequivocally,” Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Yemen,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n

“It is outrageous that innocent civilians continue to die needlessly in a conflict that should, and can be solved.<\/p>\n

“We’re doing everything we can to reach the people who need help in Hajjah and throughout the country”.<\/p>\n

Natural fortress<\/h2>\n

Fighting has been raging in Kushar district for weeks as fighters from the Hajour tribe resist advancing\u00a0Houthi rebels<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, claim that elements of the Hajour tribe have been stockpiling weapons provided by Saudi Arabia and bringing fighters into the area, a breach of a six-year-old truce that had seen the Hajour remain neutral throughout the current conflict.<\/p>\n

The Hajour, however, claim that the Houthis have repeatedly shelled Kushar with heavy artillery, and are trying to wrest control of the mountainous region that it says forms a natural fortress.<\/p>\n

“If the Houthis are unable to assert their control over the hitherto neutral area, they will struggle to sustain the fight against Saudi-backed Yemeni forces in other parts of the northern highlands,” said <\/a>a recent International Crisis Group briefing.<\/p>\n

“If they (the Houthis) win, they will have demonstrated their dominance in northwestern Yemen and will further consolidate their control of territory in advance of any political settlement.<\/p>\n

“The government and the Saudis hope that a Houthi loss in Kushar will prompt other tribes to take up arms against the Houthis, sparking a tribal uprising that they have long predicted, but which has failed to materialise”.<\/p>\n

The war in Yemen\u00a0has been at a stalemate for years, with the coalition and Yemeni forces unable to dislodge the Houthis from the capital, Sanaa, and most urban centres.<\/p>\n

According to the charity Save the Children, an estimated\u00a085,000 children<\/a>\u00a0may have starved to death over the past four years of war.<\/p>\n

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