Seven children and two women were killed in an air raid in northwest Yemen, a UN agency says, as Riyadh claims it intercepted missiles fired by Yemeni Huthi rebels.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also says another two women and two children were wounded in Sunday’s raid in Hajjah governorate.
The province near the capital Sanaa is a battlefront between Huthi rebels and pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition that provides air support.
“Initial reports… indicate that on 12 July an air strike killed seven children and two women in Washhah district of Hajjah governorate,” OCHA says.
Lisa Grande, the agency’s coordinator for Yemen, says it was “incomprehensible that in the middle of the COVID pandemic, when options for a ceasefire are on the table, civilians continue being killed in Yemen”.
UN experts have accused both sides in Yemen’s five-year-old conflict of multiple war crimes.
— AFP
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