Attacks on Civilians by Saudi-led Coalition Cannot be Justified: UN in Yemen

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M.A.

“Saudi Arabia’s attacks on civilians in the southern province of Sa’ada cannot be justified,” the United Nations Resident Representative in Yemen stated on Thursday.

“With each day, the cost of this war becomes more unbearable,” Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said in the statement. “Every indiscriminate attack on civilians violates international humanitarian law. None of these can be justified—none of them.”

The U.N. statement said that the first attack had killed 10 people and that a similar incident a week later killed 10 and injured 22, including four children. There had been an airstrike on the market on Nov. 20, followed a week later by artillery shelling.