UN Confirms US-Saudi Aggression’s Attack on Africans’ Camp in Sa’adah

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M.A.

The United Nations has confirmed US-Saudi aggression’s responsibility for targeting a camp of African migrants in al-Raqu market in Munabbih district of Sa’adah province for the second time, killing 20 and wounding 45 in both attacks.

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen condemned on Thursday the coalition’s attacks on civilians, saying that “new air attacks have killed more civilians in Sa’adah, northern Yemen.”

“At least 10 civilians were killed and 22 others were injured, including four children and a woman, during an air strike on Wednesday at al-Raque market in Munabbih district of Sa’adah,” the office said in a statement.

“This attack comes just one week after a similar incident that killed 10 civilians in the same place,” the statement said. It explained that “many of the dead and wounded are Ethiopian immigrants.”

More than 120,600 refugees and migrants from countries of east Africa have arrived in Yemen in 2019, according to the UN Office’s statement.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Lise Grande denounced the continued targeting of civilians by the coalition. “Every morning, the price of this war has become unbearable,” she said.

Grande stressed, in the statement, that the international humanitarian law criminalizes targeting of civilians in any way, saying “Every indiscriminate attack on civilians is an unjustified violation of international humanitarian law.”

In 2017, the US-Saudi-UAE aggression has already bombed boats carrying displaced people from the Horn of Africa off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 45 people dead and wounded, according to international media at that time.

This post originally ran on Almasirah English