The Saudi/UAE military coalition has been accused of killing at least 22 children in latest air attacks on Yemen.
Houthi Rebels say air raids by the Saudi led military alliance resulted in the deaths of dozens of civilians, most of them children; barely two weeks after a Saudi coalition air attack on a school bus killed 40 school children.
The Houthis reported that at least 22 children were killed alongside 4 women when fighter jets targeted an Internally Displaced Peoples, IDP camp in Ad Durayhimi, about 20km from the Red Sea Port city of Hodeidah.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with the support of the United States have attacked Yemen since March 2015 in a bid to reinstate the internationally recognised government of President Abu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after he was ousted from power in 2014.
President Hadi and his forces were overrun by the Houthi rebels who currently control much of northern Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa.
The latest air attacks by the Saudi led coalition come as Yemeni Government forces backed by the coalition launched a major operation to retake the city of Hodeidah and its strategic seaport from Houthi rebels in June.
According to Hussein al-Bukhaiti, a Yemeni journalist in Sanaa,
“The Saudi strikes at first targeted a village in the Ad Durayhimi area south of Hodeidah, killing five people and injuring another two”.
He further revealed that 26 women and children had come under attack before boarding a bus in an attempt to flee, but a second Saudi-UAE strike targeted that bus, killing everyone inside.
The coalition also accused the Yemeni Houthis of launching a ballistic missile from the same area resulting in the killing of one child and wounding dozens of others.
Last year, the United Nations added the Saudi-UAE military coalition to a blacklist of child rights violators for causing the deaths and injuries of hundreds of children in Yemen.
Two weeks earlier on August 9, a Saudi coalition air attack hit a school bus in the Houthi-controlled province of Saada, killing 51 people, including 40 school children.
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