Yemen : 10 children killed in airstrike at school

Coalition members – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – as well as Yemen have formed a 14-member investigative team which has probed claims of attacks on a residential area, hospitals, markets, a wedding and World Food Programme aid trucks.

Saudi-coalition bombed the small village school in the Saada district.

Paul’s statement comes amid a deteriorating situation in Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s neighbor to its its east, where Riyadh has been involved in a US-supported intervention for more than a year.

At least 10 children have been killed and 28 others injured in an airstrike in Yemen, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Shaher told Agence-France Presse that MSF had received the children at a field hospital near the school before they were transferred to a public hospital.

Since March 2015, the coalition has battled Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and allied forces who occupy the capital. According to the United Nations, however, the Saudi-led coalition is responsible for two-thirds of civilian casualties.

“Whatever takes place at this meeting has no legal effects and can not be implemented”, he said.

The children, according to local reports, were taking exams inside their classrooms.

The civil war and airstrikes of Saudi-led military coalition have killed over 6,400 people, mostly civilians and displaced more than two other millions. Yemeni officials and aid workers said that the strike occurred, deep in the Houthis’ northern heartland.

Tens of thousands of children have been directly affected with many children undergoing chronic malnutrition.

Around 100 members of the Saudi forces and civilians have been killed inside the kingdom’s borders since the coalition campaign began.

The school also released some of the names of those who were killed.

A coalition spokesperson declined to comment, Reuters reported. On September 5 a year ago, over 131 people were killed at a wedding in the village of Al-wahjah.

“The aircraft has bombed a training camp for the coup militias called Huda in Saada”, said Gen. Asseri. She added the bombing campaign by Saudi Arabia and its allies has only exacerbated the situation in impoverished neighboring state.

In March of previous year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi military gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government. These airstrikes have illustrated their goals to set their desired plan.