At Least 17 Civilians Killed in Hudaydah:
Saudi Jets Again Attack Yemeni Buses
CAIRO (Dispatches) – A Saudi airstrike has killed at least 17 civilians in the port city of Hudaydah, Yemeni officials said on Saturday.
A spokesman for the Health Ministry in Sanaa, Youssef al-Hadari, said that beyond the 17 killed there were also 20 wounded in the Saturday strike on the Gabal Ras area.
The fatalities occurred when Saudi planes targeted two buses that were carrying civilians fleeing Hudaydah, according to a report by Yemen’s al-Masirah television network.
In August, a Saudi air raid hit a school bus as it drove through a market in the town of Dhahyan in Saada Province in northwestern Yemen, killing a total of 51 people, among them 40 children, and injuring 79 others, mostly children.
The children were returning from a trip organized by a religious seminary when the bus came under attack. Images later circulated online, showing pieces of a U.S.-made bomb on the scene.
Saudi Arabia said the school bus targeted in the airstrike was a "legitimate target" after finally admitting "mistakes".
The allegations came on the same day Human Rights Watch called the macabre August 9 attack an "apparent war crime."
Hudaydah, with its key port installations that bring UN humanitarian aid, has become the center of Yemen's conflict. Saudi and UAE troops and mercenaries are in the midst of a protracted offensive to occupy it in the face of stiff resistance by Houthis and their allies in the Yemeni army.
Saudi Arabia on has been locked in a stalemated war with Yemen since 2015. An estimated 15,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which has produced what the UN says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
On Thursday, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child strongly urged Saudi Arabia to stop its ceaseless deadly airstrikes against civilian targets in Yemen.
The panel of 18 independent experts made the demands in a statement in which it said Yemeni children were being killed, maimed and orphaned by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
According to UN figures, at least 1,248 children have been killed and nearly the same number sustained wounds in airstrikes since the onset of the imposed war in March 2015.
The panel also noted that Saudi Arabia had conducted attacks on civilian targets in Yemen, including homes, medical facilities, schools, farms, weddings and markets, in breach of international law.
A spokesman for the Health Ministry in Sanaa, Youssef al-Hadari, said that beyond the 17 killed there were also 20 wounded in the Saturday strike on the Gabal Ras area.
The fatalities occurred when Saudi planes targeted two buses that were carrying civilians fleeing Hudaydah, according to a report by Yemen’s al-Masirah television network.
In August, a Saudi air raid hit a school bus as it drove through a market in the town of Dhahyan in Saada Province in northwestern Yemen, killing a total of 51 people, among them 40 children, and injuring 79 others, mostly children.
The children were returning from a trip organized by a religious seminary when the bus came under attack. Images later circulated online, showing pieces of a U.S.-made bomb on the scene.
Saudi Arabia said the school bus targeted in the airstrike was a "legitimate target" after finally admitting "mistakes".
The allegations came on the same day Human Rights Watch called the macabre August 9 attack an "apparent war crime."
Hudaydah, with its key port installations that bring UN humanitarian aid, has become the center of Yemen's conflict. Saudi and UAE troops and mercenaries are in the midst of a protracted offensive to occupy it in the face of stiff resistance by Houthis and their allies in the Yemeni army.
Saudi Arabia on has been locked in a stalemated war with Yemen since 2015. An estimated 15,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which has produced what the UN says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
On Thursday, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child strongly urged Saudi Arabia to stop its ceaseless deadly airstrikes against civilian targets in Yemen.
The panel of 18 independent experts made the demands in a statement in which it said Yemeni children were being killed, maimed and orphaned by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
According to UN figures, at least 1,248 children have been killed and nearly the same number sustained wounds in airstrikes since the onset of the imposed war in March 2015.
The panel also noted that Saudi Arabia had conducted attacks on civilian targets in Yemen, including homes, medical facilities, schools, farms, weddings and markets, in breach of international law.