DUBAI, Feb 16 — Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen yesterday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed to have shot down one of its jets. The Tornado aircraft came down Friday in northern Al-Jawf province...
Saudi Arabia has been leading a controversial bombing campaign against rebel-held areas of Yemen since 2015. — AFP pic
“Preliminary field reports indicate that on 15 February as many as 31 civilians were killed and 12 others injured in strikes that hit Al-Hayjah area... in Al-Jawf governorate,” the office of the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen said in a statement.“Under international humanitarian law, parties which resort to force are obligated to protect civilians,” she said.
“The lives and wellbeing of the crew is the responsibility of the terrorist Huthi militia,” the statement said, without specifying whether they had survived. The province of Al-Jawf has been mostly controlled by the Huthis, but its capital remains in the hands of the Saudi-backed government.The downing of a coalition warplane marks a setback for a military alliance known for its air supremacy and signals the rebels’ increasingly potent military arsenal.
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