{"id":33939,"date":"2017-07-19T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/33939-20-yemeni-civilians-reported-dead-in-air-strike.html"},"modified":"2017-07-19T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:08:26","slug":"20-yemeni-civilians-reported-dead-in-air-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/33939-20-yemeni-civilians-reported-dead-in-air-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"20 Yemeni civilians reported dead in air strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An air raid in Yemen has killed at least 20 people mostly from the same family, the UN and witnesses said Wednesday, the latest in a series of suspected strikes on civilians by a Saudi-led coalition.<\/p>\n

The attack on Tuesday afternoon hit a group of civilians in the Mawza district of the southwestern province of Taez, a statement by the UN refugee agency said.<\/p>\n

Residents said the attack was carried out by a warplane from the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in support of Yemen's internationally recognised government.<\/p>\n

At least seven women and four children were among those killed, they said.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR said it was \"deeply shocked and saddened at reports of the deaths and injuries of a number of internally displaced persons in an aerial attack\" on the area.<\/p>\n

The statement said the civilians had fled fighting in the nearby Mokha district, on the Red Sea coast.<\/p>\n

Coalition-backed forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi recaptured the port of Mokha in February as part of a major ongoing offensive to drive rebels from Yemen's lengthy coastline.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR statement said more than half a million civilians, 27 percent of Yemen's internally displaced people (IDPs), originate from the governorate of Taez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"This latest incident once again demonstrates the extreme dangers facing civilians in Yemen, particularly those attempting to flee violence, as they disproportionately bear the brunt of conflict,\" the statement said.<\/p>\n

The coalition launched a military operation against the rebels in March 2015 as insurgents closed in on Hadi in his southern refuge in Aden forcing him to flee to Riyadh.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization estimates that more than 8,000 people have been killed in Yemen's conflict, most of them civilians, since the intervention.<\/p>\n

The Saudi-led coalition has faced repeated criticism over civilian casualties in Yemen. It accuses the rebels of using civilians as human shields.<\/p>\n

Last month, an air raid on a market in rebel-controlled Saada province, in north Yemen, killed 24 civilians.\u00a0Another suspected coalition raid in Taez province in May was reported to have killed more than 20 civilians.<\/p>\n

The coalition has admitted responsibility for some strikes that killed civilians, including a raid on the rebel-held capital Sanaa in October 2016 that killed more than 140 people at a funeral ceremony.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR statement said appealed for parties to the conflict to do \"their utmost in the protection of civilians and the mitigation of suffering.\"<\/p>\n

\"A peaceful political solution to resolve the conflict in Yemen is urgently needed to end civilian suffering,\" it said.<\/p>\n

Repeated attempts to bring about a political solution to the conflict, including a series of UN-mediated peace talks, have failed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Shiite Huthi rebels, who Saudi Arabia says are supported by its regional arch-rival Iran, seized control of large parts of the country including Sanaa in late 2014 and early 2015.<\/p>\n

Campaigners in the West have urged countries including the United States and Britain to suspend arms exports to Saudi Arabia over civilian casualties in the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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