The Saudi coalition fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen denies having bombed a prison, leaving dozens dead. The coalition announced this after the strong condemnation of the attack by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who warned that attacks on civilian targets are in violation of international law.
Yesterday, reports came in that the Saudi coalition bombed a Houthis-run prison in Sa’ada, northwestern Yemen. At least seventy people were killed. Most victims would be migrants.
Images released by the rebels show bodies being pulled from under the rubble. Nearby hospitals indicate that they cannot cope with the large number of injured.
Rescue workers are now working to repair the damage:
At least 70 dead in bombing of prison in Yemen
“I hear from my colleagues that there are still many bodies at the site of the airstrike and that many people are missing,” said Ahmed Mahat, MSF mission chief in Yemen. “It is impossible to know how many people were killed. It seems to be a terrible act of violence.”
The Houthis accuse the Saudi coalition of deliberately bombing civilian targets. “We consider this a war crime. The world should take responsibility at this critical moment in history,” Houthi health minister al-Motawakel told AP news agency.
The Saudi coalition says the prison was not on a banned target list and thus cannot have violated the Geneva Conventions. The coalition says it will come out with “the facts and details, and the misinformation of the Houthis” about the bombed location. The UN calls for a transparent investigation.
Yemen has become divided among various groups after years of struggle. The Yemeni government controls most of the area, but this is mostly uninhabited desert with no oil, gas or other natural resources:
Yemen has been torn apart by a bloody civil war for seven years. According to the UN, the country is experiencing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. About 80 percent of the population depends on humanitarian aid and millions of Yemenis are at risk of famine, many of them children.
The fighting has been intense for years, but has escalated further in recent days in response to a drone strike by the Houthis on an international airport belonging to coalition member Abu Dhabi
How are the Yemenis surviving this civil war? And what is it like to travel through a country at war? Watch the journey of Daisy Mohr and cameraman Pablo Torres here:
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