UN envoy for Yemen urges ‘transparent investigation’ into deadly Saudi-led airstrikes in Jawf
United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths has called for a transparent investigation into airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in the northern province of al-Jawf, which claimed the lives of over two dozen people, among them women and children.
“We deplore yesterday's airstrikes in #AlJawf... A thorough & transparent investigation is required,” Griffiths wrote in a post on his official Twitter page on Thursday, describing attacks on civilians as reprehensible.
The Yemeni Health Ministry initially said nine people had been killed in the Saudi-led air raids against al-Masafa al-Marazeeq area of the al-Hazm district on Wednesday afternoon, but later raised the death toll to 24.
The strikes were the second such incident over the past week.
Ten people, mostly women and children, were killed on Sunday when Saudi military aircraft struck Washhah district in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, unnamed local sources told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network at the time.
Also on Thursday, Saudi-led fighter jets carried out six airstrikes against Majzar district in the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib, though, there were no immediate reports about possible casualties or the extent of damage caused.
Saudi mercenaries also fired a number of Katyusha rockets at al-Durayhimi district, located 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from the port city Hudaydah in the country’s west. No immediate reports about casualties or damage were quickly available.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has been conducting a bloody military aggression in Yemen with help from its regional allies, and using arms supplied by its Western backers. The aim of the war has been to bring Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, back to power and defeat the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Yemeni armed forces have been boosting their military capabilities and responding to the attacks using domestic missiles and drones, and targeting sensitive oil installations and military sites deep inside the Saudi territory.
Over 100,000 people have lost their lives as a result of the military aggression in the past five years.
The war has also destroyed, damaged and shut down Yemen's infrastructure, including a large number of hospitals and clinics.
The Yemeni population has been subjected to large-scale hunger and diseases aggravated by the naval blockade imposed on the country by the coalition of aggressors.
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